Hacker News: gregglain

New comment by gregglain in "Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement"

gregglain — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:08:44 +0000

Performance review 2025: yes

Refresher: a few lambos annual raise, small town as a bonus, larger town in RSUs

New comment by gregglain in "My static site was serving my internal docs"

gregglain — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:32:34 +0000

you mentioned the second use case.

My comment was regarding separation of concerns.

Copy out the hosted content to /var/www or somewhere else outside of git, separated from the repo.

New comment by gregglain in "The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain"

gregglain — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:27:50 +0000

there we go - thank you.

New comment by gregglain in "New Withings Users Must Pay $99/Year for Apple Health Syncing"

gregglain — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:05:33 +0000

I got their blood pressure cuff for a couple years ago. I declined the setup and BT sync, partly from privacy, partly from apathy of "when will it break".

The cuff works well, I enter the numbers manually, no failures so far.

New comment by gregglain in "The 8-mile hole in a Hawaii national park that no one can explain"

gregglain — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:58:37 +0000

Oh they know I am certain. For these sites it's a game of reload and go into airplane mode before too much crap loads.

New comment by gregglain in "Amazon pushes up prices across the Internet"

gregglain — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:41:33 +0000

i'm the 10th person, we don't stay for returns. However, I am doing a lot more shopping on different websites nowadays as I see Amazon is the most expensive option.

New comment by gregglain in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

gregglain — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:11:42 +0000

And it pays well too.

New comment by gregglain in "Doory – Open-Source Canva"

gregglain — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:13:44 +0000

It's open source.

New comment by gregglain in "Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours"

gregglain — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 08:07:47 +0000

Just don't pay at all

New comment by gregglain in "My static site was serving my internal docs"

gregglain — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:15:10 +0000

What about have the output directory outside the repo?

New comment by gregglain in "Iranian campaign planted fake articles in real U.S. publications using ChatGPT"

gregglain — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 23:00:28 +0000

We know the solution to the decline of journalistic integrity but it's hostile to profits.

New comment by gregglain in "Ask HN: What do you run on a $5 VPS that's worth keeping online 24/7?"

gregglain — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:48:28 +0000

Especially those "one package wonder" ISO vendors, $20 is steep.

New comment by gregglain in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

gregglain — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:04:40 +0000

The developers do care, but we are judged on other metrics, and sometimes working crap code meets the need. Caring takes time we sometime don't want to give up from family or life. So crap we ship.

New comment by gregglain in "Why were Victorian elites so effective?"

gregglain — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 08:57:05 +0000

s/elite/owners/g

New comment by gregglain in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

gregglain — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:29:22 +0000

Tax - why not both billionaires and land.

New comment by gregglain in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

gregglain — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:31:15 +0000

It's sad such a great product gets wrecked like this, literally against its creator's wishes, then gaslights us too.

New comment by gregglain in "Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes"

gregglain — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 06:05:15 +0000

Us: No consumer wants this.

Microsoft: did the user utter some nonsense?

New comment by gregglain in "Korea raises data breach fines to 10% of revenue"

gregglain — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:31:01 +0000

Not collect data? Heresy!

New comment by gregglain in "Data collected by cars and sold to third parties"

gregglain — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:22:57 +0000

I'll take the risk.

New comment by gregglain in "US military reveals it has weapons in space"

gregglain — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 08:18:51 +0000

Nor one from Russia.