Hacker News: lxe

New comment by lxe in "Hermes Agent – Open-source AI agent with persistent memory"

lxe — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:44:02 +0000

Have you tried setting up a bot for something like WhatsApp? I'd much rather use a KGB spy platform with actual user ergonomics.

New comment by lxe in "On Rendering Diffs"

lxe — Sat, 30 May 2026 04:45:34 +0000

This is pretty awesome. I work with editors and monaco-like things a ton, and I review (look at) very large PRs very often. Having this speedy optimized interface is a delight. Check out their trees lib as well.

New comment by lxe in "Ferrari Luce"

lxe — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:20:55 +0000

Did they even ask their customer base before approving the design? I don't care about Ferrari, but people who do care about Ferrari will not like this.

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

lxe — Mon, 25 May 2026 21:27:08 +0000

Bold of you to assume that lawmakers have any common sense when it comes to technology legislation. It could have taken 3 interns 3 hours at each browser company to implement a cookie consent standard 15 years ago, yet here we are in cookie banner hell.

New comment by lxe in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

lxe — Mon, 25 May 2026 03:12:40 +0000

They were crazy overzealous about not allowing these technologies for a long time. I'm pretty sure I had many posts about this complaining over the years.

New comment by lxe in "Build Adafruit projects right from Firefox"

lxe — Sun, 24 May 2026 20:10:31 +0000

Woah this is a MASSIVE deviation from FF's previous philosophy on allowing WebSerial. This is a GOOD thing!

New comment by lxe in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

lxe — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:30:02 +0000

What I don't quite understand is why would one of the most advanced AI labs use rudimentary broken text match heuristics to track and detect abuse. Why not run simple inference on actual turns out of band, and if abuse is detected, adjust the quotas semi-retroactively.

New comment by lxe in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

lxe — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:28:35 +0000

Yall remember https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation? Back in 2004-ish era, there was an explosion of very creative interaction methods due to flash and browser performance improvements, and general hardware improvements which led to "mystery meat navigation" and the community's pushback.

Since then, the "idiomatic design" seems to have been completely lost.

New comment by lxe in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

lxe — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:26:00 +0000

hahaha I’m glad I’m just a procedurally generated NPC

I built one for cross platform — using parakeet mlx or faster whisper. :)

New comment by lxe in "How Invisalign became the biggest user of 3D printers"

lxe — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 19:28:40 +0000

> I know that there's a deceptively high amount of engineering required for these kinds of things

I think there's a deceptively low amount of engineering required for most medical and medical-adjacent tech. The high costs are rooted in pervasive industry-wide centuries-long FUD campaigns.

New comment by lxe in "Stop Sloppypasta"

lxe — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:47:58 +0000

> ChatGPT, read this article and turn it into a AGENTS.md

New comment by lxe in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

lxe — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:15:29 +0000

Distinguished staff level trolling

New comment by lxe in "How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution"

lxe — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:30:48 +0000

Honestly, I found that the best way to use these CLIs is exactly how the CLI creators have intended.

New comment by lxe in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

lxe — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:53:29 +0000

Yeah, that's exactly what I started to do with mine. It runs local Whisper on a CUDA, on a graphics card. Whisper is actually better than any other model that I've seen, even things like Parakeet. It can do language detection. It automatically removes all the ahs and all the ohms unless I specifically enter them in my speech. I think this whole paragraph is going to take maybe half a second to process and paste without any issues.

(and it did it perfectly without any edits required for me at all.)

New comment by lxe in "Show HN: Free alternative to Wispr Flow, Superwhisper, and Monologue"

lxe — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 05:05:58 +0000

I built something similar for Linux (yapyap — push-to-talk with whisper.cpp). The "local is too slow" argument doesn't hold up anymore if you have any GPU at all. whisper large-v3-turbo with CUDA on an RTX card transcribes a full paragraph in under a second. Even on CPU, parakeet is near-instant for short utterances.The "deep context" feature is clever, but screenshotting and sending to a cloud LLM feels like massive overkill for fixing name spelling. The accessibility API approach someone mentioned upthread is the right call — grab the focused field's content, nearby labels, window title. That's a tiny text prompt a 3B local model handles in milliseconds. No screenshots, no cloud, no latency.The real question with Groq-dependent tools: what happens when the free tier goes away? We've seen this movie before. Building on local models is slower today but doesn't have a rug-pull failure mode.

New comment by lxe in "Prism"

lxe — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 21:02:01 +0000

Thanks for surfacing this. If you click to "tools" button to the left of "compile", you'll see a list of comments, and you can resolve them from there. We'll keep improving and fixing things that might be rough around the edges.

EDIT: Fixed :)

New comment by lxe in "Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them"

lxe — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 02:06:43 +0000

Eh. This is yet another "I tried AI to do a thing, and it didn't do it the way I wanted it, therefore I'm convinced that's just how it is... here's a blog about it" article.

"Claude tries to write React, and fails"... how many times? what's the rate of failure? What have you tried to guide it to perform better.

These articles are similar to HN 15 years ago when people wrote "Node.JS is slow and bad"

New comment by lxe in "IBM AI ('Bob') Downloads and Executes Malware"

lxe — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 19:47:45 +0000

I hate this type of headline.

Imagine if we had something like:

    "google downloads and executes malware"
    "outlook downloads and executes malware"
    "chrome downloads and executes malware"

That would be ridiculous, right? The right headline is:

    "a person using a computer downloads and executes malware"

New comment by lxe in "-tucky (2023)"

lxe — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 00:17:15 +0000

It's crazy how the etymology of "Kentucky" cannot be traced with certainty. Goes to show how much of the native American culture and language is now untraceable and how fragile our record-keeping is, even in "modern times".

New comment by lxe in "Getting a Gemini API key is an exercise in frustration"

lxe — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:27:22 +0000

I always wondered how something like AWS or GCP Cloud Console admin UIs get shipped. How could someone deliver a product like these and be satisfied, rewarded, promoted, etc. How can Google leadership look at this stuff and be like... "yup, people love this".