Hacker News: viach

New comment by viach in "Optimism associated with exceptional longevity (2019)"

viach — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:58:52 +0000

X -> Optimism, Optimism -> Longevity

Can't wait for a research which reveals the X.

New comment by viach in "Yet Another LLM Rant"

viach — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:08:37 +0000

I think people often misread AGI as Artificial God Intelligence.

New comment by viach in "The LLMentalist Effect"

viach — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 21:44:16 +0000

Yup. And the real danger of AI is not that it enslaves humans but in that it will bring great disillusionment and existential crisis.

Someone should write a blog post about this to warn humanity.

New comment by viach in "The LLMentalist Effect"

viach — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 21:14:19 +0000

> 1 The tech industry has accidentally invented the initial stages a completely new kind of mind, based on completely unknown principles...

> 2) The intelligence illusion is in the mind of the user and not in the LLM itself.

3) The intelligence of the users is illusion either?

New comment by viach in "How to Be an Engineer That PMs Don't Hate"

viach — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 08:59:27 +0000

> Be an engineer that PMs don’t hate

Easy-peasy. Always agree with their estimates, never complain, never ask for a raise, work additional hours.

New comment by viach in "OpenAI-to-SQLite"

viach — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 09:45:37 +0000

Can't wait for the battle of the OpenAI JavaScript frameworks

New comment by viach in "Ask HN: Strategies for working with engineers that are too smart?"

viach — Thu, 12 Jan 2023 09:15:24 +0000

Being smart is not the end of the game, software is created by teams. You could ask them to make reverse code review so that they can enjoy each others smarteness.

New comment by viach in "Just use Postgres for everything"

viach — Sun, 11 Dec 2022 19:21:04 +0000

Like you said "they can’t be bothered working out how to..." That's a fact which is not going to change.

New comment by viach in "Just use Postgres for everything"

viach — Sat, 10 Dec 2022 17:30:51 +0000

> Use stored procedures

For God's sake, please don't

New comment by viach in "Why Lisp?"

viach — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 11:27:31 +0000

Strangely, it resonates to me in the context of finding "The Best Note Taking App" buzz. Whoa, X has backlinks! Yay, but Y is open source! At the end of the day we all open the default system notepad.

New comment by viach in "Talking to strangers can make us smarter?"

viach — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 12:25:52 +0000

90% of times when strangers were telling me compliments it ended up with "street scam", iukwim

New comment by viach in "Is Java Dying?"

viach — Sat, 30 Jul 2022 15:16:54 +0000

Sure, it's dead. But very wide spreaded and high paid.

New comment by viach in "The world needs a non-profit search engine"

viach — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 12:49:30 +0000

99% of analogies are correct

New comment by viach in "Ask HN: If you’ve considered homeschooling, what’s stopping you?"

viach — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 21:18:51 +0000

The "real world" view pretty much depends on the glasses you wear and the observation point.

New comment by viach in "Tell HN: The loneliness of a pretty good developer"

viach — Fri, 20 May 2022 07:25:12 +0000

You are taking it too seriously. You are allowed to make mistakes like everyone else.

New comment by viach in "Please Stop Using Grey Text"

viach — Wed, 18 May 2022 11:35:34 +0000

Says someone who uses white font on purple background

New comment by viach in "What Is JSON Patch?"

viach — Tue, 10 May 2022 07:58:38 +0000

If you use JSON for configuration (as it should be), why not update the whole file and get change tracked in VCS? If you use it as a database, why not Mongo then?

New comment by viach in "Unit Testing is Overrated (2020)"

viach — Thu, 07 Apr 2022 11:15:14 +0000

> Consider mocking only as a last resort

Consider trying to write tests in a non-trivial Spring Boot app without mocks

New comment by viach in "Slovio, an international simplified Slavic language"

viach — Fri, 04 Mar 2022 11:57:14 +0000

I think if you speak slowly any of the Slavic languages it will be understandable enough "from Prague to Vladivostok"

New comment by viach in "A simple system I’m using to stay in touch with hundreds of people"

viach — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 11:22:41 +0000

If these other people have similar systems you could even authomate it via shared API so that they are just doing ping-pong of howareyou-imfine. Win-win!