Hacker News: thirtygeo

New comment by thirtygeo in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

thirtygeo — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:14:07 +0000

Same. I was excited for a Pixel (assuming a much better Android experience) but had same experience as you

New comment by thirtygeo in "I built a 516-panel financial terminal in 3 weeks using AI"

thirtygeo — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:56:40 +0000

This.

New comment by thirtygeo in "There is no spoon – A software engineers primer for demystified ML"

thirtygeo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:35:06 +0000

Careful, you'll just make the output generators harder to spot! Www We need to keep their 'Tells' hidden from them..

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

thirtygeo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:33:41 +0000

I got to that and just stopped reading!

New comment by thirtygeo in "Show HN: PeriodicTableOfElements.org"

thirtygeo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:30:24 +0000

Needs this! Highly relevant for us geochemists

https://railsback.org/PT.html#Popups

New comment by thirtygeo in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

thirtygeo — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 03:54:26 +0000

+1 please explain (and tell us your bet & final grade!!)

New comment by thirtygeo in "Show HN: Understudy – Teach a desktop agent by demonstrating a task once"

thirtygeo — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 05:45:31 +0000

How did you figure out it was an AI response?

New comment by thirtygeo in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

thirtygeo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:44:33 +0000

Racing towards average!

New comment by thirtygeo in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

thirtygeo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:43:58 +0000

Definitely agree. If you look at comments posted in places like Slashdot - is is basically ruined forever (and at one time it was quite excellent for real comments, from real experts and experienced people)

New comment by thirtygeo in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

thirtygeo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:40:08 +0000

Actually why is nobody in Cali just trying to join Canada - would be better for everyone in terms of more similar culture and values. Weird that it isn't discussed more

New comment by thirtygeo in "Launch HN: TeamOut (YC W22) – AI agent for planning company retreats"

thirtygeo — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:10:37 +0000

Similar for me. I asked for a retreat in Lima, Peru, and got one low star option in Lima and then places in Ohio, Mexico and Colombia... ChatGPT got it on first try

New comment by thirtygeo in "Show HN: Mines.fyi – all the mines in the US in a leaflet visualization"

thirtygeo — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 05:43:41 +0000

Add Canada! Every province has a GIS repository of mines

New comment by thirtygeo in "My favorite cult sci-fi and fantasy books you may not have heard of before"

thirtygeo — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 15:22:29 +0000

There is No Antimimetics Division by qntm is a great read

New comment by thirtygeo in "Root System Drawings"

thirtygeo — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 15:02:14 +0000

Really neat. I've often wondered about what the unexposed part of trees and plants are.

Like: am I walking on them? Are they tapping down somewhere deep or are they shallow.

The examples on a hill were interesting; I would have thought the extent would be skewed but it was fairly even

New comment by thirtygeo in "SedonaDB: A new geospatial DataFrame library written in Rust"

thirtygeo — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 05:17:47 +0000

... Was likely written by AI

New comment by thirtygeo in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

thirtygeo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 07:01:44 +0000

Sooo... Have you made that LinkedIn yet so fellow Canadians might see what you worked on in the past and can get in touch?

New comment by thirtygeo in "Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?"

thirtygeo — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 06:59:10 +0000

New comment by thirtygeo in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

thirtygeo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:36:45 +0000

So weird to see this comment. QGIS powering government GIS groups and used by major geoscience and mining companies.. working with national sized vector and raster data.

New comment by thirtygeo in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

thirtygeo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:34:55 +0000

Arcmap is sooo janky. Looks like a refugee from Win 3.1 era with minor cosmetic updates (although I know the engine received big updates 2010-2020).

If people want QGIS to be pretty, just become a member and sponsor that initiative.

New comment by thirtygeo in "QGIS is a free, open-source, cross platform geographical information system"

thirtygeo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:33:11 +0000

I totally disagree. I switched off this license, and also ALSO saved additional because Spatial Analyst costs extra (all included by default in QGIS)