Hacker News: gboss

New comment by gboss in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

gboss — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:24:01 +0000

Assembly is simple. You can learn it quickly. It’s writing a large program in it that’s hard. How roller coaster tycoon was written in it boggles my mind.

New comment by gboss in "Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California"

gboss — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:00:50 +0000

The Netherlands has solved that problem

New comment by gboss in "Rising sea destroys homes, erases beaches in California"

gboss — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 20:55:08 +0000

Isn’t the Bay Area quite vulnerable? I’m thinking they’re going to have to build a dam with locks in front of the golden gate

New comment by gboss in "The American Religion of Self-Storage Facilities"

gboss — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:34:30 +0000

Your wife should just pick it up and throw it out then to relieve her mother of the burden.

New comment by gboss in "Mistral raises €3B"

gboss — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:10:00 +0000

Wikipedia says 745 million… that can’t be right https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe

So even worse

New comment by gboss in "Mistral raises €3B"

gboss — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:21:52 +0000

Europe does have 150-200 million more people right?

New comment by gboss in "Space Force Uniform Is Inspired by Quasi-Satirical Film 'Starship Troopers'"

gboss — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:18:15 +0000

Yes, yes we are.

New comment by gboss in "GPT-6 Astra on robot arms"

gboss — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 05:15:38 +0000

My roomba (Rosie) is going strong 8 years in. It’s just the bump into everything vacuum only kind but it gets the job done for my 900 sqft apartment

New comment by gboss in "Hang on to Your Firefox"

gboss — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 23:09:11 +0000

I'm an avid Firefox user, but it seems that Firefox keeps getting worse. Pages forever load, when the issue does not happen in Chrome. History gets corrupted. Claude wouldn't load consistently if I had more than one tab of claude opened internal tools that used to work fine and we haven't updated struggle. I don't know if it's me but it's certainly maddening, especially when I go to Chrome on the same laptop and it just loads.

New comment by gboss in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

gboss — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:42:44 +0000

We really need to be pursuing Ocean Iron Fertilization https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-topics/climate... . We need to both drastically reduce our release of GHG emissions and work to pull CO2 out of the air. This is the only method that seems remotely plausible. I agree that I don't like the sulphur seeding because it doesn't actually remove C02, and higher concentrations of CO2 are toxic to humans.

New comment by gboss in "Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation"

gboss — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 03:02:21 +0000

My cousin and many others I knew were getting more money from unemployment than when they had their jobs during covid. Though I don’t believe that caused inflation. Inflation was an international phenomenon and countries experiencing inflation had very diverse stimulus responses to COVID. It seems the Russian invasion of Ukraine, a pivot to a goods based rather than services based economy, coupled with climate changed caused shortages and retiring boomers caused it.

New comment by gboss in "Grok 4.6"

gboss — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:02:05 +0000

For a personal project I’ve been piloting Spec driven development (SDD), (it’s contagious!), using Cursor and EARS statements. The strategy has been to use the frontier model to write the spec and a lessor model to write the tests and code and the frontier model to write critiquing prompts until it has nothing left to say. For my particular project there are two programs (or in human speak phases), where each program is broken up into milestones which are then comprised of a series of tasks. I experimented a lot with different models as the reviewer / spec model and the implementor model. Kimi 3 was super expensive as spec model and grok and OpenAI models always got something wrong egregiously. The Opus line of models have been the only ones to really grasp the project and I feel write great specs. Because I use cursor I settled on using groc for test routing and code implementation. I’m not sure if this is the most efficient method but I believe it’s building a large project solidly

New comment by gboss in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)"

gboss — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:17:54 +0000

Why don’t you throw out or donate the toys if they’re in acceptable condition? No need to hold on to gifts you don’t like.

New comment by gboss in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

gboss — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 20:30:58 +0000

I'm really impressed you got out of that! Thanks for sharing, the best thing to help homeless people must be prevent them from being homeless in the first place.

New comment by gboss in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

gboss — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:24:54 +0000

Ever heard of the innovator’s dilemma? Don’t underestimate the inertia of large companies and their unwillingness to pivot from their cash cow.

New comment by gboss in "Kimi K3 Architecture Overview and Notes"

gboss — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:09:04 +0000

Anybody getting the result that Kimi 3 is more expensive than Opus 5 or Sol on Cursor? Pretty sure Kimi 3 sucked up a good chunk of my ultimate plan in a few prompts. Anyone have any tools or ways to understand per model usage towards cursor subscriptions? I know there are alternatives to cursor just haven’t made the move yet. (Edit spelling)

New comment by gboss in "LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps"

gboss — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:28:41 +0000

Pretty sure they can get internet through the HDMI cord from Roku or similar device

New comment by gboss in "House passes bill to enact year-round Daylight Saving Time across the country"

gboss — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 23:24:02 +0000

This is why I think we have to switch. Everyone should be equally miserable

New comment by gboss in "Claude Opus 4.8"

gboss — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:35:38 +0000

It's facing left but looking right...

New comment by gboss in "Waymo Drives Off with South Bay Man's Luggage"

gboss — Sun, 03 May 2026 00:45:44 +0000

For what it’s worth, I always leave the door I exited out of open while removing luggage from the trunk. It’s just safer. Edit: from any uber or lyft