Hacker News: gcanyon

New comment by gcanyon in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

gcanyon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:49:16 +0000

What could possibly go wrong?

New comment by gcanyon in "Do birds enjoy flying? Analysis of affect after flight in galah (E roseicapilla)"

gcanyon — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:28:30 +0000

It seems appropriate to mention Jonathan Livingston Seagull here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Livingston_Seagull It's an allegory about personal development, told through the story of a seagull who loves to fly.

New comment by gcanyon in "I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy"

gcanyon — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 21:04:35 +0000

> My prediction: In a couple years, the main way we'll talk with our AIs is with our thoughts. They will not be a super-smart automated intern or coworker that you desperately try to keep up with. They will be a natural, joyful extension of you.

“A couple years” Not “a few years” — “joyful extension” — that’s an optimistic prediction in two ways…

New comment by gcanyon in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

gcanyon — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:56:38 +0000

Nice!

New comment by gcanyon in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

gcanyon — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:32:15 +0000

I also ride a recumbent: Catrike Expedition. I'm not sure I would get the subtleties of the chain guides correct. What's yours?

https://www.catrike.com/expedition

New comment by gcanyon in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

gcanyon — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:58:17 +0000

Depending on how deep you want to go down the rabbit hole, that's possible-ish now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5xi3Usi0i8

New comment by gcanyon in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

gcanyon — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:51:44 +0000

It's funny to me, because I have a very strong spacial sense, and a lifetime of riding bikes. To the limit of my ability to draw, I can draw a flawless bicycle, down to the interlocked path the chain takes and the hanger on the derailleur.

New comment by gcanyon in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

gcanyon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:53:00 +0000

I think you're underselling where we'll get to in the next 5-10 years. I'm thinking:

Best Beatles song recorded between Rubber Soul and Revolver, composed mainly by McCartney but Lennon wrote the bridge and Ringo was feeling adventurous and Harrison was angry that day, and it was deemed not commercial enough to include on Revolver.

Best season 3 episode of The Simpsons, really showing the transition to Homer as the lead, written by Robert Cohen with significant musical input from Danny Elfman and featuring seven characters loosely representing the deadly sins, with Homer as Gluttony of course.

New comment by gcanyon in "Half-Life ported to Mac OS 9"

gcanyon — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:39:39 +0000

Great, now all I need is (checks the closet) any of the dozen or so powermacs I owned over the years to not have left my possession...

New comment by gcanyon in "Colorblind: Checking figure accessibility for colour blind people"

gcanyon — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:27:41 +0000

For anyone working on a Mac, I highly recommend Sim Daltonism. It gives you an interactive display on your Mac that you can place over any section of your screen to simulate what it looks like to a colorblind person. It simulates several different types of colorblindness. I have a friend who is colorblind, and to the best of our mutual understanding, it is accurate.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sim-daltonism/id693112260

New comment by gcanyon in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

gcanyon — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:05:59 +0000

I'm not doing anything the government should be worried about. Nevertheless my pin has for a long time been longer than standard, specifically on the very long-shot possibility someone decides they want to crack it.

Anyone know if this is a viable strategy on iOS, and what the required pin-length is these days?

New comment by gcanyon in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

gcanyon — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:34:46 +0000

> my memory retention of the work done with an LLM is worse than doing it myself self

Do you think this is more because you are less close to the work? Or because there is simply more work being done/more to remember, so you're remembering a similar amount, but a smaller fraction?

Or both, or something else?

New comment by gcanyon in "It's getting harder to focus every day"

gcanyon — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:06:14 +0000

The standards we set are off: I recently discovered 75 hard, and it's mind-boggling to me that the mental equivalent of "do two separate workouts, 45 minutes each" is "read 10 pages of a non-fiction book."

If it's a physics textbook, sure, that balance makes sense. If it's Atomic Habits (no offense to that book) then 10 pages is just not equivalent.

New comment by gcanyon in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

gcanyon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:40:15 +0000

I guess I get the clarity (of vertical slides as you describe), but I'm wondering if two dimensions is limiting -- slides could be a flow chart, with various forks/side quests along the way. Obviously it would be possible to build something as confusing as the Colossal Cave, but the vertical slides use case would easily be a subset of that larger functionality, and it would leave it up to the user to decide their level of need for/tolerance of complexity.

New comment by gcanyon in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

gcanyon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:37:36 +0000

This feels like it's a hair's breadth from being a Notion competitor with a very different set of page-design skills

New comment by gcanyon in "Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)"

gcanyon — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 12:03:51 +0000

Very nice! I spent something like 30 seconds scanning the top row of controls for the "Present" option -- is there logic to special-casing it by putting it (and zoom controls) at the bottom, away from everything else?

AI agent went rogue and hacked startup by itself, OpenAI reveals

gcanyon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:06:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/22/openai-says-its-models-went-rogue-and-hacked-startup-in-unprecedented-incident

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49014108

Points: 3

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New comment by gcanyon in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

gcanyon — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:30:40 +0000

Good thoughts, thanks

New comment by gcanyon in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

gcanyon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:24:32 +0000

Wow, 97% that there will be elections. That's high, but if you handed me a gun with a 3% chance of being loaded and offered me a billion dollars to point it at my head and pull the trigger, I would not. My foot on the other hand...

New comment by gcanyon in "ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud"

gcanyon — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:20:43 +0000

If they will pay me $10 million I will guarantee to find voter fraud or refund half their money...