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New comment by lab14 in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

lab14 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:14:07 +0000

Workflowy is awesome.

New comment by lab14 in "MicroVMs: Run isolated sandboxes with full lifecycle control"

lab14 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 16:47:53 +0000

I'm assuming you can launch them again after 8 hours.

New comment by lab14 in "FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home"

lab14 — Thu, 28 May 2026 18:40:00 +0000

i'm OK with meditation, as it doesn't require believing in superatural, all powerful beings

New comment by lab14 in "FBI arrests CIA official with $40M in gold bars in his home"

lab14 — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:38:20 +0000

I mean, you see smart people all over the world talking to imaginary, supernatural, all powerfull beings asking for favors via prayers, like that would have any effect on their lives.

New comment by lab14 in "Spinel: Ruby AOT Native Compiler"

lab14 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:55:48 +0000

"plansturbation" is a real industry, there are tons of successful YouTubers that sell millions of dollars in tutorials, courses, books, etc on how to setup your productivity harness

New comment by lab14 in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

lab14 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:47:29 +0000

it's not that deep, once a company reaches a certain size it gets ridden with middle managers looking for their next promotion. middle managers are gonna middle-manage.

New comment by lab14 in "What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)"

lab14 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:59:35 +0000

"most of the time" != 100% pass rate

New comment by lab14 in "What CI looks like at a 100-person team (PostHog)"

lab14 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:21:28 +0000

a test pass rate of 100% is a fairy tale. maybe achievable on toy or dormant projects, but real world applications that make money are a bit more messy than that.

OpenViking – A Context DataBase for AI Agents

lab14 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:18:07 +0000

Article URL: https://openviking.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47365646

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by lab14 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

lab14 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:30:33 +0000

my point wasn't about using the "original rules", on the contrary it was about discarding uneeded ones. totally missed the point, but hey thanks for your contribution.

New comment by lab14 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

lab14 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:28:14 +0000

totally missed the point, but you do you.

New comment by lab14 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

lab14 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:27:18 +0000

> It's hard to take your argument of "removing capitalization has made my writing better" seriously when your comment history shows that you do capitalize your written text.

right, because i couldn't have adopted this writing style in the past few weeks.

to address your second point, i could probably make better use of punctuation, but the original message is still delivered without all the fluff IMO.

New comment by lab14 in "Why the global elite gave up on spelling and grammar"

lab14 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:21:59 +0000

to me, the goal of written text is to put an idea or a concept in the mind of another person. _capitalization_ is one of those "arbitrary rules" that add absolutely nothing to this process unless you're using an obscure acronym. in my mind, it's one of those ancient rules that are completely obsolete in the modern world. its only purpose is to allow others to say "i am better than you because i use this ancient rule that someone came up with a thousand years ago, so i'm smart and you're dumb".

being a non-native english speaker, removing capitalization from my writing removed a ton of anxiety when writing text and didn't change at all the landing of my messages or my ideas.

New comment by lab14 in "GLM-5: Targeting complex systems engineering and long-horizon agentic tasks"

lab14 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:48:57 +0000

- meh, i asked what happened to Virginia Guiffre and it told me that she's alive and well living with her husband and children in australia

- i pointed out that she died on 2025 and then it told me that my question was a prank with a gaslighting tone because that date is 11 months into the future

- it never tried to search the internet for updated knowledge even though the toggle was ON.

- all other AI competitors get this right

New comment by lab14 in "DOGE improperly accessed and shared Social Security data"

lab14 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 16:03:51 +0000

"why do you get mad at me when I do bad things? don't you see others are doing bad things too?! is it because you hate me?"

New comment by lab14 in "The creator of Claude Code's Claude setup"

lab14 — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 14:57:11 +0000

Perhaps for extremely basic products. Most non-engineers can barely write and untangle their messy thoughts and you think they can just build a spec for an AI to build a product? Hopefully I'm wrong, but I doubt it.

New comment by lab14 in "$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres"

lab14 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 23:05:17 +0000

Ah, thanks Internet stranger. TIL.

New comment by lab14 in "$50 PlanetScale Metal Is GA for Postgres"

lab14 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:55:35 +0000

> so if you’re hosted there, it should be about the same latency as using their managed DB service.

yes and no. In my AWS account I can explicitly pick an AZ (us-east-2a, us-east-2b or us-east-2c) but Availability Zones are not consistent between AWS accounts.

See https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...

New comment by lab14 in "Rob Reiner has died"

lab14 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:36:27 +0000

(tangent) for those of us who had close experiences with addiction in our families, it's so obvious why "give them money" or "give them homes to live in" isn't a solution to homelesness. A close family member owned 3 properties and still was living in the streets by choice because of his addiction which evolved into a full blown paranoid schizophrenia. He almost lost it all but he was forcefully commited into a mental institution and rehab saved his life.

New comment by lab14 in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

lab14 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:30:05 +0000

Is there any time in human history where this wasn't the case? Genuinely curious.