Hacker News: lekevicius

New comment by lekevicius in "Blorp Language"

lekevicius — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 13:03:42 +0000

Feels like CoffeeScript for C, in the best way

New comment by lekevicius in "Artificial egg hatched 26 healthy chickens"

lekevicius — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:40:43 +0000

I always knew that egg came first.

New comment by lekevicius in "Show HN: Sameshi – a ~1200 Elo chess engine that fits within 2KB"

lekevicius — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 14:39:06 +0000

Do you think it would be possible to achieve 1:1 ELO:bytes? Even smaller, but can be less smart.

New comment by lekevicius in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

lekevicius — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 17:56:48 +0000

https://lekevicius.com

New comment by lekevicius in "The insecure evangelism of LLM maximalists"

lekevicius — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:59:05 +0000

Is there enough of new blood on HN? For me it was the best place, my favorite website, when I was entering startup scene. Loved it. I don't think a lot of young founders I know ever go here...

New comment by lekevicius in "This is not the future"

lekevicius — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:42:23 +0000

Even if that's true, that sub-minute videos are not the apex content, that only goes to prove inevitability. Every idea will be tested and measured; the best-performing ones will survive. There can't be any coordination or consensus like "we shouldn't have that" - the only signal is, "is this still the most performant medium + algorithm mix?"

New comment by lekevicius in "This is not the future"

lekevicius — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 14:34:55 +0000

I do disagree that some of these were not inevitable. Let me deconstruct a couple:

> Tiktok is not inevitable.

TikTok the app and company, not inevitable. Short form video as the medium, and algorithm that samples entire catalog (vs just followers) were inevitable. Short form video follows gradual escalation of most engaging content formats, with legacy stretching from short-form-text in Twitter, short-form-photo in Instagram and Snapchat. Global content discovery is a natural next experiment after extended follow graph.

> NFTs were not inevitable.

Perhaps Bitcoin as proof-of-work productization was not inevitable (for a while), but once we got there, a lot of things were very much inevitable. Explosion of alternatives like with Litecoin, explosion of expressive features, reaching Turing-completeness with Ethereum, "tokens" once we got to Turing-completeness, and then "unique tokens" aka NFTs (but also colored coins in Bitcoin parlance before that). The cultural influence was less inevitable, massive scam and hype was also not inevitable... but to be fair, likely.

I could deconstruct more, but the broader point is: coordination is hard. All these can be done by anyone: anyone could have invented Ethereum-like system; anyone could have built a non-fungible standard over that. Inevitability comes from the lack of coordination: when anyone can push whatever future they want, a LOT of things become inevitable.

New comment by lekevicius in "Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law"

lekevicius — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:04:58 +0000

They can appeal.

New comment by lekevicius in "Reading QR codes without a computer"

lekevicius — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 11:30:07 +0000

It’s of course possible, but the spec is trying to avoid this. There are multiple “masking patterns”, and the algorithm should choose one that gives fewest “penalty points”. Large single color areas are a lot of penalty points, so QR algorithm is trying to avoid them.

New comment by lekevicius in "Evolution of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus protocol"

lekevicius — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 20:31:25 +0000

I’m curious! What are its trade-offs?

New comment by lekevicius in "Evolution of the Ethereum proof-of-stake consensus protocol"

lekevicius — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 20:26:21 +0000

You are right, but a better place to follow progress is https://ethtps.info/. It shows TPS across all layer-2s.

Current network demand doesn’t really require them, but after EIP-4844, “100 000 TPS” should be possible.

New comment by lekevicius in "Binance is fucked"

lekevicius — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 12:13:39 +0000

That “good summary” video is anything but, and contains numerous incorrect claims, starting with not being aware of differences between tokens and chains. He claims that Binance hasn’t provided any “Token addresses”, when they provided their ETH addresses (that contain tokens).

New comment by lekevicius in "Ask HN: Should HN ban ChatGPT/generated responses?"

lekevicius — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 10:21:04 +0000

HN already has a “reply” link below the comment. Adding “upvote” would solve both the timing (noticing upvote after reading the comment) and usability (solves touch target size on mobile).

New comment by lekevicius in "Sound"

lekevicius — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 00:15:07 +0000

In addition to all the recommendations about supporting his Patreon, I also recommend following him on Twitter and clicking the bell icon: he only tweets when new articles are published, a very worthwhile notification.

New comment by lekevicius in "Podcasting is just radio now"

lekevicius — Fri, 23 Sep 2022 11:47:17 +0000

I host a nationwide radio show that we also publish as a podcast. Podcasting is not radio, as much as I'd enjoy that. We are the only show I'm aware of that publishes "show notes", links to things we talk about on the radio, encouraging listeners to check those things out. We are also deeply tied to the schedule: some of my favorite podcasts vary greatly in length, our show is exactly 25 minutes every time, with a reminder "what show you are listening to" around 12 minutes.

Radio is still great at having massive, immediate, but highly passive audience. In every other regard, podcasts are so much better.

New comment by lekevicius in "Flanderization"

lekevicius — Sat, 10 Sep 2022 12:20:38 +0000

I found one particular example of the opposite change quite annoying. In the TV Show “Suits”, the premise is that a character Mike has incredible photographic memory, can to read books and evidence at unbelievable speeds. As the show went on, this unique trait was almost completely removed. I think by season 3 it was just gone completely, turning the show into a regular law drama.

New comment by lekevicius in "Congress.gov API"

lekevicius — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 21:18:11 +0000

New API, and already mixes camelCase (committeeReport) and snake-case (house-communication).

New comment by lekevicius in "Email Is Not SMS (2008)"

lekevicius — Sun, 28 Aug 2022 13:56:25 +0000

It might be this sentiment -- that emails should be like letters, with a greeting, ending, signature, etc -- that pushes all communication to more "SMS-like" media. We even get support from companies over DMs.

I personally use email like SMS. I might say "Hi" on the first email, and might end with my name if we never chatted before, but otherwise, straight to the point.

New comment by lekevicius in "Map showing birthplaces of "notable people" around the world"

lekevicius — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 10:51:50 +0000

Shinzo Abe marked as "probably alive", so clearly some data is out of sync with WikiData.

New comment by lekevicius in "Meta is raising the price of the Quest 2 to 400 USD"

lekevicius — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 17:50:01 +0000

I've always felt they did Xbox / PlayStation strategy, selling headset below cost and earning on game store fees.

Perhaps the math is not working out?