Hacker News: NewsaHackO

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude: System Prompts"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 17:24:47 +0000

That seems more like a conspiracy theory. I think the group of people who 1) view this website and 2) click on a thread about certain topics are a heavily conditioned (and therefore more homogenized) group; if you say something that is controversial/low quality, it is likely going to get downvoted by multiple people in that group.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:12:58 +0000

Do open "source" models have have this watermarking enabled? How do you know?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:14:50 +0000

It is so bizarre, honestly. It's almost like they are a public utility company. People are trying as hard as possible to hate them, but always stop short of simply canceling the service because they can't live without them. Seriously, I saw someone say that they were so disgusted with Anthropic that they were cutting down from having two Max subscriptions to just one.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "As AI eats the web, the internet’s collective memory is disappearing"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:21:54 +0000

Well, I guess another plausible explanation is that usually "domain experts" are people that get paid for their expertise, and have a vested interest in saying that LLMs cannot replicate what they want people to pay them for.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 23:27:44 +0000

Are talking about selling marked up water during a state of emergency? Don’t think that would apply here.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Hackers Stalked Me by Hijacking a Smartwatch for Kids"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 04:12:40 +0000

Journalists have no shame when it comes to making clickbait headlines. Feel like an idiot for falling for it.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Zed DeltaDB"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:49:32 +0000

Having keyboard shortcuts isn’t a valid reason for UI buttons to be unusable. If it should solely be accessed by a shortcut, then they should just remove the buttons altogether.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Zed DeltaDB"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:45:40 +0000

>This is my #1 annoyance: clicking microscopic icons at the very bottom of the screen to switch views.

It’s crazy that is still an issue. I really tried to use Zed because I was trying to move away from VSCode and VSCodium did not have a featureful python lsp. I just couldn’t stand little things like that that. Also, the font was really blurry. VSCodium now has Pyfly which is decent, so I just switched back.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Apple is getting this wrong"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:40:30 +0000

Yea that’s what strikes me as weird too. I had to look up at the web site bar to really confirm this was OpenAI and not some employee blog site. Particularly, the whole Asian last name bit was so shoehorned in to imply Apple is racist I guess? Not something I have seen in a statement from a company like OpenAI. Just weird energy. Also, that text exchange made Apple look like a fun place to work.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?"

NewsaHackO — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:29:40 +0000

I wish I made that choice. I got to "Hopper used the email address adecentguyincornwall@gmail.com to set up the profile “AdmiroDoc” on eunuchmaker.com, a pay-per-view fetish website featuring videos of men and boys either maiming themselves or allowing others to mutilate them on camera. " then noped out

New comment by NewsaHackO in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 12:54:42 +0000

Yeah, I'm also in this camp. Saying we are going to deny all AI-written code wholesale and then asking them to properly attribute AI-written code is just going to incentivize not quoting AI-written code. Another thing is that when they say "can answer questions about it," it's also non-barrier, because the person will just feed the questions into a LLM. Short of an in-person interview, I don't see how this is going to keep anyone but honest users of AI out of the code base. I guess it could also be used retrospectively as a basis to ban someone.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Show HN: Vimgolf.ai – Learn Vim by playing through a map of levels"

NewsaHackO — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:11:26 +0000

The amount of free trial subscription slop SaaS software has really gotten out of control. The gall people have to attempt to sell a subscription to something like this is something else.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Harddrive Is Probably Full"

NewsaHackO — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 03:05:30 +0000

It is so wild that someone would let Claude index all of the files on their computers for such a bane request. We are really turning into the people on WALL·E

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Why Sony can't bring back its classic Walkman models"

NewsaHackO — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:30:45 +0000

You have to apply equal opportunity inflation. The worth of 30gb portable memory in 2005 is not the same as the worth of 30gb in 2026. During that time, when I was in school, I remember my dad getting antsy about lending me his 64mb flash drive for school presentation because he paid $60 for it.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 09:22:05 +0000

Are those spelling errors?

New comment by NewsaHackO in "The Corporate Creep of Plex: Why it may be time to move to Jellyfin"

NewsaHackO — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:23:53 +0000

No don't, sonarr is definitely worse if you have a unstructured media folder. I currently use it and its good, but I remember when first starting out with pile of files in semi random folders it being a mess to start up. Like some of the restrictions of the bulk importer made very little sense. Also, sonarr is tied to a single metadata provider which sometimes makes very unpopular decisions about the naming of series and episodes. When pluribus was initally released, they insisted on naming the series "plur1bus" even though no other source, imdb or even AppleTV used that as the official name. This broke auto downloading for the season.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Why I'm building a note taking app without AI"

NewsaHackO — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 06:15:41 +0000

> largely haven't used AI to program it.

That’s like saying you haven’t used cocaine often. And using the autocomplete that uses LLMs to write out entire functions from a signature is still using AI.

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Recreating the math behind the first stealth aircraft"

NewsaHackO — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 10:18:20 +0000

Oldest trick in the book is to put human like errors to make it look human. The thing everyone forgets is that almost everyone does simple spellcheck or has it automatically show the spelling errors so it’s improbable that such spelling errors are organic (of course, omitting, or having a word autocorrect makes more sense)

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

NewsaHackO — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 01:01:08 +0000

>I know there's no absolute smoking gun here

Wow, so you can't even find circumferential evidence of circumferential evidence? I guess you can believe whatever you want, evidence be damned

New comment by NewsaHackO in "Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now"

NewsaHackO — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:59:28 +0000

People are now saying poor communication because the Bun creator was not able to see the future and didn’t immediately flag his draft rewrite as the next big thing when he started working on it.