Hacker News: gleb

New comment by gleb in "Checklists are hard, but still a good thing"

gleb — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 01:13:03 +0000

Checklists are extremely hard. Writing them requires the skill of the programmer and direct response copywriter, and few people have both. Ensuring that people actually use the checklists is brutally difficult. And creating systems to improve the checklists as they are used is even harder. I suspect checklists being so hard is the reason they're so rarely used.

New comment by gleb in "First thoughts on o3 pro"

gleb — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 16:47:36 +0000

o3 pro seems to be good with meta-prompting. Meaning, when you ask it to create a prompt for you. In particular it seems to be more concise than o3 when doing this.

Has anybody else noticed this?

New comment by gleb in "Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit"

gleb — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 20:07:54 +0000

Despite the confusing copy here and on the landing page, the tool appears to be a commit message linter not a generator. Which seems useful. In fact, I was thinking of building something like that for internal use. Thank you for sharing.

New comment by gleb in "Suckless.org: software that sucks less"

gleb — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 22:44:32 +0000

I think semantic versioning actually predates distributions. It just was not called "semantic versioning." It was called Unix shared library versioning.

New comment by gleb in "Structured Outputs in the API"

gleb — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 21:37:34 +0000

Where do you get such a large variety of mangoes?

New comment by gleb in "Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor"

gleb — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 15:47:03 +0000

Yes I did. I even later tried to tell it to fix this, and was not successful.

New comment by gleb in "Launch HN: Aqua Voice (YC W24) – Voice-driven text editor"

gleb — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 19:54:59 +0000

Tried it. Seemed quite impressive. Two issues:

- it consistently uses word two instead of to

- forcing Google OAuth as the only way to sign up is not a good idea. That prevented me from signing up.

Behind the Scenes of Sam Altman's Wild Ouster from OpenAI

gleb — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 00:47:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/altman-firing-openai-520a3a8c

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38372975

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by gleb in "The Cloud Computer"

gleb — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:43:53 +0000

I'll try to explain, not in the spirit of being argumentative, but with the hope of being useful.

The comment you replied to was not questioning the value of integrated cabling. It was pointing out that the product description on the site does not make sense.

"Cloud computer" sounds like a server you rent from AWS. It's kind of like calling Rust "cloud compiler."

If you choose to use words that your audience doesn't understand, or even worse understands to mean the opposite of what you want them to mean, it's a good idea to explain these words immediately using conventional words with conventional meaning. The comments by throw0101a did that.

The product seems really cool, but there is no way I would've understood what it was from the website.

New comment by gleb in "The Cloud Computer"

gleb — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:04:10 +0000

I wouldn't be dismissive of people telling you that the product description can be improved. My opinion is that the description of the product in this thread will outperform your site 10 to 1.

Is email dead?

gleb — Sun, 02 Jul 2023 15:25:29 +0000

Article URL: https://wordtothewise.com/2023/05/is-email-dead/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36562303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gleb in "A silent crisis in men’s health gets worse"

gleb — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 02:00:36 +0000

What's up with that dramatically different shape of the "Ratio of male-to-female death rates across ages for the U.S., other countries" graph between say Chile/US and South Korea?

New comment by gleb in "Ban 1+N in Django"

gleb — Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:14:26 +0000

Elixir/Phoenix does this by default. It is a good default.

New comment by gleb in "Team-based map making with Felt"

gleb — Tue, 28 Feb 2023 19:24:20 +0000

Any plans to offer SQL based sources, like Carto?

A Basic iPhone Feature Helps Criminals Steal Your Entire Digital Life

gleb — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 16:41:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-iphone-security-theft-passcode-data-privacya-basic-iphone-feature-helps-criminals-steal-your-digital-life-cbf14b1a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34926460

Points: 19

# Comments: 5

New comment by gleb in "Choropleth maps with ggplot and R"

gleb — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 20:38:02 +0000

I should have been more clear and said "using SQL only without R or python". This is for internal BI use, not for product development.

New comment by gleb in "Choropleth maps with ggplot and R"

gleb — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 19:07:42 +0000

What are the best options for maps driven by data from SQL? So far the best I found is carto.com

New comment by gleb in "“Expect tests” make test-writing feel like a REPL session"

gleb — Sat, 14 Jan 2023 16:46:58 +0000

Similar idea in Elixir, where the library itself handles the interactive bits: https://github.com/assert-value/assert_value_elixir

New comment by gleb in "Brilliant jerks, crazy hotties, and other artifacts of range restriction (2019)"

gleb — Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:50:06 +0000

Which is exactly how this (Berkson's paradox) is often visualized.

New comment by gleb in "Apple Rankings"

gleb — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:26:05 +0000

That's because conventional store apples are coated with wax and organic ones are not. Wax often has bad, usually bitter, taste and unpleasant texture.

Organic apples are not coated with wax, so they taste better, but will dry up faster.