Hacker News: leobg

New comment by leobg in "Show HN: MCP file tools silently eat your context window.I built one that doesnt"

leobg — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:15:51 +0000

Looks interesting. Any pointers to how to integrate it in GitHub Copilot Chat? It seems to support skills, so I'd guess it should work?

New comment by leobg in "I Build a Open Source Deep Research Engine Wich Beats Google and Open AI"

leobg — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:39:20 +0000

You got a .de Domain. I looked for an imprint to see if that solo dev with the right tools was a fellow German, but I didn’t find any. Any details on who you are and how you came to build this? Also, your landing page sounds quite different than what you are pitching here. Are these two different projects? Thx

New comment by leobg in "BYD's cheapest electric cars to have Lidar self-driving tech"

leobg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:42:08 +0000

That isn’t the point. The point is that it’s not enough to figure out that there is an obstacle. You also have to figure out what that obstacle is, and you have to predict its movement. In the case of pedestrian, the car, for example, needs to know whether the pedestrian has seen you. Things like that you just cannot do with LiDAR. Hence you’re gonna need cameras anyway. Hence tge “anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed” prediction.

New comment by leobg in "UK threatens action against X over sexualised AI images of women and children"

leobg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:38:44 +0000

So I guess in the 90s they would’ve sued Adobe for not putting spyware into Photoshop?

If you believe in democracy, and the rule of law, and citizenship, then the responsibility obviously lies with people who create and publish pictures, not the makers of tools.

Think of it. You can use a phone camera to produce illegal pictures. What kind of a world would we live in if Apple was required to run an AI filter on your pics to determine whether they comply with the laws?

A different question is if X actually hosts generated pictures that are illegal in the UK. In that case, X acts as a publisher, and you can sue them along with the creator for removal.

New comment by leobg in "Think of Pavlov"

leobg — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 13:44:57 +0000

Some people need the opposite advice: Sometimes an interaction is just a one off event. No need to teach a lesson.

New comment by leobg in "Org Mode syntax is one of the most reasonable markup languages for text (2017)"

leobg — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 16:56:30 +0000

How do you handle PDFs, images, HTML/rich text snippets? Asking because Evernote supported all of those. It’s what keeps me using that app, even though I cringe every time I open it.

New comment by leobg in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

leobg — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:55:40 +0000

The issues get trapped in the tissues.

New comment by leobg in "Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle"

leobg — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:54:37 +0000

Have you heard of “the Sedoma Method”? And/or Larry Crane’s Release Technique?

New comment by leobg in "The Vietnam government has banned rooted phones from using any banking app"

leobg — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 20:31:20 +0000

The irony is that Apple started out by discovering the the hackability of the hardware and software they found in their time. Instead of leaving something like that behind for those who come after them, to pay back what was given to them, they build walled gardens where you’re just not allowed to “bump into the walls too much”.

New comment by leobg in "ChatGPT Health"

leobg — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 20:55:46 +0000

Vibe coded…. /s

New comment by leobg in "A Calif. Teen Trusted ChatGPT for Drug Advice. He Died from an Overdose"

leobg — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 08:00:34 +0000

It's a good read, actually. Includes actual specifics from the conversations, how the user phrased his requests, how ChatGPT responded, and why safety systems seemed to have failed (ChatGPT generally has a policy of not giving advice on illicit drug use, but that broke down here).

Reverse Engineering Zed's AI Coding Assistant with Mitmproxy

leobg — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 07:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://dzlab.github.io/genai/2025/06/07/mitmproxy-zed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46523742

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by leobg in "Locating a Photo of a Vehicle in 30 Seconds with GeoSpy"

leobg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:22:12 +0000

What were the jpgs in tge thotDBSmash folder? Did the founder use that bucket to collect photos of women? Or was that geolocation material, too…

New comment by leobg in "'Doomsday fish': Once-in-a-lifetime sea creature encountered in Monterey Bay"

leobg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:25:56 +0000

> Don't let Google decide who you trust. > Make SFGATE a preferred source so your search results prioritize writing by actual people, not AI.

Lol

New comment by leobg in "So, you want to chunk really fast?"

leobg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 13:22:50 +0000

Nice! Thanks for sharing. Does it do overlap?

New comment by leobg in "KGGen: Extracting Knowledge Graphs from Plain Text with Language Models"

leobg — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 10:11:46 +0000

Makes sense. If you’re too specific early on, you miss everything that you didn’t expect. Much better to be open first, and then do the filtering afterwards, based on what you observe.

New comment by leobg in "10 years of personal finances in plain text files"

leobg — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 12:22:27 +0000

In case the author reads this: Your imprint is incomplete. The legal address is missing. And the blog is missing an imprint altogether.

New comment by leobg in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

leobg — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:59:01 +0000

He who fights monsters should take care not to become one in the process.

That you guys had presidents that didn’t fall into this trap is the reason you and I are ariund today.

William Inboden, The Peacemaker:

> In America’s last fight against totalitarianism, President Franklin Roosevelt had demanded the unconditional surrender of both Nazi Germany and imperial Japan. In the context of total war, against implacable dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo, Roosevelt’s insistence on unconditional surrender made strategic sense. Such a demand did not fit the Cold War. Much as Reagan looked to Roosevelt and World War II as a model for how the free world should confront dictatorships in thrall to evil ideologies, in the case of the Cold War and the Soviet Union, calling for “unconditional surrender” from Moscow would have been delusional and foolhardy—especially since Reagan remained desperate to prevent the Cold War from turning hot and ending in nuclear apocalypse.

New comment by leobg in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

leobg — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:51:41 +0000

Government buying more fire trucks is a poor measure for increased incidence of actual fires. They might just be signaling, fall for marketing, and lots of other things. Governments are run by people, and they are as fallible as any rando on HN.

New comment by leobg in "Kitchen optimizations"

leobg — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:54:42 +0000

Nice to see a B. F. Skinner reference here. The forgotten king of “making do”.