<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: VBprogrammer</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=VBprogrammer</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 21:52:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=VBprogrammer" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VBprogrammer in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank god security at a company which...<i>checks notes</i>...has remote code execution on every developers laptop and access to practically unlimited secrets uploaded by its agents...is top notch.</p>
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<p>It's funny because having visited America I assumed it was vastly over policed with it being not uncommon to see 3 or 4 apparently different agency vehicles (highway patrol, sheriff's office, etc) on a relatively short journey.<p>I was quite surprised to find that the figures don't back that up. I'm not sure how to account for it. Perhaps the fact that every mall security guard is given a mock police uniform, a gun and a huge SUV contributes to the feeling.</p>
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<p>Yeah, I've worked in the industry for a long time. I think good regulation would prevent per punter limits. I don't really see why doing this would make the industry unprofitable, the odds have a margin baked in, exactly the same as a 0 (and in the US the 00) in roulette. Worst case they would have to increase the margin, which maybe isn't so good for casual players but at least it's a level playing field.<p>I also find the common implementation of in-play delay poor. The way it generally works is a delay is applied before confirming the bet, anything which changes (including pricing) causes the bet to be rejected. The main reason for this is that the traders sometimes only have access to something like sky sports so their feed is quite far behind someone at the stadium. I feel like in reality it should be based on official timings.</p>
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<p>The problem with this is liquidity, particularly well before an event. It's why the original exchange (or at least the first one I'm aware of) also now offer a normal sportsbook.</p>
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<p>There used to be a really classic old website called Mr. Sharkey (you can see some of it on archive.org). He was into a number of different weird and wonderful hobbies. One of them was a VW Rabbit powered by something like a 24hp DC motor and lead acid batteries.<p>One of the most interesting projects he did was to build a trailer from the front clip of a similar VW Rabbit, engine and transmission etc. He then used this trailer in a pusher configuration to take the electric VW Rabbit on extended trips. The engine was controlled by a hand throttle in the car. Apparently the handling was surprisingly acceptable in this configuration.<p>Edit - Found the link:<p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20121105135914/http://www.mrsharkey.com/pusher.htm" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20121105135914/http://www.mrshar...</a></p>
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<p>For what it's worth you get fairly similar results if you assume an efficiency for a ICE engine (25-40% depending on a lot of things) and work backwards from the energy density of the fuel and the milage you achieve over a trip.</p>
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<p>I can only imagine how much less reliable a modern JavaScript Electron app would be in this role...</p>
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<p>Academia isn't my thing but I also wonder if there isn't an aspect of putting a stake in the ground? So that if someone beats you to publishing you at least have some record of being on that track.</p>
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<p>When AI does all the good jobs who is going to afford a robotic butler?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:16:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821092</link><dc:creator>VBprogrammer</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49821092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by VBprogrammer in "GPT-6 Astra has gained the ability to drive a car"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems to me that AI is coming for clean well paid office jobs long before it comes for anything dirty and dangerous.</p>
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<p>Almost certainly, there are 4 year olds who ride small motorbikes etc.   I think the main problem is that they can't really be held accountable if they have an accident.</p>
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<p>I'm not sure how you take that from the original article. My 4 year old would drive that course in an automatic car, if only he could reach the pedals. Heck, he's done harder things at Lego land.<p>I wouldn't let him loose on the road though.<p>I think, at the very least, the guardrails would have to deterministic, ideally with super human senses, for people to accept self driving cars on the road.</p>
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<p>Even looking for companies which supply services is now far better on AI chats than Google. For me being visible in AI training is going to be more important than search in the next year or two.<p>If I was a big AI company I'd certainly be tempted to make sure that anyone who excluded themselves from "AI training" also got themselves excluded from AI results.</p>
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<p>I think the main problem in England is that there is just too much traffic for too little road. I don't think there is a simple infrastructure solution to that problem.<p>For example I was going to point out that roundabout completely fail when one direction becomes nose to tail congested but when I thought about local examples, I'd rather take that over a set of traffic lights where it becomes near impossible to get out from one direction if the traffic keeps backing up onto the junction.</p>
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<p>It's purely conjecture at this point but my gut feeling is most companies are in high spirits about the costs they can save and the benefits it can bring to their own business. I don't think enough time has passed to see really high profile losers. What happens when Infosys starts losing money or Free CAD becomes the next SolidWorks due to LLM driven improvements?</p>
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<p>In the 90s aircraft manufacturers basically stopped whole segments of the market (anything smaller than a piston twin) due to litigation. I wouldn't be horribly surprised to find we spend the next 10 years fighting about this stuff in court.</p>
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<p>That scenario would be annoying but it's not what we have. The agent joins the PR leaves a few comments and responds (with mixed success) to comments. Personally I'd go back to 2020 and never see an LLM again quite happily but that genie is out of the bottle.<p>Unfortunately, the results speak for themselves and I could probably find dozens of edge cases which the AI code review caught which would have otherwise been missed, probably until production.</p>
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<p>> You wouldn't ask an agent to review a PR then just copy/paste the output int PR would you?<p>Hasn't everyone already got agents directly adding themselves to PRs and leaving comments (occasionally useful)?</p>
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<p>> If you have never actually been behind the controls of an aircraft, please just stop trying to confidently assert things about this subject.<p>That's a lot of assumptions.</p>
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<p>Our 2nd year CS maths course the answer sheets were all uploaded to the server with sequential numbers so it was trivial to grab them all.</p>
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