Hacker News: gniv

New comment by gniv in "Hyper-optimized reverse geocoding API"

gniv — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 16:13:18 +0000

How long does it take to build the whole index?

New comment by gniv in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

gniv — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:59:58 +0000

It's perfectly fine to run your English text through an LLM if you're not sure about grammar/spelling. That's also how you learn to improve.

Your post is comprehensible but has multiple mistakes and they are a distraction (which is fine in this context, but in other contexts it might hinder communication).

Pet dad turns to AI chatbot to cure sick pup using custom mRNA vaccine [video]

gniv — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:48:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COYSRbF1F-Y

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47388555

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by gniv in "AI engineer uses ChatGPT+AlphaFold to develop cancer vaccine for his dog"

gniv — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:31:37 +0000

There are at least 8 stories here on HN about this and none of them gained traction. To me this is mind-blowing, even if it's not a full cure. I would really like more color commentary from actual researchers in the domain.

In the meantime I offer this twitter thread: https://x.com/PatrickHeizer/status/2032889575320768867

New comment by gniv in "Colon cancer now leading cause of cancer deaths under 50 in US"

gniv — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:27:21 +0000

The prep is by far the worst of it. I wish they could do it differently.

New comment by gniv in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

gniv — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:15:10 +0000

Are you referring to the Florida purchases mentioned in the article? There might be some hidden tax reasons for those.

New comment by gniv in "I built a real-time RER/train tracker for Paris commuters (PWA, no app store)"

gniv — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:18:36 +0000

Nice UX, no complaints on the desktop.

Nice pun too. Helps me remember the url.

New comment by gniv in "The government uses targeted advertising to track your location"

gniv — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:45:27 +0000

> > Navigation

> How did people manage this prior to 2007?

We had a map for each county. My wife would switch them when we crossed county boundaries and would give directions. We still got lost. It was romantic.

New comment by gniv in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

gniv — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:14:09 +0000

My late-2021 M1 Pro is working fine but I think one of the fans is broken. When loaded it starts beeping every 7 seconds and won't stop until I reboot. It might be just dust but I'm reluctant to open it up. Maybe I should and if I break it I have a better reason to upgrade lol.

New comment by gniv in "The normalization of corruption in organizations (2003) [pdf]"

gniv — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:38:56 +0000

Very insightful on how this corruption develops:

"How can a group hold a worldview so at odds with the wider culture and not appear to be greatly conflicted by it? The answer may lie in the distinction between particularism and universalism. An individual develops social identities specific to the social domains, groups and roles – and accompanying subcultures – that he or she occupies (e.g. manager, mother, parishioner, sports fan). [...]

In the case of corruption, this myopia means that an otherwise ethically-minded individual may forsake universalistic or dominant norms about ethical behavior in favor of particularistic behaviors that favor his or her group at the expense of outsiders. [...]

This tendency to always put the ingroup above all others clearly paves the way for collective corruption."

New comment by gniv in "Facebook is cooked"

gniv — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 18:46:24 +0000

I login for the groups. Some private groups have a ton of useful info that's well organized, plus helpful folks that are eager to answer questions.

New comment by gniv in "I'm not worried about AI job loss"

gniv — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 09:48:12 +0000

A point that the article doesn't touch on directly, but it's part of the bottlenecks mentioned: a lot of jobs already are bullsh*t. They are there because a scapegoat is needed or because the nephew of the CEO needs a job, etc. In theory these jobs could have been removed long ago but they were not, and AI won't change that.

New comment by gniv in "Beginning fully autonomous operations with the 6th-generation Waymo driver"

gniv — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:00:40 +0000

Why would driverless cars mill around? They would just wait around in underground garages. They can even block each other, so they don't need that much space to park.

New comment by gniv in "New research reveals how the brain separates speech into words"

gniv — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:01:49 +0000

Short article worth reading. Quite interesting find regarding our brains.

New comment by gniv in "Roger Ebert Reviews "The Shawshank Redemption" (1999)"

gniv — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:34:33 +0000

I second the Kore-eda rec although it's an acquired taste, not so easy as Shawshank. Shoplifters was a revelation.

New comment by gniv in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"

gniv — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:41:30 +0000

It's not a high number when compared to other first-world countries: https://statranker.org/population/top-10-countries-with-high...

New comment by gniv in "40M Americans Live Alone, 29% of households"

gniv — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:36:13 +0000

Incidentally, that newsletter has a lot of interesting charts.

https://www.apolloacademy.com/the-daily-spark/

New comment by gniv in "Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?"

gniv — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:16:39 +0000

I was reminded of "software is eating the world", which was basically the idea that everything needs software. It's still true. In that light, programming is not cooked. We can do things much faster, yes, but there are so many things to do that it will still take a ton of (let's call them) qualified people to build them all.

New comment by gniv in "Ask HN: Is Programming as a Profession Cooked?"

gniv — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 14:11:07 +0000

A lot of the software produced in big corps is mission-critical. Self-driving cars are an extreme example but I think the same principle applies to banking, infrastructure, even things like maps, since they are used by billions.

New comment by gniv in "Six-decade math puzzle solved by Korean mathematician"

gniv — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:59:06 +0000

Agree, but I wanted more. What is the intuition behind the optimality proof? I realize you cannot summarize a 119-page paper in two paragraphs, but still.

Edit: This article from September has a bit more: https://www.popsci.com/science/gervers-sofa-problem-solved/