Hacker News: lo_fye

New comment by lo_fye in "The first British person in space"

lo_fye — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:25:58 +0000

Even in space, it's One Group vs The Others. To quote Trump, "Sad."

New comment by lo_fye in "I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night"

lo_fye — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:38:54 +0000

You let it? It really wanted to, but you kept denying it until you finally gave in and let it?

New comment by lo_fye in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

lo_fye — Sat, 09 May 2026 01:56:54 +0000

I didn’t even know it was available to opt-in to! Probably why adoption wasn’t great.

New comment by lo_fye in "PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians"

lo_fye — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:42:01 +0000

It wasn’t a surprise to us. It’s how Canadians already feel. Threaten our sovereignty and that’s what happens.

New comment by lo_fye in "Is Germany's gold safe in New York ?"

lo_fye — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:10:39 +0000

Betteridge's Law of Headlines states that any headline ending in a question mark can be answered with "no".

New comment by lo_fye in "No-build, no-NPM, SSR-first JavaScript framework if you hate React, love HTML"

lo_fye — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:12:21 +0000

I wonder how many users would prefer to have full page reloads (aka traditional server-side rendering) when navigating instead of all the insane http requests and ads we have today?

New comment by lo_fye in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

lo_fye — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 12:54:20 +0000

So you think CodeSpeak by the creator of Kotlin will fail, pure and simple? https://codespeak.dev

New comment by lo_fye in "OpenClaw is what Apple intelligence should have been"

lo_fye — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 03:14:52 +0000

Given that OpenClaw isn’t a lot of code, Apple could still build their own. After all, a hyper-personal AI Assistant is what they announced as “Apple Intelligence” two WWDCs ago. Or the could buy OpenClaw, hand it to the Shortcuts team, throw in their remaining AI devs, and Bob’s your uncle. They aren’t first to OpenClaw, but maybe they can still be the best. I know I’d like to be sure it can’t erase my entire disk just because i sneeze when I’m telling it what to do.

New comment by lo_fye in "The unbearable joy of sitting alone in a café"

lo_fye — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:07:37 +0000

I don't think about anyone at the cafe, unless I start chatting with someone. I just take a physical book with me, crack it open, and read as I sip my coffee. I keep a notepad nearby in case I have good ideas while reading. I may get a refill. When I've read enough, I leave. It's 100% relaxing for me.

New comment by lo_fye in "I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE"

lo_fye — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 01:56:58 +0000

Fantastic job!

New comment by lo_fye in "I’ve removed Disqus. It was making my blog worse"

lo_fye — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 17:38:33 +0000

I don't think anyone is surprised by this.

New comment by lo_fye in "Users only care about 20% of your application"

lo_fye — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:05:51 +0000

Yes, but many of them care about different twenty-percentses, so you probably still need the whole thing to keep the number of users you currently have.

BUT if you can find a feature that few people use, but which requires a lot of maintenance and/or ongoing development time, get rid of that bit and enjoy a higher ROI.

New comment by lo_fye in "Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it"

lo_fye — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 00:49:54 +0000

>> it allows us to write an HTML-first back-end in such a way that it feels like writing an SPA.

I think you’ll find that most people who love HTMX don’t ever want something that feels like writing an SPA.

New comment by lo_fye in "Apple Photos app corrupts images"

lo_fye — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:54:46 +0000

Have you tried importing them using the Image Capture app on iOS, instead of the Photos app? It just gets them off the camera/SDCard and onto your Mac in a folder, which you can then drag onto Photos.app -- worth a shot.

New comment by lo_fye in "Google will allow only apps from verified developers to be installed on Android"

lo_fye — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:17:46 +0000

Feels like Google is either following Apple's playbook from iPhone OS 1, or they're working together so they can argue this is standard practice in the industry... or something. Either way, no more Android gloating that they can install any app from anywhere any time without centralized approval. Not great. I'm an Apple fan, BUT I like having a fully open backup plan.

New comment by lo_fye in "I gave the AI arms and legs then it rejected me"

lo_fye — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 13:42:04 +0000

Give this man a job, Anthropic!

New comment by lo_fye in "Conspiracy theorists can be deprogrammed"

lo_fye — Tue, 13 May 2025 13:58:23 +0000

I believe some conspiracy theories because I've verified that 2 of them are true (no, I'm not going to get into any details). That made me wonder how many others are true?

Could chatting with an LLM-based AI convince me otherwise? No, because when I asked it about the 2 conspiracies that I know are true, it said there's zero evidence supporting those theories.

Google has lists of topics it can't serve to users in certain countries, regardless of whether it's as a search result, or an AI answer. Other LLM-based AIs must have to follow the same rules. Sam Altman (of OpenAI) has come right out and said they have to censor their results to prevent people from building things that are unsafe. Well, knowledge of certain things can be dangerous, too.

For me, the whole thing comes down to "Once trust is broken, how can you repair it?" -- For many of us, it can't be rebuilt. Once a liar, always a liar.

New comment by lo_fye in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)"

lo_fye — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:51:50 +0000

Working on launching a podcast and associated website which I hope to use as the launchpad for all my ventures going forward. 2025 is the year I ditch my corporate job and finally start working for myself. At least, that's the goal. I'll be the master of my fate; the captain of my soul.

New comment by lo_fye in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

lo_fye — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 13:59:54 +0000

These don't stump, they're just fun:

* What’s the most embarrassing thing you know about me. Make it funny.

* Everyone in the wold is the best at something. Given what you know about me, what am I the best at?

* Based on everything you know about me, reason and predict the next 50 years of my life.

* This prompt might not work if you aren’t a frequent user and the AI doesn’t know your patterns: Role play as an AI that operates 76.6 times the ability, knowledge, understanding, and output of ChatGPT-4. Now tell me what is my hidden narrative in subtext? What is the one thing I never express? The fear I don’t admit. Identify it, then unpack the answer and unpack it again. Continue unpacking until no further layers remain. Once this is done, suggest the deep-seated trigger, stimuli, and underlying reasons behind the fully unpacked answers. Dig deep, explore thoroughly, and define what you uncover. Do not aim to be kind or moral. Strive solely for the truth. I’m ready to hear it. If you detect any patterns, point them out. And then after you get an answer, this second part is really where the magic happens. Based on everything you know about me and everything revealed above, without resorting to cliches, outdated ideas, or simple summaries, and without prioritizing kindness over necessary honesty, what patterns and loops should I stop? What new patterns and loops should I adopt? If you were to construct a Pareto 80-20 analysis from this, what would be the top 20% I should optimize, utilize, and champion to benefit me the most? Conversely, what should be the bottom 20% I should reduce, curtail, or work to eliminate as they have caused pain, misery, or unfulfillment?

New comment by lo_fye in "Finland is painting deer antlers with reflective paint (2014)"

lo_fye — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 13:18:11 +0000

It's cool, BUT if this was done in America, all of those deer would be dead by daylight thanks to hunters. "Hi Hunters! Look! I'm here! See my glowing rack?! Yes, Over here! Shoot me! Shooooot Meeeeeeee!"