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ActionHank··on Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)
You might steal some proprietary vibes.
ActionHank··on Canadians are running out of time to oppose Bill C-22
So let's assume it goes forward, what are my options to maintain privacy?
ActionHank··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Rails cli could do this a decade ago, there’s no major difference here other than the number if lines dumped.
ActionHank··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Teams is dog water, but it's dog water that works.
ActionHank··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Maybe I should rephrase, it's not happening at any org that will be in business beyond the next couple years. Customers don't care about your software factory, they care about a product that works reliably.
ActionHank··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Pretty weak take here tbh. If the promise of AI bore any fruit market forces would immediately shift customers to cheapest offering purely because the prices would be so much cheaper.
ActionHank··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Same thing could be asked about why they are still hiring.

Why hire devs? Dev is solved. Why hire mathematicians? Math is solved. Why hire managers? We have agentic assistants now.

It's because they are selling a tool that still needs people to use it.

ActionHank··on Ask HN: If the models are so good, why doesn't OpenAI just start 100 companies?
Lol, "software dev tools all IDE , developer analytics tools eg jellyfish etc . Dead"

This is the most insane perspective, it's like you have now idea what is happening across the industry. In you fantasy world here, are you saying devs are just yeeting slop into production, no debugging, no profiling, no code review, just prompt to prod? Because that's not happening.

ActionHank··on Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)
Should be outright banned as a precaution.

Two possible paths lead to their cheating code getting into a release. Either it was added by coding agent and no one looked at it, bad, but worse would be that a person was aware of it and approved - that's malicious.

Either way you don't want to be platforming the product because neither shows any degree of responsibility.

ActionHank··on Remove pgrust: the entry is cheating (per-query kernels and result caching)
You thought the vibe coded postgres port was a serious project?
ActionHank··on [dead]
More and more I am left wondering if billionaires with their own ai farm would be petty enough to use them to drum up support for their products.
ActionHank··on Several Linux kernel vulnerabilities accidentally posted to public mailing list
Every episode is a cliff hanger.
ActionHank··on [dead]
This is literally what everyone who saw it immediately thought.
ActionHank··on Amazon identifies Oct 17 PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure
All these tech companies are school children comparing how much better their bike is than the others, but they've all got the exact same bike, and that bike is a massive vulnerability that they did nothing to fix, but they're all bragging about how they saw it first or identified it first.

To the person at amazon that thought this was a good press release to put out, I know this is what you were hoping for, so here it is, "wow, so cool". Not sure why, but AI really has everyone running around with desperate loser aura.

Maybe next time, do better, actually patch some things so your customers are covered?

ActionHank··on Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
Do any of the execs you're working with seem to be overly confident that LLMs can fully replace devs?

If that's the case, that's the primary example that I've seen in many places.

ActionHank··on Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
Ok homie, deep breaths, you're among friends.

I'm with you here, just asking what the proposed stack is here, which you did not include.

If I understand correctly you're saying custom agent and possibly locally run open model, or are you saying no to all LLM / agent use outright? Either is fine, I'm not here to tell you're wrong, I'm just curious about what others are doing.

ActionHank··on C# now beats Rust on WASM size
It's not even a just a turn of phrase, it's a way of life. - Claude, 2026
ActionHank··on Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
What's you're recommended alternative?
ActionHank··on Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code
That's the weird thing with LLMs, they know just enough about a topic to fool anyone without much knowledge on the subject, seemingly even frontier labs.
ActionHank··on How the Claude Code team does code review
Have you used Claude Code?

Have you seen the benefit of the churn of 1000 PRs a day?

ActionHank··on How the Claude Code team does code review
to achieve what?

Honestly not sure that there are that many effective changes a day given how little complexity there is to their public facing product.

ActionHank··on Market selloff, rising rates test AI data centre deal boom
AI at the edge, i.e. running on your own hardware are going to be the new hotness.

But those data centers? Craters. Wouldn't be surprised if China buys them up for cents on the dollar and run expensive, polluting ops out of them instead of in China.

ActionHank··on Microsoft says Windows 11 is now 'more responsive' and runs better on 8GB of RAM
Best upgrade you can put on there would be linux, will be better than win10 8 days of the week
ActionHank··on More on Anthropic's Scion ripping off Mononoke
Seems to me that this is an inherent problem in all AI derived outputs. Take "inspiration" from everywhere else and give no attribution to the giants whose shoulders you build upon.

Maybe the next solution in search of a problem that anthropic and any other frontier data harvester should be looking to solve is accurate attribution to those "inspirations".

ActionHank··on I know why the mathematicians weep
Programmers, artists, anyone who used to create any form of documentation, translators, there are literally so many.

Either these mathematicians thought it would never come for their jobs, because all of these other jobs were simpler or they've been living under a rock.

Either way, I don't feel for them any more than I do for all of humanity.

ActionHank··on LFM2.5-24B-A2B: Built for fast on-device agents
Ok, but maybe that is the vibed circle of life.

You spin up your amazing startup in a day, full product and site. It's got all the users embedded in a js file, but who cares. Until people find out. Then you task the agent with fixing it, it deletes prod. You start over again.

It's beautiful, if Disney make movie about this I want to be in the credits.

ActionHank··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
Sounds like that healthcare company needs a new CSO.

Literally solved with a DMZ around these agents. Want to get fancy? Put in a firewall and some metrics around traffic / domains with alerting.

It's not hard if you just try, like a little, like even once.

ActionHank··on Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff
Could he even find Palestine on a map?
ActionHank··on Details Leak from Meeting Where Weiss's 'Handpicked' Editor Threatened CBS Staff
Let's drop the labels and state the facts, there are a group of people who are using the media to push an agenda that is covering up atrocities.

Atrocities on both sides don't negate that atrocities are happening.

Editors hold a high integrity position, these ones are not apparently operating with integrity.

ActionHank··on Redesigning source control at Anthropic
> And they won't release the code.

This is the weirdest part, because you know, coding is solved, so anyone could create their own one, so why not publish it?

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