Hacker News: ghjv

New comment by ghjv in "Gloomberb"

ghjv — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:48:00 +0000

looks fine on my machine

New comment by ghjv in "Is a literary mag connected to the killing of a head of state?"

ghjv — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 16:51:01 +0000

interested in reading this but the tone is so sour and sneering that I couldn't get through the first section.

New comment by ghjv in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

ghjv — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:11:27 +0000

It's 100% AI Generated, stick it in Pangram yourself and see.

New comment by ghjv in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"

ghjv — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:25:31 +0000

While reading some of the comments on this thread I felt somewhat troubled at how pessimistic a few users were about having meaningful relationships with other people. Can be easy to feel like what you read on Social Media is representative of the avg human being or society at large.

Always worth keeping in mind on HN but on a thread like this especially, the comments you see are heavily selected for having been written by people who spend significant amounts of their time commenting on forums for techy nerds... famously a group which is less extroverted irl than most, leans toward being neurodiverse in a way which sometimes makes traditional socialization difficult or less desirable, etc...

In other words, do not despair like I did at antisocial comments.

New comment by ghjv in "We're pausing Asimov Press"

ghjv — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:22:57 +0000

Isaac Asimov has been dead for 34 years. How long should we wait to name something after someone? Not rhetorical, interested in more detail about when the odiousness crosses into being socially acceptable for you.

New comment by ghjv in "Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once"

ghjv — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:00:20 +0000

Out of curiosity - were this and other comments from this account written by hand, or generated and posted by an agent on behalf of a human user?

New comment by ghjv in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

ghjv — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:19:51 +0000

this seems like an unreasonably unchartiable reading of a relatively chill and nice situation

New comment by ghjv in "Detecting Dementia Using Lexical Analysis: Terry Pratchett's Discworld"

ghjv — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 19:12:42 +0000

I never spoke to the man, but reading the oodles and oodles of words he put out for the public over the years gives me the impression that he would find something like this mostly neat and worthwhile while still being a bit disquieting and weird.

New comment by ghjv in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

ghjv — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:08:29 +0000

—It's not X, it's Y?

New comment by ghjv in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ghjv — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:56:25 +0000

My question was from the context of non-research staff looking to provide financial and institutional support to research staff - looks like your resource is useful for researchers but not for me. thanks in any case.

New comment by ghjv in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ghjv — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 18:34:53 +0000

Elaborate?

New comment by ghjv in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ghjv — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:07:52 +0000

reducing wasteful government spending is an admirable goal but DOGE seems in mine and many others estimation to have focused less on reducing wasteful spending (overpaying for simple services, unnecessary doublings of effort, overly complex procedures etc) and was instead used to cut programs this administration has ideological disagreements with. Cutting programs it finds disagreeable is certainly this admin's right, but strange and dishonest to cloak it with talk of "efficiency" which is badly needed.

optimizing processes =/= removing goals

New comment by ghjv in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ghjv — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:00:38 +0000

It's certainly on the table, I'm only pre-empting it as a clever answer since it's one I'm already aware of.

New comment by ghjv in "The U.S. Is Funding Fewer Grants in Every Area of Science and Medicine"

ghjv — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:40:01 +0000

How should one orient themselves and their career if they wanted to work to increase funding to scientific development? Outside the obvious "make a boatload of money doing something obscenely profitable and distribute the money yourself"

Editing to clarify: this is not a hypothetical. This is something that I've been trying to do previously and am interested in doing a better job at in the future.

New comment by ghjv in "Mistral OCR 3"

ghjv — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:51:06 +0000

thought you were being flip or assuming that, but checked their profile and you are right. I agree that this should be disclosed in their comment.

New comment by ghjv in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

ghjv — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:54:18 +0000

Steam's lawyers would say that one should know by reading the terms of service for the storefront and the purchase. But in the real world, how often does that happen?

New comment by ghjv in "Are Apple gift cards safe to redeem?"

ghjv — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 15:42:55 +0000

regardless of the resolution of Paris' case, at this point I doubt sincerely I will ever willingly purchase an Apple gift card. To be frank, most gift cards are persona non grata for myself and ~all discerning consumers I know

New comment by ghjv in "Craft software that makes people feel something"

ghjv — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:36:58 +0000

habitually move my cursor while reading things... so Feels Bad for sure

New comment by ghjv in "Strong earthquake hits northern Japan, tsunami warning issued"

ghjv — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:44:11 +0000

anyone able to ping this to the lads at the National Design Studio?

New comment by ghjv in "Google pulls AI model after senator says it fabricated assault allegation"

ghjv — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 17:04:55 +0000

strange to talk about it in the future tense. it's here and yep, it's an object of fascination for the legal system