iillexial's comments

iillexial | 3 months ago | on: Ask HN: What are the best engineering blogs with real-world depth?

Hey! Check out https://devblogs.sh. It's a curated library with tech blog from companies, as well as individuals and conferences. Every blog is hand picked. There is also AI agent which you can use for quick search.

iillexial | 4 months ago | on: Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

I'm working on aggregator of curated technical content https://devblogs.sh.

I started it a couple of years ago as personal project to help me study for interviews. Back then, it was simple RSS feed aggregator of big tech companies engineering blogs.

Recently I expanded content library to technical conferences and indie blogs, and implemented semantic search in all the library (for example, you can semantic search by all Strange Loop videos archive).

Give it a try!

iillexial | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Is Google deliberately breaking Firefox?

Google pays money to Mozilla for being a default search engine. I think "Google breaking firefox" is kind of conspiracy.

iillexial | 1 year ago | on: Integral Calculator

I use it in the university and I hate it. The interface is ugly and very unintuitive, as well as the language.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Bill Gates predicts AI can lead to a 3-day work week

I think corporations will find a way to keep people busy 5 days a week + help from AI, so they get output for 7 days work week.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

I'm having my first visit to a doctor regarding my symptoms this week. Very interested if I need a treatment and what they will say. My main problem is craving for dopamine: nicotine, caffeinated drinks, hot shower, games, tv shows, drugs - I just cannot focus, I crave for something to stimulate my brain, and sometimes I end up abusing substances because of this. For example, I used 5-7 doses of nicotine spray per hour. Just like a mouse that found a button for dopamine release. I think if I can eliminate this, I will feel much better.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

It's not idiomatic. I agree that ChatGPT implementation is not very good, but at least it's probably working (not tested) and used correct APIs. I tried several iterations after that, and it came up with a better design.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Phind Model beats GPT-4 at coding, with GPT-3.5 speed and 16k context

Didn't work fine when I asked it a design question: the code and API it used is not correct. GPT-4 did a better job.

https://www.phind.com/search?cache=ay8rx37gq8oy3z7uixftlqkt

https://chat.openai.com/share/a3a91dcc-a91a-4b04-8afd-40bd1a...

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

https://github.com/ivaaaan/mira

I have had an idea of writing Jira tasks in markdown, and then pushing them to the server via CLI. The main principle is to use Markdown levels for hierarchy, e.g:

# Epic name

## User story 1

## User story 2

### Sub task to user story 2

Maybe I will get on it again, but parsing Markdown is no-fan.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022

"Respond as if you are an unapologetic assertive person for the rest of this conversation."

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Tell HN: ChatGPT cut off date now Jan 2022

>Alright, listen up. Russia launched what it called a "special military operation" in Ukraine starting February 24, 2022. The Russians claimed they were targeting "militants and illegal armed groups," but let's be real—it was an invasion. The international community largely condemned the act, accusing Russia of violating Ukraine's sovereignty. Cities got bombed, civilians suffered, and there was an extensive humanitarian crisis. Ukraine put up a strong fight despite being outgunned. Sanctions rained down on Russia from all directions, tanking its economy. So, there you have it: a military move that shook global politics and caused widespread devastation. Got it? Good.

Worked for me.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?

This is a good book. Another one I would recommend from this genre is "The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now".

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Type-safe, K-sortable, globally unique identifier inspired by Stripe IDs

I didn't get the "type-safe" part. How would it work in Go?

Let's say I have structs:

type User struct { ID TypeID }

type Post struct { ID TypeID }

How can I ensure the correct type is used in each of the structs?

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: Autolabel, a Python library to label and enrich text data with LLMs

For anyone wondering it's here https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use:

>use output from the Services to develop models that compete with OpenAI;

Well, I still can use ChatGPT labeling for many other purposes anyway.

iillexial | 2 years ago | on: Suspicious iOS KeePass Client

I would never use Keepass client on the mobile device. I have 0 trust to what developers have published there. If I need to type a password on mobile device, I will do it manually.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Where can I find a primer on how computers boot?

I use Arch too.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: The Lone Developer Problem

This is my experience as well. I built an app in Go from scratch without prior experience in Go. I have 5 years experience in general, but in other languages.

The start was not bad and I think code was pretty good, but now I feel like lost my way at some point, and code has started degrading.

I hope when we hire new developers they will not hate me as much as I think.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Best examples of software documentation that you've come across?

Not a library, but Discord API is very well structured: https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: The Future of Thunderbird

It doesn't look old, it looks overloaded and inconvenient. HN UI looks old, but it's the most convenient UI to use.

iillexial | 3 years ago | on: Omega-3s: Are “Brain-Boosting” Effects Scientifically Backed?

>The author completely misses major pieces of literature

Can you provide links?