Hacker News: latenightcoding

New comment by latenightcoding in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

latenightcoding — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:40:16 +0000

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New comment by latenightcoding in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)"

latenightcoding — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 17:22:09 +0000

what filters are you using to find the papers, anyone you enjoyed/recommend?

New comment by latenightcoding in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

latenightcoding — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 04:59:24 +0000

and they only got really good like last December.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Learning Lean: Part 1"

latenightcoding — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 21:06:45 +0000

I never hijack non-ai threads to talk about AI, but can anybody share their experience using LLMs to code in Coq, Lean, etc.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Stories from 25 Years of Software Development"

latenightcoding — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 21:12:16 +0000

working in software before LLMs, you had to be there.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Fabrice Bellard: Biography (2009) [pdf]"

latenightcoding — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 19:58:35 +0000

What I wonder is: are current LLMs even good for the type of work he does: novel, low-level, extremely performant

New comment by latenightcoding in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

latenightcoding — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:21:17 +0000

totally forgot about Magic Leap

New comment by latenightcoding in "AI agents find $4.6M in blockchain smart contract exploits"

latenightcoding — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 01:55:59 +0000

when the core devs lose money, the rules change.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Scaling HNSWs"

latenightcoding — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:30:39 +0000

>> More hands is usually better than simpler systems for reasons that have nothing to do with technical proficiency.

If you are working on open source databases, or something close to the metal I agree with antirez, if you are working at some established tech business (e.g: a very old ecommerce site), I agree with you

New comment by latenightcoding in "AI scrapers request commented scripts"

latenightcoding — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 18:09:55 +0000

when I used to crawl the web, battle tested Perl regexes were more reliable than anything else, commented urls would have been added to my queue.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Wikipedia as a Graph"

latenightcoding — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:26:38 +0000

Very cool concept, but it doesn't work too well.

New comment by latenightcoding in "KX Community Edition"

latenightcoding — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:57:23 +0000

With the rise of LLM-coding do these specialized/niche languages lose their edge? (i.e: prototyping speed, job security, etc)

New comment by latenightcoding in "AI coding tools can reduce productivity"

latenightcoding — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 00:06:16 +0000

LLMs make me 10-20x more productive in frontend work which I barely do. But when it comes to low-level stuff (C/C++) I personally don't find it too useful. it just replaces my need to search stackoverflow.

edit: should have mentioned the low-level stuff I work on is mature code and a lot of times novel.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails"

latenightcoding — Mon, 26 May 2025 19:19:51 +0000

It's crazy this app has barely changed in like a decade, they even went public but the learning experience is just worse

New comment by latenightcoding in "Ask HN: How much better are AI IDEs vs. copy pasting into chat apps?"

latenightcoding — Thu, 08 May 2025 05:55:46 +0000

It is in some projects, OP gave a good example: hedge funds.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Polars Cloud: The Distributed Cloud Architecture to Run Polars Anywhere"

latenightcoding — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 23:44:21 +0000

pandas has been around for years and never tried to sell me a service.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Time Warp: Delayed-choice quantum erasure"

latenightcoding — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 18:30:42 +0000

To be fair, almost everything in quantum is poorly named. That's how they attract funding.

New comment by latenightcoding in "AI companies cause most of traffic on forums"

latenightcoding — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 17:29:24 +0000

some of these companies are straight up inept. Not an AI company but "babbar.tech" was DDOSing my site, I blocked them and they still re-visit thousands of pages every other day even if it just returns a 404 for them.

New comment by latenightcoding in "Translating 10M lines of Java to Kotlin"

latenightcoding — Sun, 22 Dec 2024 00:19:39 +0000

> we decided that the only way to leverage the full value of Kotlin was to go all in on conversion

Could someone expand on this please.

New comment by latenightcoding in "BlenderGPT"

latenightcoding — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 18:41:16 +0000

Nah, this shouldn't be on the front page. Blender is a registered trademark (I only clicked because I thought it was project from the Blender team) and OP is not transparent about this just being a wrapper.