Hacker News: NewsaHackO

New comment by NewsaHackO in "The Utopia of the Family Computer"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:26:05 +0000

Yes, this is definitely AI-generated. It's always weird that people don't even attempt to sanitize the output to look a little more human. The last pic was very nostalgic, however. It's like we have shared experiences very similar to the corner computer in the living room, complete with the stack of CDs (which will never get completely used).

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Opus 4.7"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:29:00 +0000

To me, those seem a lot lower stakes than supply chain attacks, social engineering, intelligence gathering, and other security exploits that Anthropic is more worried about. Making a fake driver license to buy beer isn't really the thing that Anthropic is actively trying to prevent (though I would assume they would stop that too). Even the GP was about penetration testing of a public website; without some sort of identification, how would it be ethical for Claude to help with something like that? Remember, this whole safety thing started because people held AI companies accountable for politically incorrect output of AI, even if it was clearly not the views of the company. So when Google made a Twitter bot that started to spout anti-Semitic and racist talking points, the fact that no one defended them and allowed them to be criticized to the point of taking the bot down is the reason why we have all of these extremely restrictive rules today.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Opus 4.7"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:50:50 +0000

I don't use the agentic workflow (as I am using it for my own personal projects), but if you have ever used it, there is this rush when it solves a problem that you have been struggling with for some time, especially if it gives a solution in an approach you never even considered that it has baked in its knowledge base. It's like an "Eureka" moment. Of course, as you use it more and more, you start to get better at recognizing "Eureka" moments and hallucinations, but I can definitely see how some people keep chasing that rush/feeling you get when it uses 5 minutes to solve a problem that would have taken you ages to do (if at all).

Also, another difference is the stochastic nature of the LLMs. With table saws, CNC machines, and modern 3D printers, you kind of know what you are getting out. With LLMs, there is a whole chance aspect; sometimes, what it spits out is plainly incorrect, sometimes, it is exactly what you are thinking, but when you hit the jackpot, and get the nugget of info that elegantly solves the problem, you get the rush. Then, you start the whole bikeshedding of your prompt/models/parameters to try and hit the jackpot again.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Six Characters"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:31:24 +0000

Very interesting article. However, almost didn't open due to the vague title. I was expecting something about short DOS names

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Opus 4.7"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:10:51 +0000

I remember there was a guy that had three(!) Claude Max subscriptions, and said he was reducing his subscriptions to one because of some superfluous problem. I'm thinking, nah, you are clearly already addicted to the LLM slot machine, and I doubt you will be able to code independently from agent use at this point. Antropic, has already won in your case.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Opus 4.7"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:07:01 +0000

What do you offer as a solution? If theoretically some foreign state intelligence was exposed using Claude for security penetration that affected the stability of your home government due to Antropic's lax safety controls, are you going to defend Anthropic because their reasoning was to allow everyone to be able to do security research?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources"

NewsaHackO — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:24:05 +0000

I have created 1000 rust games engines. All will be released Q2 2031.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "OpenAI's $852B valuation faces investor scrutiny amid strategy shift, FT reports"

NewsaHackO — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 03:31:04 +0000

Ah yes, the weekly "ChatGPT is definitely going to fail, for real!" post, with absolutely no substance whatsoever. Still, they know it will definitely be on the front page, regardless. Make sure you subscribe to their pub!

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:30:08 +0000

OK, so now I see the shadow edit you did for the code source, thanks. Unfortunately, it shows that you are incorrect. For one, the function is a private function and can only be called by local code. Everywhere that the function is called, the size given to it is verified by the program; there is even a note that says it limits the maximum zip file size to avoid a zip bomb. In addition, the code you are quoting isn't even the final code; it is an interim step from what Claude was iterating on. Sucks that this got so much traction, as you are purposely being deceptive in trying to say that this is a bug. You intentionally removed the 'private' keyword in the function signature, as you knew that it would tip off most people to then check when it is actually used.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Code Routines"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:46:06 +0000

But it is pretty clear in their documentation. You just don't want to see it because it isn't the answer you want. The documentation clearly says that you cannot use 'claude -p' as part of a pipeline to call other tools. All tool calls have to be made by Claude Code itself. If the output of the Telegram bot is used as a proxy to call other tools, then no, it is not allowed.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:33:21 +0000

OK, so I didn't say random games, though. I said notable ones. None of those are notable, and half of them aren't even released yet.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Bevy game development tutorials and in-depth resources"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:30:21 +0000

OK, even though it does not seem like that game was very notable, will give you that one game. Rust has at least ~5-6 game engines though, so you will have to come up with 4-5 more.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:03:39 +0000

Also, he even just created the second bug out of thin air. There is no code reference, and the reason why he downplays it is because he knows that if someone looks into it, they will realize he misrepresented the actual code.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:17:48 +0000

I notice you didn't put a code reference for the second bug. Where is the code exactly?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:34:25 +0000

>I think it's ambiguous and fair game for the idea of answering the question "if we write programs in this manner, will there be exploitable bugs?

You're strawmanning the original authors' argument. The creator of lean-zip said that they proved there are no implementation bugs in the lean-zip program. A bug in lean-runtime does not contradict this claim.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:09:55 +0000

I do not think you are completely grasping what you are talking about (what is a 'memory unsafe bug'?). Even in the example you give, that title would be literally wrong, as there will be no bug in your Java code; there would be a bug in the execution due to a deviation in the runtime executing your program.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Lean proved this program correct; then I found a bug"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:08:05 +0000

To me, saying that there is a bug in the lean runtime means lean-zip has a bug is like saying a bug in JRE means a Java app that uses the runtime has a bug, even though the Java app code itself does have a bug. It seems like the author is being intentionally misleading about his findings.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 19:21:53 +0000

A lot of people don't make websites for a living. If they are a small business and have other things to worry about in terms of actual work, being able to prompt for a clean, professional website frees up their time and means they don't have to use additional funds to hire a developer.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:51:59 +0000

I completely disagree. Making a average website is the goal of most businesses that are selling an actual product. His website looks modern and welcoming and does not distract or take away from the actual content. This exactly what most people should aim for. Some actual constructive criticism is some o the icons in the example log mood look weird on my phone, with really small emojis overlapping the face emoji

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Why AI Sucks at Front End"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:44:54 +0000

It really is, especially with frameworks. The author post reeks of feeling threatened by AI encroaching on his job, especially with the weird AI digs