Hacker News: legohead

New comment by legohead in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

legohead — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:33:39 +0000

I used AI to make a presentation that animated around (html). It had the look of the storyboard and the postcards had tweakable controls on them for the data I wanted to show. It was pretty slick, something that would take me forever (and I'd never get the time approval to do).

New comment by legohead in "2x, not 10x: coding with LLMs in 2026"

legohead — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:22:57 +0000

Totally depends. The real question is what's your average productivity increase?

I had a task to completely gut out a codebase to share with a vendor. I gave them my estimate - 2 weeks. Asked Claude to do it, and was done in an hour. Reviewed the changes, and it was perfect. This is an outlier of course, and it was a pretty basic codebase. But it's real world stuff.

Overall though, if I had the mental fortitude to work for 8 hours straight, I could easily average 5x my "normal" performance. But most days I can't perform at that level. Also I admit I am not a fast developer, I do a lot of testing and verifying as I'm paranoid.

New comment by legohead in "Decoy Font"

legohead — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 17:29:10 +0000

I made an image and it fooled GPT. I asked it to look for a hidden message and it found the blurred word.

Still cool+fun though.

New comment by legohead in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

legohead — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:26:26 +0000

Clicked on link, it tried to upsell me on twitter prime or whatever it is. Closed the promotion, now I'm just sitting on twitter, not on the link I clicked on.

That is sad.

New comment by legohead in "Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump"

legohead — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:56:25 +0000

I guess I'll play devil's advocate here, don't shoot me.

Over the course of my career I've had to deal with multiple hacks, DDOSes, and even situations working with the FBI. It's a mess, and extremely frustrating and unfair to those of us who are just trying to do a good job and make a living. Those of you who are throwing stones at Microsoft's coding, how confident are you that your code is safe from this new AI age?

Obviously MS handled this poorly, even after reading this article it's not clear how MS handles bug bounties. But that doesn’t mean this “researcher” deserves a pass.

Releasing 0-days, especially working exploit code for unpatched vulnerabilities, is extremely unethical. It has real potential to cause a lot of harm to regular engineers, and users who had nothing to do with the dispute.

New comment by legohead in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

legohead — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:16:51 +0000

the new bottleneck for development at work is code reviews. devs are creating whole features that would take months in only a couple weeks, but code reviewing that is a slow, painful process

New comment by legohead in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

legohead — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:52:00 +0000

The low latency is more of a pain point than a good thing, the way they have it implemented. Trying to have a casual conversation with it, as humans we naturally pause, and GPT will take this as you are "done" and start blabbing away.

I also suffer from finding the appropriate word I want as I've gotten older and slower, and this fast-voice-gpt just ends up frustrating me more than helping. I have to sit there and think out the whole sentence in my head before I say anything -- not very natural.

New comment by legohead in "Claude Opus 4.7"

legohead — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:55:36 +0000

Just happened to me and I was really confused. First time I've seen any malware callouts so it had me worried for a minute.

> This file is clearly not malware

Yeah, it's all my code, that you've seen before...

New comment by legohead in "The dangers of California's legislation to censor 3D printing"

legohead — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:48:22 +0000

waste of time and resources. you aren't going to win a fight against 3d printers. might as well outlaw the printers completely.

New comment by legohead in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

legohead — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:14:31 +0000

we have failed a long time ago in that regard

New comment by legohead in "LLM scraper bots are overloading acme.com's HTTPS server"

legohead — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:40:30 +0000

adapt or die

waiting on the govt to do something is a path of failure

New comment by legohead in "Got kicked out of uni and had the cops called for a social media website I made"

legohead — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:26:42 +0000

only a couple steps away from Idiocracy

New comment by legohead in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

legohead — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:32:30 +0000

what thermometer would you use to measure the temperature of space?

New comment by legohead in "Show HN: The HN Arcade"

legohead — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:20:28 +0000

Wasn't 2048 first posted on HN before it got big?

New comment by legohead in "Scientists find a way to regrow cartilage in mice and human tissue samples"

legohead — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:39:58 +0000

Battery tech

New comment by legohead in "Ask HN: Should "I asked $AI, and it said" replies be forbidden in HN guidelines?"

legohead — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 17:56:14 +0000

Lots of old man yelling at clouds energy in here.

This is new territory, you don't ban it, you adapt with it.

New comment by legohead in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

legohead — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:26:29 +0000

I blame the prevalence of package mangers in the first place. Never liked em, just for this reason. Things were fine before they became mainstream. Another annoying reason is package files that are set to grab the latest version, randomly breaking your environment. This isn't just npm of course, I hate them all equally.

New comment by legohead in "Candle Flame Oscillations as a Clock"

legohead — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 20:09:15 +0000

While visiting a friend in Russia I was perplexed by the candle in his flat - it had zero flicker, was stable and unmoving. Eventually I learned how they heated the flat, with water flowing through pipes and heat radiation - so little to no air movement.

New comment by legohead in "We caught companies making it harder to delete your personal data online"

legohead — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 17:53:11 +0000

We didn't set out to hide our GDPR requests, we put them behind our Support/Legal button. But we got sued anyway, and we lost.

Now we have to have the "delete my data" and "request my data" as part of our main settings list. Result: flooded with requests. People are clicking the buttons just because they are there. For me it's not a big deal, I automate all the requests. But, I still feel like this went too far.

New comment by legohead in "Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria"

legohead — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 21:55:22 +0000

I wouldn't. The current theories on sleep and "brain needs sleep" always struck me as a stopgap theory. Even spent some time with GPT arguing about it and never felt fully convinced, like the real reason was still missing.