Hacker News: l1ng0

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

New comment by l1ng0 in "A new AI winter is coming?"

l1ng0 — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:30:18 +0000

And then there's the small % doing music firmware :)

(and no, I don't find LLMs much use on this)

New comment by l1ng0 in "Cool-retro-term: terminal emulator which mimics look and feel of CRTs"

l1ng0 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 08:57:11 +0000

I miss the old phonecall background hiss, now it's impossible to tell the difference between someone being silent in a call and a disconnected 'line'.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Ask HN: How Do Developers Stay Up to Date Without Being on Twitter All Day?"

l1ng0 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 01:10:53 +0000

In 40 years of programming I never used Twitter to keep up to date.

Reddit, Hacker News, online manuals, blogs , online magazines , offline manuals (back in the day), SDK documentation, Devdocs, Colleagues and friends, and Wikipedia.

New comment by l1ng0 in "A new threat: Being replaced by someone who knows AI"

l1ng0 — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 08:05:01 +0000

I expect it makes a big difference what kind of work one does. For me, working with a legacy codebase for firmware, with 1000s of lines of C in each module, AI is very slow (~5-10s response time) and almost none of the code is acceptable.

I do however find it useful for getting an overview of dense chunks of confusing code.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Stop Explaining What Things Are"

l1ng0 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 06:38:38 +0000

I totally agree, but with the caveat of: don't use TLAs without at least a single use of the term in full or a wiki link!

TLA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym

New comment by l1ng0 in "Svelte’s characteristics that likely contribute most to improved performance"

l1ng0 — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 00:02:34 +0000

I came across an old graphics project I'd made for Windows/DOS around 20 years ago. Within about a half hour I was able to compile and run it on a Linux machine with Wine, installing the latest version of the compiler and dependencies.

I can rarely get a 6-month-old JavaScript web project to compile and run this easily. Churn in node versions, npm/yarn versions, dependencies being abandoned, superseded, dropping backwards compatibility.

I agree that the churn is constant.

New comment by l1ng0 in "Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off?"

l1ng0 — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 07:36:57 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TMoz3gSXBcY

New comment by l1ng0 in "Are Blue Light Blocking Glasses a $3B Scam? [video]"

l1ng0 — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 07:31:57 +0000

This is how I feel about most of YouTube :)