Hacker News: serpix

New comment by serpix in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

serpix — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 17:25:30 +0000

Tried Grammarly, could you possibly include a few more onboarding animations and reminders to upgrade to the paid version? I almost finished typing a word.

New comment by serpix in "MiMo-v2.5-Pro-UltraSpeed: 1T model with 1000 tokens per second"

serpix — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:04:46 +0000

I may sound like a shill, but exponential growth and all. We are going to get near instant software from prompt, multiple ones and then choose the best one.

Discussions about choosing a library with the best syntactic sugar method naming is just as crazy as suggesting we type in assembly.

New comment by serpix in "Pretty soon, heat pumps will be able to store and distribute heat as needed"

serpix — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 05:25:28 +0000

Yes, same thing. Heat pump to heat exchanger. This is over 39 years old tech and in common use around Scandinavia and mainland europe. This is ancient technology.

New comment by serpix in "Vitamin D and Omega-3 have a larger effect on depression than antidepressants"

serpix — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 11:08:23 +0000

Omega 3 comes from algae, which might be okay for some vegans.

New comment by serpix in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

serpix — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:26:44 +0000

If you have permanent credentials then you are already in great danger. You should be using temporary credentials with something like Granted.

New comment by serpix in "Show HN: Terminal UI for AWS"

serpix — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 06:24:14 +0000

Linuxbrew is absolutely fantastic. No need to mess with apt repositories and can keep custom binaries separate from the os. Almost everything is there, and it just works.

New comment by serpix in "250MWh 'Sand Battery' to start construction in Finland"

serpix — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 11:36:43 +0000

it does! With a heat pump and insulation.

New comment by serpix in "ChatGPT Pulse"

serpix — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:10:15 +0000

A very good tip: you get one chance to prompt them to a new path failing that clear the context and start again from the current premise.

Use only actionable prompts, negations don't work on ai and they don't work on people.

New comment by serpix in "ChatGPT Pulse"

serpix — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:07:58 +0000

Same here! Started learning self hosted k3s, with terraform and IaC and all the bells and whistles. I would never have had the energy to look up how to even get started. In three hours I have a cluster.

New comment by serpix in "Cognitive load is what matters"

serpix — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:28:03 +0000

These points are about organising code and workflow. Even if you have organised your functions to the lowest possible unit of work you can still have a mess of async queue microservice hell which is the actual architecture.

Architecture is another topic entirely and the scope is higher abstractions across multiple systems.

New comment by serpix in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

serpix — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 10:36:38 +0000

Well the AI will just steamroll through and will therefore go out of rails just like a junior dev on a coding binge.

New comment by serpix in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

serpix — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:10:11 +0000

hilariously that is just what I tried to do the other day and oh boy are we safe from AI taking over just yet.

New comment by serpix in "Emailing a one-time code is worse than passwords"

serpix — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 11:05:36 +0000

so many of these Authentication providers have a hockey stick pricing scheme, where the first few users are near free and when you grow you are going to get mugged and kicked in the groin.

New comment by serpix in "Why Exercise Is a Miracle Drug"

serpix — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 16:51:28 +0000

Then we switch sports and start rehab. Aerobic exercise can be done in so many ways.

New comment by serpix in "The Effect of Noise on Sleep"

serpix — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:44:10 +0000

2 euro silicone ear plugs from Aliexpress easily beat the custom ear plugs I had.

New comment by serpix in "Generative AI coding tools and agents do not work for me"

serpix — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:36:08 +0000

Regarding using AI tools for programming it is not a one-for-all choice. You can pick a grunt work task such as "Tag every such and such terraform resource with a uuid" and let it do just that. Nothing to do with quality but everything to do with a simple task and not having to bother with the tedium.

New comment by serpix in "AI Horseless Carriages"

serpix — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 04:30:48 +0000

What I've found with agents is that they stray from the task and even start to flip flop on implementations, going back and forth on a solution. They never admit they don't know something and just brute force a solution even though the answer cannot be found without trial and error or actually studying the problem. I repeatedly fall back to reading the docs and just finishing the job myself as the agent just does not know what to do.

New comment by serpix in "'Sun-Like' Stars"

serpix — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 10:40:21 +0000

you interfered with the browser scroll and for that you deserve a loud BOO.

New comment by serpix in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

serpix — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 20:45:09 +0000

There are more options than this.

New comment by serpix in "US Ends Support For Ukrainian F-16s"

serpix — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:59:30 +0000

So is it going to be Kubernetes as the IaC stack from now on? I'm asking as a heads up as I foresee a potential major demand for infrastructure migrations in the future.