Hacker News: gnatman

New comment by gnatman in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

gnatman — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:52:08 +0000

Not every book in a library is meant to be read like a novel. Some books need only be referenced, briefly and periodically.

New comment by gnatman in "Layoffs at Block"

gnatman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:56:54 +0000

Karma farming to frontpage more AI news and startups?

New comment by gnatman in "I baked a pie every day for a year"

gnatman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:20:14 +0000

I’m of the belief that doing just about anything every single day for a year will change your life! A key for me has been to “lower the bar” so that I can keep the promise to myself and maintain momentum through days of low energy or enthusiasm, e.g. playing the guitar for 1 minute, or writing 1 sentence.

New comment by gnatman in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

gnatman — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:30:21 +0000

>> On January 13th, I woke up to the news that Meta had another round of layoffs and my role specifically as a research engineer had been eliminated.

Not even 10x dog programmers are surviving in this economy

New comment by gnatman in "Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair"

gnatman — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 05:18:27 +0000

Give it a shot, I guess. Sounds like you’ll have a big market in Iowa.

New comment by gnatman in "Iowa farmers are leading the fight for repair"

gnatman — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 03:10:05 +0000

That’s not what this is about, it’s about access to dealership level diagnostic software.

But you don’t have to wait for the farmers, you could “get Claude to code an entire car software and flash it onto your own hardware and put it in your car.” Post back here with your results!

New comment by gnatman in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

gnatman — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 00:14:44 +0000

If you go back to a random much older post you’ll find emdashes aplenty.

e.g. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2014/07/launching-mathem...

New comment by gnatman in "“Car Wash” test with 53 models"

gnatman — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 20:54:06 +0000

LLMs sure do love to burn tokens. It’s like a high schooler trying to meet the minimum word length on a take home essay.

New comment by gnatman in "Ask HN: Why don't software developers make medical devices?"

gnatman — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:50:50 +0000

Is this the new “why don’t coal miners just learn how to code?”

New comment by gnatman in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

gnatman — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:57:14 +0000

OK but the difference between $0.00 and $0.01 is also 1 cent.

New comment by gnatman in "The true history of the Minotaur: what archaeology reveals"

gnatman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:54:39 +0000

the Master

New comment by gnatman in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

gnatman — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 05:16:15 +0000

maybe some sales look like this but anyone who models themselves after this or madmen or whatever… good luck.

New comment by gnatman in "Show HN: Wildex – Pokémon Go for real wildlife"

gnatman — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:36:54 +0000

It appears the Wildex user in your 2nd screenshot is about to get mauled to death.

New comment by gnatman in "Ask HN: How do founders demo real product without exposing sensitive data?"

gnatman — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 22:37:30 +0000

Surely real product with fake data is the answer. Fake data doesn’t necessarily mean “silly” data e.g. names like Larry Llama or myfaketestwebsite.com. There’s no reason why your real product running on sandboxed data should hurt your credibility.

New comment by gnatman in "Mathematicians disagree on the essential structure of the complex numbers (2024)"

gnatman — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:19:24 +0000

Yep- there’s some issues representing complex numbers in 3D space. You may want to check out quaternions.

New comment by gnatman in "A new comet was just discovered. Will it be visible in broad daylight?"

gnatman — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:37:48 +0000

The project, the remote telescopes, custom software, late night whatsapp messages… what a project and what a write-up. Almost laughable to call these guys “amateurs”!

https://www.spaceobs.com/en/Alain-Maury-s-Blog/The-discovery...

New comment by gnatman in "Ask HN: Cheap laptop for Linux without GUI (for writing)"

gnatman — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:40:07 +0000

i highly recommend looking at an alphasmart neo or neo2. it’s a “can’t live without” tool in my daily life.

New comment by gnatman in "State of the Windows: What is going on with Windows 11?"

gnatman — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 00:39:25 +0000

I think the Windows user base is substantially smaller than 500 billion.

New comment by gnatman in "Tell HN: Drowning in information but still missing everything"

gnatman — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 21:43:19 +0000

Are you sure it’s necessary to know about competitor moves the instant they happen? I’m a salesman not a PM but I don’t feel the least bit embarrassed about hearing of a competitor feature from a customer. In fact now I have an opportunity to ask them questions about their need.

New comment by gnatman in "Apple testing new App Store design that blurs the line between ads and results"

gnatman — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 15:24:31 +0000

Why should they if they’re buying some commoditized item on amazon, for example? I bought an ergonomic ice pack for my knee this morning, something I couldn’t find in the store near my house. Why should I scroll past the first, cheapest, decent looking item that meets my needs? As a moral duty, perhaps. At any rate, advertisement doesn’t necessarily mean scam.