Hacker News: PantaloonFlames

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Iroh 1.0"

PantaloonFlames — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:29:44 +0000

I think that was the question: What is the problem it is solving ?

You’ve asserted “THIS is not a solved problem,” which suggests everyone is clear on what THIS means. I think that is not a good assumption.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:47:24 +0000

a slightly different metaphor. Copilot suggests it is next to you, helping you pilot... something else. The computer? The system? But "piloting the LLM" changes the relationship. The LLM is the thing that is being piloted.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "What we lost when we stopped letting kids leave the front yard"

PantaloonFlames — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:10:20 +0000

The article is confused. The opinion is, it's so much safer _now_ than it was in the 1970s, it makes no sense to restrict children's wanderings.

But the article doesn't consider whether restricting children's wanderings is the REASON it is so much safer for children now.

"We have so many fire-safety rules in the building codes in Seattle. But get this: we haven't had any major fires since 1889! It's obvious we don't need these rules!"

It's true there is a cost to restricting children. But let's be a bit more realistic about the tradeoffs.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

PantaloonFlames — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:58:48 +0000

Why is iMessage "more conversational" than RCS? and "more human"??

I don't get the distinction you're making. I'm not an expert in mobile messaging so maybe I am missing something obvious.

And what about WhatsApp?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Magnifica Humanitas (Encyclical Letter)"

PantaloonFlames — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:50:21 +0000

It's too simplistic to imagine the tension is between robot patrol dogs vs automating drudgery. If automating drudgery suddenly puts 30% of people out of work, it has huge broad negative impact on people who are currently alive and working in the current system. Innovate, but do it with awareness.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:36:50 +0000

Are you fairly confident that they’re missing teeth because of drug use? Could it alternatively be caused by lack of access to proper dental care?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "The One Dollar Counterfeiter"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:17:25 +0000

Darren Brown paying with blank paper. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Vz_YTNLn6w

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "XML is a cheap DSL"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:58:43 +0000

Your first counterpoint seems unnecessarily picky.

> So while it is a suitable DSL for many things (it is also seeing new life in web components definition), we are mostly only talking about XML-lookalike language, and not XML proper. If you go XML proper, you need to throw "cheap" out the window.

But the TWE did not embrace all that stuff. It’s not required for its purpose. And to call it “xml lookalike” on that basis seems odd. It’s objectively XML. It doesn’t use every xml feature, but it’s still XML.

It’s as if you’re saying, a school bus isn’t a bus, it’s just a bus-lookalike. Buses can have cup holders and school buses lack cup holders. Therefore a school bus is not really a bus.

I don’t see the validity or the relevance.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Emacs and Vim in the Age of AI"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 14:20:57 +0000

Can you give specifics on what Claude code built for you, in the way of missing features ?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Steel Bank Common Lisp"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:19:37 +0000

Yes and

Carnegie Technical Schools was founded in 1900 based on a $1m donation from Andrew Carnegie,

Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was originally founded in 1913 by Andrew and Richard Mellon.

Carnegie Mellon was created by combining the two institutions in 1967.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Hugging Face Skills"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:12:42 +0000

Wait - how are skills dependent on python?

Isn’t python just an option ?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Hugging Face Skills"

PantaloonFlames — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:11:36 +0000

You can publish scripts with skills you author, right? With carefully constructed markdown that should allow the agent to call tools the right way.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:46:53 +0000

I don’t understand how “running it in a vm” Or a docker image, prevents the majority of problems. It’s an agent interacting with your bank, your calendar, your email, your home security system, and every subscription you have - DoorDash, Spotify, Netflix, etc. maybe your BTC wallet.

What protection is offered by running it in a docker container? Ok, It won’t overwrite local files. Is that the major concern?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:29:45 +0000

“AI changes everything!”

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

PantaloonFlames — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:26:30 +0000

Cmon man. “Consumers” in aggregate. Not “every consumer”. But you knew that.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Facebook is cooked"

PantaloonFlames — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:48:27 +0000

It's literally why Leon bought Twitter. A Mass influence vehicle.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

PantaloonFlames — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:30:31 +0000

It used to be that the common model in the USA for tv was, one cable bundle with 500 channels. That has now evolved to a combination of

- cable bundles

- aggregate streams (Netflix, Prime, Apple TV)

- pay per view (Prime or YT TV)

And somehow all of these models now coexist.

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Open source is not about you (2018)"

PantaloonFlames — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:42:33 +0000

Yes and if you have o(1000) prs or issues in a single day, I guess you have a different scale of problem and will need to automate triage and management, probably through an ai-powered tool.

Even if it is 0.01% per day it’s still a very high volume. At that point it’s not a hobby. Millions of users maybe would point toward a more formal management and governance approach.

See Gemini-cli for example. Or a bunch of Microsoft projects. They use ai to triage and respond to tickets. (And they pocket veto many of them)

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Show HN: CEL by Example"

PantaloonFlames — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:32:30 +0000

I did not know that. Path expressions for access control?

New comment by PantaloonFlames in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

PantaloonFlames — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:18:21 +0000

You can invest a lot and get minimal results, OR, it’s possible they invested in 71-odd tools and only 17% produced results, but those results were as desired or expected so they didn’t actually need the other 83% of the tools they tried.

The number of tools that were deemed effective is not proportional to the “the effect”.