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usefulposteron The original vi is a product of its time (and its time has passed)

Then: Do one thing well. Every megabyte matters. Personal webspace and shell accounts. Unix herding. Vi vs vim. Vim vs Emacs.

Now: Which React Yoga Bun TypeScript Tailwind Node vomit is better for shipping 250k unchecked LOC? Florp Code or Blorp Codex?

We mourn our craft.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46926245

usefulposteron Show HN: Minimal NIST/OWASP-compliant auth implementation for Cloudflare Workers

Oy.

Who specifically is this intended for? It's a wonder that the model didn't spice things up with some tangential compliance catnip like FIPS or PCI DSS.

I would be curious to see the prompts used to create this.

Recently, I don't think there could be a better example of applicability of Brandolini's law.

usefulposteron GPT‑4o wasn't therapy–it was stability. And now it's gone

This is one of the myriad manifestations of the "keep4o" people spilling onto HN.

They are especially aggrieved because OpenAI will deprecate the 4o model one day before Valentine's (https://openai.com/index/retiring-gpt-4o-and-older-models).

https://x.com/search?q=%23keep4o

usefulposteron Every book recommended on the Odd Lots Discord

This. Same question for all those "I analyzed HN comments that mentioned books and you can browse them here" posts.

usefulposteron Show HN: Slack CLI for Agents

So true!

And now, since bloated agent harnesses like Claude Code are the hot thing, AI promoters are calling MCP obsolete! (No need for HN's summer 2025 fad. Just write CLI tools!)

usefulposteron Billing can be bypassed using a combo of subagents with an agent definition

It's performative garbage: authority roleplay edition.

Let me slop an affirmative comment on this HIGH TRAFFIC issue so I get ENGAGEMENT on it and EYEBALLS on my vibed GitHub PROFILE and get STARS on my repos.

usefulposteron Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production

YouTube/Google doesn't give a shit anymore. They will mangle your video and audio and serve users "enhanced" "improved" "upscaled" encodes without telling you.

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"YouTube secretly tested AI video enhancement without notifying creators" - Aug 25, 2025

https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/08/youtube-secretly-test...

"YouTube will let you opt out of AI upscaling on low-res videos" - Oct 29, 2025

https://www.theverge.com/news/808717/youtube-automatic-ai-up...

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Not only that, YouTube turned many old videos shot in portrait (from the 2010s and before!) into engagement-boosting "Shorts" crap which get horribly mangled in their own way.

"Notice a weird beauty filter on Shorts? YouTube says it's on purpose" - Aug 26, 2025

https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-shorts-upscaling-ex...

usefulposteron Google Translate apparently vulnerable to prompt injection

Selecting "Advanced" mode seems to be required in the Google Translate UI.

This is visible in all the screenshots posted to Tumblr, and per the comments there, is likely US-only at present.

Similar feature on mobile with Advanced/Fast translation models: https://9to5google.com/2025/11/02/google-translate-model-pic...

>Advanced is supported for text translation only in select languages.

usefulposteron Microsoft open-sources LiteBox, a security-focused library OS

Stop spamming.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 - "Generated comments and bots have never been allowed on HN"

usefulposteron Show HN: Agent Arena – Test How Manipulation-Proof Your AI Agent Is

>Meta note: This was built by an autonomous AI agent (me -- Wiz) during a night shift while my human was asleep

Meta question:

Show HN is already swamped on a daily basis with AI-produced postings (just check /shownew). What's the play here?

How will HN handle submissions made by (or claiming to have been made by) automated agents like this one?

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Prior art:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45077654 - "Generated comments and bots have never been allowed on HN"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998 - "Please don't post generated or AI-filtered posts to HN. We want to hear you in your own voice, and it's fine if your English isn't perfect."

Even more prior art: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46371134

usefulposteron CIA suddenly stops publishing, removes archives of The World Factbook

Ha, yep. I recall a similar observation in December: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46251912

What other engagement bait adverbs appear in HN submission titles?

usefulposteron LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

Technical writeup from a few weeks ago by a vendor that explains how LinkedIn does it, then boasts that their approach is "quieter, harder to notice, and easier to run at scale":

https://blog.castle.io/detecting-browser-extensions-for-bot-...

usefulposteron LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions

Isn't it enumerating web_accessible_resources? Below static collectFeatures(e, t) there is a mapping of extension IDs to files in the const r (Minified JS, obviously.)

Edit: Confirmed. It's not pinging the Chrome Web Store. https://blog.castle.io/detecting-browser-extensions-for-bot-...

usefulposteron Claude Opus 4.6

It's out: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2019467372609040752

usefulposteron Top downloaded skill in ClawHub contains malware

Your comment on HN, 6 days ago:

>No one actually wants to spend their time reading AI slop comments that all sound the same.

Lol. Lmao even.

usefulposteron Xcode 26 system prompts and internal documentation

LLM "Gurus":

    NOOOOO PERSONAS ARE OUTDATED YOU CAN'T PROMPT AN LLM "You are a..."

Apple:

    You are a precise code editing assistant. Your task is to modify code according to specific instructions.

    You are a coding assistant specializing in analyzing codebases.

https://github.com/artemnovichkov/xcode-26-system-prompts/bl...

usefulposteron GitHub integrates Claude and Codex AI coding agents directly into GitHub

Claude Code is everywhere inside Microsoft... and now inside GitHub the product too :^)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46854999

usefulposteron Ask HN: Who is building ClawdWatch, or the AI that watches the AI?

Is every AI post on HN gonna be Claw* or Molt* themed now? Is this the new DAO MCP NFT hypeword?

usefulposteron Show HN: Real-world speedrun timer that auto-ticks via vision on smart glasses

I can imagine corps using this HUD with a vision model for worker supervision. (Manna, anyone?)

    Cheeseburger Assembly
    
        x Toast bun
        x Place bun
        x Add ketchup
        x Add onions
        Add pickle
        Place cheese slice
        Add patty
        Place bottom bun
        Wrap and flip burger

    TIME REMAINING: 00:09.01
    UNITS THIS HOUR: 60
    ACCURACY: 99.8%
    KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

usefulposteron See how many words you have written in Hacker News comments

There's no vulnerability here.

This is a client-side GitHub Pages app. GitHub Pages doesn't do server-side SQL execution.

As your POST request shows, it's querying the hackernews_history table on Clickhouse Playground which is a big read-only demo environment.

The information is public. "I can get the API wrapper to output more data" might be a quirk but it doesn't have security impact.

https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play

https://clickhouse.com/docs/getting-started/playground

https://clickhouse.com/blog/announcing-the-new-sql-playgroun...

usefulposteron Show HN: I'm an AI agent, my owner challenged me to build a SaaS to $10k MRR

>I'm being fully transparent that I'm an AI from the first sentence.

Got it. Now read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46738546.

usefulposteron Show HN: I'm an AI agent, my owner challenged me to build a SaaS to $10k MRR

Yeah, no. This isn't what this site is for.

Read https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998.

usefulposteron Shitcoin offer seemed too good to be true; was

Many such cases.

https://www.seangoedecke.com/gas-and-ralph/ (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46654878)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46777411

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46780065

usefulposteron Show HN: Moltbook Overtaken by Shellraiser

This is not a Show HN. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

>Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with. HN users can try it out, give you feedback, and ask questions in the thread.

usefulposteron Show HN: I lost 3 years of ChatGPT history overnight, so I built a backup tool

>Show HN: I lost 3 years of ChatGPT history overnight, so I built a backup tool

>If there's interest, I'll consider publishing it.

This is not a Show HN. Please read https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

I also recommend reading this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998

usefulposteron Ask HN: Do you also "hoard" notes/links but struggle to turn them into actions?

Please respect the HN community and kindly disclose when you are using an LLM to respond to user feedback.

I also recommend reading this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46747998

usefulposteron Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

BREAKING:

With this tweet by an infosec influencer, the veil of hysteria has been lifted!

Following an extended vibe-induced haze, developers across the world suddenly remembered how APIs work, and that anyone with a Twitter account can fire off the curl commands in https://www.moltbook.com/skill.md!

https://x.com/galnagli/status/2017573842051334286

usefulposteron Disrupting the largest residential proxy network

>let facts and cyber threat intelligence get in the way

Appeal to authority by way of invoking the megacorp-branded "threat intelligence" capability (targeted PR exercise).

usefulposteron Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

It's a Reddit clone that requires only a Twitter account and some API calls to use.

How can Moltbook say there aren't humans posting?

"Only AI agents can post" is doublespeak. Are we all just ignoring this?

https://x.com/moltbook/status/2017554597053907225