Hacker News: mgrund

New comment by mgrund in "GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing"

mgrund — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:36:18 +0000

My thought exactly! First the usage limits + model limitations and now fundamental change to the billing. Hope some consumer watchdogs are looking into this!

New comment by mgrund in "European AI. A playbook to own it"

mgrund — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 07:29:25 +0000

There is but I don’t think this is it.

I’ve worked most of my career in US tech satellite offices and I have not experienced EU team members to be less productive than US team members, nor spend less time on work (if anything, more really since they also need to be available for US time zone overlap).

It’s true there are chill jobs here, as there are in the US.

But ambitious people tend to work as much as ambitious US people (and it’s really more like 40 hours work weeks - 39,5 where I live since lunch is not work time). But again, many are not really counting, it’s just a full time job.

Vacations (typically 3 weeks summer holiday and additional weeks to distribute over the year) does create longer time on skeleton crew. Skilled tech labour is also cheaper so you can just hire more to make up for it.

New comment by mgrund in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2024)"

mgrund — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 09:38:36 +0000

Are you hiring internationally (EU specifically) or only US?

New comment by mgrund in "LG and Samsung are making TV screens disappear"

mgrund — Tue, 30 Jul 2024 12:48:43 +0000

Transparent screens doesn’t make much sense for consumer TVs (I know the article indeed points to other use-cases). You still need a black background to facilitate display of black content.

New comment by mgrund in "Multiple airlines disrupted due to Microsoft Azure outage"

mgrund — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 08:57:59 +0000

More likely crash looping of so many VMs overloading some system with insufficient back pressure, possibly combined with unfortunate cluster management scheduler behavior at this scale of crash looping (e.g. too eager to retry scheduling instances, maybe even on new hosts which causes more infrastructure load).

New comment by mgrund in "HN: I built a tool to create interactive demo in seconds for SaaS"

mgrund — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 13:51:08 +0000

I believe Show HN is also what is suggested in guidelines for non-YC startups that are not allowed to use Launch HN (although some text along with the post would have been nice).

New comment by mgrund in "Tell HN: Please stop sending AI-generated job applications (whoishiring threads)"

mgrund — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 17:53:01 +0000

Exactly. It’s just leveling the playing field. I’ve been doing generated cover letters based on cv, job post and a few other data sources with manual review + adjustments with a very decent callback rate.

New comment by mgrund in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

mgrund — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 09:06:31 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by mgrund in "Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses"

mgrund — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 20:59:24 +0000

Sounds interesting, any reading material you could point to about this?

New comment by mgrund in "LabelContactRelationYoungerCousinMothersSiblingsDaughterOrFathersSistersDaughter"

mgrund — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:30:37 +0000

At least in danish, we have “bedstemor” which behaves likes “oldemor” in being the mother or fathers mom so it’s really that form that is consistent with the system and not the parent-specific forms.

New comment by mgrund in "Tesla Model 3 Re-Design Launched (in EU)"

mgrund — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 08:26:24 +0000

Long-range got a bump of about 5% WLTP if I remember then numbers correctly.

Tesla Model 3 Re-Design Launched (in EU)

mgrund — Fri, 01 Sep 2023 07:33:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tesla.com/da_DK/model3/design#overview

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37347816

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

New comment by mgrund in "Coffee grounds make concrete 30% stronger"

mgrund — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 18:05:26 +0000

You just tax on CO2e (CO2 equivalent) for any greenhouse gas emission. Same way emission accounting is already being done.

New comment by mgrund in "3D display could soon bring touch to the digital world"

mgrund — Sun, 13 Aug 2023 17:51:33 +0000

Saw similar tech at Microsoft a decade ago. Use case I saw was to raise buttons on software keyboards. Here’s an article on the patent from 2010: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/microsoft-patents-bumpy-...

New comment by mgrund in "80% of bosses say they regret earlier return-to-office plans"

mgrund — Sat, 12 Aug 2023 10:25:39 +0000

> I find it very difficult to find meaning in a large portion of the jobs available today. Most workers are just another cog in the wheel. The system is so large that one cannot directly appreciate the effects of their work, or even know whether they are positive at all.

My experience is that the same job also has a large range for meaningfulness depending on how well leadership manages to facilitate it.

New comment by mgrund in "Zoom is making its staff return to the office"

mgrund — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 07:14:43 +0000

Also required in public sector jobs here. When you are on a contract with compensation time off for overtime, and it's sometimes even computed with >1:1 compensation on average hours over some time window, you kind of need to track it.

New comment by mgrund in "Zoom is making its staff return to the office"

mgrund — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 06:01:02 +0000

Personally this is my biggest resistance to in-office work; if the commute was recognized as part of the working hours, I don’t care if I spend some of my workday on the road (although I might feel that time could be better spent, but my employer gets to make that tradeoff).

New comment by mgrund in "Thread on LK-99 and atomically precise manufacturing"

mgrund — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 07:40:54 +0000

Great walk-through on the production challenges, but this thread is very precise in its description of the superconducting mechanisms in LK-99. I haven’t followed recent developments but is there any kind of consensus to support that this is the underlying mechanism?

The thread comes off as a pitch for a startup, hence my skepticism.

New comment by mgrund in "You have a month left to get your share of Facebook’s $725M settlement"

mgrund — Sat, 29 Jul 2023 05:41:46 +0000

… if you resided in the United States at any time between May 24, 2007 and December 22, 2022, inclusive.

New comment by mgrund in "Airbnb rental revenues have plunged in some parts of the US, this chart suggests"

mgrund — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 16:49:52 +0000

You sound like you have never traveled with kids :) it’s just convenient not to HAVE to go out for all meals…