Hacker News: _boffin_

New comment by _boffin_ in "Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code"

_boffin_ — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:22:58 +0000

This isn't related to Dynamic Workflows, but more on the telemetry / observability side of things.

Why'd you guys not want to allow the traceparent in hooks, but allowed the session.id? Any plans on changing that?

New comment by _boffin_ in "XLIDE: VBA without excel"

_boffin_ — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:19:51 +0000

Gonna have some fun with this!

New comment by _boffin_ in "Jira Is Turing-Complete"

_boffin_ — Mon, 25 May 2026 13:58:26 +0000

Reminds me of automating FiServ in VBA. Omfg, but still worth it.

New comment by _boffin_ in "Qwen3.7-Max: The Agent Frontier"

_boffin_ — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:53:11 +0000

Can you go into more depth about this

New comment by _boffin_ in "OpenAI is connecting ChatGPT to bank accounts via Plaid"

_boffin_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:24:25 +0000

What a statement. What a statement. How many financial institutions do they support? How many different vendors supply the platform for those institutions? How many of those financal institutions (FI) don’t support oauth or other APIs? A lot! Then ask yourself: how do they talk get the data if no api? Web scraping. Then ask yourself how they build the scrapers for those? Where do those accounts come. Employees of the company who open up accounts at those FIs? What about all the other FIs? Where do you think those come from…? How do you think that process is secured? Think the process is secured enough to make you feel warm and cozy? When the scrapers are working, how do you think they get past the security measures? Do you think those financial institutions might think it’s odd that you’re logging in from multiple IPs and that one or more of those ips might be from a residential proxy network?

The result is that I attempt, at all cost to not use anything that requires plaid or their competitors since I know how that sausage is made.

New comment by _boffin_ in "eBay Rejects GameStop's $56B Takeover as Not Credible"

_boffin_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:36:43 +0000

Wasn’t there something where his comp package mandated 50b in market cap?

Ahh. 100b https://investor.gamestop.com/news-releases/news-details/202...

New comment by _boffin_ in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

_boffin_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:35:59 +0000

and this sums it up right here.

New comment by _boffin_ in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

_boffin_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 01:34:25 +0000

> Frontier models score ~90% on Python but only 3.8% on esoteric languages, exposing how current code generation relies on training data memorization rather than genuine programming reasoning.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48100433#48102985

New comment by _boffin_ in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

_boffin_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:49:53 +0000

Please distill instead of having me navigate off site. Include link for additional info.

edit: side -> site

New comment by _boffin_ in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

_boffin_ — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:36:23 +0000

Read the first few comments and surprised I didn’t see it, but training data. The voluminous amount of Python in the training data.

I could write in brainfuck with ai, but I presume, wouldn’t get the same results than if going with python.

My follow up question: with AI now, why care about a lang until you need to?

New comment by _boffin_ in "Meta Shuts Down End-to-End Encryption for Instagram Messaging"

_boffin_ — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:24:19 +0000

> Siri fell behind due to how good Apple’s privacy is.

Uhh. What the heck are you talking about? I’m calling straight bs on this unless presented rational.

Siri has access to knowledge.db or whatever it is, which is the centralized hub for pretty much all things. Siri phones home every request made via Siri.

I think you got sold snake oil

New comment by _boffin_ in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

_boffin_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:33:05 +0000

The way i look at it is: those users are going to ask differing questions than engineering that may lead to possibilities not considered, thought of, believed possible, etc.. which can be a good thing, when harnessed correctly*.

I'd love to hear more about the positive effects of designers and PMs using AI, especially more on the PM side, if you care to go into more detail

New comment by _boffin_ in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

_boffin_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 21:34:50 +0000

How’s this actually going? I’m sure there are issues, but is it actually fruitful?

New comment by _boffin_ in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

_boffin_ — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:27:30 +0000

What i don't understand about "computer use" is why they're not just grabbing the window handles and storing them to determine what should be clicked after the first few iterations of using that a specific application. if a new case / path / whatever is found, drop back to screen grabbing and bounding boxes and then figure the handles that are there and store after.

idk.. not really thought out too much, but has to be better

New comment by _boffin_ in "How ChatGPT serves ads"

_boffin_ — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 02:42:12 +0000

Can you provide some references to what you’re talking about

New comment by _boffin_ in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

_boffin_ — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 06:08:26 +0000

I'm really enjoying the way it writes and its tone.

New comment by _boffin_ in "Our eighth generation TPUs: two chips for the agentic era"

_boffin_ — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:13:01 +0000

Is your friend on the JAX team?

New comment by _boffin_ in "Claude Opus 4.7"

_boffin_ — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:22:30 +0000

You state your hypnosis quite confidently. Can you tell me how taking down authentication many times is related to GPU capacity?

New comment by _boffin_ in "Veracrypt project update"

_boffin_ — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:47:19 +0000

Wasn’t there something with 7.1A and that the canary was gone after that version too?

New comment by _boffin_ in "We replaced RAG with a virtual filesystem for our AI documentation assistant"

_boffin_ — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:41:45 +0000

And next, we’ll get to tag based file systems