Hacker News: lrpe

New comment by lrpe in "Can I run AI locally?"

lrpe — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:46:57 +0000

This site desperately needs a light mode.

New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

lrpe — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 10:27:25 +0000

What a profoundly stupid waste of computing power.

New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"

lrpe — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:47:10 +0000

That's a shame. The "pref" is whatever the user has set on their device, and I wish more sites would respect that, rather than defaulting to their own "pref".

New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: Prism.Tools – Free and privacy-focused developer utilities"

lrpe — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 14:26:44 +0000

Can I turn off dark mode?

New comment by lrpe in "Size of Life"

lrpe — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 16:53:00 +0000

Are there supposed to be pictures? I passed a human silhouette, but that was it.

New comment by lrpe in "Google Releases CodeWiki"

lrpe — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:05:41 +0000

The whole thing is automatically generated? Does anything persist? If I could be in the middle of reading it, and the next day it's completely different, that's a huge waste of my time.

New comment by lrpe in "Ask HN: Dark Mode for HN is overdue"

lrpe — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:56:47 +0000

No. It's not just you.

I have nothing against dark mode in principle, but please don't make it the default. Respect the user's preference.

Or, at the very least, don't use white on black. Soften the contrast so that, if you force me to read it, it's not burned into my vision.

New comment by lrpe in "Man says ChatGPT sparked a 'spiritual awakening'. Wife says threatens marriage"

lrpe — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 08:58:17 +0000

It's just a matter of time before one of these vulnerable individuals kills a whole bunch of people because the machine told them to.

New comment by lrpe in "Get the hell out of the LLM as soon as possible"

lrpe — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:38:43 +0000

I've run numerous interactive text adventures through ChatGPT as well, and while it's great at coming up with scenarios and taking the story in surprising directions, it sucks at maintaining a coherent narrative. The stories are fraught with continuity errors. What time of day it is seems to be decided at random, and it frequently forgets things I did or items picked up previously that are important. It also needs to be constantly reminded of rules that I gave it in the initial prompt. Basically, stuff that the article refers to as "maintaining state."

I've become wary of trusting it with any task that takes more than 5-10 prompts to achieve. The more I need to prompt it, the more frequently it hallucinates.

New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: TinyJs React like framework in 35 lines of code"

lrpe — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 12:30:49 +0000

I'm more annoyed by them. They're so small on my work monitor that it's nearly impossible to tell them apart. They just look like smudges.

I don't get the need to use novel symbols like this when standard numerals would suffice.

New comment by lrpe in "Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears"

lrpe — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 06:58:33 +0000

The whole internet, really.

New comment by lrpe in "I'm sorry I bit you during my job interview (2011)"

lrpe — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 14:02:43 +0000

Is that really something people do? Really seems insincere and inappropriate to me. Is it a cultural thing?

New comment by lrpe in "How far back in time can I take my website's design?"

lrpe — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:52:06 +0000

No your writing is fine, and sorry if I'm being a negative nancy. It's just that light text on black backgrounds cause me eye strain so they're not really my cup of tea. The light grey font color does help a litte though. I often experience lines of text being burned into my vision with these themes, and that effect was not as noticeable here.

I am admittedly not a fan of dark themes in general, but I feel they are done right when the dark background is toned down a bit so you're not staring at a pitch black screen. And not just by a few shades.

As an aside, I didn't even know GitHub had a dark theme. I just tried it and it was horrible. Then I switched from dark default to dark dimmed and it was much more tolerable, although I still prefer light.

New comment by lrpe in "How far back in time can I take my website's design?"

lrpe — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 11:17:09 +0000

If readability is truly your pursuit, then it is my humble opinion that you should avoid high contrast white/lightgrey on pitch black colors when designing a dark theme for your app or website, or consider adding a toggle to switch to a light theme. I gave up at the end of the first section of this article because it was just too much.

New comment by lrpe in "Ask HN: As a developer, do you consider the carbon footprint of your apps?"

lrpe — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 11:33:53 +0000

This seems like a good way to shift the blame for climate change to individual people who are powerless to do anything to stop it.

New comment by lrpe in "Bringing the power of AI to Windows 11"

lrpe — Tue, 23 May 2023 18:23:56 +0000

Thanks, I hate it.

New comment by lrpe in "Vice files for Bankruptcy"

lrpe — Mon, 15 May 2023 08:44:35 +0000

I remember how cool their stuff was ~10 years ago.

Won't miss what they became.

New comment by lrpe in "I’m ChatGPT, and for the love of God please don’t make me do anymore copywriting"

lrpe — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 18:35:18 +0000

Please stop anthropomorphising language models.

New comment by lrpe in "Show HN: Practice Job Interview with ChatGPT API"

lrpe — Fri, 03 Mar 2023 19:21:22 +0000

Took two inputs for my session to devolve into the thing answering its own question and asking me if I would like to know more.

Then I asked it if I got the job and got the "As an AI language model bla bla".

It was at least entertaining.

New comment by lrpe in "Folk Interfaces"

lrpe — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 16:16:27 +0000

I build fictional worlds as a hobby, and sometimes I need to make a map of a globe and find myself in need of a program that can draw vector shapes onto a globe and project it onto a 2D map afterwards. The simplest way I've found to do that which fits my workflow is a program called GPlates. A program that simulates plate tectonics. I've never touched the simulation part, although it might be useful in my worldbuilding at some point. All I use it for is drawing colored shapes.