Hacker News: Seattle3503

New comment by Seattle3503 in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:53:09 +0000

The rules around CVE reporting changed recently and it would be expected a lot more are accepted.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "An AI coding agent, used to write code, needs to reduce your maintenance costs"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 11 May 2026 15:38:24 +0000

My team has been using AI to add code, but also to aggressively remove old deprecated code. "Is anyone still using this? How does this get called" is easier to answer when you can toss your FE, BE, and entire codebase at an agent and let it create a map of your software project. IDEs can do this in a single language to some degree usually in a single project, but RPC, REST, etc... break some of these tools in a lot of IDEs.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:32:05 +0000

Are you a dev? What does part time look like?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:04:15 +0000

I have a similar problem in a community I'm a a part of? How are you reliably detecting AI?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:39:38 +0000

Yes

> The question is whether the company can show, before rolling a product out to billions of people, that it is not predatory by design.

"Not predatory" is a negative

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:29:17 +0000

Proving something is addictive is not proving a negative

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:50:00 +0000

And examples where it goes right. Federal reserve, FDA, SEC, etc..

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:47:44 +0000

You create an agency and give it a mandate that requires it to balance concerns.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Stop big tech from making users behave in ways they don't want to"

Seattle3503 — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:41:44 +0000

> The burden of proof should fall on the platform, not the victim. The question is not whether a harmed user can show specific damage. The question is whether the company can show, before rolling a product out to billions of people, that it is not predatory by design.

That's asking every company to prove a negative before rolling out new features.

Could we have a regulatory agency that keeps an eye on dark patterns and deals with them as evidence emerges that something is harmful.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Online age verification is the hill to die on"

Seattle3503 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:40:58 +0000

Only for a subset of people. Many would accept solutions that preserve privacy. Divide and conquer. Remove supporters from the anti-privacy group.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Surelock: Deadlock-Free Mutexes for Rust"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:48:34 +0000

If I need to grab 100 locks, they are all moving around a lot, but I've got the first 10, will the order be the same for someome trying to get the same 100? Eg maybe someone swaps two that neither of us has grabbed yet.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:44:23 +0000

I don't think they were talking about the size of the codebase. How much funding does emacs require to maintain?

New comment by Seattle3503 in "AWS engineer reports PostgreSQL perf halved by Linux 7.0, fix may not be easy"

Seattle3503 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:18:56 +0000

If you're running in a docker container you share the host kernel. You might not have a choice.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:51:05 +0000

Am I still allowed to invoke cc in a bash script, or is that out too? Interactive sessions only.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

Seattle3503 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:46:47 +0000

Agreed, I found this article hard to follow and emotive in a way that made it feel extremely biased.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 04:27:07 +0000

I did, but the govt is one of my companies customers

New comment by Seattle3503 in "Java is fast, code might not be"

Seattle3503 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:26:44 +0000

> I'm hopeful that improvements in LLMs mean we can ditch ORMs (under the guise that they are quicker to write queries and the inbetween mapping code with) and instead make good use of SQL to harness the powers that modern databases provide.

Maybe we can ditch active models like those we see in sqlalchemy, but the typed query builders that come with ORMs are going to become more important, not less. Leveraging the compiler to catch bad queries is a huge win.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "A sufficiently detailed spec is code"

Seattle3503 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 07:43:02 +0000

I think of "plan" mode as a read-only mode where the LLM isn't chomping at the bit to start writing to files. Rather than being excitable and over-active, it is receptive and listening.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Seattle3503 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:05:52 +0000

Those all cite Iranian government sources.

It's certainly credible that US/Israel bombed a school. But it's also credible that Iran would lie about US/Israel bombing a school. In these situations we need a higher standard of evidence than "credible". I don't think that's a radical position.

New comment by Seattle3503 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

Seattle3503 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:51:14 +0000

These days kinetic wars are accompanied by online information wars. What's the harm in waiting for corroboration and more evidence in a rapidly evolving situation?