Hacker News: grosswait

New comment by grosswait in "Peter Thiel's big bet on solar-powered cow collars"

grosswait — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:24:00 +0000

Once you get them together, sure, but it appears from TFA that this is about gathering them from mountain meadows or other far flung environs. A herd could be spread over thousands of acres, canyons, mountains, all sorts of places to be out of site. These are operations that don’t use fences. The article mentions this is a NZ company, but the American West would have a similar issue where ranchers can run cattle on land leased from BLM. I would imagine Australia would have a similar problem to solve.

New comment by grosswait in "Ollama is now powered by MLX on Apple Silicon in preview"

grosswait — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:11:37 +0000

Looks like they just added homebrew tap to the instructions

New comment by grosswait in "7,655 Ransomware Claims in One Year: Group, Sector, and Country Breakdown"

grosswait — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:05:54 +0000

This not a helpful (nor human) comment despite all the words

New comment by grosswait in "I use excalidraw to manage my diagrams for my blog"

grosswait — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:26:38 +0000

I thought they were saying the tool is wonky looking, but ?

New comment by grosswait in "Bored of eating your own dogfood? Try smelling your own farts"

grosswait — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:14:42 +0000

No. The idea is until it receives the chef’s kiss, it’s dog food.

New comment by grosswait in "Atuin v18.13 – better search, a PTY proxy, and AI for your shell"

grosswait — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 13:17:03 +0000

AI appears to be opt in

New comment by grosswait in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

grosswait — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 12:23:37 +0000

Suspicion confirmed

New comment by grosswait in "Mistral AI Releases Forge"

grosswait — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 11:58:57 +0000

This sounds like an ideology based reply. Grok is underrated and I think has a better chance of long term success than most. The current growth strategy means (for me) their chat harness is not up to par for serious work.

Their API is consistently among the most used on OpenRouter. While I can’t vouch for it myself, I think this is a decent proxy for capability. You can definitely see glimmers of greatness in their chat interface, it just feels like the system prompts are focused on something that doesn’t interest me.

New comment by grosswait in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

grosswait — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:49:22 +0000

Ah, with this and the Trump prompt we can relive the eloquence of the 2024 US presidential election for all time, any time we want. Truly a golden age!

New comment by grosswait in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

grosswait — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 15:07:33 +0000

That’s not how this would work in practice. You get an id that proves citizenship once. So one day at the dmv, Not every Election Day.

New comment by grosswait in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

grosswait — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:02:11 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

New comment by grosswait in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"

grosswait — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 19:19:05 +0000

The latest theory is a marketplace. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251110021048.h...

New comment by grosswait in "Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure"

grosswait — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:48:37 +0000

How is it a high bar of proof if it is already required? Edit: and already met

New comment by grosswait in "A basket of new fruit varieties is coming your way"

grosswait — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:35:45 +0000

I’d like to see a citation - I’m not sure this Red Delicious assertion is true.

New comment by grosswait in "LibreOffice Writer now supports Markdown"

grosswait — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 20:21:17 +0000

So if the people making the software don’t see their time is up and the people using the software don’t see their time is up, who decides their time is up?

New comment by grosswait in "Boy I was wrong about the Fediverse"

grosswait — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 14:39:32 +0000

“So when Twitter was accidentally purchased by a fascist high on ketamine” was enough to predict the rest of

New comment by grosswait in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

grosswait — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:51:14 +0000

Could you elaborate on your observations?

New comment by grosswait in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

grosswait — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:18:33 +0000

The actual warfighters probably don’t use the term, but it has been common for at least 20 years among the staff and contractors supporting them.

New comment by grosswait in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

grosswait — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:38:26 +0000

The term war fighter is distinct from service member. War fighter means mission critical and typically in a theater, while a service member might be someone sitting behind a desk in a less critical role. Similar to having mission critical production systems and supporting production systems.

When you perform your business impact analysis, these will bubble up in different ways, requiring some differences to the playbooks.

New comment by grosswait in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

grosswait — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:24:49 +0000

In my experience, yes, has always been a thing.