Hacker News: LEDThereBeLight

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:43:08 +0000

Give me a break.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

LEDThereBeLight — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:50:02 +0000

Right now, you’d use skyscanner directly for finding flights. Maybe Expedia for hotels. What if instead of needing to know about what app to use for every different type of thing you wanted to book, and dealing with their own separate UIs and dark patterns to upsell you, you just ask ChatGPT to curate a list for you, and then tell it to book once you’ve chosen?

In 20 years, we may not be writing UIs for apps anymore. We may just be writing tools for AI agents to consume.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:17:49 +0000

Anyone who’s trying to make money through stuff like this (versus just experimenting) is using one of the many paid captcha-solving APIs, which cost a cent or two per solved captcha.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Bumblebee queens breathe underwater to survive drowning"

LEDThereBeLight — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 13:06:07 +0000

We have all hurt our fellow man, just as we all hurt ourselves. We even have a word for it: sin!

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:52:42 +0000

It it was the case, Iran underestimates how vindictive Americans are.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "We should revisit literate programming in the agent era"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:57:59 +0000

What is good code now is only good code because of the bad programming languages we’ve had to accept for the last hundred years because we’re tied to incremental improvements. We’re tied to static brittle types. But look at natural systems - they all use dynamic “languages.” When you get a cut, your flesh doesn’t throw an exception because it’s connected to the wrong “thing.” Maybe AI will redefine what good code means, because it’s better able to handle ambiguity.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Elevated Errors in Claude.ai"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:19:41 +0000

It’s a useless skill to keep sharp. It will never again be important. It’s like the electrical engineering professors who insisted we needed to understand how the circuitry worked in order to be good programmers. We didn’t.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

LEDThereBeLight — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:43:10 +0000

They have unlimited, free money.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "I hate AI side projects"

LEDThereBeLight — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 17:24:16 +0000

It’s not a helpful comparison because it’s too early. If the first iPhone went away, no one would care. Once software is rearchitected around AI, it will look a lot different. Your phone won’t need UIs that are as complex, because we can just tell AI what to change or open or do.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "I hate AI side projects"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:28:14 +0000

The submitter could decide and curate what is useful to be shared, whether that’s exact message logs, or the subagents and skills they think made the difference.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Code has always been the easy part"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:50:46 +0000

AI reduces the thinking time, too. And most of my time is spent either thinking or coding.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:52:07 +0000

It’s not cargo culting, it does make a difference and there are papers on arxiv discussing it. The trouble is that it’s hard to tell whether it’ll help or hurt - telling it to act as an expert in one field may improve your result, or may make it lose some of the other perspectives it has which might be more important for solving the problem.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Nobody knows how the whole system works"

LEDThereBeLight — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:44:49 +0000

Because to a 20 year old who is worried about getting a job, the value of getting all A’s and learning less is higher than getting all B’s and learning more.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Gallup will no longer measure presidential approval after 88 years"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 18:59:03 +0000

> When asked by The Hill if Gallup had received any feedback from the White House or anyone in the current administration before making the decision, the spokesperson said, “this is a strategic shift solely based on Gallup’s research goals and priorities.”

Why bury the lede? Why not just say “it’s got nothing to do with Trump, we’re doing this because X isn’t a priority for Gallup anymore.”

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "British drivers over 70 to face eye tests every three years"

LEDThereBeLight — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:14:44 +0000

16 year olds get better at driving.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Show HN: Is this the perfect 404 page? [CSS only]"

LEDThereBeLight — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 21:22:07 +0000

Are you just mapping a text file of status codes to a single template? None of them are any different? Why make all of them instead of just showing the 404 page?

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Ask HN: What 'AI feature' created negative ROI in production?"

LEDThereBeLight — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 13:25:55 +0000

Even the OP was ChatGPT - he couldn’t even be bothered to remove the quote at the end.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "Tired of AI, people are committing to the analog lifestyle in 2026"

LEDThereBeLight — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 17:05:07 +0000

Personal phone, work phone, and older model backup you keep in a drawer.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "The e-scooter isn't new – London was zooming around on Autopeds a century ago"

LEDThereBeLight — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:02:18 +0000

It’s not about the climate. Cities are just too big.

New comment by LEDThereBeLight in "GPT-5.2"

LEDThereBeLight — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:26:05 +0000

Try asking it a question you know has never been asked before. Is it parroting?