Hacker News: haolez

New comment by haolez in "Claude Fable 5"

haolez — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:51:55 +0000

Eventually solving for cost is a much easier problem than solving coding.

New comment by haolez in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

haolez — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:59:31 +0000

I couldn't adapt to the fact that, when I click, I have to be mindful of not moving the mouse sideways with the right amount of finger pressure.

New comment by haolez in "Use boring languages with LLMs"

haolez — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:00:11 +0000

This made me remember of a benchmark that I saw a few months ago about LLMs being unexpectedly _very good_ with Perl when compared to any other language. I couldn't find it right now. If someone knows what I'm talking about, please post it here :)

New comment by haolez in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

haolez — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:24:37 +0000

I've started using OpenSpec[0] recently to mitigate problems like that, but I'm still very early in this journey.

Can someone with more experience with it (or similar tools) chime in and confirm that this isn't just more AI snake oil? :)

[0] https://openspec.dev/

New comment by haolez in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

haolez — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:46:35 +0000

Ansible includes modules to handle cloud resources as well, such as AWS Lambda.

New comment by haolez in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

haolez — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:25:09 +0000

Fair point. We could classify AI generated articles in two categories:

1) articles generated with context data that's trivial to find (or even embedded into the model)

2) articles generated with context data that's hard to find or not publicly available

New comment by haolez in "Granite 4.1: IBM's 8B Model Matching 32B MoE"

haolez — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:20:49 +0000

The problem is the signal/noise ratio in these articles. If the AI has written the article, then this same info could have been generated by my own AI, but tailored to my needs. So what, exactly, is the new info that this article is generating that I can use to consult with my AI? That's what I want to get out of this interaction.

Maybe my point is something on the lines of "Just send me the prompt"[0]

[0] https://blog.gpkb.org/posts/just-send-me-the-prompt/

New comment by haolez in "ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026"

haolez — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:35:27 +0000

This is pretty damn cool.

New comment by haolez in "ReactOS Shows Improved Stability and 64-Bit Support at Chemnitz Linux Days 2026"

haolez — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:11:30 +0000

On a side note, _in the context of workstations_, I wonder if a hypothetical OS that reimplements the Windows APIs (like ReactOS, but with perfect modern hardware support) would be better for end users than a Linux distro with a modern DE.

In the past, this hypothetical OS would be a revolution. But I feel that, in recent years, this gap is not as big anymore and Linux supports way more apps than in the past. Such an OS might even not be relevant anymore, even if it exists.

Do I have a blind spot on this? Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026 _for workstations_?

New comment by haolez in "Slop is not necessarily the future"

haolez — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:30:13 +0000

Option 1 is a PM.

New comment by haolez in "OpenCiv1 – open-source rewrite of Civ1"

haolez — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:12:53 +0000

Can anyone give some hints on what made Civ 1 special compared to other classic entries in the franchise? Despite the nostalgia factor, of course.

New comment by haolez in "I am leaving the AI party after one drink"

haolez — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:59:31 +0000

I don't have a stake on AI, but more and more I see the following patterns:

- people that give in to AI do so because the technical merits suddenly became too big to ignore (even for seasoned developers that were previously against it) - people who avoid AI center their arguments on principles and personal discomfort

Just from that, you can kind of see where this is going.

New comment by haolez in "Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11"

haolez — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:51:09 +0000

Kinda off-topic, but I wonder if a hypothetical OS that reimplements the Windows APIs (like ReactOS[0], but with perfect modern hardware support) would be better for end users than a Linux distro with a modern DE.

Do I have a blind spot on this? Is there value in having a "working ReactOS" as of 2026?

[0] https://reactos.org/

New comment by haolez in "GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating system"

haolez — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:21:57 +0000

That's an interesting topic. Please, elaborate.

New comment by haolez in "Java 26 is here"

haolez — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:20:02 +0000

I was pretty surprised when I learned recently that the Java alternative for green threads doesn't use colored functions. It put Java in a higher place in my perception.

New comment by haolez in "Big data on the cheapest MacBook"

haolez — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:07:05 +0000

This might be a buy for me once it is fully supported by Linux. Hopefully, the muscle memory of Ctrl, Super and Alt won't get in my way.

New comment by haolez in "Kotlin creator's new language: a formal way to talk to LLMs instead of English"

haolez — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 19:51:15 +0000

Feels like writing tests before writing code, but with LLMs :)

New comment by haolez in "Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included"

haolez — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:12:42 +0000

Not at all. AWS IAM policy is a complex maze, but incredibly powerful. It solves this exact problem very well.

New comment by haolez in "So you want to write an “app” (2025)"

haolez — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:15:21 +0000

Just because of the other examples, which even include C applications or GTK ones. Not strong contenders against something derived from old Delphi like Lazarus.

However, Electron & the web stack has clearly won.

New comment by haolez in "So you want to write an “app” (2025)"

haolez — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:32:17 +0000

Lazarus[0] would probably have scored well in this exercise.

[0] https://www.lazarus-ide.org/