Hacker News: grizzles

New comment by grizzles in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

grizzles — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 22:35:27 +0000

Are they refreshing the coral project with these? The coral project for edge ai apps seems like it needs a refresh.

New comment by grizzles in "Show HN: ElixirBrowser – Android Chromium fork with extensions, inspired by Kiwi"

grizzles — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 01:32:07 +0000

Could I grab your email? Or email me - mine is in my HN profile. I'd like to pay you to develop a feature for me.

New comment by grizzles in "Ask HN: Is a JVM/CDP based browser agent stack fundamentally a bad idea?"

grizzles — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 12:12:21 +0000

Open source it and you'll get all the feedback you desire.

New comment by grizzles in "Applets are officially gone, but Java in the browser is better"

grizzles — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 08:54:30 +0000

Compose multiplatform is the spiritual successor to JVM in the browser. Compiles to wasm, modern api, great developer experience. It's kotlin so not java, but easy for java developers to learn.

New comment by grizzles in "Scientists race to make 'living' computers powered by human cells"

grizzles — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 06:03:53 +0000

Reminds me of the movie, the Matrix.

New comment by grizzles in "$2 WeAct Display FS adds a 0.96-inch USB information display to your computer"

grizzles — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:26:55 +0000

Seems perfect for a YubiKey type of device. Know where your authenticating to.

New comment by grizzles in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

grizzles — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:53:25 +0000

I wasn't aware of obtainium. Thank you. I was thinking of something more like Google Chrome mobile edition but for APKs. So more focus around the search interface.

New comment by grizzles in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

grizzles — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 23:33:08 +0000

This must be because of Epic's win in antitrust court.

What someone needs to do is create a "Store" browser that loads apps from random websites like https://site.tld/app.apk

You could manually parse AndroidManifest.xml and allow only apps that expose

I'm somewhat interested in doing this myself actually. What do people think?

New comment by grizzles in "How Hyper built a 1M-accurate indoor GPS"

grizzles — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 11:44:53 +0000

In my view, you need to 'streetview' the world's shopping malls and make this a free app, the Hyper Browser. Add product search & reviews and drive traffic away from non-customer stores.

New comment by grizzles in "Meta Joins Kotlin Foundation"

grizzles — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 01:33:32 +0000

I use kotlin at work every day and I'm suprised it (and particular Kotlin/Compose Multiplatform) are not more popular. It's a true alternative to javascript that lets you share native ui code across web,ios,android,desktop and more (eg. watchOS).

New comment by grizzles in "Elon Musk Wants to Privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak"

grizzles — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 23:24:51 +0000

Privatising the Postal Service is an ok idea, anyone can do that job (eg. FedEX, UPS, etc). Privatising Amtrak is a different kettle of fish, it is a natural monopoly on critical infrastructure. In that situation prices will go up if private investors buy it. Increased freight costs will inevitably be passed onto consumers. Anything privatised like this (eg. electricity transmission lines) has been shown to be a net loss for consumers.

New comment by grizzles in "How to leak under the Trump administration"

grizzles — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 10:45:34 +0000

First test: You need to enter your email to read the article. Isn't this the same site that doxxed Reality Winner by providing original PDF sources?

New comment by grizzles in "To make electricity cheaper and greener, connect the world's grids"

grizzles — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 23:47:19 +0000

The sun is always shining somewhere on earth.

One day solar energy will be shifted from Portugal to Shanghai & Moscow then across the Bering Strait to Alaska & New York.

New comment by grizzles in "DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years"

grizzles — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:19:46 +0000

Thanks for your comments. I didn't realize settings allowed you to turn those off. Now fixed. Hallelujiah.

New comment by grizzles in "DivestOS ROM shuts after ten years"

grizzles — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 21:07:54 +0000

I want a (preferably open source) android phone without spam. I'd pay a healthy amount for it. I don't want to flash roms or do anything like that.

Anyone tried the Fairphone? How is it for notification spam?

New comment by grizzles in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"

grizzles — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 10:31:25 +0000

They need to make a browser with new features. That is the route to getting new search users.

New comment by grizzles in "GJS: Node.js Like Runtime for Gnome"

grizzles — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 11:43:35 +0000

I want to be able to use HTML/JS to design my desktop and call APIs. Can I do that with gjs or is it this GTK namespace and GTK-CSS like language only? It would be really cool to design the background from the Ubuntu crown to a bunch of widgets of information I use daily.

New comment by grizzles in "Air travel is not ready for electronic warfare"

grizzles — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 04:50:19 +0000

A perfect use case for public key cryptography. Digitally sign the GPS coords!

New comment by grizzles in "Firefox Keeps Getting Faster"

grizzles — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 22:38:55 +0000

I'm a firefox user on Ubuntu. They need to improve the cold start time badly. It currently takes me 4-5 minutes from launch to page load. Once loaded I have no issues with the performance but Chrome is vastly superior in this area.

EDIT: I rely highly on the Restore Previous Session feature. That might be why.

New comment by grizzles in "The hunt for life in Alpha Centauri"

grizzles — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 10:50:45 +0000

They might be better off searching for phosphorus.[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/rpoo/status/1728128686648701345