Hacker News: lukevp

New comment by lukevp in "Image Compression"

lukevp — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:48:39 +0000

blur hash is an algorithm for a low res representation of an image for placeholder purposes, it's pretty nice. https://blurha.sh

New comment by lukevp in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

lukevp — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 16:26:48 +0000

The US has no social safety net. Healthcare comes from your employer. Everything is centered around having a job. Opinions on AI diverge significantly and someone’s response to this question would be pivotal to me in a hiring role. The market is not great for job seekers. The hiring manager can wait for someone who aligns with their company’s perspective on this.

New comment by lukevp in "Waymo Premier"

lukevp — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:07:22 +0000

Yes, if you get a Toyota and maintain it, it would be expected to make it past 200k miles. They are by far the most reliable cars. Timing belt failures are only catastrophic for interference engines, and most cars use timing chains now, which have a much lower failure rate.

New comment by lukevp in "Siri AI"

lukevp — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:49:33 +0000

Not in the same request. I often want to turn off 2 lights and the other on, I have to build scenes to do this

New comment by lukevp in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

lukevp — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 22:26:49 +0000

Got anything from your orchestrator you could share that’s usable by others? Sounds like how I’d like to work but is difficult to get going from scratch

New comment by lukevp in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

lukevp — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:10:34 +0000

Traffic is usually caused by adding inefficiencies across a system with little slack - someone brakes too hard or too early, and if all the cars are stacked up, that one brake event can ripple through hundreds of following cars, getting worse and worse because each person brakes more. Self driving cars can perfectly sync up and move like a train. Theoretically there could be no traffic on highways if all cars are self-driving. Rarely is a highway so full that there couldn’t be more cars (eg. The entrance ramps are backed up) which implies the issues are related to the driving flow and not the capacity of the street itself.

New comment by lukevp in "WASM is not quite a stack machine"

lukevp — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:46:00 +0000

Does that mean you could compile a wasm program to go, then run it with wazero? How many levels deep can it go?? Might be a fun blog topic :)

New comment by lukevp in "Waymo says can't avoid bike lanes because riders want to be dropped off in them"

lukevp — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:34:36 +0000

You really don’t believe that software is or can become safer than human drivers?

New comment by lukevp in "New 10 GbE USB adapters are cooler, smaller, cheaper"

lukevp — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:17:47 +0000

I have a fairly large house (2 story 3k sqft) with all cat5e. I iperf’d every run and they could all do 10gb negotiation and TCP, most of the runs could sustain very high UDP rates with low packet loss. There’s just one run (which is the one to the internet) which had a slightly higher UDP packet loss rate. So basically every run can do 10gb fine. Been running the whole network like this for a year. It’s been great! I just need a 10 gig capable NAS. My current one can only do 3.5 or so because it’s a usb 5gb/s which isn’t really 5 gb.

New comment by lukevp in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

lukevp — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:27:20 +0000

If I was running a physical business and I wrote down each person’s name and credit card number and the exact time and order they placed, that would be pretty invasive and “spying”. If I write down how many units I sold of each item per day, and the volume of transactions by credit card vs cash, it’s anonymized and I don’t think this would generally be considered “spying”, just normal business metrics. How’s the latter much different than anonymized product analytics?

New comment by lukevp in "Matt Mullenweg Overrules Core Committers; Puts Akismet on WP 7's Connector List"

lukevp — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:06:14 +0000

Cloudflare already did that and it’s available now[1], although it’s billed as a “spiritual successor” and not a literal one (so probably not backwards compatible).

1: https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

New comment by lukevp in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

lukevp — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:21:28 +0000

Anodizing and oxidation are 2 totally different things.

New comment by lukevp in "Claude Is Dead"

lukevp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:12:31 +0000

Well they had enough tokens to write this article…

New comment by lukevp in "43 hours battery life: Dell XPS 14 2026 lasts almost 3x longer vs MacBook Air 15"

lukevp — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:21:51 +0000

Does anyone believe this? Is it real? Windows laptops always claim crazy battery life figures but when I have the latest, nicest windows machine it ends up lasting like 3-4 hours every time, with a normal coding workload. My MacBooks in contrast will last 8+.

New comment by lukevp in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

lukevp — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:33:21 +0000

And what is using Confluence in the first place? Your MacBook Pro is faster than a supercomputer from 20 years ago. As we make compute cheaper, we find ways to use it that are less efficient in an absolute sense but more efficient for the end user. A graphical docs portal like Confluence is a hell of a lot easier to use than EMacs and SSH to edit plain text files on an 80 character terminal. But it uses thousands of times more compute.

It seems ridiculous right now because we don’t have hardware to accelerate the LLMs, but in 5 years this will be trivial to run.

New comment by lukevp in "Local Stack Archived their GitHub repo and requires an account to run"

lukevp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 22:28:14 +0000

I thought Valkey was the blessed fork of Redis. Is Redict better in some way?

New comment by lukevp in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

lukevp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:30:47 +0000

This thread is about how a static text article loaded 500 megs in the background. How would someone prepare for that exactly? This is effectively malware as far as your bandwidth is concerned.

New comment by lukevp in "PC Gamer recommends RSS readers in a 37mb article that just keeps downloading"

lukevp — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:29:46 +0000

People on government assistance are just casually going to Starbucks for free wifi? They probably don’t even have a reliable way to get around. Let them eat cake?

New comment by lukevp in "Having Kids (2019)"

lukevp — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:54:31 +0000

Thank you for posting this. It’s totally understandable and believable that you simultaneously love them and regret some things about it. There’s this insane pressure in our society to never acknowledge the toll that kids have and to never speak out about this. I remember when this article was first posted and how I received it, like I was wrong for not being sure about kids, and that some change would come over me when I had them. Truth is, that doesn’t happen with everyone. Then the world tries to gaslight those people who don’t feel that way into feeling like they’re broken somehow.

I’m sure you love your kids and take great care of them, and it’s not your fault that you feel this way.

It would benefit all of us if this taboo was lifted, so that we could speak truthfully about the impact of kids on families, and maybe then we’d have to provide more support and encouragement to convince people to have them. Not everyone has free daycare from their grandparents or a large social network to babysit or the finances that make having a child less of a burden.

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

lukevp — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 08:58:50 +0000

Saying that the paradigms of Python and Haskell are the same makes it sound like you don’t know either or both of those languages. They are not just syntactically different. The paradigms literally are different. Python is a high level duck typed oo scripting language and Haskell is a non-oo strongly typed functional programming language. They’re extremely far apart.