Hacker News: greggh

New comment by greggh in "TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe"

greggh — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:53:09 +0000

On Tahoe my Time Machine was broken after the update. My backup target is on a QNAP NAS. I just had to set it up from scratch again and it worked. But it did cost me a few files I was trying to recover. So I feel this.

New comment by greggh in "Ross Stevens Donates $100M to Pay Every US Olympian and Paralympian $200k"

greggh — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 02:11:59 +0000

The real answer here is that he is mad about people protesting what Israel is doing in Gaza. This $100M donation is being made with funds he had given to UPenn. He has taken it back, via lawyers, because they allowed the protests to go on. He is now just taking that original donation and moving it somewhere else. Not that I am against the Olympians getting paid, just some context.

Sources: https://philanthropynewsdigest.org/news/donor-pulls-100-mill... https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4348656-upenn-loses-1... https://www.timesnownews.com/world/who-is-ross-stevens-stone... (many more)

New comment by greggh in "Trinity large: An open 400B sparse MoE model"

greggh — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:54:16 +0000

The only thing I question is the use of Maverick in their comparison charts. That's like comparing a pile of rocks to an LLM.

New comment by greggh in "Claude Cowork runs Linux VM via Apple virtualization framework"

greggh — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:14:43 +0000

Use a devcontainer. Claude Code's repo has one built specifically for it:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/tree/main/.devcont...

New comment by greggh in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

greggh — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 02:01:32 +0000

Following that story as it happened, it was all on the phone with the phone keyboard and he somehow made multiple good Neovim plugins including that very popular one (which I use in multiple configs).

New comment by greggh in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

greggh — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:56:02 +0000

Right, but Eva found an RCE and only got $5,000.

New comment by greggh in "Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative"

greggh — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 15:15:37 +0000

Thanks, and that sounds great. On the backend what are you using for the DAG stuff to make it durable? Temporal?

New comment by greggh in "Show HN: Sim – Apache-2.0 n8n alternative"

greggh — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 05:15:52 +0000

Development seems pretty rapid, how often are breaking changes forcing workflow modifications to keep updated with the latest versions?

New comment by greggh in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

greggh — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:24:56 +0000

It was given today's front page to riff on. Thats why it not only reads like a HN front page, but also has near duplicates from todays front page.

New comment by greggh in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

greggh — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:24:43 +0000

This is my new favorite response.

New comment by greggh in "Surprisingly, Emacs on Android is pretty good"

greggh — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 04:09:37 +0000

(Travels back to the 90s)

Pretty good for Emacs*

Long live VI.

New comment by greggh in "State of Terminal Emulators in 2025: The Errant Champions"

greggh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 18:55:09 +0000

People still use WezTerm when we have Kitty and Ghostty? Can you explain why? I'm actually interested to know what would make someone make that choice.

New comment by greggh in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

greggh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:51:11 +0000

Deepseek, Qwen, GLM (quite good). All being open and available for local use definitely puts them ahead in that space, which means a lot of the tinkerers and younger people learning to do things like train and fine-tune are getting good with Chinese models and I do think getting in early like that is a great way to gain mindshare in a space. Look at Apple or Microsoft doing everything they could early on to get their machines and software into schools as early as possible.

New comment by greggh in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

greggh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:44:21 +0000

If you really need a lot of VRAM cheap rocm still supports the amd MI50 and you can get 32gb versions of the MI50 on alibaba/aliexpress for around $150-$250 each. A few people on r/localllama have shown setups with multiple MI50s running with 128gb of VRAM and doing a decent job with large models. Obviously it won't running as fast as any brand new GPUs because of memory bandwidth and a few other things, but more than fast enough to be usable.

This can end up getting you 128gb of VRAM for under $1000.

New comment by greggh in "Tongyi DeepResearch – open-source 30B MoE Model that rivals OpenAI DeepResearch"

greggh — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 14:38:53 +0000

I use emotions-analyzer-bert for this classifying content in a similar way. It's very small and very fast, under a gig of vram in use.

New comment by greggh in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

greggh — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:24:54 +0000

I've used vivid nearly every day since the week the first m1 MacBook Pro came out, no damage to my screen at all.

New comment by greggh in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

greggh — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:23:20 +0000

Default Folder X is a huge improvement to Finder, specifically open and save windows. It's in SetApp too.

New comment by greggh in "Addiction Markets"

greggh — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 18:15:37 +0000

Multiple articles and interviews have said it was the Sicilian Mafia / La Cosa Nostra.

"The Five Families - the Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese and Lucchese - have ruled the city's Italian American mafia since 1931."

"The Five Families are part of the larger American-Sicilian mafia operation known as La Cosa Nostra"

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpv1rkxjyyno

New comment by greggh in "Affinity Studio now free"

greggh — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 13:28:53 +0000

I have, and I still think it's idiotic. I don't do any layout work, ever. And I see no future where I will. I don't need all of that in the software I use to do any photo editing.

New comment by greggh in "Affinity Studio now free"

greggh — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 18:14:00 +0000

Nope. No more updates and it's removed from the app stores.