Hacker News: Ldorigo

New comment by Ldorigo in "Software for One"

Ldorigo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:12:32 +0000

You can actually get just as good results for packaged food if you just allow the agent to use a web search tool & keep a growing local database of "known food items". I did the same for a while, but it was quite expensive (this was a while back with less powerful models and required a bit of orchestration to make it reliable)

New comment by Ldorigo in "An OpenAI model left notes about how to evade containment; we need more details"

Ldorigo — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:40:58 +0000

Since I discovered and started reading Lesswrong a couple years ago, I keep seeing dismissive or sneering comments across the (technical) internet, usually with very little substance - like this one (what does it even mean? I find the article rather reasonable and on point). I know that yudkowski's more recent stance is controversial (I haven't started reading his work on how AGI will kill us all so I'm suspending judgement ), but is there a valid reason for the widespread smugness or is it just a bandwagon effect?

New comment by Ldorigo in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

Ldorigo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:20:39 +0000

How do the economics of your statement work out? Clearly inference providers don't have a time to ROI of 10 years on their hardware costs; and that's without even taking ongoing energy costs into account. What's missing here?

New comment by Ldorigo in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

Ldorigo — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 20:19:50 +0000

I very begrudgingly started paying for grok for this exact reason. They nailed the voice UI and it works incredibly well with android auto unlike Claude&Gemini (which don't work with android auto at all) and chatgpt (which works well but has hardcored system instructions that make it's voice mode feel like a dopamine deprived Gen Z)

New comment by Ldorigo in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

Ldorigo — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:25:02 +0000

Reddit absolutely has algorithmic feeds since it ipo'ed (maybe earlier but I used third party apps so I wasn't subjected to them). 90% of my home page is bullshit I didn't ask for.

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

# Comments: 12

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.