Hacker News: nlehuen

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:37:43 +0000

https://halupedia.com/spatial-bowel-movement-observatory

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:28:49 +0000

I'm having a blast adding new seeds :)

https://halupedia.com/fcuk-spellchecking-society https://halupedia.com/characterization-of-the-reluctant-peng...

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:43:14 +0000

Looks like some single quote escaping issue? I suspect the first link to be "Archduke Ferdinand VII's Bureau of Non-Demographic Surveys" and the apostrophe breaks the link.

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: Hallucinopedia"

nlehuen — Wed, 06 May 2026 21:40:28 +0000

This is excellent, congrats!

FYI I manually created this page and some link markup looks malformed: https://halupedia.com/list-of-uninhabited-countries

Python Is Dead

nlehuen — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://calebfenton.substack.com/p/python-is-dead

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47787374

Points: 16

# Comments: 11

New comment by nlehuen in "We replaced Node.js with Bun for 5x throughput"

nlehuen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:53:15 +0000

The SQL query they replaced was extremely cringe and amateurish ("let's sprinkle DISTINCT until all those pesky redundant rows that come from our inefficient KV metadata schema go away"). The fact they did not acknowledge that and somehow blame it on SQlite made me stop reading on the spot, and be very worried for whoever depends on their products.

New comment by nlehuen in "Boomloom: Think with your hands"

nlehuen — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:19:35 +0000

See also: writing a design doc before writing code :)

New comment by nlehuen in "Ghostmd: Ghostty but for Markdown Notes"

nlehuen — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 01:40:57 +0000

> Diary entries get a path: diary/2026/march/03/

Date paths should use at least a double digit numerical index so they are naturally ordered when sorted lexicographically. Numbers also give you i18n for free (assuming Gregorian calendar of course, but it seems that's what this non configurable tool does here).

New comment by nlehuen in "In praise of –dry-run"

nlehuen — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:56:50 +0000

And just like that, you find yourself implementing a compiler (specs to plan) and a virtual machine (plan to actions)!

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit"

nlehuen — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:07:08 +0000

Actually there are π(N) ~ N / ln(N) primes less than N per the Prime Number Theorem, so π(2 ^ 160) ~ 2 ^ 153.2 - this only drops 7 bits. So that does increase the odds of collision but much less than what I expected!

New comment by nlehuen in "Show HN: 48-digit prime numbers every git commit"

nlehuen — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 22:54:00 +0000

I came here to write that :-)

New comment by nlehuen in "Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)"

nlehuen — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 22:47:21 +0000

There are at least some in the Paris subway, including one that went at 12 km/h but was decommissioned in 2011:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_walkway#Trottoir_roulan...

New comment by nlehuen in "My original Palm IIIx"

nlehuen — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 08:42:10 +0000

I initially thought that this space was encumbered with parents but Gemini Deep Research says the main patent expired in 2018: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GmWGZMe_cjszV5eEegeFiWXK...

New comment by nlehuen in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

nlehuen — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 23:00:26 +0000

China is west of the USA.

New comment by nlehuen in "Initialization in C++ is bonkers (2017)"

nlehuen — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:44:52 +0000

Not to worry, there is a 278 page book about initialization in C++!

https://leanpub.com/cppinitbook

(I don't know whether it's good or not, I just find it fascinating that it exists)

New comment by nlehuen in "Let's Quit X"

nlehuen — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:18:58 +0000

Holy cow, I created my account in May of 2007. What a different world we live in now.

New comment by nlehuen in "Let's Quit X"

nlehuen — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:15:31 +0000

I left on 2022-12-18 after some of the muskian shenanigans and I haven't missed it since, quite the contrary in fact. Before that I had to put a time limit on using the app to fight off the dark patterns.

Now I'm going to actually delete my account.

New comment by nlehuen in "Sora is here"

nlehuen — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:40:21 +0000

You are posting this under a pseudonym. If you did publish something horrific or illegal, it would have been the responsibility of this web site to either censor your content, and/or identify you when asked by authorities. Which do you prefer?

New comment by nlehuen in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

nlehuen — Fri, 01 Nov 2024 16:11:36 +0000

Yes it does. Internally Google uses C++20 (https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#C++_Versio...) and the model picks the style from training, I suppose.

New comment by nlehuen in "Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI"

nlehuen — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 09:09:59 +0000

I also work at Google and I agree with the general sentiment that AI completion is not doing engineering per se, simply because writing code is just a small part of engineering.

However in my experience the system is much more powerful than you described. Maybe this is because I'm mostly writing C++ for which there is a much bigger training corpus than JavaScript.

One thing the system is already pretty good at is writing entire short functions from a comment. The trick is not to write:

  function getAc...

But instead:

  // This function smargls the bleurgh
  // by flooming the trux.
  function getAc...

This way the completion goes much farther and the quality improves a lot. Essentially, use comments as the prompt to generate large chunks of code, instead of giving minimum context to the system, which limits it to single line completion.