Hacker News: lucas_t_a

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

lucas_t_a — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:25:33 +0000

my hypothesis is that its trying to hide the thinking process so people can't train models on the output, try to learn anything complex using AI, its basically imposible, its like its actively fighting giving you the main rationale

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Everyone is building LLM routers, we deprecated ours"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:02:41 +0000

this idea of smaller tasks is me simply asking "quick question, foo?" to my fable 5 on max effort, the model just does it, and even gives a more complex answer on misunderstanding or a actually hard question

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol on an NP-Hard Problem: Does /goal help?"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 12:13:19 +0000

i let it run once to just generally find any bugs using all my quota, them once i get back to it i ran on effort /max to continue with explicit don't run workflows fix all yourself, it was ultra effective.

ultra becomes a mode where your model enhances your prompt them it is execution multiplied by all other agents, which have them going in all sorts of directions.

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Resetting Xbox"

lucas_t_a — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 20:21:09 +0000

Baldur's Gate 3 and other games would them just release on a nintendo console, i don't think nintendo would outright refuse to take a whole sect of kinds of titles, the companies making the console and setting the ecosystem do make a difference but you exaggerate a bit.

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Wordgard: In-browser rich-text editor from the creator of ProseMirror"

lucas_t_a — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:54:17 +0000

i loaded it, tried deleting by swipping backspace, it did not work...

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Half-Baked Product"

lucas_t_a — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:44:21 +0000

> I think it’s the disconnect. Each persona is an expert in their own field but is completely oblivious to other critical areas.

its because the story just makes that assumption.

New comment by lucas_t_a in "LuaJIT 3.0 proposed syntax extensions"

lucas_t_a — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:31:20 +0000

the oposite is also true, you can have misleading side effects coming from joining things into a single expression

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction (2016)"

lucas_t_a — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 12:16:24 +0000

this one comes to mind https://youtu.be/17KCHwOwgms

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Kirkland Roundabouts"

lucas_t_a — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:36:19 +0000

you really cut through this one

New comment by lucas_t_a in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

lucas_t_a — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:36:06 +0000

there must be an reasonable assumption of what counts as such in the first place. being modifiable and publicly available in both source and binary form sound like enough to me.

New comment by lucas_t_a in "California moves to exempt Linux from its age-verification law after backlash"

lucas_t_a — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:22:24 +0000

it would be pointless to force software that can be modified to remove an age-verification to have age-verification. but maybe they can move to force distributed copies of linux to have age-verification, hopefully dealing with those complaints

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Improving C# Memory Safety"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:38:12 +0000

C# is too much of a you hold it wrong language, you can easily avoid the problem you describe, but it is such a pain, i do like the fact that the language constantly improves in all directions so it definitely does not remove its positive sides when you do a thing in the right way

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Googlebook"

lucas_t_a — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:49:01 +0000

good luck scrapping very specific information in a bunch of dynamic websites before AI.

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

lucas_t_a — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:01:30 +0000

concatenating cats is useless use of cat, you can just provide more arguments instead

New comment by lucas_t_a in "Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:36:35 +0000

it did decide that javascript is necessary to enable correct contrast

New comment by lucas_t_a in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

lucas_t_a — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:19:53 +0000

please no more popups on vscode, im begging you