Hacker News: 0o_MrPatrick_o0

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The turbulent AI era is here"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 05:42:41 +0000

I mean this respectfully:

I am no longer and will never again be interested in Bill Gates’ opinion about anything. He needs to retire. He’s a sclerotic representative of what needs to be left behind.

Thank you for your contributions, Bill. You’ve done enough.

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "3GPP Version 19"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 16:15:05 +0000

"complete wheel-spinning nonsense that was OpenRAN" is a concise summary of 3-5 years of cargo-cult telco innovation.

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "3GPP Version 19"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:53:26 +0000

Hi Telco nerds!

It's looking like 3GPP is shifting away from faster networks and into networks that are programmable, energy-budgeted platforms.

Anybody doing experiments with components where power is transmitted by a transport provider? Ambient IoT sounds like a classic 3GPP proposal that utterly fails because every time they publish, nobody follows on with legitimate investment. Am I too cynical?

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "John C. Dvorak has died"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:34:55 +0000

The tech world needs good heels! His worst takes were some of his best!

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "RIP tech journalist John C. Dvorak (1946–2026)"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:21:32 +0000

Dvorak's curmudgeonly approach to tech journalism was deeply enjoyable. He was utterly un-sycophantic and a playful troublemaker. Condolences to his wife, family and fellow podcasters.

Using network namespaces to discover how Claude Code scrapes

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:59:20 +0000

Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/inspecting-claude-codes-network-traffic-with-linux-namespaces-and-mitm-proxying-part-1/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48746915

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 02:22:13 +0000

Thank you for sharing this observation.

I had a post on here this week that was briefly popular. There were numerous folks who posted that the material “wasn’t new.”

I felt like it should be implicit that people who already know what I was writing about are not the target audience. But here they were, commenting.

At the same time, the page got upvoted quite a lot and the comments were filled with folks who had lots of interesting reactions and additions. Despite the fact that this was “old news”, it seemed implicit that for many it was new news.

Sometimes we should trigger conversation. I believe we shouldn’t index on novelty- we should index on impact. Your post is a nice defense of those who discover and share what they discover.

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 23:27:33 +0000

I had an order of operations error. I better edit it because you’re the second person to get nerd sniped. Sorry friend- you are right

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 16:47:14 +0000

Reading these comments is so harrowing.

You are correct in my intentions on this post generally.

I want to highlight:

I want to measure performance of the LLMs over time- which includes assessing the quality of their outputs. I don’t perceive the reasoning output to be anything other than a measurable signal of possible drift in model performance.

Except it isn’t, because I’m only getting a low value summary of the thinking.

It’s like asking your buddy how fast he thought that last pitch was when radar guns are behind the plate.

Yeah, it’s a description related to what happened, but it’s not the thing I want to measure.

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:26:18 +0000

Awesome share! Thank you!

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:19:41 +0000

I missed my coffee! Ty! Five points to Slytherin.

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 15:02:11 +0000

My bad! 10 points for House Slytherin!

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "Claude Code's "extended thinking" is a summary- not authentic thinking"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:56:54 +0000

I want to measure performance drift over time.

Having access to the reasoning text and output would help with performance measurement.

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "We're securing Tabstack against indirect prompt injection"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:28:39 +0000

It’d be nice to see some example code. Good writeup otherwise!

The text in Claude Code’s “Extended Thinking” output

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 14:22:46 +0000

Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/the-text-in-claude-codes-extended-thinking-output-is-not-authentic/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48630535

Points: 326

# Comments: 225

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:56:40 +0000

"Carlini had never before found a bug in Linux, or in Ghost. Now he had discovered many."

New guy learns nessus, now tells everyone at the bar he's basically Mr. Robot.

A pox on the labs and the government. InfosecDrama.exe just took out a frontier model because a noob learned how to use a tool.

Avoiding wasteful electricity use while self hosting LLMs

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:38:51 +0000

Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/fixing-a-stuck-ollama-runner-and-building-a-gpu-watchdog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451624

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "Show HN: Study Bible MCP – scholarly Greek/Hebrew lexicons and morphology"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:38:02 +0000

Hey! Cool idea! I was lamenting the state of advertisements in biblehub and biblegateway and thought it’d be nice to see something like what you’ve done.

Where are you pulling your datasets from? Is there a Strong’s dataset available for integration?

Establishing collaboration across LLM Agents when context is close to saturation

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:34:23 +0000

Article URL: https://patrickmccanna.net/two-claude-code-sessions-one-repo-and-a-protocol-they-helped-write/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47949870

Points: 2

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New comment by 0o_MrPatrick_o0 in "The FCC just saved Netgear from its router ban for no obvious reason"

0o_MrPatrick_o0 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:27:39 +0000

‘The United States’ foreign router ban didn’t make a whole lot of sense, and today may not change that.`

???

No obvious reason? What if the Executive Branch is a dog chasing cars?

It’s just doing things.