Hacker News: alasano

New comment by alasano in "Codex Hacked a Samsung TV"

alasano — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:58:43 +0000

When typing no but when using speech to text (99% of the time) it's much easier to just say things, including expressing frustration.

I think by the point you're swearing at it or something, it's a good sign to switch to a session with fresh context.

New comment by alasano in "€54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs"

alasano — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 12:54:45 +0000

My favorite Google LLM benchmark is asking Gemini models to create a script that fetches API usage (just request counts) for a project from GCP.

100% failure rate.

New comment by alasano in "Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store"

alasano — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 01:52:26 +0000

Of course it is.

New comment by alasano in "Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store"

alasano — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:30:34 +0000

If apple were liable for this you could do a double dip where you use your own fake app to "steal" money from a massive wallet you own and get apple to pay you back for "your loss". In addition to your other ill gotten gains.

New comment by alasano in "Users lose $9.5M to fake Ledger wallet app on the Apple App Store"

alasano — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:28:20 +0000

maybe they had a check to determine total value of all collected seeds and then triggered auto sweeps from a certain threshold to guarantee a minimum.

Not sure what the game theory optimal way of stealing is!

New comment by alasano in "Show HN: I built a social media management tool in 3 weeks with Claude and Codex"

alasano — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:23:06 +0000

> kenpass

> username "ninkendo"

Absolutely checks out.

Please share more ken related software names you use lol

New comment by alasano in "Agent Sandboxes Are So Hot Right Now: 19 Providers Compared"

alasano — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:59:54 +0000

It seems like I see a new agent sandbox startup or product get released every day.

With Anthropic launching Claude Managed Agents yesterday, it felt like a good time to build an overview showcasing all the providers we could find.

Agent Sandboxes Are So Hot Right Now: 19 Providers Compared

alasano — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:59:54 +0000

Article URL: https://engine.build/lab/agent-sandboxes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47704644

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by alasano in "I've sold out"

alasano — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:16:25 +0000

He wrote a blog post about it

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/31/pi/

New comment by alasano in "NanoClaw's architecture is a masterclass in doing less"

alasano — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:46:39 +0000

I stopped reading at the first em dash

New comment by alasano in "Claude Code is locking people out for hours"

alasano — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:44:58 +0000

If you prepare yourself a token with "claude setup-token" (presuming you're not already locked out and had one) you can run "CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN=sk.. claude" to use your account.

New comment by alasano in "Every GPU That Mattered"

alasano — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:17:55 +0000

My truenas scale server still happily running on a i7-3770.

New comment by alasano in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

alasano — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 02:53:12 +0000

Last time he made the front page he said the same things.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46978710

Then proceeded to fix nothing whatsoever.

It really does feel like he's just doing mostly what he wants and talking on behalf of vague made up users while real users complain on GitHub issues.

New comment by alasano in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

alasano — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:33:34 +0000

Your comment could have been "I prefer these open source alternatives:" but you chose to be a hater.

There's nothing wrong with offering services that people find useful.

New comment by alasano in "Launch HN: Freestyle – Sandboxes for Coding Agents"

alasano — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:27:19 +0000

Just want to say that even if alternatives exist (not necessarily exact capabilities obviously), I appreciate what seems to be genuine excitement on your part of having built something cool / best in class.

So best of luck with your vision for it!

New comment by alasano in "Show HN: Ghost Pepper – Local hold-to-talk speech-to-text for macOS"

alasano — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:11:10 +0000

I think it's the same reasoning for anything these days.

"You know what would be useful?" followed by asking your LLM of choice to implement it.

Then again for a lot of scenarios it's your slop or someone else's slop.

I think the only difference is that I keep my own slop tools private.

New comment by alasano in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

alasano — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:18:21 +0000

If that same internet provider has caps on how much bandwidth I can use every 5 hours and total on a weekly basis, then yes, I pay for capacity.

That argument would have been valid when the 5 hours blocks were unlimited in the beginning.

New comment by alasano in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

alasano — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:01:55 +0000

"these tools put an outsized strain on our systems"

AKA when you fully use the capacity you paid for, that's too much!

New comment by alasano in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

alasano — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:59:06 +0000

It's still possible but if you do it using your Claude Max plan, it's technically no longer allowed.

They don't want you using your subscription outside of Claude Code. Only API key usage is allowed.

Google also doubled down on this and OpenAI are the only ones who explicitly allow you to do it.

New comment by alasano in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

alasano — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:45:27 +0000

Pi really is amazing. It's as much or as little as you need it to be.

Not having to deal with Boris Cherny's UX choices for CC is the cherry on top.