Hacker News: SCLeo

New comment by SCLeo in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

SCLeo — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 23:47:08 +0000

As much as I understand their decision, I hope they didn't stop. I don't use Facebook myself but now I am worried YouTube now knows that if they try a bit harder uBO would just give up.

New comment by SCLeo in "Taste Is All That's Left"

SCLeo — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:24:59 +0000

> I'll risk sounding antagonistic and ask you this: if LLMs are not "good enough", why are they still around?

To quote the parent commenter:

> They seem to be able to solve the immediate problem,

but not long term

New comment by SCLeo in "Increasing the lifespan of a bulb makes it worse in every other way"

SCLeo — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:48:12 +0000

As many have pointed out, I think the cartel is just using the engineering perspective for justification. If avoiding racing to the bottom is the goal, the rule could be that "no one can advertise a lifetime longer than 1000 hrs" as opposed to actually limiting the lifetime.

New comment by SCLeo in "Show HN: I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link, so I made a userscript"

SCLeo — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 07:00:55 +0000

Oh, I solved this long time ago by only opening the discussion page, never read tfa, and pretend I did. /s

New comment by SCLeo in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

SCLeo — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:46:00 +0000

I am not up-to-date in this area, and not necessarily that I don't trust you, but do you have a source for this? Just curious.

New comment by SCLeo in "OAuth for all"

SCLeo — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:00:58 +0000

I cannot agree more. Cloudflare has some services that are really cheap (r2) to lure you into their worker "ecosystem", which is just serverless. Once you are vendor locked into their absolute garbage custom JavaScript runtime, you are pretty much forced to use their distributed database Cloudflare KV if you want good performance. Cloudflare KV is so extremely ridiculously absurdly expensive that make predatory pricing of vercel that HN likes to complain about feel like child play.

New comment by SCLeo in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"

SCLeo — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:50:26 +0000

And every PR turns into a triple recursive reverse merge.

New comment by SCLeo in "Authentication issues related to API requests"

SCLeo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:48:52 +0000

Oh that's why. I didn't connect the dots until I see your message. I had like 5 vscode open and all of them were spamming GitHub PR extension requiring login alert at me.

New comment by SCLeo in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

SCLeo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:39:25 +0000

I actually laughed out loud in a restaurant.

New comment by SCLeo in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

SCLeo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:47:45 +0000

Frequency of actions matter, especially for security changes. If we are talking about git, I agree. If we are talking about npm, I bet 95%+ times people install packages in order to use them, not just to admire the code.

Someone else in this thread mentioned that npm can be used to manage pure front end libraries, which is a fair point.

New comment by SCLeo in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

SCLeo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:51:05 +0000

I don't get it. How does this help with anything? You pull in a dependency to use it, right?

New comment by SCLeo in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

SCLeo — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:18:22 +0000

People are so different. When I was in college, if I had an unsolved problem, I could not fall asleep.

New comment by SCLeo in "We rewrote our Rust WASM parser in TypeScript and it got faster"

SCLeo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:09:22 +0000

They should rewrite it in rust again to get another 3x performance increase /s

New comment by SCLeo in "Show HN: Duplicate 3 layers in a 24B LLM, logical deduction .22→.76. No training"

SCLeo — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:35:33 +0000

There are explicit residual connections in a transformer block. Look up "residual connections" in Google images and you will see.

New comment by SCLeo in "A laser pointer at 2B FPS [video]"

SCLeo — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 01:33:23 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. Honestly, your explanation is better than the entire video. - I watched it in full and got really confused. I completely missed the part where he said the light is pulsing at 30kHZ and was really puzzled at how he is able to move the mirror so fast to cover the entire scene.

New comment by SCLeo in "Many hard LeetCode problems are easy constraint problems"

SCLeo — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:30:52 +0000

Does using a constraint solver actually solve the question under the time ... constraints?

If not, how can you claim you have solved the problem?

New comment by SCLeo in "It is worth it to buy the fast CPU"

SCLeo — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:04:49 +0000

Where do you even get the $3,000 standing desk? I am don't even compare prices and I got mine from Amazon for $200-$300. Sure the quality might not be the best but I just can't see there are people buying $3000 standing desks.

New comment by SCLeo in "When you're asking AI chatbots for answers, they're data-mining you"

SCLeo — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 22:45:18 +0000

> And as someone who's into spy stories, I know that a big part of tradecraft is of formulating your questions in a way that divulges the least about your actual intentions and current information.

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but if everyone started doing this, we will be in XY problem city.

New comment by SCLeo in "Robots move Shanghai city block [video]"

SCLeo — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 03:42:17 +0000

I don't think they used AI nor claimed to have used AI. The interviewee just said "We monitor abnormal deformation of the buildings in real time."

New comment by SCLeo in "A masochist's guide to web development"

SCLeo — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 22:35:44 +0000

Yeah, the commonjs to esm transition has been the python 2 to python 3 transition of JavaScript, except the benefits are limited (at least compared to the hassle created).

There are many libraries that have switched to esm only (meaning they don't support commonjs), but even today, the best way to find the last commonjs version of those libraries is to go to the "versions" tab on npm, and find the most downloaded version in the last month, and chances are, that will be the last commonjs version.

Yes, in a vacuum, esm is objectively a better than commonjs, but how tc39 almost intentionally made it incompatible with commonjs (via top-level awaits) is just bizarre to me.