Hacker News: Ldorigo

New comment by Ldorigo in "Ask HN: Why isn't using AI in production considered stupid?"

Ldorigo — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:35:58 +0000

What does "ai in production" even mean? Writing production code ? Depending on how it gets reviewed and the qa mechanisms in place, could be stupid or not. Read only access to production systems and data? Again it depends on safeguards, but probably not stupid, it can be very useful for debugging. Unsupervised write access to production data or infrastructure? Incredibly stupid, but I dont think anyone serious does this.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Launching the Claude Partner Network"

Ldorigo — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:25:45 +0000

Why not?

New comment by Ldorigo in "Show HN: What's my JND? – a colour guessing game"

Ldorigo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:51:29 +0000

Aside from display quality I wonder if humans are more perceptive to changes in specific colors? Towards the end of the game some examples felt impossible while others were trivial .

New comment by Ldorigo in "Show HN: A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period"

Ldorigo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 23:16:05 +0000

Thanks! You mean to be able to search for movies that occurred in a specific set of locations? That's a really cool idea, I hadn't thought about it. The data is there already; it's just not searchable in that way. I might give it a go next week. I need to think of a nice UX for it.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Show HN: A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period"

Ldorigo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:24:13 +0000

Thank you! I'm fixing some early feedback about the UX and I'll do just that!

New comment by Ldorigo in "Show HN: A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period"

Ldorigo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 20:23:28 +0000

Thanks a lot for the usability feedback! I'm trying to improve it based on this and a few other early comments.

Regarding your question, one limitation I'm aware of is that my data consists mainly of movies _made as historical movies_, not movies that just happen to be set in the contemporary period of when the movie came out. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be an easy way to identify this latter type of movies based only on wikipedia metadata/categories; so the only way I can think of would be to process _all_ movies on wikipedia and infer whether they are in a contemporary setting... but that's prohibitively expensive. I'll think about it more.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Ask HN: Nobody clicked on a "Show HN" project I put my heart into. Now what?"

Ldorigo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:38:19 +0000

Thanks a lot for the feedback, this is what I was hoping to get. After working on something for too long the UX becomes so obvious that it's hard to imagine it from the perspective of someone seeing it for the first time. I'll work on the onboarding. And try to find some history subreddits where I can share this. Thanks for the encouragement!

Ask HN: Nobody clicked on a "Show HN" project I put my heart into. Now what?

Ldorigo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 17:28:00 +0000

I shared a project I've been working on for months that I expected the community to love; it received all of 9 clicks, one upvote and disappeared from the "new" page into oblivion.

I don't know how strict HN is about retries but it definitely sounds like they don't want the same thing to be posted multiple times without changes. I would still love to share it with people (and maybe find out what was wrong with my post - was it not click-bait-y enough? Was the purpose unclear? Is the website not loading?).

I know there are bigger problems than this, but I was looking forward to share my work with others and I feel super disappointed!

(This was the original post for reference: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847393)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847710

Points: 8

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Show HN: A map of historical movies by narrative location and time period

Ldorigo — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 16:43:43 +0000

A year ago I watched The Count of Monte Cristo, got curious about post-revolution France, and wondered which other movies depicted France in the same period.

I was disappointed to find no easy way to answer that question - the only information of this kind I could find was scattered on Wikipedia, unstructured and hard to find.

I thought that this would be a perfect use for LLMs. One year and a lot of tinkering later I'm proud to present to you the results - hoping you'll find it as entertaining as I do to wade through time, geography, and stories.

(P.S.: If you find me a more creative, evocative name I will instantly change the domain name and credit you for it :-) )

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46847393

Points: 7

# Comments: 6

New comment by Ldorigo in "guys why does armenian completely break Claude"

Ldorigo — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:14:20 +0000

I do it sometimes (even just through the openai playground on platform.openai.com) because the experience is incredible, but it's expensive. One hour of chatting costs around 20-30$.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Hacker News front page now, but the titles are honest"

Ldorigo — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:19:55 +0000

What's funny/interesting from a psychological perspective is that several of these made me click (and discover genuinely interesting content) on links that I ignored in the real version. Could you do this everyday please?

New comment by Ldorigo in "Asking AI to build scrapers should be easy right?"

Ldorigo — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 08:23:44 +0000

I wonder why the focus on replaying UI interactions, rather than just skipping one step ahead to the underlying network/API calls? I've been playing around with similar ideas a lot recently, and I indeed started out in a similar approach as what is described in the article - but then I realized that you can get much more robust (and faster-executing) automation scripts by having the agents figure out the exact network calls to replay, rather than clicking around in a headless browser.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

Ldorigo — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:29:46 +0000

Is it possible to install stuff from GitHub on iOS? I thought it was completely impossible on apple devices.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Apple just released a weirdly interesting coding language model"

Ldorigo — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 15:26:25 +0000

The data might be the limiting factor of current transformer architectures, but there's no reason to believe it's a general limiting factor of any language model (e.g. humans brains are "trained" on orders of magnitude less data and still generally perform better than any model available today)

New comment by Ldorigo in "Automatically tagging politician when they use their phone on the livestreams"

Ldorigo — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 15:25:56 +0000

Actually, Belgium has two (main) official languages so roughly 50% of the people present are now hearing their native language.

New comment by Ldorigo in "Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner"

Ldorigo — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 06:48:40 +0000

Also, FYI, the majority of "errors" found by your tool are not actually errors.

New comment by Ldorigo in "BERTs Are Generative In-Context Learners"

Ldorigo — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:42:17 +0000

Do we a know whether the current SOTA foundation models (Gemini, gpt4o, Claude, etc) are actually all GPT-based (as in, causal models)?

New comment by Ldorigo in "Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?"

Ldorigo — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 22:34:26 +0000

As the other commenter said, prompting is everything, and most LLMs are sycophants and will try to do anything you tell them without pausing to tell you "why the hell are you trying to query an API with SQL? That's not what SQL is for". While it's possible to build stuff with llms with little to no technical knowledge, it's still very hit and miss.

With that said, the space is moving incredibly fast and the latest Claude/GPT-o1 are far ahead of anything that was available 3-6 months ago. Unfortunately Claude doesn't allow sharing publicly like ChatGPT, but here is a gist of Claude's answer for +- the same question your friend asked:

https://gist.github.com/ldorigo/1a243218e00d75dd2baaf0634640...

I'm on mobile so it wasn't handy to quickly paste an example API request/documentation for the LLM to follow; so there's a chance it might have hallucinated some if the API parameters - but if I included that; in my experience the code would work on first shot 90% of the time.

Regarding your second query, I'm too unfamiliar with clojure and the two solutions you mentioned to really understand what you were trying to achieve, but if you explain just a little bit more, I'm happy to record a screencast of me figuring it out with llms/genai tools from the ground up. What do you mean with "a container solution that allows for live coding"?

New comment by Ldorigo in "Ask HN: What hacks/tips do you use to make AI work better for you?"

Ldorigo — Sat, 09 Nov 2024 20:19:34 +0000

I'm always stumped by comments like this. I'm at a point where ~70% of my code is AI-written, and the majority of the remaining is mostly because it would take too much time to provide enough context to the tool/LLM of choice for it to be able to produce the code I need.

Given the right context and the right choice of model/tools, I think ~90-95% of the code I write could be generated. And this is not for doing trivial CRUD; I work on a production app with 8 other people.

I'm really curious if you could give examples of problems that you tried and failed to use these tools for?

New comment by Ldorigo in "ChatGPT Search"

Ldorigo — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 09:32:05 +0000

Chatgpt and perplexity both answer that question perfectly fine. Embarrassingly enough, Google's Gemini Advanced (which I got for free with a Pixel Pro phone but would cost 200$+/y) failed to answer it.