Hacker News: Abimelex

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

# Comments: 3

Stack Overflow's AI Assist Powered by OpenAI

Abimelex — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 15:50:03 +0000

Article URL: https://stackoverflow.com/ai-assist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46602545

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Abimelex in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

Abimelex — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 09:13:26 +0000

Did I just get trolled on HN? Reading the thing wasn't doing anything.

New comment by Abimelex in "I almost got hacked by a 'job interview'"

Abimelex — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 22:39:37 +0000

I had a similar experience and I wonder why bitbucket is alway the choice to host this malware. I files some requests to take that down, but never got a response.

New comment by Abimelex in "I used to know how to write in Japanese"

Abimelex — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 15:36:50 +0000

when I learned Japanese in university I learned writing with the exact method by James W. Heisig. So I didn't used Japanese for about 20 Years since, I forgot almost everything I learned, except the Kanji. I can still remember most of them. It's crazy!

New comment by Abimelex in "Ask HN: Go deep into AI/LLMs or just use them as tools?"

Abimelex — Sat, 24 May 2025 11:05:06 +0000

That said, I think there is this thing in between of developing LLMs and using LLMs via APIs and the lines are of cause blurry: Training LLMs (or other neural networks). So best I think is to start digging on the surface and going deeper as long as you feel comfortable. Maybe at a certain point you will have the wish for more power full hardware. Thats the point where you need to decide how much to get invested or to rent a cluster.

New comment by Abimelex in "Tornado warnings delayed because of DOGE cuts"

Abimelex — Sun, 18 May 2025 09:09:59 +0000

That's mostly the thing with safety measurements. If they are there you do not recognize them and if they are missing and something happens it's hard to proof if it would have changed anything.

Have a look on "Heuristics That Almost Always Work" https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-alwa...

New comment by Abimelex in "Military grade sonic weapon is used against protesters in Serbia"

Abimelex — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 23:13:29 +0000

that's not necessarely the weapon LRAD, Long Range Acoustic Devices may also be used for communication. I would be really alerted if this kind of weapon would be used in Germany.

> In the first half of 2020, Bad Homburg's fire brigade and city police used an LRAD 100X system more than 60 times to deliver COVID-19 information.

LRAD 100X: https://danimex.com/products?ProductID=PROD1666

New comment by Abimelex in "Tesla is done in Germany: 94% say they won't buy a Tesla car"

Abimelex — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 15:57:56 +0000

trust me, this is absolutely NOT about liking local manufacturers ...

New comment by Abimelex in "Start a computer club in the place that you live (2023)"

Abimelex — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 14:50:36 +0000

I am very glad that we have Chaos Computer Club in Germany. It's by far more than just a time and place where nerds meetup to do computer, they are already some kind of institution, they have a voice in politics and often requested for independent consulting. But "doing computer" is how it all started.

New comment by Abimelex in "Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars"

Abimelex — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:15:06 +0000

FPV car racing incoming!