Hacker News: ngvrnd

New comment by ngvrnd in "Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them"

ngvrnd — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:55:21 +0000

the basins merge

New comment by ngvrnd in "Bhartrhari's Paradox"

ngvrnd — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 14:32:57 +0000

„Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen“

but if the thing can be interacted with, it can usually be mapped and defined and then named. But there will always be things which do not have names, at least in mathematics -- think of the real numbers.

New comment by ngvrnd in "CEO fired developers to make room for AI. Developers create open source AI CEO"

ngvrnd — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:44:39 +0000

Meatbags can still be employed in this limited capacity, surely.

New comment by ngvrnd in "How Universities Should Prepare Founders"

ngvrnd — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:40:16 +0000

"prepare founders" ... lol. founders prepare themselves.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

ngvrnd — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:15:48 +0000

nth mover advantage.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Stop Making TUIs"

ngvrnd — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:01:03 +0000

user interfaces are for users. people who deal with words may prefer an advanced TUI. Others may find graphical interfaces more useful. describe, don't prescribe. let a thousand flowers bloom.

New comment by ngvrnd in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

ngvrnd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:13:14 +0000

OK.

New comment by ngvrnd in "There Will Come Soft Rains (1950) [pdf]"

ngvrnd — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 13:10:00 +0000

So is The Pedestrian...

New comment by ngvrnd in "How to Exist"

ngvrnd — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:34:11 +0000

I know what the author means, but I don't share the experience.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Forth"

ngvrnd — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:34:40 +0000

Hey whatever happened to Factor? That was an amazingly professional offering in a weird and dusty corner of the programming languages.

New comment by ngvrnd in "An old patent inspired the new "Y-zipper", a three-sided fastener"

ngvrnd — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:29:51 +0000

ah the packbot. I remember working on that.

New comment by ngvrnd in "BLISS"

ngvrnd — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 20:54:31 +0000

First job out of college in 1986 was at Teradyne, working in BLISS.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack (2025)"

ngvrnd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:26:45 +0000

this is so true. There's huge variability in competence. and many doctors have fled to boutique medical care, or whatever it's called, since the recent changes in healthcare.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Cannabis Users Face Substantially Higher Risk of Heart Attack (2025)"

ngvrnd — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:22:50 +0000

cf. paracelsus on the dose and the toxin

New comment by ngvrnd in "The Internet I Grew Up with Doesn't Exist Anymore"

ngvrnd — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:43:05 +0000

the internet i grew up with didn't exist yet

New comment by ngvrnd in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

ngvrnd — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:06:48 +0000

This feels to me like a transitional problem. People will learn not to do this. I hope.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Accelerando (2005)"

ngvrnd — Sun, 17 May 2026 21:01:18 +0000

The stuff by Peter Watts, Blindsight and so on, is fun.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

ngvrnd — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:08:48 +0000

it should apply to all public sector unions, they're a disaster. That's the real problem. Should never have been allowed.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

ngvrnd — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:07:08 +0000

I sense a great disturbance in the force.

New comment by ngvrnd in "Isopods of the world"

ngvrnd — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:09:05 +0000

I worked with a woman who kept isopods as pets. She had a little terrarium at work with all sorts of breeds of isopods. That's where I learned you could buy isopods online.