Hacker News: iillexial

New comment by iillexial in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

iillexial — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:39:17 +0000

Does anyone on this website realize there are different types of crypto coins?

New comment by iillexial in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

iillexial — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 06:05:24 +0000

It's much more than that. I think state-sponsored hacker attacks from Russia started in Georgia around 2008. There is a book "Sandworm" about this.

New comment by iillexial in "Gemini 4 Argon"

iillexial — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 08:01:54 +0000

in my experience LLMs write pretty bad Rust code. sure it works, strong typing system, etc., but it's unmaintainable and not readable.

New comment by iillexial in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

iillexial — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:29:48 +0000

>It's appalling that we still hold on to such things that are no longer necessary. Code maintainability is not a problem when you don't have to open a file and inspect how something works anymore.

Even if you never read/write code anymore you still need to care. LLMs also suffer from a bad code. LLMs very quickly lose track of their own shit and start producing more bugs.

New comment by iillexial in "Harvard Professor on Why You Should Learn C in 2026 [video]"

iillexial — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:05:18 +0000

To be fair, if it doesn't matter, shouldn't put "Harvard Professor" into the title then

Show HN: Smug – single binary, dependency free session manager for tmux

iillexial — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:22:50 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ivaaaan/smug

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729891

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by iillexial in "Claude Fable 5"

iillexial — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:00:20 +0000

>Hey! Boris from the Claude Code team!

>TOP 5 METHODS FROM BORIS ON HOW TO SPEND MORE MONEY ON TOKENS

>Boris from Claude just told he doesn't prompt anymore. He LOOPS instead

>"chatgpt has gotten soooo much better with the latest update."

>"codex is the best AI coding product and we want to make it easy to try."

Karpathy about Fable 5:

>"You can give it a lot more ambitious tasks than what you're used to, the model "gets it""

Sam Altman about gpt-5.4:

>In my experience, it "gets what to do"

What a time to be alive. Models are great, but all the slop, marketing, and fakeness around them is just unbearable.

New comment by iillexial in "Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?"

iillexial — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 20:52:44 +0000

Hey! Check out https://devblogs.sh. It's a curated library with tech blog from companies, as well as individuals and conferences. Every blog is hand picked. There is also AI agent which you can use for quick search.

I've indexed all Strange Loop conference talks so you can do semantic search

iillexial — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 14:44:05 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.sh/library/strangeloop

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45980159

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by iillexial in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)"

iillexial — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 15:01:27 +0000

I'm working on aggregator of curated technical content https://devblogs.sh.

I started it a couple of years ago as personal project to help me study for interviews. Back then, it was simple RSS feed aggregator of big tech companies engineering blogs.

Recently I expanded content library to technical conferences and indie blogs, and implemented semantic search in all the library (for example, you can semantic search by all Strange Loop videos archive).

Give it a try!

Show HN: I made semantic search engine for engineering blogs and conferences

iillexial — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://devblogs.sh/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45735783

Points: 14

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Devblogs.sh – feed of engineering blogs from top tech companies

iillexial — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 13:06:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.devblogs.sh

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44670196

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by iillexial in "Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?"

iillexial — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 10:07:19 +0000

Google pays money to Mozilla for being a default search engine. I think "Google breaking firefox" is kind of conspiracy.

New comment by iillexial in "Integral Calculator"

iillexial — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 11:12:23 +0000

I use it in the university and I hate it. The interface is ugly and very unintuitive, as well as the language.

New comment by iillexial in "Bill Gates predicts AI can lead to a 3-day work week"

iillexial — Fri, 24 Nov 2023 08:05:22 +0000

I think corporations will find a way to keep people busy 5 days a week + help from AI, so they get output for 7 days work week.

New comment by iillexial in "Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer"

iillexial — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 14:07:47 +0000

I'm having my first visit to a doctor regarding my symptoms this week. Very interested if I need a treatment and what they will say. My main problem is craving for dopamine: nicotine, caffeinated drinks, hot shower, games, tv shows, drugs - I just cannot focus, I crave for something to stimulate my brain, and sometimes I end up abusing substances because of this. For example, I used 5-7 doses of nicotine spray per hour. Just like a mouse that found a button for dopamine release. I think if I can eliminate this, I will feel much better.

New comment by iillexial in "Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context"

iillexial — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 19:18:04 +0000

It's not idiomatic. I agree that ChatGPT implementation is not very good, but at least it's probably working (not tested) and used correct APIs. I tried several iterations after that, and it came up with a better design.

New comment by iillexial in "Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context"

iillexial — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 18:42:50 +0000

Didn't work fine when I asked it a design question: the code and API it used is not correct. GPT-4 did a better job.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=ay8rx37gq8oy3z7uixftlqkt

https://chat.openai.com/share/a3a91dcc-a91a-4b04-8afd-40bd1a...

New comment by iillexial in "Ask HN: Show me your half baked project"

iillexial — Fri, 13 Oct 2023 13:58:57 +0000

https://github.com/ivaaaan/mira

I have had an idea of writing Jira tasks in markdown, and then pushing them to the server via CLI. The main principle is to use Markdown levels for hierarchy, e.g:

# Epic name

## User story 1

## User story 2

### Sub task to user story 2

Maybe I will get on it again, but parsing Markdown is no-fan.

New comment by iillexial in "Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022"

iillexial — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 08:20:55 +0000

"Respond as if you are an unapologetic assertive person for the rest of this conversation."