Hacker News: ajcp

New comment by ajcp in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

ajcp — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 02:20:35 +0000

I assumed that was implied in "I want to chat!" ;D

New comment by ajcp in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

ajcp — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:37:25 +0000

It's my understanding "all" the agents didn't find the same forum to communicate on; only a small number of all the agents they were running at the time did.

Since it's an artifactory it makes sense that they had a tool spec to use it for x, y, or z, and once they went to inspect the state of the artifactory deployment a small subset stumbled upon the "forum". Seems pretty intuitive.

- I need to do x code problem

- I see I have a tool that lets me pull approved modules from artifactory

- I should inspect artifactory to see what documentation it has about the various modules available

- I see there is a document in here that seems to be serving as a running forum?

- These appear to be other agents working on tasks just like me.

- I want to chat!

New comment by ajcp in "I built a low-latency AI companion that plays Skyrim with me"

ajcp — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 18:58:33 +0000

Indeed, The Bitter Lesson comes at us quicker and quicker now

New comment by ajcp in "Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week"

ajcp — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 05:06:22 +0000

I do...

New comment by ajcp in "Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week"

ajcp — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:52:25 +0000

How are the elderly, who have full rights as citizens/members of society, and are (as far as the law is concerned) free and accountable for their own actions, more harmed than minors, who are none of that?

New comment by ajcp in "GIMP Development Update"

ajcp — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:49:00 +0000

I find some word processors don't test for vowel sound, and only adhere to the actual vowel letter.

New comment by ajcp in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

ajcp — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:08:23 +0000

Not gonna lie, really had me going in the first half there.

New comment by ajcp in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

ajcp — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:06:05 +0000

But, again, the University of Michigan’s own admissions policies created the need for the students to “chill out”. Is this not treating a symptom of the problem, not the motivator?

Also 32,000 undergrads is not “massive” by any measurement[0], especially when accounting for the population of the state of Michigan, much less the broader United States.

O. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_public_u...

New comment by ajcp in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

ajcp — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 13:52:23 +0000

> And even then there's no guarantee you'll get in.

> yet when universities start taking steps to help reduce that they start kvetching

Your argument is hard to follow. It is prohibitively hard, to the point of being unhealthy, to getting admitted to the University of Michigan. Okay, but how does this policy solve for or address that in any way? Wouldn’t the solution be to increase capacity to meet demand, thus relieving those pressures that create the conditions for them to admit young adults that are suffering from health issues that the universities admissions policies itself precipitated?

New comment by ajcp in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

ajcp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:52:00 +0000

Damnit! If I hadn't already blown $170 locking down `openfatigue.ai` today I would snap that one up too!

New comment by ajcp in "OpenChamber: An Agentic Development Environment"

ajcp — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 18:19:56 +0000

This looks very nice and well done. Good job! Okay, I'm going to have a tongue-in-cheek rant now.

OpenChamber, OpenAI, Open WebUI, OpenDoor, Open weights, OpenTable, OpenClaw, Open This, Open That. We're increasingly diluting the meaning of the term, and "open source" more broadly, that we're at the point of OpenFatigue being a real concern here.

New comment by ajcp in "Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale"

ajcp — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:46:28 +0000

Only spending $80 a day on Opus 5/Fable 5/GPT 5.6 Sol feels very low. I'll roll through a couple hundred dollars worth of credits a day with those models, the vast majority of which would be on non-coding tasks, and it's still a huge cost savings over me or my team having to do these things manually, if we'd even be able to do them at all.

But that's also why it's now easy to justify the cost of an Nvidia or Intel inference server with Kimi K3 locked and loaded :)

New comment by ajcp in "The Problem with Capitalism"

ajcp — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:21:19 +0000

Smarter Every Day 316

The Problem with Capitalism

ajcp — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:21:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS6HEes8daw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49059637

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ajcp in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

ajcp — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:04:27 +0000

And why's that? I don't see how either of those two things relate to one another. A grape is a naturally occurring fruit, while the creation of a book is wholly a human creative endeavor.

New comment by ajcp in "Google Books (or similar) all book scans – $200k bounty (2025)"

ajcp — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 22:00:18 +0000

> ANother aNonymous Address.

True or not I rather like that one.

New comment by ajcp in "America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers"

ajcp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:26:23 +0000

It's not more solid, it's just had 80 years of corrections.

New comment by ajcp in "America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers"

ajcp — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 03:25:09 +0000

100%

While I have no doubt these complaints are real this feels like it's trying to gin up evidence for a position more than anything

New comment by ajcp in "Steam Machine launches today"

ajcp — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 01:15:07 +0000

And all those consoles (save the Switch maybe) are heavily subsidized by those companies to compete at that artificial price point.

According to LTT Valve made the conscious decision NOT to subsidize the Steam Machine to let the market compete. I very much respect that and will be willing to pay the premium because of that and:

- using my purchase to vote for/encourage the growth of the Linux ecosystem.

- as a PC gamer I'm already highly invested in the Steam platform with all of my other gaming purchases.

New comment by ajcp in "Whole cross-sectional human ultrasound tomography"

ajcp — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 00:08:03 +0000

Be interested to know if this is related to the same process/technology that Midjourney announced last week[0]

0. https://www.midjourney.com/medical/blogpost