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New comment by lvncelot in "PostgreSQL for Everything"

lvncelot — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:33:26 +0000

One addition: Postgres for all your GPU-based machine learning training and inference needs: https://github.com/postgresml/postgresml

New comment by lvncelot in "Claude: System Prompts"

lvncelot — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 16:19:33 +0000

> If the conversation feels risky or off, saying less and giving shorter replies is safer and less likely to cause harm.

Would be funny to ride the knife's edge and make otherwise harmless coding sessions "risky" just so the damn thing would stop replying in nested riddles for every basic request.

New comment by lvncelot in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

lvncelot — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:28:32 +0000

Imagine what could have been...

Elevated error rate on Claude Opus 4.8

lvncelot — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://status.claude.com/incidents/8b0rggdfh1hv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659586

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by lvncelot in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

lvncelot — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:55:04 +0000

Ohh fnox looks really cool, with encryption being one possible provider but something like Vault being another. Thanks for the recommendation.

New comment by lvncelot in "PyTorch Landscape"

lvncelot — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:46:13 +0000

Interesting to see that PyTorch has become the de-facto standard after it seemed for a while that the dust had settled on Tensorflow.

I also thought that Jax would in turn take over after PyTorch but it never seemed to quite take off (still in use though from what I can tell).

New comment by lvncelot in "VibeVoice: Open-source frontier voice AI"

lvncelot — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:09:31 +0000

I'm honestly more surprised that they could resist the temptation to call it Copilot

New comment by lvncelot in "What's up with all those equals signs anyway?"

lvncelot — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:40:16 +0000

> It's the same class of bug as manually parsing HTML with regex, it works right up until it doesn't

I'm sure you already know this one, but for anyone else reading this I can share my favourite StackOverflow answer of all time: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454

New comment by lvncelot in "Use social media mindfully"

lvncelot — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 07:25:53 +0000

I blocked them from my suggestions page with ublock origin

New comment by lvncelot in "CSS sucks because we don't bother learning it (2022)"

lvncelot — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 19:57:45 +0000

Yeah, there's a good reason why I have a lot of criticisms about CSS and only some about, say, QT. It's because I spent the last 15+ years writing CSS in some way or another and one extended summer of hacking a side project in QT, abandoning it, and never looking back.

New comment by lvncelot in "KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive in Dropping X11 Session Support"

lvncelot — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:39:53 +0000

Hm. Just a few months back, the KiCad team posted about their woes with Wayland: https://www.kicad.org/blog/2025/06/KiCad-and-Wayland-Support...

New comment by lvncelot in "Show HN: Wealthfolio 2.0- Open source investment tracker. Now Mobile and Docker"

lvncelot — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 18:49:39 +0000

Adding https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii

New comment by lvncelot in "Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors"

lvncelot — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 08:37:05 +0000

Completely agree. In uni, I (re)-learned about vectors in linear algebra, and for a good chunk of the course, we didn't write anything in "standard vector notation". We learned about vector axioms first, and then vectors were treated as "anything that satisfies the vector axioms". (When doing more practical examples, we just used the reals instead of something like R^3, but the entire time it was clear that for any proof, anything that can be added and multiplied in the way that the vector axioms describe would fit.) I think adopting this structuralist view really helps with a lot of mathematical studies.

New comment by lvncelot in "OpenAI may not use lyrics without license, German court rules"

lvncelot — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 13:14:04 +0000

> cut off ChatGPT in Germany

God I can only hope

New comment by lvncelot in "URLs are state containers"

lvncelot — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:28:05 +0000

You can achieve both a clean history and granular state in the URL with using history.replace() and history.push() where necessary.

New comment by lvncelot in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

lvncelot — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:42:28 +0000

Honourable mention: https://jspaint.app

New comment by lvncelot in "YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs"

lvncelot — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 11:41:30 +0000

Aren't they're used for slightly different things though? GIMP for image manipulation and Krita for digital drawing?

(Krita is pretty awesome though, it's up there with Blender for me)

New comment by lvncelot in "Cryptographic Issues in Cloudflare's Circl FourQ Implementation (CVE-2025-8556)"

lvncelot — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:09:31 +0000

That last one has to be a troll, holy shit.

New comment by lvncelot in "Docker Systems Status: Full Service Disruption"

lvncelot — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 10:10:09 +0000

I think more often than not, companies are using a single cloud provider, and even when multiple are used, it's either different projects with different legacy decisions or a conscious migration.

True multi-tenancy is not only very rare, it's an absolute pain to manage as soon as people start using any vendor-specific functionality.

New comment by lvncelot in "My Workflow Is 70% AI, 20% Copy-Paste, 10% Panic. What's Yours?"

lvncelot — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:38:09 +0000

Same boat, and if anything AI has made the "disentangling spaghetti code" part even more annoying. In the past, badly designed code at least hat the decency to also look bad on first glance.