Hacker News: garyclarke27

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen"

garyclarke27 — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 08:34:25 +0000

Glycine + NAC even better, both precursors for Glutathione, Glycine also great for sleeping.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Meta's Omnilingual MT for 1,600 Languages"

garyclarke27 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 15:39:12 +0000

They can translate 1600 languages, but they cannot do basic text formatting, where are the paragraphs?

New comment by garyclarke27 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

garyclarke27 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 11:46:19 +0000

I would not discount how much of a factor, irrational human emotions play in negotiations. Dario is arrogant and pompous so probably wound Hegseth up the wrong way. Sam is much more charming and amenable so more able to get his way despite similar terms.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "What I Learned After Building 3 TV Apps Coming from Mobile"

garyclarke27 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:53:23 +0000

Interesting, explains why there are so few good TV apps like YouTube eg Spotify TV app is appalling. Strange that X has not created a decent TV App for long form video. YouTube could do with some competition, great UI but their suggestion algorithm and woke censorship sucks.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "The TV industry concedes that the future may not be in 8K"

garyclarke27 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:49:29 +0000

What baffles me is that TV manufacturers create amazing hi-definition home screens with glorious colour at incredibly cheap prices - then idiot Netflix directors completely waste 40% of the pixels for zero benefit with their stupid letterbox formats.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Autodesk burns the village to feed AI and the Cloud – cuts 7% of workforce"

garyclarke27 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 10:25:53 +0000

Autodesk is an evil rapacious company. Competition authorities should not have allowed them to buy Revit, to create a monopoly for Architecture software, enabling them to get away with charging outrageous prices to Architects, especially considering how poorly paid they are.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

garyclarke27 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:22:47 +0000

Yeah such an idiot, the youngest ever self made billionaire at 23, created a multi trillion dollar company from scratch in only 20 years.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Yann LeCun to depart Meta and launch AI startup focused on 'world models'"

garyclarke27 — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 09:18:07 +0000

Zuck did this on purpose, humiliating LeCun so he would leave. Despite LeCun being proved wrong on LLMs capabilities such as reasoning, he remained extremely negative, not exactly inspiring leadership to the Meta Ai team, he had to go.

Build beautiful front ends with OpenAI Codex [video]

garyclarke27 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 14:12:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK_bm84N7bs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45760243

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long

garyclarke27 — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 09:56:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/ey_exposes_4tb_sql_database/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758155

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Claude for Excel"

garyclarke27 — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 17:08:33 +0000

I guess Claude maybe useful for finding errors in large Excel Workbooks. May also help beginners to learn the more complex Excel functions (which are still pretty easy). But if you are proficient at building Excel models I don't see any benefit. Excel already has a superb very efficient UI for entering formulas, ranges, tables, data sources etc I'm sceptical that a different UI especially a text based one can improve on this.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "My Favorite PostgreSQL 18 Feature: Virtual Generated Columns"

garyclarke27 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:17:42 +0000

Stored generated columns would be much more useful if they could reference other rows and tables, they are limited to only the current row. Automatic incremental view maintenance would also solve this problem, but is unfortunately still a glaring omission in Postgres capabilities.

Jetson One – Palmer Luckey's First Flight and Delivery Video

garyclarke27 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:24:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWdhMVkeDeQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45180045

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Nvidia touts Jetson Thor kit for real-time robot reasoning

garyclarke27 — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 10:44:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/25/nvidia_touts_jetson_thor_kit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45024766

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Materialized views are obviously useful"

garyclarke27 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 11:58:14 +0000

I love Postgres but my biggest disappointment with them over recent years, is they are still missing automatic incremental materialized view maintenance. Has been proposed for many years but never implemented, there are extensions but they are not popular which makes me weary to use them. Would be so nice to have in the core, would also be nice to have an explanation as to why they can't do it?? Oracle has had this for many years.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "A statistical analysis of Rotten Tomatoes"

garyclarke27 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:19:52 +0000

Interesting, over the past few years, I've ignored the critics score and just looked at the audience score - this explains why.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "The Future of JavaScript: What Awaits Us"

garyclarke27 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 09:37:59 +0000

Looks good but what about Named Parameters? Why on earth is Javascript still missing such an important feature? I know you can kind of fake it with objects, but is clunky in comparison.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Apple Finally Destroyed Steve Jobs’ Vision of the iPad. Good"

garyclarke27 — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 16:09:09 +0000

Steve Jobs duly listed browsing the web, dealing with email, watching videos, listening to music, playing games, reading ebooks, and enjoying photos. Coincidentally, those were the exact things the iPad was really good at. Agreed * Except Music * I have loved having many iPads, but the speakers have always been terrible and they point the wrong way - about time this was fixed.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Instagram's new 'Friend Map' feature puts your privacy at risk"

garyclarke27 — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 09:42:56 +0000

Meta copying Snapchat for the umpteenth time. Friend map is very popular with Teenagers.

New comment by garyclarke27 in "Exit Tax: Leave Germany before your business gets big"

garyclarke27 — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 09:28:15 +0000

One of the basic principals of the EU is freedom of movement between countries. One could argue that imposing such an onerous tax on moving to another EU country breaks this principal, so maybe worth a legal challenge - for someone with a lot to loose.