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Ask HN: Books about AI Revolution happening now

sleiben — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:08:51 +0000

Hi HN, what books are worth reading about the AI Revolution happening right now? I would prefer rational and critical analysis with pros and cons. But not necessarily some blind optimism.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50314339

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New comment by sleiben in "Show HN: Marelleo, an open-source story box I built for my kids using ESP32"

sleiben — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 09:04:03 +0000

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/LLM-Voice.html

New comment by sleiben in "Show HN: Sidequest.js – Background jobs for Node.js using your database"

sleiben — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:49:58 +0000

Looks really interesting, especially with the dashboards.

Just to validate an idea here: I’m using k8s (20+ services) and trying to stick to the 12factor design pattern by having all the baking/companion services, also like cron jobs deployed from within the service directory. Right now I’m using k8s cron services for cron jobs and log the steps and observe with DataDog. Using k8s cron services feels right somehow but the observability with DataDog not. So, would it make sense for me, to deploy a baking k8s web service running sidequest instead?

New comment by sleiben in "Gemini 2.5 Flash"

sleiben — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 13:19:23 +0000

Same here. Especially for native app development with swift I had way better results and just sticked with Gemini-2.5-*

New comment by sleiben in "Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)"

sleiben — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 22:31:00 +0000

I’ve tried to order Oriana Fallacis The Rage and the Pride 2 years ago on Amazon (Germany). No chance to get it … felt to me like censorship back then.

New comment by sleiben in "Thank You Bootstrap 1"

sleiben — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 07:04:41 +0000

I would assume their thought is, that it limits their creative spirit and in general is too technical. But they start (as 2 people teams) on figma a complete own design lib with a lot of variables and custom components which look the same like any other lib.

New comment by sleiben in "Smoking cannabis is now legal in Germany"

sleiben — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 09:53:26 +0000

Worse than tobacco?

New comment by sleiben in "Petrov: A man who lived in the woods of Mendocino County (2022)"

sleiben — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 11:02:15 +0000

Also an interesting story of a man who lives now for more than 20 years in a mountain cave in Serbia.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/23086418/tiny-cave-home-in-rem...

New comment by sleiben in "Smart Programmers Write STUPID Code (2022)"

sleiben — Sun, 08 Oct 2023 08:21:53 +0000

Encountered this too often in my career and had a lot of wtf moments debugging that «de-coupled» stuff others (and sometimes me) have left.

I decided to follow the «Wrong abstraction is worse than duplication» approach. Doing this for 5+ years now and did never regret it.

Sure, copy-pasta sucks but in comparison to over engineering it’s an acceptable price to pay.

New comment by sleiben in "Tesla sued for severe harassment of black workers at California plant"

sleiben — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 09:39:45 +0000

100% with you here! Great arguments

edit: It also reminds me of men playing feminist and stepping (aggressively) up to protect women’s rights. I heard from my female colleagues that they hate this since it implies that women are like children and aren’t able or mature enough to speak up for themselves. So the «strong men» need now to protect them…

New comment by sleiben in "Tesla sued for severe harassment of black workers at California plant"

sleiben — Sat, 30 Sep 2023 08:59:59 +0000

The «master» to «main» change was totally unnecessary and B.S. imho.

Even 15 years ago, when I started my professional journey (in Germany) there were a lot of people who were gay, trans and so on in the dev community … and nobody cared about it. We were all passioned about technologies and respected each other based on commitment/engagement/skill level. At the end most of the true full blood developers were always «special» and knew since their childhood that they were different from other children. I think that’s the reason why the embarrassment level was pretty low and people just wore the stuff they wanted, behaved like they wanted eg.

But of course that’s only my personal experience. I’m sure there are a lot of other stories out there to share.

New comment by sleiben in "How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers"

sleiben — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 08:16:00 +0000

We use the microservices architecture as a single team and don’t have any issues with this for many years. The key is to have a monorepo and stay consistent by following strict coding guidelines.

In my opinion it makes the backend way more resilient than a monolith.

Don’t kill me for this opinion please ;)

New comment by sleiben in "HelloSystem: A graphical OS built on FreeBSD"

sleiben — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:48:31 +0000

You‘re probably not the target group. It’s an open source project (in comparison to the MacOS walled garden) and I think that especially your 3rd question is disrespectful. In general your comment reads like a rant against the open source philosophy to me and is attacking/demotivating people who spend their spare time to create free software. Instead of attacking OSS creators one should give kudos and encourage them to go on. … just my 5 cents.

New comment by sleiben in "Mastering Emacs"

sleiben — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 07:20:11 +0000

I saw people (in their 30s) using emacs for almost everything. Coding, reading mails, organizing their todos and so on. It was impressive to see their workflow.

The only thing which hold me back to really learn it, were the stories about repetitive strain injuries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36718793

New comment by sleiben in "Select * from cloud"

sleiben — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 15:51:52 +0000

Reminds me of Git.

New comment by sleiben in "Kaiten: Japan’s fully-manned kamikaze torpedos during WWII"

sleiben — Thu, 19 May 2022 22:58:20 +0000

It’s from Eisenhower’s book `Crusade in Europe` where he tells a story from general Georgy Zhukov how Soviet soldiers were cleaning the minefields.

Though it’s not related to Stalingrad afair.

New comment by sleiben in "Tell HN: By default, New Relic will start collecting production log data on 5/3"

sleiben — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 07:02:41 +0000

We had the same issue and were so frustrated, that we decided to move to DataDog. Yes, the NewRelic APM UI/UX is better but you get used to DDs pretty fast too. And log management is better on DD side actually.

A fancy APM UI isn’t worth it to tolerate these dark business patterns which they try (or just do) all the time IMO.

We didn’t regret the decision.

Former Afghan Minister of Communications is now delivering food in Germany

sleiben — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 14:33:38 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/josamania/status/1428983082724569097

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28265788

Points: 7

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New comment by sleiben in "Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence"

sleiben — Sat, 07 Aug 2021 07:19:11 +0000

“The next day, he found he couldn’t access his messages. An IT technician told him on the phone that his account didn’t exist."

Uff… reads like a paragraph from 1984 to me.

New comment by sleiben in "Ask HN: How do you chill your mind after work?"

sleiben — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 07:07:12 +0000

As someone who spends most of his working day behind a desk and steering on an artificial screen I find activities at home like gaming, watching tv shows eg. not fulfilling (anymore). At the next day I had always the feeling that work is the only important thing I was doing and when there were some difficulties at work it impacted obviously the whole life.

After trying out different things the last years I’ve sticked with walking/hiking for 2+ hours almost every evening. Important: it has to be in the nature and the most relaxing experience is when I don’t meet any person at all.

During this time I can reflect best on my life. Surely it’s not a meditation but for me a nice technique to find more peace in life.