Hacker News: grokcodec

New comment by grokcodec in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

grokcodec — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:19:33 +0000

This smells like a humble brag, driven by strong ego; count the number of 'I's in the post. I reckon the author is just as rigid in conversation as they always were, but now they can add "ego free" to their self satisfaction.

New comment by grokcodec in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

grokcodec — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:32:25 +0000

yes, whataboutism at its finest

New comment by grokcodec in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

grokcodec — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 17:31:02 +0000

They compared the acquisition to hospitals because "think of the children!"

New comment by grokcodec in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

grokcodec — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:12:26 +0000

Maybe denial is a river in Egypt, but I (most of the time) believe that the glass is half full and we will need MORE humans as LLMs gain in ability. My thesis:

1. most jobs are created by small to medium size enterprise

2. the throttle for new SMEs has been people, money and ideas, in that order

3. with LLMs being a force multiplier, fewer technical people are needed but some people still ARE needed

4. with less throttling, MORE SMEs will be created with more jobs - they will be able to do more, faster, but still need some human oversight.

Also, what is the point of software if it is not to serve human needs?

Also, in open source, community building and tending is a very human enterprise that will not be replaced by bots any time soon. So, as coding becomes commoditised, perhaps the soft skills backed by technical knowledge will be the complementary skill that increases in value.

Or, maybe it's time for me to become an itinerant folk musician.

New comment by grokcodec in "Uber’s Anthropic AI push hits a wall"

grokcodec — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 03:13:47 +0000

My R&B cost used to amount to buying the occasional Al Green album, how times have changed

New comment by grokcodec in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

grokcodec — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:07:55 +0000

The day ROCm supports EVERY AMD card on release, just like CUDA does, is the day I will actually believe this marketing hype.They really dropped the ball here, also when they abandoned recently released cards (at the time) like the 400 series. Hopefully management gets their heads out of their butts and invests more in the software stack.

New comment by grokcodec in "I've been waiting over a month for Anthropic to respond to my billing issue"

grokcodec — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:49:39 +0000

if this is on a credit card you can get the money back from the credit card company for "undelivered goods"

New comment by grokcodec in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

grokcodec — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:28:19 +0000

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

New comment by grokcodec in "Scientists are working on "everything vaccines""

grokcodec — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 12:43:45 +0000

1. do randomized control against *inert* placebo 2. measure net health benefit over 10 years

If #1 and #2 look good, by all means roll this out.

New comment by grokcodec in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

grokcodec — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:58:17 +0000

"powerful company enables genocide in Gaza" first sentence flags this as a complete load of malarcky

New comment by grokcodec in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

grokcodec — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:17:11 +0000

https://time.com/7213490/why-are-young-people-getting-cancer...

New comment by grokcodec in "C++26: A User-Friednly assert() macro"

grokcodec — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:32:55 +0000

Friedns shouldn't let Freidns post on HN without running spell check

Grok OSS JPEG 2000 Codec Beats Leading Commercial Codec

grokcodec — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:21:06 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/GrokImageCompression/grok

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47339209

Points: 2

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