Hacker News: Ycros

New comment by Ycros in "Show HN: Eigendrum - Draw any shape and hear what it sounds like as a drum"

Ycros — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 09:29:28 +0000

what has the world come to when people beg for stars on github

New comment by Ycros in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

Ycros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:55:27 +0000

Ah, see, if I was on the phone to someone administering a list, and I asked, "is it possible to move me to the top of the list?" - I would expect them to action that if this was a reasonable and possible request that I had made. Now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know if that's a regional/cultural thing (I am Australian).

edit: and that's why I read Andrew's ask as also implying action.

New comment by Ycros in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

Ycros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:47:48 +0000

Sure, it's pen testing behaviour. It's also debugging behaviour which is a core part of coding. In my experience, I have found myself at times dealing with and interacting with external systems that are not my own, where I don't have the source, or are under-documented, or are behaving contrary to the documentation. I'm unsurprised this is a core thing they're training these models for, because it's something I find way more valuable than their below average coding ability.

New comment by Ycros in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

Ycros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:28:16 +0000

I've read some of the comments here, and it seems people have different reads on whether Andrew was at fault here or not, and what his intent may have been.

My read is that his first request is completely reasonable and there was no intent of wrongdoing. But then, his AI agent made an impossible booking and he "asked if it was possible to move him to the top of the list". I don't think someone would make a request like that, if they were unaware that their AI agent had found an exploit to make an earlier impossible booking. It feels very much like a, "well, this API let me do this, what else will it let me do?" kind of request. And then he only "did the right thing" when it had turned out he had booted someone else, which might eventually lead to discovery.

New comment by Ycros in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"

Ycros — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 02:07:41 +0000

"I wonder if the training ... is going to bleed over into the non-coding use cases"

I mean, isn't that literally what's going on here? I don't think a non-coding agent would have ever been optimised to go dig around APIs, it'd be computer/browser-use forward.

New comment by Ycros in "Cloudflare Wallets: the programmable wallet for the agentic Internet"

Ycros — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 03:32:27 +0000

It feels like Cloudflare keeps inserting itself in between everything, everywhere it can. So convenient you'll middleman yourself. I do not like this.

New comment by Ycros in "Hubble: Open-source notetaking app for you and your agents"

Ycros — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:04:59 +0000

midwit meme, but both ends are just "a pile of .md files in a synced directory somewhere"

New comment by Ycros in "Herdr: Agent multiplexer that lives in your terminal"

Ycros — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:40:50 +0000

I mean, assuming you're on tmux 3.6 or newer, try setting `set -g mouse on` in your tmux conf, then scrolling should just work. Should it be a default? Maybe. (edit: also lets you click on panes, adjust splits, etc.)

New comment by Ycros in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

Ycros — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:45:21 +0000

if you look at the last few weeks of commits, you can see they've been systematically ripping out everything bun-specific and moving to node

New comment by Ycros in "AI tools are making me lose interest in CS fundamentals"

Ycros — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 03:07:19 +0000

How can you possibly make any informed statement about the solutions AI generates for you if you don't understand them?

New comment by Ycros in "Anthropic blocks third-party use of Claude Code subscriptions"

Ycros — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 05:24:03 +0000

I use tmux, I have this exact same bug in tmux. It's part of why I use OpenCode and not Claude Code.

New comment by Ycros in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"

Ycros — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 12:03:15 +0000

Yes, we should archive everything. And we should perhaps reform IP more broadly and re-think how we treat our culture. And we shouldn't expect retaliation.

But retaliation will happen, and I worry that it's going to pull down one of the most incredible archives along with it.

New comment by Ycros in "Anna's Archive loses .org domain after surprise suspension"

Ycros — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 11:28:35 +0000

yeah no shit, this is what happens when you agitate the major music record labels - it's going to get worse

New comment by Ycros in "Unscii"

Ycros — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:27:49 +0000

there's enough support for it across various things that it's not going anywhere

New comment by Ycros in "Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig"

Ycros — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 04:56:16 +0000

I'd recommend anyone looking at these three languages to give Odin a try.

New comment by Ycros in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI"

Ycros — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 03:59:54 +0000

Is this why I've seen a number of "AUP violation" false positives popping up in claude code recently?

New comment by Ycros in "Ollama and gguf"

Ycros — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 02:49:10 +0000

ollama has always had a weird attitude towards upstream, and then they wonder why many in the community don't like them

New comment by Ycros in "Australians to face age checks from search engines"

Ycros — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 03:22:06 +0000

It uses a video feed and asks you to look in certain directions. At least the one instance I've encountered did.

New comment by Ycros in "Convert Linux to Windows"

Ycros — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 06:27:21 +0000

This seems reasonable to me, surely it should be its own repository.

New comment by Ycros in "Nvtop: Linux Task Monitor for Nvidia, AMD and Intel GPUs"

Ycros — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:25:41 +0000

I prefer btop, it does all the usual process monitoring as well as gpus in the latest versions.