Hacker News: greggroth

New comment by greggroth in "Mine, an IDE for Coalton and Common Lisp"

greggroth — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:46:36 +0000

Same. It's an awkward time to develop a new IDE.

New comment by greggroth in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

greggroth — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:23:24 +0000

The frustrating thing is that the economy lags policy, and policy has limited influence on the economy to begin with. Inflation rose because the US consumer was ready to spend much faster than the supply chain could recover from the COVID era. The Inflation Reduction Act could only do so much to soften inflation, but the whole thing was blamed on Biden by the average voter.

New comment by greggroth in "M4 MacBook Pro"

greggroth — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:48:44 +0000

I'm torn between the new M4 MBP and a Framework laptop with Linux for my personal computer. Can you share some deciding factors for you? Does it mostly come down to the OS? How is the battery life with the Framework?

New comment by greggroth in "Boom announces successful flight of XB-1 demonstrator aircraft"

greggroth — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 18:23:36 +0000

I think their sights are set on military contracts (I believe they already have some military funding) and commercial aviation is a way to fund the development.

New comment by greggroth in "Magic AI Secures $117M to Build an AI Software Engineer"

greggroth — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 18:45:14 +0000

Updating dependencies and frameworks is maybe the biggest thing I can't wait for Copilot to do for me.