Hacker News: Veelox

New comment by Veelox in "Patrick Stewart has died"

Veelox — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:30:12 +0000

I for one feel a black banner would be appropriate for his contributions to the soul of this place.

New comment by Veelox in "Fable Took My Job"

Veelox — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:40:18 +0000

The business had problems that needed solved. I talked with folks and gathered data to be sure what the problem was and what a solution looked like. I then pointed an agent at the proper part of the system with a goal. It gathered data, came up with a plan, created a MR with my name. I submitted the MR, got it approved, made sure it worked in production.

I didn't 100% think through every decision in the implementation but I am 100% responsible for ensuring the problem was solved. What tool I used to solve the problem doesn't diminish my work.

New comment by Veelox in "Fable Took My Job"

Veelox — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:11:20 +0000

As a counterpoint, I have enjoyed that last several months greatly. I have been able to solve real, long standing, issues quickly and efficiently.

Not sure what to recommend for you though.

New comment by Veelox in "Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team"

Veelox — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:58:29 +0000

That is helpful. Thank you :)

New comment by Veelox in "Five months treating bugs like patients and coding agents like a medical team"

Veelox — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:17:12 +0000

You give a very precise measure of redundancy in the skills. Can you give a bit more detail in how you decided you needed to audit them and how you went about it? Was it fully agent driven? Mostly human?

New comment by Veelox in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

Veelox — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 13:29:21 +0000

I can't explain how the bunch of atoms inside my skull interact to produce me. If I can't explain that, I don't have a good grounding to explain why a bunch of atoms in a data center can't make something like me. That's my point.

New comment by Veelox in "We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians"

Veelox — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 11:17:18 +0000

Can you explain how a vector database cannot be a real intelligence but a bunch of synapses can be?

New comment by Veelox in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

Veelox — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:23:59 +0000

I think you are joking but it would be poetic if the cause is someone or some company's agents run amok

New comment by Veelox in "GAO: DOE Is Prematurely Excluding Less Expensive Options for Nuclear Cleanup"

Veelox — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:34:48 +0000

> $6.6 billion will end world hunger

My understanding is that the only places that are starving is places like Gaza and South Sudan which are poor and actively under attack. Do you have a source for how we can spend <$10b and solve world hunger?

New comment by Veelox in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

Veelox — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:20:58 +0000

My explanation for the lack of shared experience is very language dependent quality. I work in Go and it's gotten really really good. I have to pick the right abstraction and it can be overly verbose at times but it can make in 5 minutes what would have taken me an hour.

New comment by Veelox in "Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes"

Veelox — Sun, 10 May 2026 23:11:15 +0000

Ahh, so it was a customer pain point of higher latency so they were happy to see latency go down and throughput go up. Good to hear.

Great write up, cheers to the people involved.

New comment by Veelox in "Lakebase architecture delivers faster Postgres writes"

Veelox — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:05:34 +0000

Thanks for offering. In the graph labeled "Prod customer throughput: (higher is better)" eyeballing it within a week you are seeing ~2k qps peak increase over the previous week.

Operationally, how do you handle landing that large of a perf improvement? If my data store changed that much in a week it could break something.

New comment by Veelox in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

Veelox — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:45:49 +0000

Where have you worked? I have been at a lot of places and I have never seen people consistently checking in 2 PR/day every day.

New comment by Veelox in "More Everything Forever"

Veelox — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:29:51 +0000

>mandatory ... college level

I'm curious what your experience is with the world that makes you think every citizen is capable of completing college level classes. People with an IQ of 85 or less are like 15% of population and I think most of them with have a very hard time with high level logic.

New comment by Veelox in "I asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car"

Veelox — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:08:31 +0000

A few thoughts. One is that not all of christendom subscribes to the view that it was literally one man, some take a less literal view. Second, a vast majority of human suffering is down stream of human decisions. Yes it is possible for an omnipotent being to stop all suffering but I would argue it would remove all moral decision making from humans which is important.

New comment by Veelox in "In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants"

Veelox — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 12:35:17 +0000

This general consensus is part of why Trump gets support for his recent trade and defense comments and actions. Also, from an economic perspective the US has been successful and has poured that success into different buckets than Europe would prefer but that's fine, let the US be the US and let Europe be Europe.

Numbers for anyone curious US gdp per capita ~$82.7k EU gdp per capita ~$41.1k

New comment by Veelox in "Ask HN: Voting Data Source by County?"

Veelox — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:49:11 +0000

That is awesome. Thank you.

Ask HN: Voting Data Source by County?

Veelox — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:22:34 +0000

It would be really nice to be able to download the a CSV of voting for each presidential election broken by county or zip code or something of the sort. My google skills are not good enough. Does anyone know of such a data source?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42066789

Points: 6

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New comment by Veelox in "Microsoft is a national security threat: ex-White House cyber policy director"

Veelox — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 17:47:58 +0000

The US government spent $6.1 TRILLION dollars in 2023. I don't think raising taxes is the solution to the government offering a more competitive wage.

New comment by Veelox in "The Timeless Parable of Mr. Market"

Veelox — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 18:00:02 +0000

Dilution happens when the majority of share holders agree to a issue more equity. Again, this is a fully agreed to and is part of the standard rights of share holders. Early employee are given documents that explain this and sign. Can you explain this is illegal taking of property?