Hacker News: lab14

New comment by lab14 in "Apple Watch Ultra 4"

lab14 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 19:04:59 +0000

How much of your networth have you donated to the starving people? Nature is pretty metal and doesn't care about justice. I thought we all learned this in school.

New comment by lab14 in "Omarchy development practices lead to predictable security issues"

lab14 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 12:26:15 +0000

Surely those won't ever get fixed...

New comment by lab14 in "Coding expertise is going to collapse from AI reliance"

lab14 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:21:37 +0000

"Punching card expersite is going to collapse from interactive terminals reliance"

New comment by lab14 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

lab14 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:31:07 +0000

Tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes $5.1M USD per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.

New comment by lab14 in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

lab14 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:29:26 +0000

tell that to Shopify that handles 8.15 million requests per second and processes 5.1 million per minute in sales during Black Friday. You scale your architecture, not your programming language.

New comment by lab14 in "Agent Skill to Force Docs in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English"

lab14 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:53:10 +0000

STE is part of the training set, so the skill is redundant and only pollutes your context window.

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