Hacker News: Abimelex

New comment by Abimelex in "Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

Abimelex — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:46:12 +0000

Well it "works" only because LLMs have the context baked in. The problem is, that this context is something like world-knowledge. Defining the context you need for your exact problem, e.g. your company, will add so much more information that programming is probably the better way.

New comment by Abimelex in "Show HN: Let your AI agents paint big arrows, boxes and text on your screen"

Abimelex — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:32:35 +0000

A 100%! Just imagine you could describe every solution to a problem just using language! Of cause you would to make sure to avoid ANY missunderstanding, but therfore you could invent a language specified for avoiding ambiguity. I could imagine just to reduce the words to a very small corpus so everybody can remember it and have a very strict grammar so a program can effortlessly check correctness of its sentences.

New comment by Abimelex in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

Abimelex — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 14:07:53 +0000

Freedom of speech as long as it fit's in Elmos narrative. It's bit naive to think twitter offers this.

New comment by Abimelex in "Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns"

Abimelex — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:12:27 +0000

Hot take: All those instances keep the service relevant giving it more reach than necessary. Just shut it down. Cancel Twitter and jump on the BlueSkye or Mastodon train.

New comment by Abimelex in "Cursor launches Origin, GitHub alternative"

Abimelex — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:50:32 +0000

It doesn't even swallow an entire code base so there is absolutely no need to see the entire codebase. Usually models search in the codebase locally and then use only the relevant parts. There is almost never the whole context just spammed by an entire code base.

New comment by Abimelex in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

Abimelex — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:02:16 +0000

it's less more around 94k - IMHO the overhead is the bureaucracy that basically forces you to employ a large amount of non-productive workforce in larger companies just for compliance topics.

New comment by Abimelex in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

Abimelex — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:57:06 +0000

also the raised energy prices are fake news regarding indutrial prices, which are differently taxed in Germany than consumer prices. https://www.smard.de/page/en/topic-article/5892/216044/indus...

New comment by Abimelex in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

Abimelex — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 19:55:07 +0000

Gas became expensive, energy for private houeholds became expensive, despite that electric energy for industries is currently on the same level as 2020. Even though there was a short spike in 2022. See: https://www.smard.de/page/en/topic-article/5892/216044/indus...

Rare book dealers fear tech firms are destroying obscure editions to train AI

Abimelex — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 12:59:10 +0000

Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/06/25/rare-book-dealers-fear-tech-firms-destroying-obscure-editions-train-ai-models

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48933873

Points: 3

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New comment by Abimelex in "Australian energy retailers must provide three hours of free daytime electricity"

Abimelex — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:13:45 +0000

That sounds great at first, but just imaging having dynamic price contracts, like tibber, that also forward you the negative prices while still maintaining very low grid fees.

New comment by Abimelex in "Can you see three trees?"

Abimelex — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:26:07 +0000

> People who can see at least three trees from their window have better mental health than those who can't. It seems like the easiest of the three goals to achieve

Here we go, correlation does not equal causation. Simple as that. Planting 3 trees will not give you a better mental health nor will planting 10 trees. But moving in to an environment where many trees grow in front of your window will probably change a lot more than just putting trees in your view.

New comment by Abimelex in "I Could've Rickrolled the FIFA World Cup. All I Needed Was My ID"

Abimelex — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:12:58 +0000

Thats a literary style called anaphora. Some people learned this in school, so they can use it to emphasize something. IMHO this is not a strong sign of AI, in fact I think this text has no strong AI indicators.

New comment by Abimelex in "GitLab Down?"

Abimelex — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:09:11 +0000

It seems gitlab is down and responds with 503 Error despite the status page shows all green.

GitLab Down?

Abimelex — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:09:11 +0000

Article URL: https://gitlab.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48487246

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by Abimelex in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

Abimelex — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 07:57:46 +0000

Saying "code is just a means to an end" is like saying a Car is just a Vehicle to get from A to B. Which is true to a certain amount of people, but certainly not to people who need a special car like a truck and certainly not to the people who build cars. Developers are car builders.

New comment by Abimelex in "Is my blue your blue?"

Abimelex — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 07:54:35 +0000

There are no "cyan-receptors" on your retina so it's not a cultural thing, it's a bio-physics one. Plus as many mentioned the calibration of you display has propably a way higher impact on this than anything else.

So don't be upset, it's just for fun :)

New comment by Abimelex in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

Abimelex — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:48:03 +0000

Any news after 10 days here? Did anyone successfully tried either side of this?

New comment by Abimelex in "Ex-Tech –> Homeless in SF"

Abimelex — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 08:47:06 +0000

What I probably never get: When somebody is capable and reasonable but jobless, why stay homeless in a city with one of the highest rents? Why not move to a cheaper place, get any job, even a bad paid job will pay a nice flat in a small town. It's always those large very expensive cities that have a huge amount of homelessness.

Don't get me wrong, I do not want to play clever here, it's just a honest question.

New comment by Abimelex in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

Abimelex — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 09:16:28 +0000

awesome and thank you for open sourcing it! Maybe consider renaming it, since there is CraftNote, an app with similar scope in construction business.

Gmail Spam Detection Down

Abimelex — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 17:33:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/NNnDkY9CJ36annsfytjQ?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46745591

Points: 35

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