Hacker News: gslepak

New comment by gslepak in "Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents"

gslepak — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:36:08 +0000

Do people not know how to write blogs without AI anymore? I enjoy hearing a human's unique voice and miss hearing it when it's abscent.

New comment by gslepak in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

gslepak — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:29:53 +0000

Why yes, in fact I am. One of the major reasons [1] I switched to GrapheneOS.

[1] https://blog.okturtles.org/2024/06/the-ultimate-ios-to-graph...

New comment by gslepak in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

gslepak — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:23:44 +0000

Yeah this is a battle and it's why governments decide to spend resources on this. Protectionism won't help America, American needs to compete. There's a general consensus that open source AI must win because people don't want to end up as slaves to a megacorp, so if you're anti-open source AI you're not gonna fare well.

New comment by gslepak in "The short leash AI coding method for beating Fable"

gslepak — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 16:37:52 +0000

I like people who push back in this way :D

Certainly, if you want to be even more involved in writing the code, more power to ya!

New comment by gslepak in "Why I Stopped Arguing with People"

gslepak — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 14:58:53 +0000

FWIW I appreciate people like the author's old self. I am one of those who hates and simultaneously appreciates being corrected when I'm mistaken. I hate being mistaken and I appreciate the opportunity to correct the mistake.

While much of what the author says is true, I'm not so cynical as to think that it's impossible to change others.

The fact that you can change yourself — as the author acknowledges — means you can change others, because much of self-change comes from your observation of others. Perhaps it's the approach that matters most.

New comment by gslepak in "A native graphical shell for SSH"

gslepak — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:46:29 +0000

This is really cool. I love it.

What'd be really funny would be for someone to use this to implement an app that's a terminal. XD

New comment by gslepak in "Ornith-1.0: self-improving open-source models for agentic coding"

gslepak — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:33:11 +0000

Indeed, it performed worse than Qwen3.6-27b in my basic test.

It gave a fancier looking answer, but did a worse job following the prompt.

New comment by gslepak in "Show HN: I made Google Trends for Hacker News by indexing 18 years of comments"

gslepak — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:04:15 +0000

Very cool! There seems to be a bug here: https://hackernewstrends.com/?q=vim&q=emacs&q=zed

For some reason the results cut off at 2018-10 even though "Popular Comparisons" preview shows more.

New comment by gslepak in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

gslepak — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 03:54:03 +0000

Note that these are Python-only results, the model will not do as well with other languages.

I'm glad to see more domain-focused SLMs, we need more of them! A programming focused MoE should work well across many languages.

New comment by gslepak in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

gslepak — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:05:04 +0000

I'm kinda glad that it's VW blocking GrapheneOS users in a cynical way. When my parents got a VW Jetta they never stopped complaining about it and never bought one again. So it tracks that they'd also be the car manufacturer to block GrapheneOS and stomp on their user's privacy.

It's an easy market to win at this point. The bar has been lowered so much. Already have a nice car? Just don't display utter disdain for your user's privacy and you get our $$.

New comment by gslepak in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

gslepak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:25:34 +0000

I'm at a loss here tbh because that sentiment is what the article is about. But yes I did edit the comment to make it less personal and more about the sentiment that has led to these changes in the VISA requirements.

New comment by gslepak in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

gslepak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:16:36 +0000

Gaijin is not a personal attack, it means foreigner. So perhaps there was a misunderstanding, otherwise, could you point out the personal attack?

New comment by gslepak in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

gslepak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 19:32:28 +0000

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New comment by gslepak in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

gslepak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 18:16:44 +0000

They are not just asking for more money, from TFA they are imposting additional requirements like better Japanese fluency etc. In general they are raising the bar for who is allowed to live there, and all of that protects Japan.

New comment by gslepak in "Iroh 1.0"

gslepak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:41:56 +0000

VPNs do not allow you to connect two devices directly, they have to go through the VPN. They also do not allow you to connect devices that are not on the VPN. Iroh does P2P connections and punches holes through NATs when needed, so you can connect directly to devices on different networks that are behind firewalls.

New comment by gslepak in "Foreign business owners are scrambling to raise capital to stay in Japan"

gslepak — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:25:55 +0000

I applaud the Japanese for being capable of recognizing that many parts of their culture are unique and worth preserving. That what makes Japan Japan is not just the land and the name, but the people and their culture.

New comment by gslepak in "Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples"

gslepak — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:10:26 +0000

> people aren't transgender because their hormones are imbalanced. The reason transgender people do hormone replacement therapies is so that they can change their hormonal balance.

Not so sure, it could have to do with their hormones. I recall experiencing mild gender dysphoria during a period when my testosterone was recorded as below normal. When it returned to normal the dysphoria went away. It could be that some choose to say, "Since I think I'm a girl, perhaps I should swing the hormones even further in that direction."

I'm just one data point though, would be curious to hear other's experiences with dysphoria and what their blood work shows.

EDIT: And think about it, it's a logical contradiction to say that "hormones have nothing to do with it but write me an Rx to mess with my hormones so that I'm more of a girl."

New comment by gslepak in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

gslepak — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:06:04 +0000

Another headline about the Digital ID prison system they're building to identify and restrict all access to the Internet for people of all ages.

Then perhaps comes the mark which is about restricting and controlling what you're allowed to buy and sell.

New comment by gslepak in "Open source AI must win"

gslepak — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:41:54 +0000

Where does Anthropic or OpenAI winning leave us?

Dependents of an AI-megacorp for our "facts"? Our software? Our work?

It's possible these companies will become everyone's boss, and will dictate to everyone what everyone is allowed to work on, think, say, do, believe, etc.

Before Big Tech springs that trap, we must support and divert resources to open models.

Alleged Fable sabotage of an ML project

gslepak — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:09:37 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/adamislucky/status/2064731321360912433

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48485795

Points: 2

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