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la_fayetteon WSL3 Performance is about 5-60% faster than WSL2 depending on the workload

ok great benchmark! I work with herdr/pi for dev work and need to use a windows machine from my company. WSL currently unfortunately lags so much when typing, not sure why when using herdr... Using powershell, some features are missing, so i can't wait to try WSL3 and hope for improvements.

la_fayetteon Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

scam

la_fayetteon Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023

1 year

la_fayetteon uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook

ok thanking the team for this work over the years. i hope yt will stay ad-free :-)

la_fayetteon Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

I started using Herdr and I really like it. Since the main features I wanted are already there, I have no issue with the commercialization. I still wonder how this can be turned into a profitable business. It'll be really interesting to follow Herdr's future. All the best to the founder!

la_fayetteon Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage

you can just use the --tools flag to disable bash tool

la_fayetteon More German than many Germans

let's see how this turns out, but I would not underestimate the german engineering culture...

la_fayetteon Organic Maps

ok cool, i see there is already a similar project called wanderer, so i assume the difference would be in the planning module? thx

la_fayetteon Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

I started to work on an open source audioguide app as PWA or mobile app. This app can be used by museums or similar institutions https://github.com/smartcompanion-app/audioguide-app.

After my experience in consulting museums, I found that they spend a lot of money on software, which could potentially be replaced with open source software. Therefore I started an awesome list with FOSS software for museums: https://github.com/smartcompanion-app/awesome-open-source-mu....

la_fayetteon How LLMs work

i am not sure acctually of the math is acctually that complicated/important. the math around neural networks is calculus/chain rule etc and for model comparison/validation one needs statistics. the required math for e.g. understand transformers is quite accessible.

la_fayetteon Cloudflare Flagship

When reading your comment, it just reminds me on how feature flags can be misused as application configuration/customization. An antipattern i could observe at various organzations already.

For me feature flags go along with trunk based development to enable features in QA settings, but not on PROD yet, for PO/PM testing. Trunk based development allows for fast/easy devops, without complicated branching strategies.

Application configuration is, for me, part of the application and has the business context for customizing the application accordingly. Not sure if there are specific frameworks/tools out there. But one should clearly distinguish these two.

la_fayetteon Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan

depends, JavaScript in the Browser has many useful things available, which I miss with python, e.g., fetch, which in Python you need a separate package like requests to avoid a clunky API. Java had this issue for long time as well, since Java 11 there is the HttpClient with a convenient API.

la_fayetteon Microgpt

Yes, that’s true! That could be my next step… though I have to admit, writing this in a HN comment feels like a bit of a challenge.

la_fayetteon Microgpt

This guy is so amazing! With his video and the code base I really have the feeling I understand gradient descent, back propagation, chain rule etc. Reading math only just confuses me, together with the code it makes it so clear! It feels like a lifetime achievement for me :-)

la_fayetteon Software engineers can no longer neglect their soft skills

The claim in the article that AI is good at writing code, is that claude code is written by claude code.

la_fayetteon Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

I don't get your point here. User targeted ads are the main business model of the internet? Yes, few days ago it was revealed how billions of user data points could be gathered from Meta [1], did anybody care, outside a small privacy community? So indead these things are not surprising... My thoughts don't go so far to consider the effects on society, idk, do you?

[1] https://www.heise.de/en/news/3-5-Billion-Accounts-Complete-W...

la_fayetteon Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out

It is no surprise, somehow they need to earn money. It will be interesting though how much the response of the LLM will be adapted. At least legally advertisement need to be marked for users. So either the response of an LLM will be extended with ad content or replaced by ad content.

la_fayetteon Agent design is still hard

I use GenAI for text translation, text 2 voice and voice 2 text, there it is extremely useful. For coding I often have the feeling it is useless, but also sometimes it is useful, like most tools...

la_fayetteon Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

https://github.com/smartcompanion-app/audioguide-app

An open-source audioguide app that helps museums and cultural spaces create engaging visitor experiences. Feel free to give me a star on GitHub.

la_fayetteon Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance

It might not be possible but others have scraped just the app store and matched based on Android meta data: https://people.ece.ubc.ca/amesbah/resources/papers/mobilesof...

la_fayetteon Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance

Somebody scraped the play store and checked the framework, so a list for Android WebView apps, built with capacitor, is here: https://capgo.app/top_capacitor_app/ Maybe an equivalent is there on iOS for the same app...

la_fayetteon Android's sideloading limits are its most anti-consumer move

Let's see what will the future of Graphene be, since Google is not publishing the device tree anymore for Pixel devices...

la_fayetteon Coral Protocol: Open infrastructure connecting the internet of agents

Thinking without idiology about it, it seems to make sense to have an autonomous agent with a wallet. A requestor could send money (in whatever form) into the wallet of the agent and would buy tokens, processing time or whatever from the agent.

la_fayetteon Ask HN: Abandoned/dead projects you think died before their time and why?

I can recommend Apache Camel (https://camel.apache.org) for similar data integration pipelines and even agentic workflows. There are even visual editors for Camel today, which IMHO make it extremely user friendly to build any kind of pipeline quickly.

Apache Karavan: https://karavan.space/ Kaoto (Red Hat): https://kaoto.io

Both are end 2 end usable within vscode.

la_fayetteon Firefox is the best mobile browser

Although I didn't collect numbers, but I made a similar experience in my workplace. I assume many people are highly distracted by ads and work efficiency is even reduced. Even many software engineers seem to not be aware of ublock... Would be interesting to know how many students started using an ad blocker at the end of your lecture :)

la_fayetteon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

Great, I will check it out, I am a Java dev and always wanted to learn about game programming!

la_fayetteon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)

I am working on an open source audioguide app for museums and similar institutions https://www.smartcompanion.app/

Feel free to give my repos a star on GitHub, thx

la_fayetteon Claude Sonnet 4.5

Since such a database should evolve continuously, I wouldn't see that as a problem. The important thing is, that each example is somehow verifiable, in the form of a unmodifiable test setup. So the LLM provides a solution, which is executed against the test to verify. Something like ACID3 Tests... But sure it can be gamed somehow in probably all setups...

la_fayetteon Claude Sonnet 4.5

At this point it would be an interesting idea, to collect examples, in a form of a community database, were LLMs miserably fail. I have examples myself...