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aleksiy123··on OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
Commenting to rmemebr this but it’s good
aleksiy123··on Postgres 19 is late because so many more bugs are being found now
Idk, I think it pretty clear to me that

“Find the issues in this code” vs “write this feature” are different problems.

The first one is easier because the feedback loop is llm to code/test and trivially scalable.

The second one is llm to human which is going to be slower because it can’t read your mind.

The tighter and more deterministic the loop the more llms excel.

aleksiy123··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (November 2026)
Turning RSS, atom, blog feeds into audio feeds with kokoro tts. Free, web app only.

https://porchlit.app/

I built the original for myself because I wanted to listen to acoup and other history blogs while sleeping. And in the spirit of getting better at finishing projects decided make it public even tho it’s nothing really unique or special.

Still lots to polish especially in the text/copy and ui but the core features should be working.

aleksiy123··on AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them
It’s cause they don’t know what they are talking about.

Easier to shit on people and things with hot take then actually have a grounded and coherent argument or realise that different companies/teams have different constraints, problems and environments they operate as well as different solutions.

aleksiy123··on Gemini 4 Carbon
I think it’s relative size of literary work.

Mythos > Fable ? Opus > Sonnet > Haiku

Tho I think it’s definitely not obvious at first glance. And requires some thinking to order if you are even familiar with the terms in the first place (I had to look up opus)

aleksiy123··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Yeah I think the op is overestimating the effort it take to order them properly especially cross culture.

The ordering seems to be based on size?

I actually like the google one. Alphabetical categories. Essentially alpha beta without the existing connation.

I think the bigger problem it’s getting harder to order models linearly. As later versions of the model make different tradeoffs across dimensions.

aleksiy123··on Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Google does this research not sure if the others are doing it. Embodied reasoning

https://deepmind.google/models/gemini-robotics/

aleksiy123··on We are all living inside of an obscure sci-fi film from 1970
This comment is so snobby and obnoxious :/

There’s a lot of people different people from a lot of different ages and backgrounds.

Just because they haven’t seen all of the same sci-fi movies they aren’t qualified to work on ai?

Also, I love sci-fi but it’s also not always representative of reality.

aleksiy123··on How abliterated models can get you pwned
It is bleak. But the cinematography is amazing, and I think worth it for that alone.

Maybe even the best I’ve ever seen.

aleksiy123··on Show HN: Things to Do API
Cool idea and I really like the design of the landing page.
aleksiy123··on Show HN: Gemini 4 Argon plays StarCraft
The site overall looks nice too. It’s fun not to see slop for a ui for this kind of project.
aleksiy123··on We’re releasing Jev 1.14.0 along with experimental features for dreamers
I haven’t used jev yet. I’m curious if it can be used for entity labeling or extraction in text somehow?

I see box is now a thing but no span?

So render text to image then use box right?

aleksiy123··on Ask HN: CAD for wood working with LLM support?
Wow i was just thinking the same thing. Going to take a cbc course at my local shop.

Does anyone know what the SOTA is for cad models from image or multiple images?

I was hoping to try doing some reproductions of stuff i saw in museums/palaces in Europe.

aleksiy123··on Show HN: I wrote an email app that accepts only one sender per inbox
I wanted to build this for phone numbers at some point but it was way outside of my skill level at the time.

I feel like unique address per sender, receiver pair could cut down on so much spam.

And you can see exactly who is leaking your info.

aleksiy123··on Spreading Yourself Too Thin
LLM/Agents have made the first 80-90% of a feature/project really fast.

But getting the last 10-20% actually requires your attention and many often many iterations.

Then you have 5+ things that are 80% done but kinda janky and broken in weird ways. Finishing them still takes work and discipline and can end up feeling overwhelming. Or you can swap to this new idea you just had in the shower, and get the dopamine rush all over again.

It sneaks up on you. Ironically discipline seems to be more important than ever. Easy to spend a bunch of tokens/quota and get nowhere but feel productive.

aleksiy123··on Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo
It’s a tradeoff for sure. But i think the problems just manifest a bit differently.

With multi repo it’s just a smaller constant friction on everything you do.

With mono repo everything is working amazing. Then you hit something big you need to solve to move on. So the friction is more spiky.

Edit: to add another thought. I feel like multi repo is more process oriented, while in mono repo you try to resolve that through tooling. Devs are just generally going to write about that more.

aleksiy123··on Tanstack Start 1.0 is stable
Also, Reduces bugs, increases agent velocity, doesn’t poison your code base.

All of that plus runtime performance and features.

All of these things still matter for agents. I think it’s just less visible to a dev now.

But velocity, bugs, token costs are still being impacted. You only see that if you are tracking it.

Scaling maintainable code base is probably more important than ever with the fire hose of code incoming.

aleksiy123··on Maybe a better way to track the release history of a Git repo
Agreed. I tend to think of it like this.

Runtime config is a pure function of environment.

A versioned binary/artifact should be the same across environments.

Release stage is a property of environment. (local/dev -> preview/staging -> prod)

If behaviour or value of something changes across environments it belongs as config and not code.

aleksiy123··on Show HN: Deslop – Oxlint rules for AI-generated TypeScript
I really believe having good rules like this can make a big difference in llm quality. So this is awesome thanks.

I’m personally using both oxlint for typescript and my own vibe coded tool for doing cross language rules ast rules and llm hook outputs.

And recently added vale as well.

aleksiy123··on Gemini 4 Argon
I think in this case it’s from the element argon
aleksiy123··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
What a flood of nostalgia.

I wonder if AI could help in reviving these.

With my zero knowledge of flash is it possible to somehow bridge it into modern browsers using web assembly or something?

aleksiy123··on MicroLLM Lab – Try 7 tiny LLM's in the browser
To be fair this is worse.

It’s verbose with a layer of looking legit play first glance sloppy UI.

I don’t mind vibe code ui but at least some ui efffort would be nice. Not just 1 shot.

aleksiy123··on Using LLMs to trace alchemical knowledge and decode 17th century letters
I also have been doing this every round of models releasing.

Thanks for reminding me to try this new round of models.

I wonder if there are some good tools/apis that can help here.

A lot of information is often login gated

aleksiy123··on Claude's Load-Bearing Seams
Woosh?
aleksiy123··on Show HN: SQLBraid – Write SQL directly in TypeScript without a query-builder DSL
As a sidenote from the slop language, which is awful.

Feel like latest models have really got hung up on “facts” and “evidence” in a really unnatural way.

And especially Claude seems to have a lot of trouble separating it’s internal thoughts, from prompts/instructions, to output.

So you get all of these weird comments and artifacts in the output.

“neighboring versions do not inherit certification. No tag, npm publication, Pages deployment, or release authorization is implied.”

aleksiy123··on AI-generated posters don’t have to be horrible
Tyty I was thinking about something similar
aleksiy123··on LLM Classification Is Feature Engineering
You can also get LLM to optimize rules for a rules engine iteratively against some dataset.

It’s sort of like memoizing or distilling the knowledge. Works really well for certain type of problems.

aleksiy123··on Show HN: Real-time AI news aggregator with daily digest
The font, the colour, and the dot on the tags all scream Claude slop ui.
aleksiy123··on Sony makes bold claim about game ownership
PlayStation store not allowing returns for games that have been downloaded is the most bs policy.

In a world where steam allows instant returns with under 2 hours play time.

I have a few games now on ps where I barely played or found out the controls were terrible and have no way to return.

aleksiy123··on It's OK to hardcode feature flags (2025)
You can do much more with feature flags like ab testing/experiments, integrations with analytics.

There can be whole UIs and tooling and infrastructure to manage around them and that’s what the sass offer

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