Hacker News: M4v3R

New comment by M4v3R in "Reverse engineering Gemini's SynthID detection"

M4v3R — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:22:54 +0000

SynthID is visible in some generations (areas with a lot of edges, or text), I wonder if this would make them look better.

New comment by M4v3R in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

M4v3R — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:13:07 +0000

> What’s the point of adding features that are inscrutable?

You are assuming that the additional speed comes at a cost of codebase comprehension. For me it's not the case - I never push generated code I don't fully understand. It does take time, sure, but it still takes me much less time to write a spec, execute with AI and then review than write the thing myself.

New comment by M4v3R in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

M4v3R — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:10:51 +0000

Sibling comment didn't elaborate, but I think they might be onto something.

It happened to me personally - LLMs and agentic coding tools enabled me to pick up old side projects and actually finish them. Some of these projects were in the drawer for years, and when Sonnet 4 released I gave them another try and got up to speed really quickly. I suspect this happened to many developers.

New comment by M4v3R in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

M4v3R — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:38:49 +0000

> I find LLMs useful in regurgitating one-liners

This was the case for me a year ago. Now Claude or Codex are routinely delivering finished & tested complete features in my projects. I move much, much faster than before and I don’t have an elaborate setup - just a single CLAUDE.md file with some basic information about the project and that’s it.

New comment by M4v3R in "Autoresearch on an old research idea"

M4v3R — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 20:36:07 +0000

Even if your tests take a long time, you can always (if hardware permits) run multiple tests in parallel. This would enable you to explore many approaches at the same time.

Martial Arts Robots

M4v3R — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:57:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTq2o7RQs0A

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47472390

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Secure Exec – secure Node.js execution without a sandbox

M4v3R — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 06:09:13 +0000

Article URL: https://secureexec.dev/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47435558

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by M4v3R in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

M4v3R — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:19:11 +0000

Upon deeper inspection? Someone checked the Cargo file and proclaimed it was just Servo and QuickJS glued together without actually bothering to look if these dependencies are even being used.

In reality while project does indeed have Servo in its dependencies it only uses it for HTML tokenization, CSS selector matching and some low level structures. Javascript parsing and execution, DOM implementation & Layout engine was written from scratch with only one exception - Flexbox and Grid layouts are implemented using Taffy - a Rust layout library.

So while “from scratch” is debatable it is still immensely impressive to be that AI was able to produce something that even just “kinda works” at this scale.

New comment by M4v3R in "Cursor's latest “browser experiment” implied success without evidence"

M4v3R — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 07:15:24 +0000

It’s not just a wrapper for Servo, the linked poster just checked the dependencies in the Cargo file and proclaimed that without checking anything further.

In reality this project does indeed implement a functioning custom JS Engine, Layout engine, painting etc. It does borrow the CSS selectors package from Servo but that’s about it.

Clopus.live – "I gave Claude full access to the / directory of a Linux VM"

M4v3R — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 21:24:24 +0000

Article URL: https://clopus.live/clopus-01/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46331119

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by M4v3R in "Shai-Hulud compromised a dev machine and raided GitHub org access: a post-mortem"

M4v3R — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:02:16 +0000

Well pnpm does it by default for quite some time. It’s annoying, yes, but I take a little annoyance if it means I’m more secure.

New comment by M4v3R in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

M4v3R — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:02:50 +0000

Please reach out to your nearest government official to tell them what do you think about the Imgur not working in your country.

New comment by M4v3R in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

M4v3R — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:29:55 +0000

Nothing I found says anything about Zig folks being inherently against AI. It just looks like they don’t want to deal with “AI Slop” in contributions to their project, which is very understandable.

New comment by M4v3R in "Apple Releases Open Weights Video Model"

M4v3R — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 08:55:58 +0000

These are ~2 years behind state of the art from the looks of it. Still cool that they're releasing anything that's open for researchers to play with, but it's nothing groundbreaking.

New comment by M4v3R in "SmartTube Compromised"

M4v3R — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:51:14 +0000

Is $14 dollars for ad-free, unlimited access to literally billions of videos really a steep price? Personally if I were to get rid of all but one of my media subscriptions I would stick with this one, since it's got everything - entertainment, education, inspiration, you name it.

New comment by M4v3R in "Nano Banana Pro"

M4v3R — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:05:16 +0000

It's only a matter of time this will be fixed, also there probably already are custom LoRAs that can remove jpeg artifacts. So it's not a matter of if, only when.

New comment by M4v3R in "Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs"

M4v3R — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 10:09:50 +0000

Words are cheap, but "We are sorry." is a surprisingly rare thing for a company to say (they will usually sugarcoat it, shift blame, add qualifiers, use weasel words, etc.), so it's refreshing to hear that.

New comment by M4v3R in "Vibe Code Warning – A personal casestudy"

M4v3R — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 07:42:13 +0000

Have you tried Composer 1 from Cursor? It enables a totally different way of AI coding - instead of giving the LLM a long prompt and waiting minutes for it to finish, you give it a shorter prompt to just write one small thing and it finishes in seconds. There’s no interruption, you stay in the flow, and in control of what you’re building.

New comment by M4v3R in "Samsung Family Hub for 2025 Update Elevates the Smart Home Ecosystem"

M4v3R — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 17:26:27 +0000

It is better, but I hated how some time ago they started showing trailers at the start of a show, with no option to turn this off. It’s a small thing but it’s super annoying, if I want to check out what’s new I will do it myself, thank you very much.

New comment by M4v3R in "JavaScript Just Leveled Up: ES2025 – You'll Fall in Love With"

M4v3R — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 07:30:40 +0000

To be honest this whole article feels like it was AI generated. And em-dashes being used everywhere doesn’t help to shake off this feeling.