Hacker News: greazy

New comment by greazy in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

greazy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:26:28 +0000

But they are very good at identifying patterns though. This task requires little logic IMO. So why not leverage LLM to perform redundancy analysis?

New comment by greazy in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

greazy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 23:23:45 +0000

What I was suggesting is to ask the LLM to compare function usage across files to identify overlap/redundancy.

The idea is to use the LLM to analyse the code base first before taking any action.

I think I'm suggesting a centaur approach.

New comment by greazy in "AI Isn't Outthinking Mathematicians. It's Out-Remembering Them"

greazy — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 19:26:16 +0000

Can LLMs not do this for you? Or would they go too far?

New comment by greazy in "Nine PBS sues Iron Mountain over blocked access to archival data"

greazy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 03:04:35 +0000

Oddly aggressive comment on something so mundane. Guess it's a pet peeve of yours?

New comment by greazy in "Where did the old web go? We followed 657,607 links to find out"

greazy — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 00:11:59 +0000

For me that's not the old web.

The old web was local forum created by gamers for gamers who hosted real life events. You could post asking for super specific advice to your locale. It was eaten by reddit.

There were cool IRC servers for all sorts of niche projects and topics. This still exists of course but a lot of it was eaten by Discord or Slack.

While I never participated, sites like LiveJournal provided both a unique outlet and view into other people's lives. I think a lot of social media like Instagram and Facebook eat this up.

I'm sure everyone has their own versions. And this is the old web that was gobbled up by mega sites which aim to commericalise the crap out of everything.

Btw I consider HN part of the old web.

New comment by greazy in "Show HN: I spent a week building a CLV model and the CMO shrugged"

greazy — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 11:35:34 +0000

This would be a better link for the article to match the title.

https://nasserboan.github.io/clvkit/user_guide/the_shrug.htm...

Google leaking unreleased indie game information through Google Docs (Reddit)

greazy — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:39:27 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/IndieDev/comments/1vfwuf5/a_player_found_out_the_actual_name_of_my_games/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178965

Points: 4

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New comment by greazy in "Ask HN: I still don't understand why AI agents need "skills""

greazy — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 05:38:15 +0000

Where are you selling them?

New comment by greazy in "Handbook.md shows that long policy documents do not reliably govern agents"

greazy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 14:59:06 +0000

DAGs are used in scientific workflows like snakemake. I wonder if such pipeline engines are use in LLM space.

New comment by greazy in "Refactoring cuisine: how an Iraqi stew sailed to Singapore"

greazy — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 08:29:16 +0000

What's the deal with Amba eating in Iraq? It seems out of place as it's spicy source condiment.

Okay... There's a whole Wikipedia about this topic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amba_(condiment)

Wow I have to tell my dad about this (he's going to not like this lol)

New comment by greazy in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

greazy — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:41:17 +0000

Plenty of research is performed by non PhDs.

The main difference is reproducibility and peer review process.

New comment by greazy in "New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study"

greazy — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 21:36:41 +0000

I think all viruses do to some extent. We refer to them as DIPs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_interfering_particle

List includes RSV, flu, sc2 and of course hiv

New comment by greazy in "Show HN: Reverse Minesweeper"

greazy — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:24:10 +0000

I'm not a big fan of puzzle games but these are great.

Are the clues hand coded?

New comment by greazy in "How proprietary formats have become Microsoft’s main tool for lock-in"

greazy — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:33:23 +0000

There's plenty of viewers, I think even MS used to offer free MS Office readers.

We need interoperability between MSOffice and everything else. But were stuck with MSOffice because even the so called open format is not well documented.

MS Office is the last roadblock for Linux desktop. It's literally the last thing holding back many users from moving to anything else.

New comment by greazy in "Ask HN: Should I do a CS masters at Cambridge or start as a new grad at Amazon?"

greazy — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:26:35 +0000

> EDIT: It's very funny, I've asked the same thing on Reddit and over there 14 out of 15 comments advised me to take the job offer and here on HN the first 3 out of 3 comments tell me to do the masters

Which subreddit did you post on? Try one that's similar Hacker News like maybe programming and I think you'd get similar adobe as HN.

New comment by greazy in "The fine print that follows you out the door: non-compete clauses are spreading"

greazy — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 02:48:43 +0000

Australia is limiting / banning non competes for certain workers

https://www.mlc.org.au/whats-changing-with-non-compete-claus...

New comment by greazy in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

greazy — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:16:30 +0000

Which distro are you running? Perchance did you run the shell script in alpine Linux (docker)?

New comment by greazy in "Nintendo has raised its employees base salary by 10%"

greazy — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:21:03 +0000

I never considered the two are linked. Any research or modeling that shows this is true? Is it generalisable to other countries...

New comment by greazy in "For first time, a cell built from scratch grows and divides"

greazy — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 23:53:22 +0000

It appears the scientists or someone close to them have created a wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpudCell

I don't think I've ever seen researchers do PR like this directly. Interesting approach, will it become the norm?

New comment by greazy in "Regular expressions that work "everywhere""

greazy — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:55:49 +0000

I think you forgot to post a link?