<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: gandalfgreybeer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gandalfgreybeer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:34:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gandalfgreybeer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "The death of social media is the renaissance of RSS (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> I fail to see how RSS helps filter out AI slop.<p>Not sure if I'm missing something, but for AI slop to get into your RSS feed, you have to be following something with slop which can easily be unfollowed; this is unlike algorithmically driven recommendations where there is no direct filter from your end.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 07:24:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305800</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47305800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "MacBook Neo"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> dead on arrival for anyone doing real work<p>Honestly, we’re not the target market for this. I’m pretty sure at this price point though, it will sell like hotcakes. Once people get slightly into the ecosystem, it’s usually a big win for Apple since their stickiness ( from my experience of people around me) is undeniable once you get one product</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:48:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248227</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248227</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47248227</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Understanding a perspective and agreeing with it aren’t the same thing. Herring’s point was about the ‘I don’t see why anyone would need this’ framing, not that the position itself is hard to grasp.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:48:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429328</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429328</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429328</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "I migrated to an almost all-EU stack and saved 500€ per year"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Proton’s $4 a month is where I ended up landing a few years ago and it’s cheaper with the 2-year lock in they give every now and then. Sharing just in case it’s buried under unlimited. Although our usage may vary in case there are things in unlimited you need.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 03:38:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429282</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46429282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2025 06:02:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144274</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144274</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144274</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Tinkering is a way to acquire good taste"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In what’s becoming a monoculture world because of the internet, that seems like a good thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:56:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768255</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768255</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45768255</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Important machine learning equations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>@dang, I think we need to start talking about letting AI slop get to the front page and how the community can help flag things as best as we can.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:46:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061714</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061714</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061714</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Important machine learning equations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I stopped reading the post before that and went back to check. It's so blatant...especially when it mentions visualizations.<p>> With theoretical explanations, practical implementations, and visualizations, you now have a comprehensive resource to understand and apply ML math. Point anyone asking about core ML math here—they’ll learn 95% of what they need in one place!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:45:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061704</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061704</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061704</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Important machine learning equations"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As someone who tended to use "—" in a lot of my writing naturally before, the prevalence of its usage by LLMs frustrate me a lot. I now have to rewrite things that felt natural just so no one will think I'm an LLM.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061696</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061696</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45061696</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "TimeGuessr"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just in case you enjoyed this, and based on you using “locationguessr”, I’d recommend looking up Geoguessr :)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 03:30:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280326</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280326</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44280326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Steve Jobs would have fired everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In the tablet space, nothing really comes close to iPads.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:53:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247098</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247098</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44247098</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Etymology of the brand name here: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi#Name_etymology" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi#Name_etymology</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:10:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844750</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Xiaomi MiMo Reasoning Model"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A lot of Xiaomi products have the prefix Mi. My initial guess is Mo is for model.<p>Also related reference <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi#Name_etymology" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi#Name_etymology</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 13:09:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844727</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43844727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Pope Francis has died"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don’t think anyone who would be ready to completely do a 180 with the Catholic Church will be the pope soon (or ever, given how the system works). He has, however, nudged that ship in the right direction and with what he has done and with his appointees. Let’s just hope it continues with whoever replaces him.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2025 13:14:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751665</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Apple Invites"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I prefer physical invites too, but in the context of this, physical printing sounds like a lot of unnecessary overhead and extra work that will yield little to no significant added value on the side of Apple.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:27:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948883</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42948883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "AI, but at What Cost? Breakdown of AI's Carbon Footprint"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are drowning in hypotheticals muddied by your own worldview. I can also say that there are 8 billion people on Earth. For most of them, green isn’t in their top 5 favorite colors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 13:53:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852288</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42852288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "No more needles Tracking blood sugar on your wrist"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As an engineer working in the field who has designed both cloud algorithms and on-firmware algorithms, when marketing uses AI, it tends to just be training/data fitting. At best, the most complicated ones tend to be random forests and if any use neural networks, it’s usually just overkill.<p>The answer to your last question is yes, especially when it’s from raw signals.<p>Tbf, there are applications from devices that do use deep learning methods but from experience they are not practical except on very edge cases.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jan 2025 06:02:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600066</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42600066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "ChatGPT Pro"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Kagi Ultimate (US$25/mo) includes unlimited use of all the Anthropic models.<p>What am I losing here if I switch over to this from my current Claude subscription?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Dec 2024 02:23:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335535</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335535</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42335535</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Trump wins presidency for second time"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What happens in that circus has ripple effects on yours</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 Nov 2024 12:22:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42061080</link><dc:creator>gandalfgreybeer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42061080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42061080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gandalfgreybeer in "Gross Apple Marketing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The tradeoff is always between false positives and false negatives of which the former in this scenario is preferred.</p>
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