Hacker News: gregoryl

New comment by gregoryl in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

gregoryl — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:39:58 +0000

If I'm following correctly, the conflicts arise from other commits made to main already - you've implicitly caught branch A up to main, and now you need catch branch B up to main, for a clean merge.

I don't see how there is any other way to achieve this cleanly, it's not a git thing, it's a logic thing right?

New comment by gregoryl in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

gregoryl — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:40:34 +0000

We should return to the HN guidelines, and read it as charitably as possible.

I'm interpreting it as closer to pity, rather than genuine criticism =)

New comment by gregoryl in "The Reason Windows Hate Is Exploding: It's the End of Personal Computing [video]"

gregoryl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:26:54 +0000

KCD2 works fine on Linux.

New comment by gregoryl in "How the Turner twins are mythbusting modern technical apparel"

gregoryl — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:03:22 +0000

Until you take your gear off, and it's in your pack. I'd much rather lose a kg of pack weight vs. a kg of body weight.

New comment by gregoryl in "Will Claude Code ruin our team?"

gregoryl — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:14:20 +0000

Are you mistaking your interactions with low level trades roles (the guy who's making bank fixing power sockets on the weekend) with say, the people maintaining factory electrical systems? or designing them?

New comment by gregoryl in "Verification debt: the hidden cost of AI-generated code"

gregoryl — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:01:22 +0000

The key to every quick POC having a short life, is a reliance on manual work outside of the engineering team.

New comment by gregoryl in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

gregoryl — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:22:48 +0000

When you empower almost anyone to make complex things, the average intelligence + professionalism involved plummets.

New comment by gregoryl in "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"

gregoryl — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:59:42 +0000

To certain demographics, adherence to facts appears to be a left wing bias.

New comment by gregoryl in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

gregoryl — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:27:29 +0000

  >> Why This Works So Well

New comment by gregoryl in "YouTube as Storage"

gregoryl — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 11:09:50 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbole

New comment by gregoryl in "Microsoft account bugs locked me out of Notepad – Are thin clients ruining PCs?"

gregoryl — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 04:57:41 +0000

Ditto, but .net dev for ~20 years, now fully Linux for personal compute. Workplace is making a beeline for mac / linux full stack, and completely ditching Windows.

New comment by gregoryl in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

gregoryl — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 08:10:37 +0000

For starters, Python uses IEEE 754, and Excel uses IEEE 754 (with caveats). I wonder if that's being emulated.

New comment by gregoryl in "ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files"

gregoryl — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:21:42 +0000

What does that even mean?

New comment by gregoryl in "What has Docker become?"

gregoryl — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:22:17 +0000

  For a while, Docker seemed to focus on developer experience.

ahh yes, docker desktop, where the error messages are "something went wrong", and the primary debugging step is to wipe it, uninstall, and reinstall.

New comment by gregoryl in "AI coding assistants are getting worse?"

gregoryl — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 03:29:49 +0000

nah, you rely on your coworkers to review your slop!

New comment by gregoryl in "Daft Punk Easter Egg in the BPM Tempo of Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger?"

gregoryl — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 23:26:46 +0000

It shouldn't be surprising to see people who know Venetian Snares on here!

If you're up for it, trade a music rec?

Try:

Scorpion Mother - Thief https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A3113EQvLg

New comment by gregoryl in "Netflix Open Content"

gregoryl — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 13:22:43 +0000

From the names mentioned in the most recent blog post, they left late 2022.

New comment by gregoryl in "Upcoming Changes to Let's Encrypt Certificates"

gregoryl — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:38:43 +0000

They won't adopt Acme, as once a customer adopts it, the effort to transition to a new (free) provider is almost zero.

I expect they will introduce new, "more secure", proprietary methods, and ride the vendor lock-in until the paid certificate industries death.

New comment by gregoryl in "Ask HN: How can I get better at using AI for programming?"

gregoryl — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 03:30:38 +0000

I find it quite interesting; there seems to be a set of AI enthusiasts who heavily offload thinking onto the LLM. There has to be difference in how they function, as I find as soon as I drift into letting the LLM think for me, productivity plummets.

New comment by gregoryl in "RemoveWindowsAI"

gregoryl — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 01:13:05 +0000

> Linux lags behind in many areas that matter to me in functionality, performance

I'd be interested to know about the gaps you see? I miss desktop excel, but not a whole lot else.