Hacker News: gregorymichael

New comment by gregorymichael in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

gregorymichael — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:12:19 +0000

My favorite post on HN. Upvote it everytime. Use this phrase so often now.

Customer Satisfaction Opportunities

gregorymichael — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:42:12 +0000

Article URL: https://tomasbjartur.substack.com/p/customer-satisfaction-opportunities

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47389100

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Moltbook: After the First Weekend

gregorymichael — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 13:54:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/moltbook-after-the-first-weekend

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856059

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

OpenClaw on Digital Ocean

gregorymichael — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:56:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.digitalocean.com/blog/moltbot-on-digitalocean

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46846249

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Everything Becomes an Agent

gregorymichael — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:13:26 +0000

Article URL: https://allen.hutchison.org/2026/01/15/everything-becomes-an-agent/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46641363

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

How Russia keeps raising an army to replace its dead

gregorymichael — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:18:37 +0000

Article URL: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/05/russia-planned-war-of-attrition-00672960

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46160288

Points: 10

# Comments: 7

LLMs are shockingly bad at poker

gregorymichael — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:08:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.natesilver.net/p/chatgpt-is-shockingly-bad-at-poker

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734720

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by gregorymichael in "The Hidden Engineering of Niagara Falls"

gregorymichael — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 14:44:38 +0000

What a great video. From the talk track, to the visuals, to the "flow", to the confident but accessible sprinkling of technical terms. Loved this.

Go Bills.

Why Google will win the AI race

gregorymichael — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 12:09:54 +0000

Article URL: https://investinginai.substack.com/p/why-google-will-win-the-ai-race

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45480933

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gregorymichael in "A Postmark backdoor that’s downloading emails"

gregorymichael — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 13:09:58 +0000

Agreed. When building an app that sends email, bcc-ing yourself is an unreasonably effective logging mechanism.

New comment by gregorymichael in "Bach Cello Suites (2024)"

gregorymichael — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:55:36 +0000

Just listened to the first suite. The Menuet was soulful and haunting. The Gigue was fierce and fascinating in contrast to Yo Yo Ma’s. I felt a profound sense of “there’s not enough time left in life to fully appreciate this piece of music.” Thank you for sharing.

New comment by gregorymichael in "Bach Cello Suites (2024)"

gregorymichael — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 01:51:16 +0000

I’m listening to this now for the first time now. Somehow I had never heard of him. Thank you. I sense this music will be with me for a long time.

New comment by gregorymichael in "Bach Cello Suites (2024)"

gregorymichael — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 19:26:33 +0000

I love this so much, as someone who tends to listen to a single piece of music on repeat (especially while coding) and has spent a lot of time with Yo-Yo Ma's "Six Evolutions".

Loved learning about the deep diversity of recordings from other artists, the ambiguous history of the music, and that there's a question if the music was even originally written for a cello!

Also loved that the site recommends different recordings based on the mood of interpretation.

This all reminds me of the HN favorite, "Reality has a lot of detail." Feel like I just discovered fractal complexity in a piece of music I naively thought I knew well.

New comment by gregorymichael in "A board member's perspective of the RubyGems controversy"

gregorymichael — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:25:11 +0000

This seems super reasonable.

You can try to like stuff

gregorymichael — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 16:06:28 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/liking/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45053886

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

Claude on Rails

gregorymichael — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:11:43 +0000

Article URL: https://obie.medium.com/introducing-claudeonrails-a25fb82ae37b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44399852

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Speedrun

gregorymichael — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 14:56:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.educationprogress.org/p/speedrun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44397260

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

The AI Safety Problem Is Wanting

gregorymichael — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 16:07:38 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/wanting/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44388728

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by gregorymichael in "Building Effective AI Agents"

gregorymichael — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 19:01:34 +0000

One of my favorite AI How-tos in the last year. Barry and Erik spend 80% of the post saying ~”eh, you probably don’t need agents. Just build straightforward deterministic workflows with if-statements instead.”

And then, when you actually do need agents, don’t over complicate it!

This post also introduced the concept of an Augmented LLM — a LLM hooked up to tools, memory, data — which is a useful abstraction for evolving LLM use beyond fancy autocomplete.

“An augmented LLM running in a loop” is the best definition of an agent I’ve heard so far.

New comment by gregorymichael in "A receipt printer cured my procrastination"

gregorymichael — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 14:08:04 +0000

I have ADHD, and my daughter was recently diagnosed as well.

Been reflecting on this post as it's been soaking up the front page for the last 24 hours.

I want to commend you for shipping maybe the perfect HN post:

- Personal Journey

- Old school hardware

- DIY software

- Productivity hack

- Great title

- Quantified results (2-3x productivity) over non-trivial duration (few months)

- A low-effort offline solution that delivers real value for the 98% who will never build the thing

- Great polish on the reading experience with lots of little details

- Effective call to action (subscribe to get the software in a few weeks)

You inspired me to get my organization back on track. After researching receipt printers for 30 minutes, I realized what I actually need is to dust off the system that has worked for me in the past. But I'm picking up some post-its today and my daughter and I are going to try implementing your system for her over the weekend.

Thank you for putting the time into this!