Hacker News: Torn

New comment by Torn in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

Torn — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:09:45 +0000

Canvas is not Canva. Is this a bot reply

New comment by Torn in "Prove you are a robot: CAPTCHAs for agents"

Torn — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 06:16:11 +0000

Interesting - Claude immediately refuses

     API Error: Claude Code is unable to respond to this request, which appears
     to violate our Usage Policy (https://www.anthropic.com/legal/aup). Please
     double press esc to edit your last message or start a new session for
     Claude Code to assist with a different task. If you are seeing this refusal
     epeatedly, try running /model claude-sonnet-4-20250514 to switch models.

New comment by Torn in "Component "security.ubuntu.com" and a few other components are Down"

Torn — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 06:30:47 +0000

Hopefully not a security incident

New comment by Torn in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

Torn — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:12:04 +0000

Tbh I find self-documenting CLIs (e.g. with a `--help` flag, and printing correct usage examples when LLMs make things up) plus a skill that's auto invoked to be pretty reliable. CLIs can do OAuth dances too just fine.

MCP's remaining moats I think are:

- No-install product integrations (just paste in mcp config into app)

- Non-developer end users / no shell needed (no terminal)

- Multi-tenant auth (many users, dynamic OAuth)

- Security sandboxing (restrict what agents can do), credential sandboxing (agents never see secrets)

- Compliance/audit (structured logs, schema enforcement)?

If you're a developer building for developers though, CLI seems to be a clear winner right

New comment by Torn in "Let your Coding Agent debug the browser session with Chrome DevTools MCP"

Torn — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:01:09 +0000

https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli and https://agent-browser.dev/

New comment by Torn in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

Torn — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:00:21 +0000

Mostly, yes: https://github.com/microsoft/playwright-cli

New comment by Torn in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

Torn — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 22:00:01 +0000

I personally found playwright-cli, and agent-browser which wraps playwright, both more token-efficient than using the raw mcp.

Odd that this article from Dec 2025 has been posted to the top of HN though

New comment by Torn in "The 'Toy Story' You Remember"

Torn — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 04:57:07 +0000

Disney 100% has access to colorists and best in class colour grading software. It must have been a business (cost cutting) decision?

New comment by Torn in "Valdi – A cross-platform UI framework that delivers native performance"

Torn — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 10:57:39 +0000

Could your processing work in a webview? i.e. webgl or webasm or similar and you communicate with it via postMessage. Something like Polygen might help with the scaffolding, but I have not tried it personally

New comment by Torn in "Two billion email addresses were exposed"

Torn — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 03:48:01 +0000

You'd think spotify as a mature company would have had obligations to report this stuff!

New comment by Torn in "Affinity Studio now free"

Torn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:16:21 +0000

I've had good experience contacting canva support in the past who've checked things with engineering teams, you should be able to contact them about their new affinity sign-in

New comment by Torn in "Affinity Studio now free"

Torn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:09:58 +0000

Is enshittification truly inevitable? Perhaps, but as an occasional affinity user this is good news and I don't see a reason to spell doom just yet

New comment by Torn in "Affinity Studio now free"

Torn — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 03:02:23 +0000

I imagine enough folks will pay for the Canva account subscription to upsell - and then it's also a funnel into Canva

Plus it directly attacks Adobe's moat if a solid desktop app competitor is free

New comment by Torn in "My AI had fixed the code before I saw it"

Torn — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 05:10:27 +0000

Yeah as someone who uses Claude code daily this feels like hype and marketing

CLAUDE.md and working memory only goes so far — it never religiously follows them and does not truly 'learn' from past collaboration. In fact the more you put into a CLAUDE.md the more it seems to degrade

New comment by Torn in "Is there a half-life for the success rates of AI agents?"

Torn — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 04:20:16 +0000

Great writeup. There are other scaling axes of course, around data (even synthetic data) and improving AI generation at the 'software' layer (smarter design / training efficiencies / inference speed ups) — progress in those might make the the currently-unthinkable orders of magnitude $500b and beyond not as necessary?

New comment by Torn in "The Gruen Transfer is consuming the internet"

Torn — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 09:30:28 +0000

We are 100% going to get 'hey remember when LLMs were pure and not explicitly (or more dangerously: subtly) recommending things' nostalgia in years to come.

There are parallels to early web here I'm sure of it.

I think I'm a little more worried about AI being subtly influenced in its training data -- they can't explain why they give the tokens they do, and even chain of thought / explain your working thinking is similarly made up and hallucination-prone

New comment by Torn in "El Salvador abandons Bitcoin as legal tender"

Torn — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 02:07:10 +0000

It to be a viable currency? Not a speculative asset?

New comment by Torn in "The Rabbit R1 is probably running Android and is powered by an Android app"

Torn — Thu, 02 May 2024 01:28:20 +0000

Siri is nowhere near an AI assistant or even a decent AI query bot.

It mostly does simple commands and for the rest kicks you to web search results.

Apple surely understand the opportunity here, maybe their view is LLMs are just too variable / hallucinate too much to go all-in on it?

New comment by Torn in "Canva has acquired Affinity in an effort to compete with Adobe"

Torn — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 07:47:11 +0000

Yes, very lucrative with huge free cash flow. 60% YoY growth last year too

New comment by Torn in "Ozempic Is Making People Buy Less Food, Walmart Says"

Torn — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 02:43:13 +0000

because ultra processed foods are objectively bad for us?