Hacker News: andrelaszlo

New comment by andrelaszlo in "The Isolation Trap: Erlang"

andrelaszlo — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:05:11 +0000

I would edit sentences like this:

"Erlang is the strongest form of the isolation argument, and it deserves to be taken seriously, which is why what happens next matters."

It doesn't add much, and it has this condescending and pretentious LLM tone. For me as a reader, it distracts from an otherwise interesting article.

New comment by andrelaszlo in "C# strings silently kill your SQL Server indexes in Dapper"

andrelaszlo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:42:25 +0000

I thought, having just read the title, that maybe it's time to upgrade if you're still on Ubuntu 6.06.

New comment by andrelaszlo in "I found a vulnerability. they found a lawyer"

andrelaszlo — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 00:22:32 +0000

Last year I found a vulnerability in a large annual event's ticket system, allowing me to download tickets from other users.

I had bought a ticket, which arrived as a link by email. The URL was something like example.com/tickets/[string]

The string was just the order number in base 64. The order number was, of course, sequential.

I emailed the organizer and the company that built the order system. They immediately fixed it... Just kidding. It's still wide open and I didn't hear anything from them.

I'm waiting for this year's edition. Maybe they'll have fixed it.

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Microsoft guide to pirating Harry Potter for LLM training (2024) [removed]"

andrelaszlo — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 01:32:27 +0000

Did they also remove this article?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/azure-sql/?p=4796

"Build a RAG App in 5 Minutes

Ever tried setting up an Al-powered project on

Azure and felt overwhelmed? As a student or first- time user to cloud computing, I've been there too. The idea of creating a chatbot or search app using GPT sounds exciting, but the process of setting up everything right from the vector database, provisioning OpenAl models, to integrating them,

it can f..."

New comment by andrelaszlo in "I was banned from Claude for scaffolding a Claude.md file?"

andrelaszlo — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 19:46:19 +0000

Could anyone explain to me what the problem is with this? I thought I was fairly up to date on these things, but this was a surprise to me. I see the sibling comment getting downvoted but I promise I'm asking this in good faith, even if it might seem like a silly question (?) for some reason.

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Ask HN: How can we solve the loneliness epidemic?"

andrelaszlo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 22:31:30 +0000

My girlfriend built a web app for meeting up in small groups. I think it's going to be fun! It's not public yet but almost there. Let me know if you live around Stockholm (or Sweden perhaps) and want to beta test it!

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

andrelaszlo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 12:39:16 +0000

https://laszlo.nu just a silly landing page right now because I found a fun font and wanted to see if I could recreate the look of an old screen with scanlines using only css.

T9 Typing Challenge

andrelaszlo — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 21:17:53 +0000

Article URL: https://gx.games/games/clb36n/t9-typing-challenge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46280791

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrelaszlo in "You are dating an ecosystem"

andrelaszlo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 12:32:43 +0000

"We are highly confident this text was AI generated"

96% AI generated according to gptzero.

Which I wouldn't mind, honestly, if it had something useful, insightful, or original to say.

In a way I'm glad it doesn't seem to be written by a human:

> What used to be a disagreement becomes “emotional labor.”

> A bad mood gets labeled “toxic energy.”

This sounds like someone who dismisses their partner's feelings as fragmented memes, and sees her as almost brain-washed by the algorithm.

It contrasts this against a time where a relationship was something entirely different, where he could know everyone she's interacting with.

> And it doesn’t stop there.

> She has friends.

God forbid...

If this was a person and not an AI, they would sound incredibly controlling. Maybe the "toxicity" and "red flag" ideas didn't form in a vacuum?

New comment by andrelaszlo in "CRISPR fungus: Protein-packed, sustainable, and tastes like meat"

andrelaszlo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 10:31:19 +0000

Quorn is based on fungus. I'm not a huge fan of it myself but it's sold across the EU, and it's in almost all stores where I live.

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Pebble Index 01 – External memory for your brain"

andrelaszlo — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 15:43:54 +0000

"Two year of average use"?

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Advent of Code 2025"

andrelaszlo — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 17:59:20 +0000

I think Crystal, Nim, Julia and F# were my favorites from last year's AoC

I wrote a bit more about it here https://laszlo.nu/blog/advent-of-code-2024.html

AoC is a great opportunity for exploring languages!

New comment by andrelaszlo in "A Remarkable Assertion from A16Z"

andrelaszlo — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 14:41:20 +0000

> A hundred years from now, thanks to the workings of the Inhuman Centipede, I’m known as a deservedly obscure dadaist prose stylist who thought it was cool to stop his books mid-sentence.

Welcome, the entire land – "Hello, world" in hieroglyphics (2009)

andrelaszlo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 10:52:39 +0000

Article URL: https://optional.is/required/2009/12/03/welcome-the-entire-land/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45886002

Points: 106

# Comments: 40

New comment by andrelaszlo in "XSLT RIP"

andrelaszlo — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 10:39:48 +0000

I guess we've both been traumatized by modern linux distros?

YC Partner Simulator

andrelaszlo — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ycarena.com/games/partnersim

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45811051

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Study finds growing social circles may fuel polarization"

andrelaszlo — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 07:13:02 +0000

What do you mean? I have hundreds of friends on Facebook. /s

New comment by andrelaszlo in "IKEA Catalogs 1951-2021"

andrelaszlo — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:07:48 +0000

I just renovated an Ikea table from 1980-something. Actually found it in the catalog too.

It's solid wood, so it'll probably last another 40 years at least.

New comment by andrelaszlo in "Wildthing – A model trained on role-reversed ChatGPT conversations"

andrelaszlo — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:34:18 +0000

When I opened it, it said it was a multilingual dictionary so I just typed a (nonsense) Swedish word:

Me: gurkburk

Reply: #include#include#include (4096 times)

Seems useful!

New comment by andrelaszlo in "GPT-5"

andrelaszlo — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:17:06 +0000

I asked GPT about it:

> You are using the newest model OpenAI offers to the public (GPT-4o). There is no “GPT-5” model accessible yet, despite the splashy headlines.