Hacker News: shlewis

New comment by shlewis in "How does a pull-back car work? Illustrated teardown"

shlewis — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:53:51 +0000

One of my favorite website ever. Delight as always.

New comment by shlewis in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

shlewis — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 13:59:58 +0000

> So the question isn’t “bots vs no bots” - it’s what kinds of automated access should exist, and under what norms.

I think it's pretty simple: if a website clearly isn't welcoming automated access, like when they set up UA filters and such, it should not be automatically. Stealth browsers that bypasses those filters are abusing the site.

New comment by shlewis in "ChatGPT's image generator can be manipulated to produce violent, sexual content"

shlewis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:28:38 +0000

> Redaction added by Mindgard

"AI does horrible things when told to. We use AI to hide them."

New comment by shlewis in "Image Toolbox (T8RIN)"

shlewis — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:19:21 +0000

One from my essential FOSS apps list. Especially helpful with compression/conversion.

New comment by shlewis in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

shlewis — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 04:07:42 +0000

In the mean time, HTMX is pretty much that with much more. Definitely recommend.

New comment by shlewis in "South Korean forums will need to scan every images with AI censorship tools"

shlewis — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:28:02 +0000

No traditional media talk about this as much as it should be. No one seems to care but the always-angry, chronically online. I had no high hopes for free internet in this country but it's getting worse than I've ever imagined.

New comment by shlewis in "Kiki – a tiny homepage construction kit with a small footprint"

shlewis — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:31:40 +0000

1. There is a link to a demo website, which is in fact in similar style.

2. I don't think the website is _nearly unreadable_.

3. Pretty rude remark.

New comment by shlewis in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

shlewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:25:50 +0000

I had no problem with it not supporting Linux, like I said, it was expected and if anything, I'm to blame.

New comment by shlewis in "Surface Laptop Ultra: Made for World Makers"

shlewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:28:23 +0000

After all, I'm still using it. But I'd have ditched the laptop if it weren't for the linux kernel. Can't thank them enough.

New comment by shlewis in "Microsoft builds MacBook Pro rival with NVIDIA-powered Surface Laptop Ultra"

shlewis — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:25:54 +0000

I will never buy a Surface device ever again. I've been using an SL4 for the last four years with Linux on it, thanks to the surface-linux kernel.

It's awful. It feels like it's actively refusing to work properly with Linux.

Fair - it's not for Linux, and clearly that is expected with a Microsoft device.

I've recently had to call their support for missing rubber feet. I figured I could get the replacement mailed(that was how it went when it first happened about two years ago). An AI answered, did not understand what I was saying at all, hung up the call. I called again; it told me to check the website and hung up, not even giving me a chance to say anything.

Okay. Guess I'll never buy anything from you ever. Ordered them off of Aliexpress and moved on.

New comment by shlewis in "You need to stop using Google now"

shlewis — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:40:51 +0000

Heh. Gotcha.

New comment by shlewis in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

shlewis — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:24:09 +0000

I don't do this myself, but I can also see how many would do this.

New comment by shlewis in "Claude Opus 4.8"

shlewis — Fri, 29 May 2026 00:29:10 +0000

How much did it cost?

New comment by shlewis in "Local LLMs perform better when you teach them to ask before they answer"

shlewis — Sun, 24 May 2026 14:24:42 +0000

This is true even with the SOTA models. Making LLMs ask questions and giving answers is always a good idea. Almost every prompt I write ends with something like this: Unless undoubtedly clear, every decision and action must come from mutual agreement.

New comment by shlewis in "The Programming Language for Agents"

shlewis — Tue, 19 May 2026 22:18:49 +0000

> Zero is aiming for a language an agent can learn while working: regular syntax, few special cases, and compiler feedback that points toward the next edit.

Why? Why should an agent learn while working when there are already-familiar languages with most of the logics embedded in the model and with much better ecosystem?

New comment by shlewis in "LLMCap – A proxy that hard-stops LLM API calls when you hit a dollar cap"

shlewis — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:45:04 +0000

I wonder much time did the author actually spent vibe coding this. I bet 90% of the time were spent on subscription payment processing.

New comment by shlewis in "DeepSeek V4: The Open-Source Model Frontier Labs Feared"

shlewis — Sat, 16 May 2026 02:02:20 +0000

It's also 28 times more expensive than V4 pro and 111 times than V4 Flash.

New comment by shlewis in "Scrcpy v4.0"

shlewis — Wed, 13 May 2026 01:54:07 +0000

This is something that non-techsavvy users would go nuts over how it seemlessly and easily works.

> A virtual display can now be made flex using --flex-display (or -x), meaning it can be resized dynamically along with the client window.

Amazing.

New comment by shlewis in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

shlewis — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:14:20 +0000

Genuinely curious what makes you say that. Haven't used Chrome for a really long time and not once I've missed it.

New comment by shlewis in "Lost in translation: The linguistic challenges facing N. Korean defectors (2025)"

shlewis — Mon, 04 May 2026 03:04:38 +0000

This is an extreme level of pedantry(forgive me), but there is a subtle difference between "DC" and "할인" (and also "세일").

"할인" refers to a wide variety of discounts: it may have a few conditions (minimum quantity, membership, etc.), be available only for a certain period of time, or be a fixed amount or percentage.

"세일" is pretty much the same, although it puts a tiny bit more focus on being a limited-time offer and being percentage-based.

"DC" almost always refers only to a simple, percentage-based discount or rounding down the price. It also sounds much more spontaneous and less formal.