HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

vorticalbox

1,627 karma · joined November 27, 2016

Senior Software engineer at financial-cloud.com
submissionscomments
vorticalbox··on My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack
I had an agent working on a bug decided the fastest way to fix this was to write one off javascript scripts that loaded the database uri and query the data.

I mean it’s not wrong but I was like maybe not do that without asking first.

vorticalbox··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
It’s immutable npm, you can’t unpublish I believe but yeah it’s trick of allowing one to publish typescript packages rather than compiled js only applies to deno.
vorticalbox··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
Actually not tested that I will give it a go. I usually keep reasoning on low.
vorticalbox··on Cloudflare acquires Deno
jsr is moving to cloudflare.
vorticalbox··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
My work pays for Claude and cursor.

I have actually just dropped to using sonnet for everything, sure it does need some directing but I have yet to see a need to jump to opus.

To me it feels like sonnet/terra and composer 2.5 and grok 4.7 are actually good enough for most tasks and these companies are pushing the high models simply to make money.

vorticalbox··on The mental health of young men is declining. Experts warn it could get worse
Reading your comment has just brought to mind the sheer amount of betting and stock trading ads I get on YouTube currently. I’m in my late 30s so a little out of the “young males” category.
vorticalbox··on Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase
The issue is “ai generated code” using ai to find bugs/0 day and manually writing a fix would (I assume) be allowed under the new rules.
vorticalbox··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
You can sort of do this.

For a given bug one could write a test that prove its existence, this gives the LLM a target that they can actually iterate towards.

vorticalbox··on Why media fans want to escape algorithms with CDs, DVDs and vinyl
When I was a teen some 20 odd years ago the “algorithm” is people you spoke to.

That said smart shuffle on Spotify has found me a lot of good music.

vorticalbox··on Pi 1.0
I installed this when I first saw it on HN.

It’s great that’s plugins all the way down the issue I find is I haven’t missed anything enough to need a plugin.

vorticalbox··on Pi 1.0
There is a docker image that has an api to interact with WhatsApp and you can use the signal cli.

This is what I did and then just wrote small skills so now pi can read and send messages for me.

vorticalbox··on You Said No MCP
I think the issue is that any mcp could be a cli and llms are very good and using bash.

Of course MCP has its use case like if you want auth, or session based actions.

vorticalbox··on Ollaya – Ollama for open-source, Jev-style decision models
Does anyone know what laya multi lang is faster than laya en? I would have thought focusing on a single language would be faster.
vorticalbox··on OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals
lets say you have page=0 some of these pages are public and some are private, and the only way you secure the private pages is to not link it on the website.

is incrementing a url query parameters from 0 -> 1 count as hacking?

vorticalbox··on Jev in 25 Lines of Python
You don’t that’s a python f string

name = “qurren” print(f”hello {name}”)

vorticalbox··on Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on [fixed]
I use cursor and claude, its kinda annoying having to have the same skills in both so I made a ~/.agents/skills folder then ln both cursor and claude skills to point to that folder.

which works except that claude uses .skills/synced which is uses to sync changes to skills from claude servers into the skills folder.

every other agent I have used just directly syncs into .skills so it ends up duplicating skills

vorticalbox··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
does /goal also have time/token limits?
vorticalbox··on Grok 4.7
Sure I can accept that lol
vorticalbox··on Grok 4.7
Compared to the deep seek, gml sure but compared to OpenAI and Anthropic it’s actually very cheap.

In cursor I have switch over to grok for planning a composer for coding.

vorticalbox··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
Lie implies it knows what it is saying to be false.
vorticalbox··on US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report
I’m not sure either would is particularly good at describing what is happening.

Error in implies something broke, which nothing broke the LLM did exactly what they where designed to do generate text based on a statistically likely bases.

Hallucination Does really fit here either. It implies it’s experiencing something that is not there which it isn’t experiencing anything.

vorticalbox··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
I have never understood why instead Adding “never edit test files” to a prompt we don’t simple sandbox these agents so that’s just never an option.
vorticalbox··on An open letter to Dario: if you mean it, open the weights
Won’t the companies just change what they are selling from access to the model to “compute” and then not technically be breaking the law?
vorticalbox··on Eating Fruit Skins
That was interesting other than the golden orb weaver, all the other spider species noted as edible are tarantula.

I assume because of their size relative to other species?

vorticalbox··on Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down
This does feel like anthropic are worried about other companies and how fast they are moving, concerned they won’t be able to keep up.
vorticalbox··on Fuck it, make it anyway
It’s just a fact that an ai will write and read faster than me. I can’t compete so getting ai to do that has freed up both time and mental capacity to actually think about the implementation details.
vorticalbox··on I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer
I added “ respond as Jeeves from the P.G. Wodehouse stories.” to my Claude’s instructions best thing I ever did.
vorticalbox··on Ask HN: How do you manage skills files?
If you have a certain set of actions that repeat a lot or if you have scripts that need ran.

A skill can help so the model doesn’t need to relearn how to use said scripts.

vorticalbox··on Asahi Linux on M3
I do wonder if the margin on Mac isn’t that high vs the price and the services (iCloud etc) make up for that.

Amazon do the same with the fire.

vorticalbox··on Your intellectual fly is open (2025)
You could try this [0] I’ve started doing this and it’s helped a lot.

1. I understand fully the code and everything it does 2. You can pick up on mistakes super early and it can adjust the plan is it goes. 3. Faster than writing it by hand but slower than letting the LLM do it.

[0] https://ankursethi.com/blog/prevent-cognitive-debt-by-manual...

← PreviousPage 2 of 33Next →