Hacker News: l1ng0

New comment by l1ng0 in "EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams"

l1ng0 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:43:41 +0000

This happens to me sometimes when I'm tired and it ruins my enjoyment of the book. Normally I go straight from page to imagination without much conscious awareness of each word.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Show HN: Firefox in WebAssembly"

l1ng0 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:54:37 +0000

Great, now I can finally make an Electron.js application with code made for Firefox!

New comment by l1ng0 in "Editing React components that never rendered"

l1ng0 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 23:40:35 +0000

Most posts on HN are ads disguised as blogs.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Weird Al Yankovic Pulled Out of AI Ad Deal: 'I Can't Be the Poster Boy for AI'"

l1ng0 — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:30:46 +0000

Greybeards tend to be a declining population.

New comment by l1ng0 in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

l1ng0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 23:25:29 +0000

schon claro

New comment by l1ng0 in "Will It Mythos?"

l1ng0 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:21:51 +0000

Lots of interesting answers here, but I'm particularly intrigued people feel this would affect how they talk to humans.

I guess I see AI the same way I see a compiler. I've never worried that I'll end up using code syntax in human conversations.

I tend to write to the AI using language I'd use in technical documentation: concise, detailed, unambiguous as possible.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Will It Mythos?"

l1ng0 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:12:03 +0000

You write to the AI as if it were a person. From my point of view it looks like a fair bit of extra typing and extra tokens. Is there a reason you include things like your emotional response and use a very chatty tone? Do you find this seems to alter responses?

New comment by l1ng0 in "Doctors, This Is Why Our Patients Are Using ChatGPT"

l1ng0 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:04:33 +0000

A friend uses chatGpt for self diagnosis. I warned him it was less accurate than a human doctor. He said "I know, but it has a better bedside manner!" :)

Sad but frequently true.

(He also takes its advice with large grains of salt.... metaphorically)

New comment by l1ng0 in "Ask HN: Is ChatGPT suppose to spit out its own instructions that easy?"

l1ng0 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:03:17 +0000

There is no reason to think these are the actual instructions. LLMs simply try to produce statistically likely content based on your prompt.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Mornings and nights no longer exist at 47C: A day in the hottest place in India"

l1ng0 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:25:41 +0000

It's part of the culture where I live, but the heat keeps increasing. 45 in dry heat (unless you work outside) is fine if you get cooler nights to recover, but when you don't get a break, it's lethal. Also aircon helps you but adds significantly to the heat outside in urban areas, causing what feels like a vicious circle. Anyway, where I live aircon is not common and electricity costs are high.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

l1ng0 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:57:18 +0000

I feel you missed the point of the article :)

New comment by l1ng0 in "Key, in sight – A guide, of sorts, to keyboard customization"

l1ng0 — Mon, 25 May 2026 06:25:08 +0000

It locked up my whole phone. It's becoming increasingly common to see websites that are just text with the odd image that are too heavy for mobile!

New comment by l1ng0 in "Learnings from 100K lines of Rust with AI (2025)"

l1ng0 — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:31:27 +0000

Read this as "Lemmings from..." Was disappointed. Also: showing my age.

New comment by l1ng0 in "No more JetBrains products for me"

l1ng0 — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:57 +0000

Very true. Also, for some of us, network speed/latency can be the cause more than CPU speed

New comment by l1ng0 in "More likely than not you're using bubble wrap wrong"

l1ng0 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:42:04 +0000

I recommend bubbles inward, when you wrap yourself in it and sleep in the closet.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Ask HN: Do you code remotely from your phone?"

l1ng0 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:36:39 +0000

I don't consider vibe coding to be coding :)

Unless, of course, you're reviewing and editing the code, in which case..... back to the problem of the phone.

New comment by l1ng0 in "iNaturalist"

l1ng0 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:33:10 +0000

honestly I can never remember which of these words means which

New comment by l1ng0 in "Ask HN: Do you code remotely from your phone?"

l1ng0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:21:28 +0000

This. Even with a great keyboard app and LLMs there is no way I want to be typing much code on a phone. Quite apart from the tiny screen.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Show HN: Home Maker: Declare Your Dev Tools in a Makefile"

l1ng0 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:36:35 +0000

If the wheel was a stellated rhombicosidodecahedron

New comment by l1ng0 in "Show HN: Timezone App – Visual meeting scheduler for distributed teams"

l1ng0 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:46:14 +0000

This is excellent, fantastic UX and implementation.

The only thing is that smaller towns don't seem to show up in the location search, which is a shame.

10/10