Hacker News: axlee

New comment by axlee in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

axlee — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:10:46 +0000

"Crema catalana: Three of four models called it “creme brulee” 100% of the time. Only Gemini 3.1 Pro got “crema catalana” — in 3.4% of queries."

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Wikipedia for Crema catalana:

Crema catalana (Catalan for 'Catalan cream'), or crema cremada ('burnt cream'), is a Catalan dessert consisting of a custard topped with a layer of caramelized sugar.[1] It is "virtually identical"[2] to the French crème brûlée. It is made from milk, egg yolks, and sugar. Crema catalana and crème brûlée are made in the same way.

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Oh no, my AI can't detect that an obscure clone of a famous dish is indeed the obscure clone, and not the commonly know version.

New comment by axlee in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

axlee — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 13:19:05 +0000

Can't they point these dns records to working servers meanwhile to avoid degradation?

New comment by axlee in "I ditched Docker for Podman"

axlee — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 15:49:07 +0000

>It becomes a pain point when the IT team never heard of docker

Where do you work ? Is that even possible in 2025?

New comment by axlee in "Nitro: A tiny but flexible init system and process supervisor"

axlee — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 21:01:18 +0000

I'd recommend changing names, nitro is already a semi-popular server engine for node.js https://nitro.build/

New comment by axlee in "Show HN: Magnitude – Open-source AI browser automation framework"

axlee — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 22:11:12 +0000

Using this for testing instead of regular playwright must 10000x the cost and speed, doesn't it? At which points do the benefits outweigh the costs?

New comment by axlee in "Recreating Daft Punk's Something About Us"

axlee — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 13:59:42 +0000

Especially back then, in the time of vinyls and cassettes (browsing music wasn't exactly as easy as pressing "play"), it shows the amazingly deep musical culture of these artists. The samples they use are from all over the place, and their songs are often built around a handful of seconds from obscure b-sides.

New comment by axlee in "How I use LLMs as a staff engineer"

axlee — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 22:27:15 +0000

What's your stack ? I have the complete opposite experience. LLMs are amazing at writing idiomatic code, less so at dealing with esoteric use cases.

And very often, if the LLM produces a poopoo, asking it to fix it again works just well enough.

New comment by axlee in "No Bitcoin ETFs at Vanguard (2024)"

axlee — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 18:10:40 +0000

Thus, a problem in search of a solution. Who has asked for that exactly ?`It's been more than a decade and still no one has found an actually useful real-world application for blockchain besides gambling and money laundering.

New comment by axlee in "Why the Getty Center Is the Safest Place for Art During a Fire (2019)"

axlee — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 19:31:50 +0000

Note: while this is a 2019 article, the Getty Center has not burned during the 2025 Palisades fire.

New comment by axlee in "Boltzmann brain"

axlee — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:20:26 +0000

The difference between this concept and, let's say, Descarte's evil demon, is not the philosophical skepticism but its explicit grounding in physics and thermodynamics. It basically attempts to answer the question "Where would that evil demon come from?". It materializes Descarte's thought experiment and shows that it could actually happen within the confines of our scientific knowledge, unlike malicious demons.

New comment by axlee in "Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites"

axlee — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:24:19 +0000

Could be a swede who meant "GDP" (BNP = BruttoNationalProdukten = Gross Domestic Product)

New comment by axlee in "The FBI created a coin to investigate crypto pump-and-dump schemes"

axlee — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 22:23:14 +0000

Wash traders are the ones breaking the law.

New comment by axlee in "Concord had a dev culture of toxic positivity that halted any negative feedback"

axlee — Sat, 21 Sep 2024 13:56:53 +0000

And Sony doesn't ?

New comment by axlee in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

axlee — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:36:32 +0000

I mean Israel is behind Pegasus, so it's not exactly a secret that they can get into any cellphone. Israel didn't need to infiltrate Hezbollah, they just needed publicity.

New comment by axlee in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

axlee — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:35:18 +0000

All the terrorist market suddenly boycotting them, I'm sure they're losing sleep over it.

New comment by axlee in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

axlee — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 17:34:20 +0000

Looks pretty discriminate to me, only the pager holder was affected. I've seen multiple videos with very close bystanders completely unharmed. And whoever holds a pager from Hezbollah is a member of an armed terrorist group officially at war with Israel.

New comment by axlee in "How old is your globe? [pdf]"

axlee — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 11:10:32 +0000

You're dating the data source used by the globe, not the globe itself. But it guarantees a lower limit of age on any globe.

New comment by axlee in "Microsoft says 8.5M Windows devices were affected by CrowdStrike outage"

axlee — Sat, 20 Jul 2024 23:16:40 +0000

You want your antivirus to be autoupdating.

New comment by axlee in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

axlee — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:26:44 +0000

Windows Update has nothing to do with it.

New comment by axlee in "Tour de France riders are inhaling carbon monoxide in 'super altitude' recipe"

axlee — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 18:39:05 +0000

Them and cross country skiers (for VO2Max domination)