Hacker News: lpapez

New comment by lpapez in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

lpapez — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:10:12 +0000

Who are you and why should we listen to you banging on the drum?

Memento mori.

New comment by lpapez in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

lpapez — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:01:35 +0000

You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.

New comment by lpapez in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

lpapez — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:17:00 +0000

We are reaching levels of pettiness never considered possible previously.

New comment by lpapez in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

lpapez — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:54:44 +0000

Source?

New comment by lpapez in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

lpapez — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:29:46 +0000

There is a very good open source conversion tool called "Calibre". I use it all the time to convert my, erm, security backups of books I own.

New comment by lpapez in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

lpapez — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:19:55 +0000

What is "good code"?

If you ask your boss, it will most likely be whatever spaghetti code which ensures the contract gets signed on time.

The boss doesn't care if the developer needs 10000 libraries for the submit button.

New comment by lpapez in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

lpapez — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:25:53 +0000

Butcher worker protections and quality of life across all industries to (hypothethically) benefit a single one?

No thanks.

Why do you feel grinding insane hours would be beneficial to AI progress?

New comment by lpapez in "Cooling in Space"

lpapez — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:07:44 +0000

It is a comment on the absurdity of orbital data centers. Mountaintop data centers sound absurd, but are more feasible and efficient than orbital ones in nearly every aspect.

New comment by lpapez in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

lpapez — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:53:33 +0000

I use PHP. None of the language tools or constructs available to me are adequate.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

New comment by lpapez in "Restartable Sequences"

lpapez — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:56:06 +0000

Except that is not what the article says and you clearly missed the sarcasm.

New comment by lpapez in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

lpapez — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:34:30 +0000

If the user puts glue on their pizza because a computer said so, that's a human problem.

The computer generated recipes can be useful as inspiration, but of course common sense is required.

New comment by lpapez in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

lpapez — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:26:52 +0000

Until Omega Star gets their act together, we have to live with this nonsense...

New comment by lpapez in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

lpapez — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:07:21 +0000

Can't you simply fill that gap on your resume with something made up? "Self employed", "freelancer", "stealth startup", "confidential employer" etc.

How would the companies ever know?

New comment by lpapez in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

lpapez — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:07:47 +0000

Very cool research and wonderfully written.

I was expecting an ad for their product somewhere towards the end, but it wasn't there!

I do wonder though: why would this company report this vulnerability to Mozilla if their product is fingeprinting?

Isn't it better for the business (albeit unethical) to keep the vulnerability private, to differentiate from the competitors? For example, I don't see many threat actors burning their zero days through responsible disclosure!

New comment by lpapez in "Ask HN: How did you land your first projects as a solo engineer/consultant?"

lpapez — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 11:54:05 +0000

Recommendations from past workplaces and networking. Honestly never heard of anyone else being hired as a solo contributor outside those channels.

New comment by lpapez in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

lpapez — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 18:58:22 +0000

> so why use PHP at all instead of JS like all the other vibe coders?

Because there is nothing remotely close to Laravel for JS. I don't want to think about auth, job queues, mailing, cache layers, auditing etc. I want an opinionated default from my framework that is thoroughly documented and part of the AI training corpus. Laravel gives that to me.

New comment by lpapez in "Laravel raised money and now injects ads directly into your agent"

lpapez — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:52:13 +0000

>hype-driven commercial product

>single-handedly keeping PHP relevant

While architecture astronauts are clutching pearls, I've built multiple profitable products with Laravel without caring the slighest about the internals, both before and after AI.

PHP was always all about just building stuff while ignoring code quality. Laravel is a natural extension of that approach. Let us live.

New comment by lpapez in "Saying goodbye to Agile"

lpapez — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 07:56:58 +0000

> Agile just finally embraced that specs are incomplete and can even be wrong because the writer of the spec does not yet really know or understand what they want. So they need working software to show the spec in action and then we can iterate on the results.

I agree, but what you describe is agile, not Agile (capital A).

Agile (capital A) is Scrum (capital S) where you have Backlog Grooming (patent pending) where the team clears any ambiguity to define a spec (ticket).

Deviating from said spec is seen as Scope Creep (gasp) and might lead to complaints during Sprint Review (trademark).

So yes, agile prefers working software over detailed spec. But typical manifestations of Agile (capital A) are exactly the opposite.

New comment by lpapez in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

lpapez — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:47:58 +0000

The US public discourse is so dehumanized today that anyone who is not "with them" is literally not a human anymore. Even within the country itself "the leftards" are considered an obstacle which can be removed if only enough force is applied.

Sending armed agents at protesters is seen as being the same thing as sending pest control to clear out beaver dams on the creek. Nobody cares what the beavers think, they are not human, they do not have feelings. They are simply a menace to be dealth with.

New comment by lpapez in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

lpapez — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 09:50:37 +0000

You can simply add a shell alias with whatever name you like and move on.