Hacker News: ghgr

New comment by ghgr in "A Million Falcons Went Missing. Here’s How They Were Found"

ghgr — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 16:56:46 +0000

They weren't "missing": GPS-tagged red-footed falcons revealed that they migrate to a tiny communal roost in central Angola (“Falcopolis”) each February–March.

There, saved you a click (disappointed on National Geographic for that clickbaity headline).

New comment by ghgr in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

ghgr — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:51:19 +0000

Thank you! From talking to a contact working with JWST, it sounds a bit trickier in practice. The data are public, but with Roman the idea is that you must process them on their computers rather than download everything locally, and you pay for the compute/storage you use.

New comment by ghgr in "Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope"

ghgr — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 05:59:31 +0000

> every observation is public as soon as it is processed with no embargo

That's a big deal. Do you have any source for that? (I couldn't find it in the ones you linked). This is great for humanity as a whole, but... poor grad students who now need to rush to publish their papers even sooner.

New comment by ghgr in "Mushroom behind 'tiny people' hallucinations identified"

ghgr — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:14:56 +0000

In case you're wondering like me, I think parent is referring to elephant skulls being mistaken for one-eyed, giant creatures.

Lethe – Brain-Centric AI Assistant

ghgr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:16:37 +0000

Article URL: https://lethe.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48649054

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ghgr in "Claude Opus 4.7"

ghgr — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:43:33 +0000

And not only in the LLM ecosystem. Flask was originally an April Fool's joke too.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13436724

New comment by ghgr in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

ghgr — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:41:03 +0000

To be fair, these "others unfamiliar with the internal logic" can very well be yourself in six months.

New comment by ghgr in "The Miller Principle (2007)"

ghgr — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 11:21:26 +0000

As a counterexample, thanks to LLMs many long-form articles that get posted with clickbaity (but devoid of content) headlines that I would have ignored otherwise now get "read" (albeit indirectly, with the prompt "Summarize the insights of the article $ARTICLE_URL in an academic, dry, technical and information-dense way")

New comment by ghgr in "Telnyx package compromised on PyPI"

ghgr — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:27:37 +0000

I'd argue it's not only not inconvenient, but also a great way of keeping your system clean of all the random system-wide dependencies you'll end up accumulating over the years.

New comment by ghgr in "Show HN: Hacker News archive (47M+ items, 11.6GB) as Parquet, updated every 5m"

ghgr — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:56:55 +0000

I'd say it's less a usage dropoff and more a reversion to the mean after Covid

New comment by ghgr in "FFmpeg 8.1"

ghgr — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:08:26 +0000

> Oh there's a new version of ffmpeg, I'll just quickly build it from source... no I can't wait I'll download the binary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kaIXkImCAM

New comment by ghgr in "Bet on German Train Delays"

ghgr — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:05:36 +0000

Say you have to pick a flight and you take the train to the airport. You can bet your train will be delayed, so if it ever happens at least you'll get a payout.

An insurance of sorts, so to speak.

New comment by ghgr in "AI-generated replies are a scourge these days"

ghgr — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 10:35:29 +0000

You can just use the one in the page: https://tropes.fyi/tropes-md

New comment by ghgr in "Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones"

ghgr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:48:12 +0000

Incredible, we cannot drop the guard even for a second. Thank you for the heads up!

New comment by ghgr in "Keybee: A Keyboard Designed for Smartphones"

ghgr — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 06:04:17 +0000

There's https://simplemobiletools.com, who are doing their job to close that delta (not affiliated with them)

New comment by ghgr in "Man accidentally gains control of 7k robot vacuums"

ghgr — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 15:20:28 +0000

> [...] the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio [...]

Sorry what? Why would a vacuum cleaner even need a microphone?

New comment by ghgr in "OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III"

ghgr — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 10:42:55 +0000

> How far OSX has come since the days of the “cancel or allow” parody advert.

In case you're wondering like me, this is the advert in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CwoluNRSSc&t=0

New comment by ghgr in "My ridiculously robust photo management system (Immich edition)"

ghgr — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 09:04:40 +0000

I'm like you, and a big fan of Pigallery2 precisely for its simplicity. But it turns out that Immich does support external libraries, so you can keep your manual file management in your filesystem and still use Immich for efficient indexing, face recognition, quick picture retrieval by year, location, people etc...

I'd recommend you try Immich (there's a docker compose version) and if you don't like it, you can just remove it and move on.

New comment by ghgr in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

ghgr — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:07:54 +0000

> If there's one that I really need to be on, I'm going to spin up a VM on my computer so that it has no idea of the other files laying around, such as my ~/passcodes.csv. If you are such a negligent bullhead as to get me onto your call, you'll be unable to see me because my VM cannot access my camera! By design! Same for my microphone, so I'll plug in a USB mic if I really need to speak up. More likely than not though, I'm exhausted by now. I'll spend the full duration of the call eeking a small echo of pleasure from the continuation of this rambling alarm, for your sheepish audience to rub their enablist shame in.

This is written in an edgy tone but it's pretty much SOP with QubesOS. Why would you install _anything_ in your main VM? Not just Zoom, but anything you import in a deep dependency graph can access your figurative ~/passcodes.csv anyway.

New comment by ghgr in "Two Concepts of Intelligence"

ghgr — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:46:32 +0000

I agree with Dijkstra on this one: “The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.”