Hacker News: Finbarr

How I sequenced my genome at home

Finbarr — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 16:16:24 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/sethshowes/status/2045782975380406623

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825381

Points: 17

# Comments: 5

New comment by Finbarr in "Stop Flock"

Finbarr — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:08:44 +0000

I think you're making some hasty generalizations here. They don't "uniformly" cover for their colleagues. Do you expect the police service to be perfect and never make mistakes? Can you point me towards a single human-run service where that's the case?

New comment by Finbarr in "Stop Flock"

Finbarr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:48:26 +0000

County was not a typo. It's awful whenever there's an overuse of force in the USA. I'd recommend watching a few police bodycam videos on youtube before judging them wholesale though. The experience of a police officer in the United States seems to be long periods of tedium punctuated by moments of sheer terror and adrenaline. Anyone out there can have a gun and encounters can unexpectedly escalate to deadly violence in seconds. Some of them should not be police officers. There are many great officers out there just trying to protect their communities.

New comment by Finbarr in "Stop Flock"

Finbarr — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 05:26:51 +0000

Agreed. Flock has been a key contributor in solving numerous crimes. I'm happy for Flock to be in my county and would like the police to have more access to technology like this, not less.

New comment by Finbarr in "The Claude Code Leak"

Finbarr — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:51:39 +0000

Who cares that the code is garbage? As the models get bigger and more powerful it will be trivial to fully refactor the whole codebase. It’s coming sooner than you think.

New comment by Finbarr in "Multiple Sclerosis"

Finbarr — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:52:23 +0000

MS treatments tend to take 3 forms:

- immune reset (sledgehammer that can “cure” diseases like MS but with many side effects and potential complications)

- immune suppression (super effective but with increased risk of infections and blunts vaccines)

- immune redirection (less effective but doesn’t mess up your immune system so badly).

It’s only in the last ~10 years that super effective treatments that can stop ~99% of lesion progression have existed- Ocrevus and Kesimpta. These are anti CD20 disease modifying therapies that destroy all your B cells. The memoir of Dr. Stephen Hauser- “The Face Laughs While The Brain Cries”- provides a fascinating insight into the development of these treatments over the last ~40 years of his career.

There are active trials of newer types of treatment and a lot of progress is being made in the MS space. It used to be a “death sentence” disease but is quite manageable for many sufferers now. It’s different for every individual and I wish the blog author good health.

New comment by Finbarr in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

Finbarr — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 01:08:37 +0000

Awesome to see a bash-only method of solving this problem. Also like that it alerts on attempts to read restricted stuff.

I built yolobox to solve this using docker/apple containers: https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox

Trump Responds to Anthropic

Finbarr — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:16:46 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/PeteHegseth/status/2027487514395832410

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47185735

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by Finbarr in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

Finbarr — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 15:36:56 +0000

I wrote an article about this a few days ago that has been gaining a lot of traction: https://finbarr.site/2026/02/12/in-defense-of-saas.html

Point solutions are going to be free. Complex systems with support, integrations, switching costs, customer data, etc., are not going to be free.

In Defense of SaaS

Finbarr — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 16:40:51 +0000

Article URL: https://finbarr.site/2026/02/12/in-defense-of-saas.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47004666

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

In Defense of SaaS

Finbarr — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:29:28 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/finbarr/status/2021999185172775288

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46991863

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Finbarr in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

Finbarr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 14:02:45 +0000

The whole idea was a bit of a joke and a reflection on how ridiculous it is that people get in trouble for failing to regurgitate the correct takes when certain events occur. It’s like insurance against getting canceled.

New comment by Finbarr in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

Finbarr — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 06:38:09 +0000

AI refusals are fascinating to me. Claude refused to build me a news scraper that would post political hot takes to twitter. But it would happily build a political news scraper. And it would happily build a twitter poster.

Side note: I wanted to build this so anyone could choose to protect themselves against being accused of having failed to take a stand on the “important issues” of the day. Just choose your political leaning and the AI would consult the correct echo chambers to repeat from.

New comment by Finbarr in "What “The Best” Looks Like"

Finbarr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:27:08 +0000

"maybe even a high production value promo video showcasing happy employees, rare wood office counters and a shoes-off policy."

Don't forget surfboards!

This was a great post, Alex. Thanks for sharing! Hunger and high agency are such important traits in every startup hire.

New comment by Finbarr in "Show HN: Startup Tarot Cards"

Finbarr — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 19:24:23 +0000

It uses a service called the game crafter.

New comment by Finbarr in "Show HN: Startup Tarot Cards"

Finbarr — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:27:47 +0000

That’s just the cost of the print on demand service. We’re not trying to make any profits or a real business here.

Show HN: Startup Tarot Cards

Finbarr — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 18:24:55 +0000

Article URL: https://minifiniti.com/pages/startup-tarot-cards

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46723175

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by Finbarr in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

Finbarr — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 21:30:16 +0000

Running in a VM certainly has some benefits (particularly the ability to run docker inside of it easily). Last week I shared https://github.com/finbarr/yolobox which takes the docker approach (nearly 400 github stars already and quite a few improvements shipped in the last week).

New comment by Finbarr in "Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir"

Finbarr — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 17:07:01 +0000

Yes, this feature has now been added with a --no-yolo flag.

New comment by Finbarr in "Show HN: Yolobox – Run AI coding agents with full sudo without nuking home dir"

Finbarr — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:11:01 +0000

I'd recommend trying Gemini for the escapes. Claude was quite superficial and only appeared to be trying to break out at the surface level. Gemini was very creative and has come up with a whole sequence of escapes that is making me rethink whether I should even be trying to patch them, given preventing agent escapes isn't a stated goal of the project.