Hacker News: baublet

New comment by baublet in "DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update"

baublet — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:27:22 +0000

China bad

New comment by baublet in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

baublet — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:12:54 +0000

These free speech warriors didn’t actually care about free speech. They just wanted to be able to say horrible things without consequences.

New comment by baublet in "30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech"

baublet — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 22:11:49 +0000

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New comment by baublet in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

baublet — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 18:55:44 +0000

The most difficult codebases are those with every little thing some bespoke abstraction that went through 3 rounds of committee reviews that results in having to click through 12 files to figure out what anything is doing. Factory factory factories each with their own little frankenframework to understand before using anything.

New comment by baublet in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

baublet — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:52:39 +0000

Yeah this is a cringe way to weigh in on something completely unrelated to your project. Who cares if some random package supports Bun? Compat was always on Bun, anyway.

New comment by baublet in "Show HN: Id-agent – Token efficient UUID alternative for AI agents"

baublet — Wed, 20 May 2026 12:12:46 +0000

We wrote a simple internal tool that looks at the that transcript and replaces all UUID and BSON IDs with lower cardinality placeholders (e.g., id-1), including replacing them in the output, and it instantly brought down common error and hallucination rates. I figure this tool lets you apply semantic tokens to the IDs too, e.g. user-1 instead of id-1. Stuff like this is useful for my team because we only use small, fast, highly available models for bulk classification, so we measure error and hallucinations where we can.

New comment by baublet in "Replacing a 3 GB SQLite db with a 10 MB FST (finite state transducer) binary"

baublet — Sun, 10 May 2026 12:24:46 +0000

Came here to add this, too. Sometimes the most valuable thing a solution can buy you is time to think of a better solution.

New comment by baublet in "The quiet disappearance of the free-range childhood"

baublet — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:28:07 +0000

This is bigotry dressed up as concern. It’s also not something widespread. Seems like you just think immigrants are rapists.

New comment by baublet in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

baublet — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 13:39:24 +0000

Weaponized ignorance.

New comment by baublet in "AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is more worrying"

baublet — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:23:32 +0000

I suspect if the IRGC accidentally blew up a school next to a military base in Oklahoma, they would find it in them to condemn those who made such an innocent mistake.

New comment by baublet in "Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us"

baublet — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:53:19 +0000

True! Although in a lot of Node you DO have a compile chain (typescript) you need to account for. There’s a transactional cost there to get these working well, and only sharing the code it needs. These days it’s much smaller than it used to be, though, so worker functions are seeing more use.

I make my comment to note tho that in many envs it’s easier to scale out than account for all the extra complications of multiple processes in a single container.

New comment by baublet in "Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us"

baublet — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:50:11 +0000

You have to pay that cost in a worker thread anyway, too. There’s no free lunch.

New comment by baublet in "Node.js worker threads are problematic, but they work great for us"

baublet — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 13:45:06 +0000

Reading the article, I didn’t see this answered: why not scale to more nodes if your workload is CPU bound? Spin off 1 cpu and a few gb of ram container and scale that as wide as you need?

e.g., this certainly helps when the event loop is blocked, but so could FFI calls to another language for the CPU bound work. I’d only reach for a new Node thread if these didn’t pan out, because there’s usually a LOT that goes into spinning up a new node process in a container (isolating the data, making sure any bundlers and transpilers are working, making sure the worker doesn’t pull in all the app code, etc.).

Side car processes aren’t free, either. Now your processes are contending for the same pool of resources and can’t share anything, which IME means more likelihood of memory issues, esp if there isn’t anything limiting the workers your app can spawn.

Still, good article! Love seeing the ways people tackle CPU bound work loads in an otherwise I/O bound Node app.

New comment by baublet in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

baublet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:01:13 +0000

Yeah and it’s not our fault every Elon discussion involves politics. It’s literally all he does all day, and all he seems interested in, anymore.

New comment by baublet in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

baublet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:58:33 +0000

They would not. The do not.

New comment by baublet in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

baublet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:55:41 +0000

It was. In hindsight it signaled the beginning of the mass weaponization of the internet via social media. It also was NOT grassroots lol. It was very specifically and intentionally enflamed and groomed and funded by people like Steve Bannon and his good buddy Jeffrey Epstein. It wouldn’t have such a big Wikipedia article without them.

New comment by baublet in "Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters"

baublet — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:52:03 +0000

Are you suggesting that academia and all of the other actual places people who learn and know stuff for a living being full of leftists is some conspiracy against you and the right wing?

Touch grass, my dude. These are the thoughts of someone who spends too much time on X.

New comment by baublet in "Pixoo Sign Client for Ruby"

baublet — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 14:28:42 +0000

I think some displays allow fast enough updates for that. But the early versions of the Divoom didn't have enough docs and/or had broken firmware and wouldn't show any custom gifs I sent it. But it's been working great for me for a few years now as a wall clock/weather display.

Finally got around to writing it about this yesterday, actually. https://ryanmpoe.com/2026-01-03-weather-pixel-art/

Happy coincidence, OP!

New comment by baublet in "Generative AI Scripting"

baublet — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:09:57 +0000

Posted this because I didn't see it, just now getting back (toddler).

I started messing with this yesterday and was able to get a fully functional refactor engine (complete with code review, running tests, building TS, etc.) going in less than a day.

We were looking for a tool to bake into our developer tooling that supports things like this, and this GenAIScript project has been perfect so far. Definitely doesn't seem quite ready to embed this into customer-facing stuff, but I'm finding it tremendously helpful for LLM-powered tooling!

Many thanks, pelikhan, for publishing this!

Generative AI Scripting

baublet — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 23:39:01 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/genaiscript/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42001811

Points: 197

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