Hacker News: oleggromov

New comment by oleggromov in "The paper computer"

oleggromov — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:58:55 +0000

This is lovely.

New comment by oleggromov in "There is No Spoon. A software engineers primer for demystified ML"

oleggromov — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:04:40 +0000

Thank you for sharing! Saved to bookmarks to read on my free time. Hopefully I'll get some soon :)

New comment by oleggromov in "What came after the 486?"

oleggromov — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:57:00 +0000

Not only performance, I strongly suspect there were issues with implementation too as the apps would just freeze/die frequently.

New comment by oleggromov in "What came after the 486?"

oleggromov — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:54:11 +0000

You got the water cooling before it was cool, minus the thermal paste.

New comment by oleggromov in "What came after the 486?"

oleggromov — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:49:46 +0000

I remember I had a Cyrix 6x86 in one of my first computers that ran windows 95. It was terrible. When I tried to play games or run some apps with non-trivial performance requirements and, I suppose, that used floating point operations extensively, perhaps MMX or some other proprietary extensions, apps would just die. Often with the entire operating system.

New comment by oleggromov in "“This is not the computer for you”"

oleggromov — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:05:15 +0000

> He is going to go through System Settings, panel by panel, and adjust everything he can adjust just to see how he likes it. He is going to make a folder called “Projects” with nothing in it. He is going to download Blender because someone on Reddit said it was free, and then stare at the interface for forty-five minutes.

Brilliant. Thank you for that.

New comment by oleggromov in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

oleggromov — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:13:38 +0000

https://gromov.com It's a custom build dynamic website, which is a rarity this days, meant to have a commenting system and other 'advanced' features. However, as time went by I realised you need A LOT of traffic for people to engage with your stuff on your own platform. Now, I suspect, it's mostly endlessly parsed by bots - and this, quite frankly, made me abandon the idea of posting my thoughts to a 'broad' internet.

New comment by oleggromov in "Lessons from Hash Table Merging"

oleggromov — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:43:57 +0000

Oh wow, my apology - didn't know that and didn't notice the length of the hexademical number. TIL.

New comment by oleggromov in "Lessons from Hash Table Merging"

oleggromov — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 09:19:14 +0000

There's a typo with 'ULL' string suffixes in the hexadecimal numbers in the first code example.

New comment by oleggromov in "Show HN: Vibe coding a bookshelf with Claude Code"

oleggromov — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 16:25:46 +0000

Good project, nice write-up.

However, to me as a person with an anti-library as well, this kind of defies the purpose of having it in the first place. I can't say I browse my books too often but when I want to find something, I'd rather browse physical things on a shelf rather than some out-of-date UI with fetched thumbnails. Of course the organization happens in physical space too: this is why we have shelves, labels and such.

Obviously no judgement or criticism for the author, just sharing thoughts.

New comment by oleggromov in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

oleggromov — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 20:46:38 +0000

Me too. It's phenomenal, especially the first book and the pilgrims' stories. Such a moving mix of religious mystics, science fiction and the dreaded AI. The second one builds up the tension and the last 2... are good.

New comment by oleggromov in "Patterns.dev"

oleggromov — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 09:12:03 +0000

Or, even more likely, a bad solution for a non-existent problem.

New comment by oleggromov in "Rules for creating good-looking user interfaces"

oleggromov — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:54:34 +0000

It's such an irony that for such a topic, website content is actually overflowing on a mobile safari and gets out of the container so the website appears broken.

New comment by oleggromov in "Vanilla JavaScript support for Tailwind Plus"

oleggromov — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 23:14:02 +0000

I came to comment that at least something good happened to the otherwise cursed project... but you made me reconsider.

New comment by oleggromov in "Metagenomics test saves woman's sight after mystery infection"

oleggromov — Sun, 04 May 2025 09:37:15 +0000

> Antibiotic resistance is a problem for society. Infection is a problem for the individual.

Unfortunately not necessarily. For many chronic conditions an individual may very well develop an antibiotic resistant bug. There's even plenty on YouTube about standard penicillins and strep bacteria that start growing right inside the antibiotics. Look it up, it's fascinating.

New comment by oleggromov in "Accountability Sinks"

oleggromov — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:18:06 +0000

It seems to me that since airlines can't force you on a plane except for taking your luggage hostage, you're free to drop as long of a 'tail' as you wish. I'm wondering whether they'd put you on a black list or something for doing this consistently.

New comment by oleggromov in "Accountability Sinks"

oleggromov — Sat, 03 May 2025 14:10:14 +0000

Sorry to hear that. Sounds like not a lot of fun!

New comment by oleggromov in "Accountability Sinks"

oleggromov — Sat, 03 May 2025 11:28:11 +0000

Of course I can understand it from their point of view. But this doesn't make it any more sensible to me as a consumer of their services.

In the aforementioned situation I wasn't trying to exploit the airline, it was a simple mistake that happened and could be easily alleviated. But the rigid processes, precisely the ones where accountability sinks, made it impossible for the humans involved to correct the mistake.

I still stand by the ridiculousness of that. If not the logistics quirks per se, then the fact that this completely unrelated matter dictated the resolution of the situation against common sense and my interest.

What makes this even worse is that presumably the PR department of that very company had to be involved later and they still spent their employees' time and money to compensate me for the mistake that could be corrected for free.

New comment by oleggromov in "Accountability Sinks"

oleggromov — Sat, 03 May 2025 09:47:13 +0000

> It's generally to protect revenue because buying A-B-C instead of B-C can be cheaper, and hoards of people used to just segments to save money. So they just assume everyone is trying to cheat them.

Isn't it ridiculous in the first place that flying A-B-C is less expensive than B-C? These are the pricing games airlines deliberately play to make more money out of nothing.

New comment by oleggromov in "Accountability Sinks"

oleggromov — Sat, 03 May 2025 09:26:03 +0000

Leaving aside the no-show rule, which doesn't make much sense to me, this situation is a good example of an accountability sink.

The intermediary I booked the tickets with made an obvious mistake and showed the wrong airport code. Maybe the airport opening was meant to happen earlier, and the intermediary had already updated their emails or something like that. They refused to do anything meaningful and did not even acknowledge their mistake.

The fact that I was compensated by the airline that had nothing to do with this mistake is even more astonishing to me, although they were obviously protecting their brand reputation.