Hacker News: a13n

New comment by a13n in "Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling"

a13n — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:00:56 +0000

Definitely feels like there’s a particular narrative being pushed on HN today.

New comment by a13n in "How to earn a billion dollars"

a13n — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:39:07 +0000

Nobody is forcing people to be employees of startups. They choose to do it of their own free will. If they think they can generate immense value from their own ideas they are free to go try to do that. Hiring people to do a job for a wage they agree to isn’t swindling.

New comment by a13n in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

a13n — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:25:11 +0000

what a fantastic advertisement

New comment by a13n in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

a13n — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:11:34 +0000

It’s difficult to determine which individuals are involved and even if you manage to do that they almost certainly live in countries without extradition.

New comment by a13n in "OpenRouter raises $113M Series B"

a13n — Sat, 30 May 2026 18:08:54 +0000

Both OpenAI and Anthropic have billing caps… who doesn’t?

New comment by a13n in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

a13n — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:52:52 +0000

The US drastically prefers the economic impact of AI over enforcing this…

You can get away with quite a lot if you’re creating trillions in GDP.

That’s just the world we live in whether we like it or not.

New comment by a13n in "Redistricting and the Supreme Court have cut voters out of US House races"

a13n — Sun, 03 May 2026 15:22:01 +0000

Let’s say you’re a democrat (or republican, w/e) who lives in a district that’s 50-50 dem/rep. Then maps get redrawn so your district is 80-20. Is your vote worth the same as it was before? Is it a good or bad thing that only ~10% of the population’s vote matters?

New comment by a13n in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

a13n — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:50:13 +0000

can’t help but see this thread next to the Erdos one and feel like someone’s trying to tell us something :)

New comment by a13n in "Session is shutting down in 90 days"

a13n — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 17:56:24 +0000

nah. we never had a business plan and are still going strong 11 years later. 99.999% is a gross exaggeration of reality.

we’ll never actually have this data, but I bet there isn’t much correlation if any between having a business plan and being successful.

have you started a successful business?

New comment by a13n in "Cursor 3"

a13n — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:14:59 +0000

vscode + claude code extension has everything you listed that actually matters

New comment by a13n in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"

a13n — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:23:11 +0000

VCX (Fundrise) has way more exposure than ARKVX

New comment by a13n in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

a13n — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:19:55 +0000

Rejecting any packages newer than X days is one nice control, but ultimately it'd be way better to maintain an allowlist of which packages are allowed to run scripts.

Unfortunately npm is friggen awful at this...

You can use --ignore-scripts=true to disable all scripts, but inevitably, some packages will absolutely need to run scripts. There's no way to allowlist specific scripts to run, while blocking all others.

There are third-party npm packages that you can install, like @lavamoat/allow-scripts, but to use these you need to use an entirely different command like `npm setup` instead of the `npm install` everyone is familiar with.

This is just awful in so many ways, and it'd be so easy for npm to fix.

New comment by a13n in "Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500"

a13n — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 07:04:04 +0000

just tried with claude opus and got 7,342

New comment by a13n in "Launch HN: Sitefire (YC W26) – Automating actions to improve AI visibility"

a13n — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:46:16 +0000

Please don't override the browser's default scroll behavior. It's so jarring and basically never a good idea.

New comment by a13n in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

a13n — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 05:33:07 +0000

If you use eslint and tell it how to run lint in CLAUDE.md it will run lint itself and find and fix most issues like this.

Definitely not ideal, but sure helps.

New comment by a13n in "Many SWE-bench-Passing PRs would not be merged"

a13n — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 01:13:20 +0000

This isn’t strictly an AI problem, there are definitely human engineers who gold plate. At least with AI it doesn’t slow down velocity.

New comment by a13n in "News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns"

a13n — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 20:23:07 +0000

depends, if you don’t clean up the logs and monitor that cleanup will it eventually hit the p&l? eg if you fail compliance audits and lose customers over it? then yes. it still eventually comes back to the p&l.

New comment by a13n in "Warcraft III Peon Voice Notifications for Claude Code"

a13n — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:43:40 +0000

Oh man can't wait till Cursor allows you to customize sound effects.

New comment by a13n in "GPT-5 outperforms federal judges in legal reasoning experiment"

a13n — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 02:03:34 +0000

This example feels more like a bug in the law itself that should be corrected. If this behavior is acceptable then it should be legal so we can avoid everyone the hassle in the first place. I bet AI would be great at finding and fixing these bugs.

New comment by a13n in "Europe's $24T Breakup with Visa and Mastercard Has Begun"

a13n — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:32:40 +0000

If my bank did this to me I would immediately drop them.