Hacker News: gniv

New comment by gniv in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

gniv — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:05:39 +0000

Wow. What could possibly have caused him to quit so soon after coming back?

I hope this is not accurate but I'm afraid it is: https://x.com/signulll/status/2067446889956430273

New comment by gniv in "12,060 piece, $799.99, Sagrada Família is the largest Lego building set to date"

gniv — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:04:25 +0000

I just looked and of course there are: https://fr.aliexpress.com/item/1005010679835500.html

New comment by gniv in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

gniv — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:14:31 +0000

The deal might have been signed a month ago, just before earnings, when the stock was about that price.

New comment by gniv in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

gniv — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:11:41 +0000

> Have you seen their Auto Caption? It's utterly incapable of understanding speech.

How recently have you looked? I think nowadays it's quite good.

New comment by gniv in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

gniv — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:10:24 +0000

> I don't think they 'index' videos, per se.

I'm pretty sure they do. They already index metadata (you can see it in the web search results) so indexing the transcript is relatively easy.

New comment by gniv in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

gniv — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:44:56 +0000

I bought a connected oxymeter (viatom). I wore it overnight on my finger with the phone nearby. The graph on the app shows exact values through the night so you can see how many time oxygen drops and for how long. It's not quite as good as the real thing but should give you an idea, and it's cheap.

New comment by gniv in "Cursing the government does not fix potholes. Spray-painting them does"

gniv — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:38:17 +0000

> Most road maintenance crews probably aren't sitting around

Assuming that's true, the most likely explanation is that they are working on Big Projects. Pothole maintenance is (probably) behind these projects, even though it can be done without affecting their timeline.

New comment by gniv in "Googlebook"

gniv — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:20:54 +0000

I used AI to shop for shops of clothes. But I would probably use it directly if I trusted it to give me good results.

New comment by gniv in "The bottleneck was never the code"

gniv — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:11:18 +0000

That was me. I complained a lot about meetings, design docs, etc. I did not understand that the process of discovery is messy and what looks inefficient is not really. I expected sharper meetings, shorter docs etc. In retrospect I see my naivety but it took me too long to change my attitude.

New comment by gniv in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

gniv — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:49:36 +0000

Is it from ANTS? I haven't gotten anything yet.

New comment by gniv in "Brands got worse on purpose"

gniv — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:12:47 +0000

Same with household appliances. Most of the familiar names are shadows of their former selves. Unlike in clothes though the quality alternatives are usually really expensive.

Daily Geography Game

gniv — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:03:11 +0000

Article URL: https://maptap.gg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47847595

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gniv in "Why Japan has such good railways"

gniv — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 20:01:48 +0000

I don't park on the street anymore when I go to Paris by car. The private underground garages are cheaper (4-5 euro/hour).

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.