Hacker News: gpvos

New comment by gpvos in "My Friend Aaron"

gpvos — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:02:47 +0000

There's a difference between intelligent and smart, the latter including being able to use your intelligence for a practical, real-life purpose, like improving your own life.

New comment by gpvos in "Don't Wordle"

gpvos — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:58:29 +0000

It took me a minute to find out that I needed to close the instructions to see the actual game. A Play button would have been nice.

New comment by gpvos in "Don't Wordle"

gpvos — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:54:58 +0000

That's an interesting opinion, but EU law says the opposite.

New comment by gpvos in "Don't Wordle"

gpvos — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:49:29 +0000

Are there no words with the same letter three or more times?

New comment by gpvos in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

gpvos — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 09:27:07 +0000

Service in the local language, quick delivery, a local place where people can actually come by to buy or pick up things.

New comment by gpvos in "An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30"

gpvos — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:17:06 +0000

    BSD = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch_and_Swinnerton-Dyer_conjecture
    GRH = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized_Riemann_hypothesis

New comment by gpvos in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

gpvos — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:02:34 +0000

Fonts are a side interest for a very large number of hackers. In fact this page has been submitted before and got 857 points and 122 comments.

New comment by gpvos in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

gpvos — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:01:18 +0000

On Fennec on Android, no images appear to load at all. Edit: they do, it just takes ages. Could be the slow connection.

New comment by gpvos in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

gpvos — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 15:33:59 +0000

Good for you! Personally I'm not so much interested in building things. On the other hand, my ideal life would be to make a computer do new cool tricks all day.

New comment by gpvos in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

gpvos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:08:02 +0000

Many, yes, but I think you misjudge the less vocal but large majority of people saying less meat is better for the climate and environment.

New comment by gpvos in "C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior"

gpvos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 18:49:05 +0000

Sounds like the standard should say that it results in an implementation-defined value (or wording to that effect). Saying it's UB gives the compilers way too much leeway.

New comment by gpvos in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

gpvos — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 12:43:35 +0000

Rendering yeah, understanding nope.

New comment by gpvos in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

gpvos — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:00:07 +0000

Crazy funny, yes, but not good.

New comment by gpvos in "Show HN: Elevators"

gpvos — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 09:57:41 +0000

I think you belong to a small percentage of the population doing that. Most people don't bother with such detailed life microoptimizations.

New comment by gpvos in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

gpvos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:24:20 +0000

Yeah, that comment is a textbook example of failure to communicate.

New comment by gpvos in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

gpvos — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 17:21:49 +0000

Why so secretive? Share the list.

New comment by gpvos in "Our position on open-weights models"

gpvos — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:57:52 +0000

Interesting. I'm just relaying what I read in quality newspapers over here. And it's not just Africa. Anyway, you may be right. Do you have numbers?

New comment by gpvos in "Our position on open-weights models"

gpvos — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:52:26 +0000

South China sea, Tibet, Uyghuria, Taiwan. And definitely dominance over SE Asia even though no direct conquest.

New comment by gpvos in "Our position on open-weights models"

gpvos — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:46:00 +0000

It has been quite good at indebting countries to them, in Africa but also e.g. Montenegro.

New comment by gpvos in "Preventing line breaks in `elements"`


gpvos — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 08:59:53 +0000

As the saying goes: you can fool all people some of the time, and some people all of the time.
Actually, depending on what you're doing, it can be totally fine. Just be aware that you're losing some generality.

Hacker News: gpvos

New comment by gpvos in "My Friend Aaron"

New comment by gpvos in "Don't Wordle"

New comment by gpvos in "Don't Wordle"

New comment by gpvos in "Don't Wordle"

New comment by gpvos in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

New comment by gpvos in "An elliptic curve of rank ≥ 30"

New comment by gpvos in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

New comment by gpvos in "The hardest working font in Manhattan (2025)"

New comment by gpvos in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

New comment by gpvos in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

New comment by gpvos in "C++ float-to-int conversion can be undefined behavior"

New comment by gpvos in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

New comment by gpvos in "My personal AI benchmark: “Generate an SVG of a frog with a Habsburg jaw”"

New comment by gpvos in "Show HN: Elevators"

New comment by gpvos in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

New comment by gpvos in "'VPNs are lawful technical tools,' says EU Court in landmark copyright ruling"

New comment by gpvos in "Our position on open-weights models"

New comment by gpvos in "Our position on open-weights models"

New comment by gpvos in "Our position on open-weights models"

New comment by gpvos in "Preventing line breaks in elements"

New comment by gpvos in "Preventing line breaks in `elements"`