Hacker News: baublet

New comment by baublet in "Whoisinspace.com/"

baublet — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:51:43 +0000

Yeah warning to mobile users, too. Basically unusable website because of the ads.

I miss the ad free web.

New comment by baublet in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

baublet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:35:54 +0000

Indeed; ask them why they want to pause immigration and see how difficult it is for them to choke back the 14 words they can’t say in public.

New comment by baublet in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

baublet — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:34:32 +0000

Thank the pseudo intellectual billionaire patron club masquerading as serious thinkers.

New comment by baublet in "Where did all the public bathrooms go?"

baublet — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 10:10:43 +0000

This thread is more a reminder of how easy it will be to find people to man the gas chambers when Republicans turn their sights on the homeless. Some wretched dehumanizing of people here.

New comment by baublet in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

baublet — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:28:21 +0000

You know why

New comment by baublet in "Controversial creators are benefiting from monetization programs run by Meta"

baublet — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 16:59:13 +0000

That bit of legalese is really important: it obscures intention, and adds layers of deniability to the rich and powerful putting their thumb on the scale. “I guess the socialists and egalitarians just lost in the totally free and fair marketplace of ideas! :shrug:”

New comment by baublet in "My server is a phone now"

baublet — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:33:14 +0000

I had an advisor really good at calling stuff like that out as "having an eye for the trivial." The advice helped me reframe my personal reading toward substantive engagement, rather than surface-level nitpicks like the order of words in the title.

New comment by baublet in "Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time"

baublet — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:11:41 +0000

What an oddly emotional response to a harmless suggestion.

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.