Hacker News: libria

New comment by libria in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

libria — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:35:14 +0000

> since the model has taken my place for the most part

Hah, you realize the same thing is going on in your boss's head right? The pie chart of Things-I-Need-stronglikedan-For just shrank tiny bit...

New comment by libria in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

libria — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:05:13 +0000

Not without my knowledge or your knowledge sure. But I'd bet there's significant percentage of the population who is tired of thinking about permission popups and just hit yes yes YES to get the App started. Especially if it forces retries before going forward.

I think they're counting on these popups wearing people out.

After GDPR made these incessant annoying cookie popups mandatory, I just robotically click any button to dismiss it as fast as possible. Some website could probably write "Give root access" in that box and I'd probably click it without thinking.

New comment by libria in "I won't download your app. The web version is a-ok"

libria — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:48:36 +0000

> when an app is available on both web and native mobile, the native mobile version is significantly better

Did you read the article? One of the author's main points is this is a deliberate result by vendors.

New comment by libria in "Show HN: Will my flight have Starlink?"

libria — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:29:08 +0000

This is the 1st link posted in /r/unitedairlines anytime someone mentions "starlink". One use-case better covered by https://unitedstarlinktracker.com/ is the upfront log that shows a quick swath of airports that might receive and depart starlink equipped planes. I can CTRL-F -> "RDU" and know immediately my chance of checking this out (not much).

Would it be hard to produce a pie chart showing top 10 airports with most starlink planes arriving/departing?

New comment by libria in "US economy unexpectedly sheds 92k jobs in February"

libria — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 18:05:03 +0000

Maybe the opponents consider it a foot in the door; a wedge that can be expanded gradually to include lower tiers at lower percentages AKA the beginning of a WA State Income Tax. There are not few 400k households in Seattle.

The majority of states have one so it's not that big a deal, but it'll be less often said "I'm going to turn down this higher SF offer for Seattle b/c of lower COL...".

I'm not sure where the next refuge will be. Austin? Memphis?

New comment by libria in "Payphone Go"

libria — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:50:27 +0000

Trying to win this from your couch, I see...

New comment by libria in "FracturedJson"

libria — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 14:21:24 +0000

> A flathead screwdriver should bend like rubber if someone tries to use it as a prybar.

Better not let me near your JSON files then. I pound in wall anchors with the bottom of my drill if my hammer is not within arms reach.

New comment by libria in "Unifi Travel Router"

libria — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:40:37 +0000

My "family" is multiple devices. M networks (hotel, airport, lounge) and N devices means O(M * N) wifi setups, so carrying a known 200g router means I only have to do O(M+N) setups.

But yeah I also have P family so O(M * P * N) would be a headache.

New comment by libria in "Unifi Travel Router"

libria — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 16:29:57 +0000

There are variants of this kind that double as and look like a battery charger (which you should claim) but can also repeat and NAT a wireless signal (which you should helpfully omit). Rumor says mudiv2 but I've never used that so can't confirm.

New comment by libria in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

libria — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 15:40:25 +0000

> COE

I tell the juniors it stands for Correction of Employment. Keeps them on their toes.

New comment by libria in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

libria — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:25:42 +0000

Yeah, all this chatter about technologies and processes that could have saved this: you don't think someone in all of Korean government knew about that?

The problem is more likely culture, hierarchy or corruption. Guaranteed several principal security architects have been raising the alarm on this internally along with much safer, redundant, secure alternatives that came with an increased cost. And decision makers who had a higher rank/social/networking advantage shot it down. Maybe the original storage designer was still entrenched there and sabotaging all other proposals out of pride. Or there's an unspoken business relationship with the another department providing resources for that data center that generates kickbacks.

Assuming nobody knows how to do an offsite backup or is plain ignorant of risk over there is arrogant.

New comment by libria in "Age Simulation Suit"

libria — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:12:22 +0000

Yeah, clickbait title for some of us. Should be "Advanced Age Simulation Suit".

New comment by libria in "A 10x Faster TypeScript"

libria — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:32:24 +0000

Is learning a language even a thing anymore with $Internal_or_external_LLM_helper plugin available for every IDE? I haven't found syntax lookups to be that much a concern anymore and any boneheaded LLM suggestions are trivial to detect/fix.

New comment by libria in "I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results"

libria — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 13:25:23 +0000

    ... if your priority is clear, ad-free, conversational responses
    ... The clutter-free answers from ChatGPT Search
    ... ChatGPT answers because they are so concise and without advertisers
    In a cluttered web, ChatGPT feels like a helpful friend

This will not be its final form, though. I just hope when they get around to monetizing we have a choice between a free, ad-supported option or paid non-ads service.

New comment by libria in "Fun with Go Iterators"

libria — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 19:25:24 +0000

I think the above is a good idea of what's wrong with python (and Go), because in your example the list comp is evaluated in what seems to be this order:

    FOURTH-> print([THIRD-> v*v for v in FIRST-> reversed(a) if SECOND-> v*v % 2 == 0])

Which is all over the place. I'd rather see:

    a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
    a = reversed(a)
    a = [v*v for v in a]
    a = [w for w in a if a % 2 == 0]
    print(a)

New comment by libria in "Pledging $300k to the Zig Software Foundation"

libria — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 12:03:46 +0000

Your comment made me chuckle. It was an interesting inclusion, considering she appears to be in an industry not usually associated with Zig enthusiasts (entertainment). I'd have thought they individually had enough financial independence that a solidarity statement wasn't required, but it's neat to share that your partner is excited about the things you're excited about.

New comment by libria in "Ask HN: Are posts critical of Google getting flagged shortly after submission?"

libria — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 15:40:14 +0000

> Perhaps something for @Dang to investigate.

Then email dang? Why bother asking us? We don't have any of this data.

New comment by libria in "Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla"

libria — Sun, 01 Sep 2024 17:28:59 +0000

Good to hear! Are the comparable areas of similar population density? I'm wondering what incremental steps (non-partisan hopefully) can be brought to the Bay Area to slowly move it towards a similar environment.

New comment by libria in "How to build a 50k ton forging press"

libria — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 05:11:39 +0000

Assuming these terms are all correctly spelled, this has to be the shortest sentence I've understood the least of on HN.

Guess I've got some googling to do.

New comment by libria in "Hal Hickel on Creating Tarkin"

libria — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 16:52:21 +0000

Not sure why this was downvoted, but I also assumed they were referring to this scene, the Hammond + Grant + Sadler + Malcolm + Gennaro lunch debate in the original.