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New comment by olup in "Felix and I"

olup — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:20:03 +0000

I have two kids. They are very very different in their needs, sleep patterns, self security, and have been since their first days. Parenting is mostly hard for anyone getting serious about it, but i can vary tremendously from you kid personnality, the support system you have, etc... I suspect some parents (usually fathers) don't know it because they do not put in the works (and then give some advices on boundaries). Still, some have "easy" kids in the sense that they are not demanding a lot from the parent, and that can be fine or the sign of a troubled personnality. I completely understand the author here, as this has been also my experience - parenting is unbeleivably hard but _also_ beautiful and _also_ an experience that should change you to the core and make you grow. To me, however hard it can be, it beats the alternative. But I could unserstand that only once I've been through abandonning my former self govern by individualist values and goals to become a new person taking care of someone else, however hard and painful it might have been.

New comment by olup in "Delta"

olup — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:08:18 +0000

Same pain point on (2). So I had codex build me a small macos sytem tray app that lets me comment on anything i can select on my screen with the source app and metadata plus my comments. Once commenting is done i can click a button to coppy all comment to the chat input, and voila ! But really something i hope that gets integrated into the codex app itself. The present way they made it is not super helpful.

New comment by olup in "LLMs reward expertise"

olup — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:17:39 +0000

Also, one can improve domain expertise with the help of the LLM, to becomme a better part of the LLM harness.

New comment by olup in "MCP is dead?"

olup — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:56:56 +0000

Having implemented a skill to connect teams to our admin system, we ended up recording it as a Mcp. the Mcp exposes only doc grep and api calls so it's completely useless in itself, but the main reason to go this route was distribution. Non technical teams want a UI where to add a url then everything just works and oauth is guided. Mcp permits that in Claude or chatgpt.

Also the calling of the Mcp is nicer in the chat UI, clearer for users.

New comment by olup in "AI slop is killing online communities"

olup — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:19:43 +0000

I feel that a lot in my side projects: maybe one should keep the half-baked AI repo for oneself and rather share what the experiment, the thesis, and the learning from the building are. No one cares much about the (un)finished product, as it can be replicated better in most cases with a couple hours' work of claude coding.

For instance, I really liked how Karpathy shared a high-level idea on the LLM-based wiki. It was sadly followed by a long tail of no-one-cares-about "Here is my LLM wiki product" posts pointing to the generic LLM-generated landing page.

Open JJ: parallel jj workspaces in VS Code, in one click

olup — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:39:29 +0000

Article URL: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=olup.open-jj

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47846991

Points: 2

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

olup — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:08:51 +0000

I use handy all day long as a software engineer, and recommended it to all of my team members. I love it.

New comment by olup in "So where are all the AI apps?"

olup — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:29:47 +0000

A bit tangential to the article themes, but I feel in some workplaces that engineering velocity has gone up while product cycles and agile processes have stayed the same. People end up churning tickets faster and working less, while general productivity has not changed.

Of course these are specific workplaces designed around moving tickets on a board, not high-agentic, fast-moving startups or independent projects—but they might represent a lot of the developer workforce.

I also know this is not everyone's experience and probably a rare favorable outcome of productivity gain captured by a worker that is not and won't stay the norm.

New comment by olup in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

olup — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 13:30:33 +0000

My team is asking the same. We are using jj with great success but tools like auto claude are designed around git and git worktrees. It's a shame - at least with git backend we can sort of make things work together.

New comment by olup in "VisualJJ – Jujutsu in Visual Studio Code"

olup — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 12:59:26 +0000

I wanted the same extension but more steerable and open source, so I built open jj recently https://github.com/olup/open-jj

Show HN: I Claude coded a small open-source jj VSCode extension

olup — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:13:12 +0000

There were only 2 of them; one was not awesome for me to use, and the other one is not open source, and I felt it lacked some features. So I made a third one, mainly for me. Early days, maybe it'll be useful to you too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46646512

Points: 2

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Zenstack V3

olup — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:03:17 +0000

Article URL: https://zenstack.dev/v3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46107535

Points: 2

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New comment by olup in "What does it mean to be thirsty?"

olup — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 04:48:47 +0000

I can't relate more. I am also prone to ophthalmic migraines and have the same tendency to not be thirsty, to the amazement of the people I usually trek or live with. Only recently (35 and a kidney stone) did I gather that I might actually be in need of water even without feelings of thirst. I have never made a connection with migraines, and that might not be it for me but reading you makes me want to pay attention.

New comment by olup in "The curse of knowing how, or; fixing everything"

olup — Tue, 06 May 2025 10:34:18 +0000

I am a father of two, and I could not have penned that any better.

New comment by olup in "A year of uv: pros, cons, and should you migrate"

olup — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 06:49:13 +0000

It's Counter Strike of course

New comment by olup in "Les pieds sur terre ia generated"

olup — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:34:50 +0000

Famous french radio program about lives and experience, like the moth meets Bourdieu. For this episode, they wrote and made the voices all in ai, relating to the Paris ai submit. The episode is used to trigger réflexions about gen ai.

Les pieds sur terre ia generated

olup — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 21:34:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/les-pieds-sur-terre/les-naufrages-du-telepherique-2428012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42977732

Points: 1

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New comment by olup in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

olup — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:12:00 +0000

On the prompt side, it's very simple, and can probably be done in a variety of ways. How we did it is to prepare a prompt with multiple "user" messages. The first one gives the instruction

you are given a reference and three candidates, which one of the candidates do you think is a match to the reference? Only output its identifier or a code when none is found

Not exactly that but something along those lines.

Then one "user" message per car (reference + candidates) with image + text indicating the type (reference or candidate) and an identifier (can be as simple as the index for the candidates).

New comment by olup in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

olup — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 08:31:11 +0000

Poster here. We would have loved that, and it was one of our first proposal - a QR code or some kind of marker. However, the client is understandably very controlling on the aesthetics of their wall as a central element of their scenography. We would have pushed for it again in the last resort, but would probably have lost the contract.

New comment by olup in "How we used GPT-4o for image detection with 350 similar illustrations"

olup — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 21:02:32 +0000

First time for me posting this kind of story - I thought it would make an interesting case on solving a hard computer vision problem with a crafty product engineer team.