Hacker News: alehlopeh

New comment by alehlopeh in "Retired professor arrested for blocking delivery robot. Will do it again"

alehlopeh — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 15:59:14 +0000

These robots are all over the place around here. They use the sidewalks, but beyond that they need space for deployment and space to wait while idle. They don’t just pop out from a little tiny door like in Star Wars.

In my old neighborhood they had a forward operating base in an empty lot along a moderately busy street, one with plenty of foot traffic on the sidewalks. People often use the lot to play with their dogs.

Every day a truck pulls up, taking up several public parking spots, and over the course of an hour, the driver unloads 20-30 delivery bots. Then the bots line themselves up in the grass just off the sidewalk. This acts as their home base while they wait for deliveries.

It’s possible the operators have a deal with whoever owns the land, but it seems more like they’re opportunistically exploiting any resources they can find in order to reduce costs. Which is pretty much in line with what I’d expect from a startup.

New comment by alehlopeh in "WorldTUI: I trained a 360M model to pretend to be a terminal"

alehlopeh — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:21:30 +0000

I built a web framework like this: https://github.com/alehlopeh/hallu

New comment by alehlopeh in "Show HN: Making a smart TV dumb and then smart"

alehlopeh — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 23:48:07 +0000

Yes people spent that much for a TV in 1997.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Wayland desktop for Linux with skeuomorphic design"

alehlopeh — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:56:51 +0000

A “dog-eared corner” in fact. The readme is painful to read if you have an aversion to Claude prose.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Build your own decision model"

alehlopeh — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:29:28 +0000

Supermarkets are just agriculture for normies. Look ma, no subsistence farming.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

alehlopeh — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:05:34 +0000

I don’t disagree that China has a lot of qualities that are pushing it past the US in many ways, but come on. The “oldest and most durable civilization humanity has ever created” is kind of ridiculous. First of all, what even is a civilization in terms of continuity? Is the People’s Republic of China the same civilization as Ming China? What about Yuan China? And if so, is western civilization not a durable civilization?

Stick to facts and not breathless brown-nosing and you’ll be a lot less off-putting.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Apple's smart home camera reportedly won't record video"

alehlopeh — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:36:54 +0000

Apple is the only big tech company that is not EXTREMELY incentivized to sell your data.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Gemini 4 Argon"

alehlopeh — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:22:16 +0000

Use your work google account

New comment by alehlopeh in "Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike"

alehlopeh — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:11:54 +0000

Apparently that finding was itself found to be incorrect. The article doesn’t specifically debunk coherence as the mechanism behind photosynthesis, but it does imply that the real mechanism was discovered to be something else.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Rails World 2026 Opening Keynote [video]"

alehlopeh — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:30:18 +0000

Sorry, but what’s “install a plugin” in rails? That’s not a thing; not even a thing someone who’s ever worked on a rails app would say by mistake.

New comment by alehlopeh in "The most important product decision is what you don't build"

alehlopeh — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:15:00 +0000

iOS has this functionality built in.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Astra for Law"

alehlopeh — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:13:08 +0000

He clearly meant getting married has no friction, while getting out of a marriage has quite a bit. Presumably there’s friction in the marriage otherwise why would they get divorced.

New comment by alehlopeh in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

alehlopeh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:06:44 +0000

Not even close.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Show HN: Neobrutalism.dev – Just added Base UI support and added new color theme"

alehlopeh — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:04:03 +0000

I don’t necessarily think it’s doing something wildly new and different, but I also don’t see how this style looks anything like what’s in that Wikipedia article.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Paramount Caught Using 'Astroturf' Group to Drum Up Fake Support for Merger"

alehlopeh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:13:47 +0000

I disagree. It seems just as easy to plant a seed for people to latch onto. In my experience, people are unlikely to express any kind of opinion that they haven’t seen someone (anyone) else express first.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Teaching an AI My Taste"

alehlopeh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:05:37 +0000

Taste in the sense that people use it to describe something that LLMs are missing doesn’t mean “what I like” but rather “what is good” for an arbitrary set of difficult to pin down criteria.

New comment by alehlopeh in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

alehlopeh — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:56:08 +0000

Calling it Equal Earth was a bad move. The word “equal” has tons of baggage. Why not call it something less incendiary like Actual Earth or something? What ever happened to being pragmatic?

New comment by alehlopeh in "ChatGPT Images 2.5"

alehlopeh — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:35:58 +0000

They famously have not launched Siri AI yet.

New comment by alehlopeh in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

alehlopeh — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:18:45 +0000

I don’t understand how people are reading this comment and saying “yeah, but…”

The benefits of a mass surveilled world are absolutely not enormous. Like, what the actual fuck?

New comment by alehlopeh in "Flock Wants a Closely Surveilled World with No Exit"

alehlopeh — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 12:14:37 +0000

You just need to reasonably predict the future 20 years ago.