Hacker News: MrLeap

New comment by MrLeap in "Research-Driven Agents: When an agent reads before it codes"

MrLeap — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:34:36 +0000

What is RST?

New comment by MrLeap in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

MrLeap — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:49:01 +0000

I'm old enough to remember being fatigued with so many people talking about making "apps". Programs that run on a phone. Before that everyone was excited about blogging. Web 2.0 ugh.

Before that we were excited about the wheel and the creation of fire. All capital drained into those ephemeral fancies.

The cycles cycle on.

New comment by MrLeap in "America tells private firms to “hack back”"

MrLeap — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:12:35 +0000

Sorta reminds me of UDP amplification attacks.

New comment by MrLeap in "Bets on US-Iran ceasefire show signs of insider knowledge, say experts"

MrLeap — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:57:06 +0000

I appreciate your perspective on this. We're living in an era of sensationalism and noise. It wont get better until a lot of people from every political disposition becomes tired of hollow words designed only to create BIG FEELINGS.

Imagine an era where the majority leans in on a balance of compassion for self and others.

New comment by MrLeap in "Beyond has dropped “meat” from its name and expanded its high-protein drink line"

MrLeap — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:28:20 +0000

Proprietary food.. that you can only buy from a single company are all doomed? Might I offer an example that, under some definitions, has not failed despite that strategy. The McRib.

I was going to offer the twinkie but I guess hostess declared bankruptcy, so maybe you're right.

New comment by MrLeap in "Instagram AI Influencers Are Defaming Celebrities with Sex Scandals"

MrLeap — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 20:03:13 +0000

The fact it's text only means we only get AI text and not images, I suppose. lmao.

New comment by MrLeap in "Fabrice Bellard's TS Zip (2024)"

MrLeap — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:20:50 +0000

You could express the offset with scientific notation, tetration, and other big math number things. You probably don't need the whole offset number all at once!

New comment by MrLeap in "Try to take my position: The best promotion advice I ever got"

MrLeap — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:16:57 +0000

It uh.. was kind of weird that a junior dev wrote.. an.. rfc? I sense that this is a company that has somewhat adapted that concept for some kind of internal communication, or it's AI slop. All the jobs I'd ever had would probably call something like that a "design proposal" or similar.

Maybe this is a folksy anecdote about a junior developer working for John Email designing the protocol for trinary morse code over a token ring of twisted pair barbed wire. An RFC for that kind of project would be natural.

In the spirit of this, I propose we start calling things like flowcharts, SVG images of digraphs, UML diagrams etc "articles of war" just to spice things up.

New comment by MrLeap in "Google Skills"

MrLeap — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 06:12:36 +0000

I typed "balancing compassion for self and others" and, surprisingly, there are zero results found.

If I could have any wish granted, I would wish for that balance to be preserved as the foundational learning before all things.

0 results found.

New comment by MrLeap in "A welcome pit stop: the US college using parking lots to help unhoused students"

MrLeap — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 04:17:48 +0000

Verily, mine ears do smart, for folk now christen every trifle with some newborn word unkenn’d of honest ages past.

New comment by MrLeap in "A welcome pit stop: the US college using parking lots to help unhoused students"

MrLeap — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:07:44 +0000

I don't want to bemoan this. There's some people who don't have the resources to house a bunch of people but do have authority over a parking lot. I applaud anyone doing what they can for others with what they've got.

Balance compassion for self and others.

New comment by MrLeap in "After Windows Update, Password icon invisible, click where it used to be"

MrLeap — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 13:36:54 +0000

I remember a different apocrypha for why they skipped from 8 to 10. They wanted avoid OS specific code that conditionally activated from the substring "windows 9" but meant for windows 95 and 98. One would imagine any code like that not being quite as helpful a few decades later.

New comment by MrLeap in "Reservoir: Smart electric water heater"

MrLeap — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 07:31:15 +0000

Not interested until it can also show ads.

My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages

MrLeap — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 19:27:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.omniglot.com/language/phrases/hovercraft.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45792729

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by MrLeap in "When is it better to think without words?"

MrLeap — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 10:46:37 +0000

> Both people in the conversation imagine that the other 'gets it' - a delusory and false assumption

'getting it' isn't an all or nothing thing. It would be an illusion to take it to an extreme.

The idea of some people in your life being able to get you better than others, more quickly and with fewer words, is a fact of life. Comparative human connection bandwidth can be estimated by vibes, history, outcomes.

New comment by MrLeap in "Show HN: Software Freelancers Contract Template"

MrLeap — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:38:46 +0000

> Such reachouts are very very rare unless your software has gone viral in the right circles

Another anecdote. I had job offers coming out of my ears while I was posting videos of my indiegame on twitter. Only one video had substantial reach -- near the end of my time actively twittering. I think what helps is doing something as well as you can, and be persistently visible.

New comment by MrLeap in "Is today's self-help teaching everyone to be a jerk?"

MrLeap — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 21:35:35 +0000

I don't think it's self aggrandizing. It points to a need to balance compassion for self and others. If you let that ratio get unbalanced in any direction it leads to bad outcomes.

New comment by MrLeap in "Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt"

MrLeap — Sat, 19 Jul 2025 00:29:48 +0000

Ah yeah, that slid by me.

New comment by MrLeap in "Marathon fusion claims to invent alchemy, making 5000 kgs gold per gigawatt"

MrLeap — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 23:25:03 +0000

Right, fusion stops being a net producer of energy on atoms heavier than iron.

A star’s fusion reaction ceases when too much of its core turns to iron.

New comment by MrLeap in "Fine-tuning LLMs is a waste of time"

MrLeap — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 03:49:07 +0000

Thank you for taking the time to provide me all this reading.