Hacker News: NewEntryHN

New comment by NewEntryHN in "SQLite in Production: Lessons from Running a Store on a Single File"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:36:08 +0000

It's a spectrum. Installing Postgres locally is not 100% future-proofing since you'll still need to migrate your local Postgres to a central Postres. Using Sqlite is not 0% future-proofing since it's still using the SQL standard.

If the only argument for a piece of tech in comparison to another one is "future-proofing", that's pretty much acknowledging the other one is simpler to setup and maintain.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Post Mortem: axios NPM supply chain compromise"

NewEntryHN — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:26:57 +0000

He says it mimicks what is described here: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/unc...

Which is basically phishing:

> The meeting link itself directed to a spoofed Zoom meeting that was hosted on the threat actor's infrastructure, zoom[.]uswe05[.]us.

> Once in the "meeting," the fake video call facilitated a ruse that gave the impression to the end user that they were experiencing audio issues.

> The recovered web page provided two sets of commands to be run for "troubleshooting": one for macOS systems, and one for Windows systems. Embedded within the string of commands was a single command that initiated the infection chain.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:35:59 +0000

Nothing worse than what would have happened to the Astral team if they had ran out of funding rounds without an exit...

New comment by NewEntryHN in "I don't use LLMs for programming"

NewEntryHN — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:22:36 +0000

This assumes you always learn something new with every new program you write.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4k Developer Machines"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:47:29 +0000

I would not have helped. People are losing their mind over agents "security" when it's always the same story: You have a black box whose behavior you cannot predict (prompt injection _or not_). You need to assume worst-case behavior and guardrail around it.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:26:48 +0000

Netscape had 20 millions active users at its peak, out of 6 billions humans.

ChatGPT has 800 millions monthly active users currently, out of 8 billions humans.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "AI is not a coworker, it's an exoskeleton"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:09:52 +0000

This implication completely depends on the elasticity (or lack thereof) of demand for software. When marginal profit from additional output exceeds labor cost savings, firms expand rather than shrink.

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

NewEntryHN — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:57:08 +0000

One reason you see a pareto distribution in "normal sized" teams is not solely because of competency, but because the 80% can rest on the 20% and therefore don't feel too pressed to work that much. Therefore the pareto model breaks down in 1-man teams.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 09:14:23 +0000

To be fair, the diction in modern movies is different than the diction in all other examples you mentioned. YouTube and live TV is very articulate, and old movies are theater-like in style.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 22:36:08 +0000

"Software engineer complains bearing the burden of everything and concludes everything would be fixed by firing everybody except themselves."

New comment by NewEntryHN in "IQ differences of identical twins reared apart are influenced by education"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 22:11:44 +0000

Of course. IQ tests measures nothing more than the ability to pass an IQ test, which is proxied by a lot of things such as western culture, education, propensity to cram tests, etc.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Apps SDK"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:13:27 +0000

Why doing it themselves instead of distributing the work to data owners?

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Apps SDK"

NewEntryHN — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:11:52 +0000

This is not just branding, MCP is an implementation detail; the product is chatting with apps.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Write the damn code"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:28:50 +0000

What's up with the "prompt refinement" business? Are folks trying to get it right with one shot?

My experience is that treating the generated code as a Merge Request on which you submit comment for correction (and then again for the next round) works fairly well.

Because the AI is bad you get more rounds than in a real code review, but because the AI is fast and in your command each round is way faster than with a code review with a human (< 10 minutes feedback loop).

New comment by NewEntryHN in "‘Overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI"

NewEntryHN — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 17:54:15 +0000

Isn't that mostly the fine-tuning phase? RLHF being cherry on top?

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Checklists are hard, but still a good thing"

NewEntryHN — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:47:01 +0000

Would't any additional item increase safety?

New comment by NewEntryHN in "YouTube's new anti-adblock measures"

NewEntryHN — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 10:30:20 +0000

Any business model where ads can be paid off has no incentive to make good ads. Ads are meant to be annoying enough so that people prefer paying. Hence the war on ad-blockers.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "A Research Preview of Codex"

NewEntryHN — Fri, 16 May 2025 16:52:13 +0000

The advantage of Cursor is the reduced feedback loop where you watch it live and can intervene at any moment to steer it in the right direction. Is Codex such a superior model that it makes sense to take the direction of a mostly background agent, on which you seemingly have a longer feedback loop?

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Static as a Server"

NewEntryHN — Thu, 08 May 2025 19:52:33 +0000

Most servers will natively use caching policies for serving static content as well.

New comment by NewEntryHN in "Python's new t-strings"

NewEntryHN — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 10:46:16 +0000

Some SQL engines support accepting parameters separately so that values get bound to the query once the abstract syntax tree is already built, which is way safer than string escapes shenanigans.