Hacker News: exolab

New comment by exolab in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

exolab — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:31:43 +0000

AI generated? The humanity!

New comment by exolab in "Conway's Game of Life, in real life"

exolab — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:47:16 +0000

> I figured out what would be a reasonable amount to spend on the project and then multiplied that by 10.

I like the way you think.

New comment by exolab in "Cook: A simple CLI for orchestrating Claude Code"

exolab — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:13:08 +0000

> So if you were to use the CLI to perform a review of some code. This tool would allow you to loop the output of the code review 5 times onto itself.

Claude already does that if you ask nicely.

New comment by exolab in "One Square Minesweeper"

exolab — Wed, 23 Oct 2024 08:08:34 +0000

For those OOTL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpmGXeAtWUw

New comment by exolab in "A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence"

exolab — Fri, 31 May 2024 09:01:07 +0000

My hero!

New comment by exolab in "Launch HN: Nango (YC W23) – Source-available unified API"

exolab — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 17:35:57 +0000

How does the "scale plan" work and how much is it?

New comment by exolab in "Blockchains explained visually (part 1 of 2)"

exolab — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 10:19:37 +0000

Where is part 2? :)

New comment by exolab in "Show HN: TB-303 Synth, Drum Machine and Sequencer in Web Audio"

exolab — Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:07:34 +0000

You should take a look at Andre Michelle's work. https://www.audiotool.com/

New comment by exolab in "Show HN: Untrusted, a JavaScript adventure game you play by modifying its source"

exolab — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 13:13:42 +0000

Just a hint: you can set your player's colour.

New comment by exolab in "Show HN: Unbabel API – Human Corrected Machine Translation"

exolab — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:58:35 +0000

I just saw a machine-translated text that was given to a translator I know for "post-editing". Basically you have to delete everything that the machine translated and do it all over again.

If you want to offer that for 1 cent per word you are going to get exactly what you are paying for. 90% of qualified translators are bad enough that I would never let them translate anything for me. I cannot imagine the remaining 10% will work for 1 ct/word.

New comment by exolab in "Why I stopped using the phrase “This is not rocket science.”"

exolab — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 12:34:10 +0000

That is probably the reason new models are en vogue every other decade.

New comment by exolab in "Show HN: Add 3D gestures to your applications"

exolab — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:06:49 +0000

Could you be a little more precise?

New comment by exolab in "Lockitron: $500K of Reservations in One Day"

exolab — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:25:11 +0000

Nice product, nice website, nice video. But I wager not many people want to see chest hair in a commercial video.

New comment by exolab in "Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today"

exolab — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:14:47 +0000

I don't really care about Karma on this site (mine or other people's). If I did I certainly would have checked this comment earlier ;)

If people post for Karma instead of for content, IMHO it is their problem. It won't make the site much better, but it won't make it much worse, either.

"Shame on you" was my way of saying "who cares?".

New comment by exolab in "Show HN: Bubbles - my unfinished HTML5 Particle Game"

exolab — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 13:04:25 +0000

a) Far too difficult b) Addictive c) Ouch, my fingers.

New comment by exolab in "Functional Programming Principles in Scala starts today"

exolab — Tue, 18 Sep 2012 15:12:06 +0000

Shame on you.

New comment by exolab in "RIP Andre Hedrick: The engineer who kept the PC open"

exolab — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 14:16:36 +0000

I don't think other people in similar situations are helped by you period.

New comment by exolab in "Just pay me."

exolab — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 15:12:24 +0000

I would never work with anyone who even proposes such terms. Not because I don't want to pay on time (we always do) but because those terms are unprofessional, to put it mildly. If you want to be treated like a pro, act like one.

Update: Having looked at your resumé, I probably wouldn't work with you anyway.

New comment by exolab in ""therefore, starting now, waffles are now $450.00 each""

exolab — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:57:39 +0000

True. And I think the way Groupon handles this is unjustifiable. I still think that you should be able to work "out of pockets" for at least 3 months. If you can't do that, why start a business? Seems very risky...

New comment by exolab in "17 Year Old Builds a Better Search Engine"

exolab — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 07:08:45 +0000

I think he wasn't very good. He was obviously underprepared, or he would have had a couple of nicely phrased questions in his head. For a media professional, he was just too inarticulate.