Hacker News: lexh

New comment by lexh in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

lexh — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:44:48 +0000

https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/RviQKF1om6oxZY2pENL6c

Sample size is 2 now!

New comment by lexh in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

lexh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 15:59:37 +0000

Isn’t part of Vercel’s value proposition a robust global CDN in front? Seems quite a bit different than one sweaty VM in Helsinki.

New comment by lexh in "Who needs Graphviz when you can build it yourself?"

lexh — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:37:58 +0000

This is a great write up.

I wonder if any of these techniques turn up in whatever the magic sauce is in D2’s TALA layout engine, which is in a league of its own IMO.

https://d2lang.com/examples/tala/

New comment by lexh in "I want everything local – Building my offline AI workspace"

lexh — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:28:52 +0000

The current SOTA closed model providers are also all rolling out access to their latest models with better pricing (e.g. GPT-5 this week), which seems like a confounding factor unique to this moment in the cycle. An API consumer would need to have a very specific reason to choose GPT-4o over GPT-5, given the latter costs less, benchmarks better and is roughly the same speed.

New comment by lexh in "My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)"

lexh — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 01:22:49 +0000

To be a little more fair... that example is tidily slotted into the EXAMPLES section, under the heading "You can extract images from a video, or create a video from many images".

I don't think most people read the man pages top to bottom. And even if they did, then for as much grief as you're giving ffmpeg, llm has an even larger burden... no man page and the docs weigh in at over 8k lines.

I get the general point that ffmpeg is a powerful, complex tool... but this is a weird fight to pick.

New comment by lexh in "Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short"

lexh — Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:37:52 +0000

Use the debatably intelligent machines for this sort of question not Google.

It seems “Yud” here is a shorthand for Yudkowsky. Hinted by the capitalization.

Prompt tricks Apple Intelligence into turning Writings Tools into a chatbot

lexh — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 17:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/02/this-prompt-tricks-apple-intelligence-into-turning-writings-tools-into-a-chatbot/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44160893

Points: 4

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New comment by lexh in "Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans"

lexh — Fri, 30 May 2025 18:04:34 +0000

Why is this flagged? Seems to fit the submission criterion of "anything that good hackers would find interesting" and "gratifies intellectual curiosity" pretty cleanly... e.g. government technology contracts and data analysis, privacy and surveillance, a major tech company and its business practices, the intersection of technology and public policy, etc.

New comment by lexh in "YAGRI: You are gonna read it"

lexh — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 04:22:37 +0000

It is Postgres specific, but I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of the advice in this article:

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-audit

New comment by lexh in "We replaced our React front end with Go and WebAssembly"

lexh — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 04:05:44 +0000

I think some of it is shown on this page:

https://docs.dagger.io/features/visualization/

New comment by lexh in "I got OpenTelemetry to work. But why was it so complicated?"

lexh — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:46:09 +0000

Gee whiz is this person is in for a treat when they discover the joys of OpAMP https://github.com/open-telemetry/opamp-spec/blob/main/speci...

Turtles all the way down.

New comment by lexh in "Show HN: Go Plan9 Memo"

lexh — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 15:20:03 +0000

A bit over my head, but I enjoyed the way the writing brings us along for the ride.

This can’t be the first pass someone has made at something like this, right? There must be literal dozens of SIMD thirsty Gophers around. Would a more common pattern be to use CGO?

New comment by lexh in "When new hires get paid more, top performers resign first"

lexh — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 19:02:28 +0000

What line of work is full of former programmers?

New comment by lexh in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

lexh — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 21:27:09 +0000

The impression I was left with is that this tool would write things to disk. It would be helpful to know how that data is stored. I wouldn’t want my password manager OCR’d and then sitting in plain text on disk for example.

New comment by lexh in "Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)"

lexh — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 02:45:55 +0000

“pretty scary stuff” indeed!

This would inevitably end up ingesting secrets, right? Like say from my password manager? Or API keys in my terminal?

Lots of ways for this to go sideways even if the data stays local.

What’s the plan there?

New comment by lexh in "Takeaway"

lexh — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:44:52 +0000

All the staff at my local coffee shop ask “for stay or for takeaway?”

They never deviate from this exact script and I find it grating every single time. Coffee is decent though so I let it slide.

Edit: “local” meaning Southern California.

New comment by lexh in "Home Assistant blocked from integrating with Garage Door opener API"

lexh — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 13:16:04 +0000

Oh, data collection. And subscriptions.

This makes sense (and myQ’s privacy policy is a nightmare: https://www.myq.com/privacy-notice) but I’ve never understood how this particular bit of data is valuable to anyone. Any ideas?

New comment by lexh in "Using spaced repetition systems to see through a piece of mathematics (2019)"

lexh — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 21:58:50 +0000

  > Perhaps it is the article On Sense and Reference by Gottlob Frege?
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  > http://www.scu.edu.tw/philos/98class/Peng/05.pdf

from previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895613

New comment by lexh in "Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message"

lexh — Sun, 15 Oct 2023 01:05:14 +0000

> You're telling me i provided $14/m in ad revenue? Of course not.

Do you really think Google just set the price arbitrarily? That would be surprising.

My impression has always been that ad free tiers are actually less profitable for video providers.

New comment by lexh in "GitHub code search is generally available"

lexh — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:56:22 +0000

Fantastic. Love the functionality on public GH and always find myself missing it at work.