Hacker News: Lalabadie

New comment by Lalabadie in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

Lalabadie — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:54:04 +0000

Tangential, but all companies are lifestyle companies, in the sense that they serve their owner's lifestyle choices.

It's just that lots of owners want a company that pulls them away from all other areas of life.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Show HN: Performative-UI – A react component library of design tropes"

Lalabadie — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:32:01 +0000

It's behavioral marketing, vs status/aspirational marketing.

A stated preference isn't necessarily current or situational (I will choose to run instead of watching another 45 minutes of Youtube videos).

A situational preference is often inertia, and behavioral marketing will directly hinder the meta cognitive processes that usually give us the agency to override our default mode choices (John has been on YouTube for the last 20 minutes, what next suggestion is not likely to keep him there?)

New comment by Lalabadie in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

Lalabadie — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:32:32 +0000

This can only happen if they have reason or motivation to trust the expertise, and an expectation that the relationship can be fruitful.

Like you said, they must at least be willing to listen.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

Lalabadie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:19:33 +0000

Appreciate the correction!

New comment by Lalabadie in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

Lalabadie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:19:15 +0000

Edit: My bad, with calcium it's the liquid filters that deal with it, not the air scrubbers.

Quoting an ISS astronaut: Today's coffee is tomorrow's coffee.

New comment by Lalabadie in "I design with Claude more than Figma now"

Lalabadie — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 22:15:50 +0000

"Prompt more" is my default answer now.

Your 80% of the way there? Keep going!

If they're satisfied with the result, I save myself a reluctant client.

If they realize the difference, I save myself an explanation and we can start talking about good foundations.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

Lalabadie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:07:44 +0000

The return of the leak was relatively sudden. They had done temporary fixes that brought stable pressure for a while, and when it reappeared, the leak jumped back to 1kg/day quickly.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

Lalabadie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:04:23 +0000

Air filtration is one of the hardest things do deal with in space.

I don't know what solvents would do, but I remember that astronauts' bone density loss in space means there are challenges around managing the significant amount of calcium captured by the air scrubbers in the ISS.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

Lalabadie — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:44:40 +0000

Shortcat is the one I found I was willing to adopt without much effort: https://shortcat.app

New comment by Lalabadie in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

Lalabadie — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:12:30 +0000

I think they've made lots of great practical choices! 100% in agreement with running local models for these tasks.

My opinion is that, for end users, if you name your feature "AI" to market it, you kind of already failed to read the room. You're writing to VCs while hoping it convinces customers.

Name what the feature does, what it gains them. Call it "smart" if you must imply some black box treatment.

Naming AI as the selling point for everything feels a lot like that Android tablet ad circa 2010:

"Your wife will love the new dual core Tegra™ chipset!"

New comment by Lalabadie in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

Lalabadie — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:59:15 +0000

The whole first section: 9 features, 9 titles with "AI" in them.

I don't think their use of it is bad at all, I'm just tired.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Show HN: Paseo – Beautiful open-source coding agent interface"

Lalabadie — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:07:51 +0000

(Designer here) I like checking up what a product looks like when it's pitched as "beautiful". Mostly there are two ways to really meet that promise:

    1. Masterful application of a trend (Stripe, Raycast)
    2. Strong and recognizable personality (!boring, Notion, OG Basecamp)

Option 2 is the most accessible to small teams, but it's not an intuitive conclusion to draw. Both need an experienced designer to succeed, but option 1 sounds like it's a safe bet instead of a leap.

Most claimed "beautiful" products result from work done without the experience & taste to tell option 1 apart from an attempt at option 1.

In reality, you can pull off a strong personality and a clumsy execution, whereas following a trend clumsily looks like failing to read the room, and leaves you looking dated almost instantly.

New comment by Lalabadie in "GitHub Copilot App"

Lalabadie — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:09:03 +0000

That looks pretty close in shape to the early Ace project Maggie Appleton demonstrated last month.

Edit: This short talk – https://maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment

New comment by Lalabadie in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

Lalabadie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:56:55 +0000

  Location: Québec, Canada
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: React/Next/Vue/Nuxt, Svelte, lots of foundational web knowledge (HTML/CSS/JS+TS) that touch on layout, animation, canvas, etc.
  Résumé/CV: https://petiterevolte.com/en
  Email: monsieur@louis-andre.net

I'm an experienced product + interface designer who works with small teams. I mostly ship UI deliverables, but I'm old enough that you can call me "classically trained" – I still do the odd brand & print project as well, which tend to be fun for everyone involved.

I integrate well with engineering teams, and can ship my work as pull requests when it's convenient for everyone. I'm currently filling out my schedule from the end of summer onward.

New comment by Lalabadie in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

Lalabadie — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:34:09 +0000

Your point is valid (and I make a similar one frequently), but it doesn't gain from being presented as good term vs bad term use. It's the context that makes it pejorative.

In the context of advertisers, content is just what you deliver for a price (Netflix, Disney), or against which you slap advertising (Youtube). You want more of it so you can charge more, and care little what fills this content pipeline.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

Lalabadie — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:34:50 +0000

You're now in the last frame of the comic, getting thrown out the window.

New comment by Lalabadie in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

Lalabadie — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:17:49 +0000

Pratchett himself would be very ill-defined if you limited yourself to naming a genre.

New comment by Lalabadie in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

Lalabadie — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:42:57 +0000

There are OS-native options everywhere to spawn an email client window that's filled out and ready to send from your address, so that couldn't possibly be a differentiator for them

New comment by Lalabadie in "Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

Lalabadie — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:31:29 +0000

Yesterday, the comment section on Flock camera vandalism was wild for this reason.

New comment by Lalabadie in "At least 25 Flock cameras have been destroyed in five states since April 2025"

Lalabadie — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:32:52 +0000

What is the civil way of installing mass surveillance?