Hacker News: matthewfelgate

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Show HN: I built a portable Yahtzee device with custom PCB and WASM simulator"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 11:01:32 +0000

Nice job, this looks great!

What's your next project going to be? Maybe we could work together!

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Claude for Excel"

matthewfelgate — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 13:04:54 +0000

I tried https://sanand0.github.io/llmexcel/#/ yesterday but it's very slow.

Not sure if this Claud for Excel can do the same thing and run =claude() inside Excel cells?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file"

matthewfelgate — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:15:17 +0000

I use Todoist and I like it for repeating tasks:

  * A list of daily tasks small and quick too many to remember 
  * Tasks to do or check every three or four days ie about twice a week
  * Tasks to do about once a week eg hoovering.
  * Tasks to do every three months like wash house windows etc

Most days I put my todo list into ChatGPT and get it to put my todo list in order from quickest to longest.

Sometimes I ask ChatGPT to order my todo list by importance.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Show HN: I built an under-the-door fan duct to lower bedroom CO2"

matthewfelgate — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:56:39 +0000

Thanks for sharing, this is interesting to me.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Britain's biggest companies are preparing for a third world war"

matthewfelgate — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 08:55:14 +0000

This response suggests knowledge that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan is imminent.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?"

matthewfelgate — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 15:35:14 +0000

Good question.

A while back I looked for a phone-sized eReader and was surprised there were none about at a decent price.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "What Sam Altman told OpenAI about the device he's making with Jony Ive"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:05:42 +0000

I struggle to see what any new device could deliver that a smartphone can't.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Is Philosophy Still Useful in the Age of Science?"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 23 May 2025 08:46:46 +0000

How can I get in to Philosophy? It seems so overwhelming and so many terms.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "BYD Beats Tesla in Europe for First Time with 169% Sales Surge"

matthewfelgate — Thu, 22 May 2025 12:49:41 +0000

I believe it is a security threat to allow Chinese cars in Europe.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:11:22 +0000

Are companies designing product packaging to be more compatible with robotic handling?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Head of NSA and Cybercommand Is Ousted"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 04 Apr 2025 10:46:40 +0000

Are Americans in denial about the Russia-aligned takeover of their government or have they just stopped caring?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Ask HN: How advisable is it to hire freelance hardware talent for a startup?"

matthewfelgate — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 14:15:55 +0000

Can I help you with this?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Google Is on the Wrong Side of History"

matthewfelgate — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:44:46 +0000

New comment by matthewfelgate in "DOGE Has Started Gutting a Key US Technology Agency"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 11:29:24 +0000

Interesting. But Chesterton's Fence assumes we can always find out why something was put there, but often we can't, which makes adding barriers easier than removing them—leading to a buildup of unnecessary rules over time?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Show HN: Teaching a $14 ESP32 to Detect and Auto-Mute TV Ads"

matthewfelgate — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:39:08 +0000

I believe it's more than just an interesting project—it has the potential to be a commercial product.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]"

matthewfelgate — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:30:46 +0000

What's a reliable benchmark for measuring "AI Distortion" in these models, allowing for consistent tracking over time and potential improvement?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Representation of BBC News Content in AI Assistants [pdf]"

matthewfelgate — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 16:22:24 +0000

TLDR; I got ChatGPT to summarise.

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Show HN: Teaching a $14 ESP32 to Detect and Auto-Mute TV Ads"

matthewfelgate — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 11:14:51 +0000

Ha, that's amazing.

I wonder what's a way to detect ADs just from audio. Maybe by volume?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "Sweden Seizes Ship Suspected of Baltic Sea 'Sabotage'"

matthewfelgate — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 10:23:01 +0000

When is the West going to start standing up to Russia on these cable sabotages?

New comment by matthewfelgate in "AI is creating a generation of illiterate programmers"

matthewfelgate — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 15:29:05 +0000

But is a programmer who uses AI to program the same as

  a Typescript programmer who doesn't understand JavaScript well? 
  Or a Python programmer who doesn't know C?
  Or a C programmer who doesn't know assembly code?
  Or an assembly coder who doesn't make his own PCBs?

Is AI orchestration just adding another layer of abstraction to the top of the programming stack?