Hacker News: leonflexo

New comment by leonflexo in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

leonflexo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 06:28:48 +0000

I think Bun helps with the memory pressure, granted this is relative to V8. I'd pushback on the certainty with the reality that TS provides a significant drop in entropy while benefiting from what is a sweet spot between massive corpus size and low barrier for typical problem/use-case complexity. You'll never have the fastest product with JS, but you will always have good speed to market and be able to move quickly.

New comment by leonflexo in "Zig – Type Resolution Redesign and Language Changes"

leonflexo — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:38:00 +0000

Bun uses JSC (JavaScriptCore) instead of V8. From what I understand, whereas Node/V8 has a higher tier 4 "top speed", JSC is more optimized for memory and is faster to tier up early/less overhead. Good for serverless. Great for agents -> Anthropic purchase.

New comment by leonflexo in "Filesystems Are Having a Moment"

leonflexo — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:49:15 +0000

I wonder how much of a lost in the middle effect there is and if there could be or are tools that specifically differentiate optimizing post compaction "seeding". One problem I've run into with open spec is after a compaction, or kicking off a new session, it is easy to start out already ~50k tokens in and I assume somewhat more vulnerable to lost in the middle type effects before any actual coding may have taken place.

New comment by leonflexo in "Regulator contacts Meta over workers watching intimate AI glasses videos"

leonflexo — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:16:20 +0000

The tech/demand for the glasses didn't break through some threshold it hadn't reached before, all of the sudden. They became viable as a product again because real training data is more valuable now than ever.

New comment by leonflexo in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

leonflexo — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:42:32 +0000

If the answer is, "of course not". Pull that thread. Honestly, so much "therapy" for some of us boils down to confronting/examining that disconnect and exploring why it exists/how it came to be.

New comment by leonflexo in "A Chinese official’s use of ChatGPT revealed an intimidation operation"

leonflexo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:18:09 +0000

> Chinese operators allegedly disguised themselves as US immigration officials

New comment by leonflexo in "We Will Not Be Divided"

leonflexo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 01:31:35 +0000

What's that, a little speaker?

New comment by leonflexo in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

leonflexo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:37:14 +0000

How far the volatility ripples out will give us a real look into just how self-reinforced the financials truly are.

New comment by leonflexo in "The Robotic Dexterity Deadlock"

leonflexo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:25:40 +0000

Similar to how we are seeing LLMs shoved into spaces where existing ML was already doing well and better suited.

Not to dismiss the value of LLMs in those cases as an interface/interpretation layer.

If grandma goes into the windowless surgery factory, I just want the best bots working on her. There is value in having Dr. Bot the replicant give me the face-to-face status updates. We are not breaking out those layers as much, anymore, as the focus becomes minimizing FOMO.

New comment by leonflexo in "NASA announces overhaul of Artemis program amid safety concerns, delays"

leonflexo — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:56:20 +0000

Systemic inefficiencies aside. I wonder how much of that is a public funding feedback loop? The cost gets higher, because the standards, requirements, and processes are stricter, because there is the need to validate the use of public funds, exacerbated by being higher, increasing the standards/requirements etc etc... Especially in a political environment where there is no shortage of sniping funding for points.

Regardless, first thing it reminded me of was that interview quote about how if nasa had SpaceX track record they would have lost funding long ago. Is there a US political landscape, even back to 2008-2016, where that isn't the case?

New comment by leonflexo in "Halt and Catch Fire: TV’s best drama you’ve probably never heard of (2021)"

leonflexo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 03:22:32 +0000

Great show and fantastic music. This show and Driver were two soundtracks that captured that early/mid 2010s vibe for me personally.

New comment by leonflexo in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

leonflexo — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:21:11 +0000

> Its also worth noting that if you can create a business with an LLM, so can everyone else. And sadly everyone has the same ideas

Yeah, people are going to have to come to terms with the "idea" equivalent of "there are no unique experiences". We're already seeing the bulk move toward the meta SaaS (Shovels as a Service).

New comment by leonflexo in "Our approach to advertising"

leonflexo — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 18:42:32 +0000

"We’ll always offer a way to not see ads in ChatGPT, including a paid tier that’s ad-free." Plus will be next.

New comment by leonflexo in "Resistance training load does not determine hypertrophy"

leonflexo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 07:39:16 +0000

I thought hypertrophic focused routines were their own subset. Starting with a high rep, like 20, decreasing something like 2/week while increasing the weight. You technically can increase load, but in my experience it isn't strictly necessary. 10-12 weeks down to 1-2 reps then 3-4 off to reset. This isn't a strength routine, simply for size relative to lift.

New comment by leonflexo in "Perfect Software – Software for an Audience of One"

leonflexo — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 04:29:38 +0000

I only read this because while messing around with learning some basic VPS and NGINX, I used Claude to spin up some quick frontends. One ended up being a geocities hackernews clone. Then while getting some basic process and terminal experience, I piped into Codex CLI to generate a summary modal to my visual liking. All of that to say that while I could have done it on my own, I likely wouldn't have because it allowed me a low friction path to implementing the bits that weren't crucial for what I was trying to learn.