Hacker News: ASalazarMX

New comment by ASalazarMX in "Cosmodial Sky Atlas"

ASalazarMX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 23:29:58 +0000

I feel a little pain seeing how big, fully-formed apps appear in GitHub, created in days, completely hollow of pull requests, issues, or discussions.. just imagining the chain of prompts.

"Make me a web app like Stellarium"

"Make it dark mode"

"Increase the resolution of the graphic assets"

"Oh, I'm out of credits for today. Where is my wallet?"

"..."

"Suggest me a catchy name that is not in use right now"

"What a productive weekend! I'll license this as MIT so other prompters can freely benefit from my prompts. I made this".

I'm probably being unfair, maybe this wasn't vibe coded in days, maybe the author worked more on it than it appears, was very careful Claude didn't use GPL code that can't be relicensed as MIT, etc. I can't know. I'm basing my opinion on what I can see.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

ASalazarMX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:44:45 +0000

Neo wasn't an elightened being, he just escalated privileges.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "The Unsung Hero of the Lord of the Rings (2025)"

ASalazarMX — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:43:44 +0000

For the non British:

Twee: affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twee

New comment by ASalazarMX in "Ask HN: How do you get into a flow state when using AI to code?"

ASalazarMX — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:11:01 +0000

Getting in the flow means continuous, deep concentration and attention, at least in my experience. Prompting and checking is more like managing an underling, I couldn't get in the flow that way. It would be like a driver trying to get in the flow with a vehicle that randomly does unexpected things.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "The Abundance Illusion"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:17:04 +0000

This has the same energy as people who don't care if controversial images in social media are AI generated, as long as they're engaging.

It makes a huge difference if the writing was manual or automated. LLMs generate verbose, generic writing, and ideas that could be concisely expressed in a sentence inflate to entire paragraphs. It's disrespectful to readers when the author saves a couple of hours by wasting thousands of their readers.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "US President says 'I love the inflation'"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:54:55 +0000

> ejected a complete idiot

Don't give us hope.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

ASalazarMX — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:35:48 +0000

The "my train" convention is an interesting argument. It's not actually yours, you're buying a train-as-a-service single-use license, and there are tiers to that too.

I guess the main difference is that TAAS has many different trains where the experience varies wildly, so it helps to be specific on which train you're licensing; but LLMs are the same product for everyone, and you can't stay with say, ChatGPT 1.0, you get the same choices as everyone else.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

ASalazarMX — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:24:23 +0000

I didn't get mine, but I suspect I might be using yours when I use it.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

ASalazarMX — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:01:44 +0000

This is completely fine, as those are your own installs, but LLMs can't be owned by the users, your Opus is the same Opus as everyone else's, your only difference is the suscription tier to their API.

If you had your own on-premises LLM, that would indeed be your LLM, and it would make sense to compare it to the on-premises LLMs of other people, as your setup particulars would affect the result.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"

ASalazarMX — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:56:29 +0000

The Japanese flag references the Sun, and it's hard to aim for astrological minimalism and not look similar. Still, the transparent background is a bad idea IMO, because a spaceship/space station with painted flags will look very funny.

Nevertheless, I think the Earth flag should include the moon too. A blue Earth, a white Moon, and a black background. When the Moon secession war starts, the laser holes in the flag could double as the starry sky.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

ASalazarMX — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:52:31 +0000

Your Opus 4.8? Is it now usual to refer to LLMs like that?

New comment by ASalazarMX in "The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners"

ASalazarMX — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:57:53 +0000

I miss it too, and think of it every year. This is also very nice, though.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

ASalazarMX — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:01:58 +0000

> this app I've never used and don't want launches

I'm by no way an Apple fan, but why not uninstall the app if you don't need it?

New comment by ASalazarMX in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living (One Every Two Days)"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:35:10 +0000

It hurts, doesn't it? I also thought a few measly questions would be a piece of cake, and mainly focused on speed.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:33:36 +0000

Isn't this a work-life balance issue? I work 8 hours a day on my work computer(s), yet I'm still eager to use my home computer for hobbies or pleasure.

This person could read for pleasure if they set the time for it. When I was coding all day, I didn't have the will to code for hobby at home, so maybe they had the time but not the drive.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:27:30 +0000

I was skeptical, but the article starts with Train Dreams, which according to HowLongToRead, would take 2 hours at 300 WPM.

https://howlongtoread.com/books/323872/Train-Dreams

Two days per book full time means one every 16 hours. Enough to read the full Foundation Trilogy with one hour to rest between books.

On a side note, I'm ashamed to share that I tested my reading speed, and while it was 264 WPM, my reading comprehension was 50%. That's why I read slower, and frequently re-read.

https://swiftread.com/reading-speed-test

Out of spite I tried to measure my Spanish reading, 520 WPM and 100% comprehension. Very unfair since it's my native language and I can glance and skip instead of reading every word.

https://speedreadr.com/es/

New comment by ASalazarMX in "A Man Who Reads Books for a Living"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:05:27 +0000

If someone has the will to fight those little xs, they have the will to install uBlock Origin. It even works on iPad and iPhone now, through a regular Safari Plugin.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "Rootshell: A new E2EE email service hosted in Iceland"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:34:59 +0000

I'd like to know more about the operator, besides them being from USA. Having the data in Iceland sounds great, but we should be wary of any new service designed specifically to attract confidential conversations.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:30:39 +0000

I don't know why people have strong sparkling water preferences. HEB makes generic canned low-minerals sparkling water, and it's great because it has no flavor. Any purified water with gas should taste like that, but water companies add minerals to create a distinctive taste.

Anyone could analyze a Svalbarði bottle, and copy the mineral profile using purified tap water + salts + carbon dioxide. It's water.

New comment by ASalazarMX in "Which sparkling water is the best?"

ASalazarMX — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:23:17 +0000

I don't think Topo Chico qualifies as sparkling water, it has enough gas to be soda water.