Hacker News: groggo

New comment by groggo in "Show HN: Made a little Artemis II tracker"

groggo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 02:22:36 +0000

Someone should make a website or project and post it on HN, and then set up an AI agent takes the top comments and just implements them.

New comment by groggo in "An interactive map of Flock Cams"

groggo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 06:38:06 +0000

I live in Sausalito just north of SF. We have a few cameras on the way into town. Seeing this map actually makes me feel safer. Sure there are hypothetical privacy issues, but for me they're easily outweighed by safety. I don't really get the issue. Ideally this information would be available to law enforcement, but would require a warrant. Is the problem that they can access all of this data without a warrant now?

New comment by groggo in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

groggo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:36:25 +0000

Ya that's a good point for competitive scrabble. However today I think a lot of people's main exposure to Scrabble comes from WordsWithFriends (and recently, the new NYT games version). In those games, there's no penalty for getting a wrong word, it just won't let you play it. In that context, I at least think it would be nice to have a setting with a more limited list... it could be like Chess timed variants.

It's obviously an impossible challenge to draw those contours in language. Wordle did pretty well though! And going the other direction, just allowing everything that could possibly a word, just starts getting ridiculous.

New comment by groggo in "A Crisis comes to Wordle: Reusing old words"

groggo — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 03:24:26 +0000

IMO scrabble would be improved by a similar limitation. There's too many nonsense words.

New comment by groggo in "Show HN: I built an AI conversation partner to practice speaking languages"

groggo — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 02:43:17 +0000

You didn't try them!? If you have the ChaptGPT app it's super simple and worth a try. I talk to it in French a lot. It gets tedious though, because after almost every question it tries to end the conversation with "let me know if I can do anything else to help". I really want it to pretend to be curious and continue the conversation. I've thought that this could be fixed with some better prompting, so I'm excited to try out this app.

New comment by groggo in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

groggo — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:43:14 +0000

we have them for our cats, they're great. Sometimes they're hiding in bushes and we don't realize they're 10 ft away. Other times they're down by the neighbor's house. It's not perfect but it tells us which direction more or less. And definitely more peace of mind if they ever got lost. They

They make breakaway collars so if they get caught on something it won't trap them.

New comment by groggo in "Show HN: I quit coding years ago. AI brought me back"

groggo — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 01:28:44 +0000

Congrats! I never stopped coding, but AI makes it way more productive and fun for sure.

$100 seems like a lot. I guess if you think about it compared to dev salaries, it's nothing. But for $10 per month copilot you can get some pretty great results too.

New comment by groggo in "Sora 2"

groggo — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 16:24:48 +0000

What about the era of flash cartoons? Remember "End of Ze World"? In a way that's throwaway crap. Or it could have been written as a comic strip, or animated manually. But Flash kinda opened up this whole new world of games and animation. AI is doing the same.

One that comes to mind is a sort of podcast-style of two cats having a conversation, and in each "episode" there's some punchline where they end up laughing about some cat stereotype. Definitely low quality garbage, but I guess what I mean by "barrier of entry" (sorry for the buzzword), is just that this is going to enable a new generation of content, memes, whatever you want to call it.

New comment by groggo in "Sora 2"

groggo — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 23:19:28 +0000

It's pretty entertaining.

People always like telling stories. Books, comic strips, movies, they're all just telling a story with a different amount of it left up to the viewer's imagination. Lowering the barrier to entry for this type of stuff is so cool.

I think you have to be pretty pessimistic to not just think it's really cool. You can find issues with it for sure, and maybe argue that those issues outweigh the benefit, but hard to say it's not going to be fun for some people.

New comment by groggo in "Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft"

groggo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:14:50 +0000

For sure! It's an interesting point. But from an economic point of view, it's better for consumers if there are clean boundaries and every layer is commoditized.

New comment by groggo in "Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft"

groggo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:29:29 +0000

And you have to have a monopoly though? Farms provide the most value to the world but there's so much competition that it's commoditized, so as far as I know there's no super valuable farms... Hopefully the same thing happens with autonomous cars, cloud computing, etc.

New comment by groggo in "Bringing fully autonomous rides to Nashville, in partnership with Lyft"

groggo — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 17:25:49 +0000

That's how competition should work. Every layer should have multiple providers until the companies get all of their profits squeezed away and users get the best possible price.

New comment by groggo in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

groggo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:09:30 +0000

Definitely true in practice, but I don't think we want discretion. What I mean though is as a deterrent, you can either have a "fair" fine that's enforced 100% of the time, or 2x the "fair" amount with 50% enforcement, etc. When it's 100x the "fair" amount with 1% enforcement, and you see everyone else not being enforced, it feels unfair.

New comment by groggo in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

groggo — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 00:05:04 +0000

That's a pretty extreme example, maybe the idea doesn't hold as much there. But yeah, if 99% of murders weren't prosecuted, the 1% who get charged might feel like they were singled out (and maybe they were, because of some bias or discrimination). Again, 100% enforcement is better.

New comment by groggo in "Waymo granted permit to begin testing in New York City"

groggo — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 19:24:08 +0000

It feels less fair though. When everyone is driving x mph over the limit but only you get pulled over, it sucks. So I agree for efficiency of enforcement, but I'd rather see 100% enforcement (automated if possible), with more warnings and lower penalties.

New comment by groggo in "OpenAI delays launch of open-weight model"

groggo — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 21:58:08 +0000

why would OpenAI release an open weight model? Genuinely curious.

New comment by groggo in "OpenAI’s Windsurf deal is off, and Windsurf’s CEO is going to Google"

groggo — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 05:48:03 +0000

I haven't used Cursor or Claude much, how different is it from Copilot? I bounce between desktop ChatGPT (which can update VS Code) and copilot. Is there an impression that those have fallen behind?

New comment by groggo in "Precious Plastic is in trouble"

groggo — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 05:08:23 +0000

I thought it was a nice clear summary, I wouldn't care if it was from an LLM. This summary should be at the top of their page. Maybe it'd be nice if there were a Chrome HN plugin that adds a summary like this to all articles on HN so you can get the context before either reading the article or skimming the comments.

New comment by groggo in "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade"

groggo — Sun, 04 May 2025 19:44:06 +0000

A good point. Certainly for raster analysis it doesn't make sense.

But any type of vector data could be modeled on a sphere, right? Points, shapes, lines. And I saw "better" because even the best suited projection will have some small amount of distortion.

Either way, most things use planer geometry so projections are necessary, and you need to have some understanding of how all that works

New comment by groggo in "DuckDB is probably the most important geospatial software of the last decade"

groggo — Sun, 04 May 2025 01:09:57 +0000

I remember learning about the infamous missile threat map in a GIS class -

https://georeferenced.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/worldmapblund... https://www.economist.com/asia/2003/05/15/correction-north-k...