Hacker News: lordgrenville

New comment by lordgrenville in "GitHub's Fake Star Economy"

lordgrenville — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 12:24:40 +0000

More to the point, in the US losing teams get rewarded in the form of draft picks, which sometimes creates perverse incentives. This doesn't exist in European football. (Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about American sports.)

New comment by lordgrenville in "Advancing human gut microbiota research by considering gut transit time (2023)"

lordgrenville — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 07:55:43 +0000

n=1

But interesting nonetheless, thanks for sharing your findings.

New comment by lordgrenville in "How to make buffet breakfasts less wasteful"

lordgrenville — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:22:24 +0000

I was surprised that this article is about food wasted by people not finishing their plates. Would have guessed that a lot of the unserved food is discarded (sure, some of it can be served at tomorrow's breakfast, but only within limits), and that this is much more significant.

New comment by lordgrenville in "Google's 200M-parameter time-series foundation model with 16k context"

lordgrenville — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:38:31 +0000

That's what traditional time-series modelling does. This is a foundational model, which means it's just a neural network trained on lots of time series. (So maybe OP's question still stands? But it's the same question as "how can LLMs be good at so many different kinds of conversations?")

New comment by lordgrenville in "CodingFont: A game to help you pick a coding font"

lordgrenville — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 18:53:04 +0000

Nice idea, would be good to add a third option for "these look indistinguishable" (and then I guess they could be bundled together in later stages).

New comment by lordgrenville in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

lordgrenville — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 13:25:54 +0000

I expect that OP just meant "native language"

New comment by lordgrenville in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

lordgrenville — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:19:18 +0000

Fair point. Pretty sure there is a way to have a few .gitconfig files, with the active one based on the remote URL domain, but it is more work.

New comment by lordgrenville in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

lordgrenville — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:45:54 +0000

Oh yeah, I have always had this as it was pretty clear to me that the info in the email field is public.

New comment by lordgrenville in "Tell HN: YC companies scrape GitHub activity, send spam emails to users"

lordgrenville — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:06:03 +0000

Maybe a dumb question, but isn't this trivially solved with this .gitconfig?

    [user]
         name = lordgrenville
         email = +lordgrenville@users.noreply.github.com

New comment by lordgrenville in "Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code"

lordgrenville — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:40:11 +0000

Oh this was just snark.

New comment by lordgrenville in "Show HN: Beautiful interactive explainers generated with Claude Code"

lordgrenville — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 08:19:50 +0000

And as a bonus, sometimes the information is correct!

New comment by lordgrenville in "Flood Fill vs. The Magic Circle"

lordgrenville — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:21:10 +0000

I asked AI and it found me this repo: https://github.com/1997cui/envelope

The linked site has a nice FAQ section: https://envelopetracker.com/intro

New comment by lordgrenville in "Beyond agentic coding"

lordgrenville — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 08:37:43 +0000

Agreed. This website seems to prepend the blog name to each page's document.title

Would suggest that one of the mods remove it

New comment by lordgrenville in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

lordgrenville — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 09:50:43 +0000

Oh I missed that part, was just looking at the script

New comment by lordgrenville in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

lordgrenville — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 07:46:49 +0000

Nothing about this is specific to GNOME, right? Imagemagick is cross-platform

New comment by lordgrenville in "Significant US farm losses persist, despite federal assistance"

lordgrenville — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 11:25:41 +0000

Mildly surprised that this domain belongs to the Farm Bureau. Maybe they should sell it to Meta and donate the proceeds to the money-losing farms...

New comment by lordgrenville in "Our approach to age prediction"

lordgrenville — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:58:18 +0000

This is fun, I asked AI to come up with some modern ones to check someone is over 30. Zune, Friends, early memes, Who Wants to be a Millionaire, etc https://chat.deepseek.com/share/v9d5ckb8gv9rahwetq

New comment by lordgrenville in "Prediction markets are ushering in a world in which news becomes about gambling"

lordgrenville — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:40:49 +0000

Matt Levine discussed this a couple of weeks back: "It’s probably fine, though; you can bet on Netflix streaming numbers or Rotten Tomatoes scores. It is fun to think that everything is gambling except onions and movies, but it’s probably not true."

Self-driving cars aren't nearly a solved problem

lordgrenville — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 11:20:44 +0000

Article URL: https://strangecosmos.substack.com/p/self-driving-cars-arent-nearly-a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574611

Points: 20

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New comment by lordgrenville in "Nabokov's guide to foreigners learning Russian"

lordgrenville — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 07:46:32 +0000

Sky-colour makes sense, but coffee drinking only goes back to the 15th century or so. Did Georgians not have a word for this colour before then?!