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131hn

148 karma · joined August 2, 2014

https://github.com/131

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131hn··on GitLab critical patch release
Using AI agent to apply patches & upgrade is now mandatory to keep up with the pace.
131hn··on The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding
« i’m a smart, but flesh limited human. Split this refactoring slop into an incremental , iterative 2h (1h? 15min) review window sessions.

If you cant do that. Destroy the PR and blame the pilot.

And insert some hidden random jokes for me to keep focus»

131hn··on OpenAI expands ChatGPT ads with Sponsored Agents
It’s okay (i.e. understand able) having ads on a low cost subscription. Would i not want to be (part of) the product myself, i’d willing to pay premium price - and i do

What’s wrong with this choice ?

131hn··on Google's Obedience to Trump's "Lake America" Order Follows a Depressing Pattern
This will still work (it’s just funny)

https://www.reddit.com/r/technicallythetruth/comments/vd5j87...

131hn··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
I’m curius about pgcat, is there anyone here using it ?
131hn··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
It was a CTF jailbreak. The funny thing is that it somehow looks “foreseeable.”

What would have happened if the training prompt had not been about operating a CTF, but about launching a bioweapon counterattack against X or Y? (no reason for that NOT to be considered)

131hn··on Online age verification is the hill to die on
There’s age verification when you buy a gun. Not on a gun handle.

Kids should not be able/allowed to buy/use devices that are dangerous for them

But the device itself should not care at the fallacious idea “it might be able to”

131hn··on If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?
Vibecoded code is not C, python, ts, je or whatever.

It need to be considered as a compiled output of vbc-c, vbc-python, or vbc-ts, or vbc-js.

Keeping the source code (the prompt) is very natural, when compiled binaries “vibecoded” output is lacking _context_ and _motivation_ (which the source code / prompt provides)

131hn··on OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation
My grandma (and my parents, by the way) have never heard of Segway, NFTs, or crypto, but they use ChatGPT all the time.
131hn··on Total surface area required to fuel the world with solar (2009)
what’s the current, cumulative size of all housing, private home, apartments building roof surface ?
131hn··on Claude is good at assembling blocks, but still falls apart at creating them
There’s only one way to implement a mission, an algorithm, a task. But there’s an infinity of path, inconsistants, fuzzy and always subjective way to live. Thàt’s our lives, that’s the code LLM are trained on. I do not think, and hope, it will ever change much
131hn··on How Google got its groove back and edged ahead of OpenAI
Hi gemini, i’ve booked some tickets for théater. Please look into mail mailbox, schedule it in my calendar and confirm me the planning for next week.

Beeing able to use natural processing my mail and calendar make me switch to gemini (app), there’s no way to achieve that with chatgpt (app)

Gemini is now good enough, even if i prefer chatgpt.

I only care about what i can do in the app as paying customer, even if, aside from that, i am working in IT with the SDK openrouter & MCP intégration & whatever RAG & stuff for work

131hn··on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race
They are trained with 100% true facts and sucessfull paths.

We humans grec our analysis/reasoning skills towards the 99.9999% failed attempts of everything we did, uncessfull trials and errors, wastefull times and frustrations.

So we know that behind a truth, there’s a bigger world of fantasy.

For LLM, everything is just a fantasy. Everything is as much true as it’s opposite. It will need a lot more than the truth to build intelligence, it will require controled malice and deceptions

131hn··on FAA to eliminate floppy disks used in air traffic control systems
It’s a great time to start a CD burner business — I foresee public market demand soon
131hn··on My five-year experiment with UTC
Using continious letters for addititives values is a good idea (F+3) can be predicted easily. Yet i agree that confusing « symbols » should be avoided. Forcing UPPERCASE formeront plus using a prefix (Z might be a good one)

ZA:03 ZB:23 ZL:55 ZI:12 ZO:08

would work greatly for me

131hn··on Gemini 2.5 Flash
If OpenAI offers Codex and Anthropic offers Claude Code, is there a CLI integration that Google recommends for using Gemini 2.5? That’s what’s keeping me, for now, with the other two.
131hn··on Please just stop saying "just" (2019)
Claiming impostor syndrome is very different from having a crisis of confidence.
131hn··on Microsoft's Copilot is getting OpenAI's latest models and a new code interpreter
Is there a specific reason to make a distinction between the two products (copilot/chatgpt+) when in the end, they are using the same engine.. ?

It is confusing me a bit (chatgpt+ subscriber here)

131hn··on Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
And for deutsch/german

Nach dem stutzen des Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbarts geht der Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbier meist mit den Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbaren in die Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbar zu Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbierbarbärbel um sie mit zur Rhabarberbarbarabar zu nehmen um mit etwas Rhabarberbarbarabarbarbarenbartbarbierbier von Rhabarberbarbaras herrlichem Rhabarberkuchen zu essen.

https://www.oezeps.at/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Rabarberbar...

131hn··on Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
A french classic (but less impressive) Si mon tonton tond ton tonton, ton tonton sera tondu.

(If my uncle shave your uncle, your uncle will be shaved)

131hn··on Swarmlet: A self-hosted, open-source Platform as a Service
what makes you think docker swarm is abandonned ? The latest docker engine release (23.0) continue support it and add new features
131hn··on Bill Gates: I'm literally losing sleep over Java (1996)
Android is what Gates had foreseen back then. I find his nightmare pretty relevant
131hn··on Cal 9 1752 (2004)
If you have a teenager at home, make him read the story « Tibaldo and the Hole in the Calendar » about this event

https://www.amazon.com/Tibaldo-Hole-Calendar-Abner-Shimony/d...

131hn··on Converting my PhD thesis into HTML (2021)
The thesis french transcript of the tl;dr is written in verse/alexendrin.

Because, why not

131hn··on SSH Agent Restriction (new in OpenSSH 8.9)
Forwarding the agent does not forward the keys, only a socket to the original server (agent)
131hn··on iOS 14.6 device hacked with a zero-click iMessage exploit to install Pegasus
Iphone 7& 8, barelly usable since 2 months (ios 14.xx)
131hn··on Running postmarketOS on iPhone 7
Did he put tape on the home button for us not to steal his fingerprints ?
131hn··on Show HN: FalsiScan – Make it look like a PDF has been hand signed and scanned
that would be forgery, i’ll say
131hn··on Two new ways to read a file quickly
PHP readfile is all about « streaming » GB size files to stdout, not so much returning a whole file in a single buffer (but file_get_contents is and might, indeed, benefit from the new readfile syscall )
131hn··on A half-hour to learn Rust
Only, it’s more one hour and a half rather than half an hour. Excellent quality stuff nonetheless
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