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New comment by andyhedges in "GTFOBins"

andyhedges — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 09:08:40 +0000

For the LLM it's a probabilistic set of strings that achieves the outcome, the highest probability set didn't work, try the next one until success or threshold met. A human sees the implicit difference between the obvious thing not working indicating someone doesn't want you to do it, but an LLM unless guided doesn't seen that sub-text.

So chmod +x file didn't work, now try python -c "import os; os.chmod('file',744)"

New comment by andyhedges in "Migrating from DigitalOcean to Hetzner"

andyhedges — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:06:35 +0000

It's when they sniff the glue, then things get wild.

New comment by andyhedges in "Modifying FileZilla to Workaround Bambu 3D Printer's FTP Issue"

andyhedges — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:21:10 +0000

Isn't the what sftp is? sftp multiplexes commands and data, and is single port without all the old fashioned two port negotiation of FTP.

New comment by andyhedges in "Some things just take time"

andyhedges — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:27:01 +0000

Yes, I'm saying it's not a good analogy

New comment by andyhedges in "Some things just take time"

andyhedges — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:12:53 +0000

> We require age minimums for driving, voting, and drinking because we believe maturity only comes through lived experience.

Not true, we do this because the 99% of the time it's true, however there are people who would be perfectly competent and responsible to drive without living to the age of 16-18. Same with voting, there are humans who have a deep understanding and intelligence about politics at a younger age than suffrage. Equally there are people who will be reckless drivers at 40 and vote on whim at 60.

We have these rules not because sophistication only comes through lived experience, we have them because it's strongly correlated and covers of most error cases.

To take this to AI, run the model enough times with a higher enough temperature, then perhaps it can solve your challenges with a high enough quality - just a thought.

New comment by andyhedges in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

andyhedges — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 11:59:54 +0000

Nuance!? This is The Internet, we can't be having any of that here.

New comment by andyhedges in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

andyhedges — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:15:53 +0000

I have it (claude, codex) summarise what we've discussed about a design, big change, put it in an MD file and then I correct it, have it re-read it and then do the change.

Then later if it goes off piste in another session tell it to re-read the ADDs for x, y and z.

If someone could make that process less clunky, that would be great. However it's very much not just funnel every turd uttered in the prompt onto a git branch and trying a chug the lot down every session.

New comment by andyhedges in "Tell HN: Uber has blocked my account for years, won't tell me why"

andyhedges — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 14:14:14 +0000

Can't you just reset the password on account without the dot it in? Lock them out.

New comment by andyhedges in "TIL: You can access a user’s camera with just HTML"

andyhedges — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 16:31:32 +0000

Couldn't you play a WAV too? But they were too massive at the time for most peoples bandwidth.

An Explanation of Huffman Coding

andyhedges — Sun, 16 Jun 2019 10:53:53 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.hedges.net/2014/02/11/huffman-coding/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20194888

Points: 6

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How to attract great people (to work for your company)

andyhedges — Wed, 20 Mar 2019 21:45:23 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.hedges.net/2014/07/17/how-to-attract-great-people/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19447295

Points: 2

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New comment by andyhedges in "Everything old is new again: Microservices"

andyhedges — Wed, 09 May 2018 11:34:56 +0000

Yes, but the concept existed in 'process servers' 'EAI hubs' and various other names. EBS caught on as the defacto term later.

New comment by andyhedges in "Everything old is new again: Microservices"

andyhedges — Wed, 09 May 2018 11:32:53 +0000

SOA is more than just RPC it's about the decomposition of your organisation in to cohesive (from a functional(ity) perspective) units of software, to reduce the need to make the remote calls, but more importantly allow you to organise your engineers into small enough groups of people to be effective (7 give or take one person).

ESB simply add more complexity in the middle that needs yet another team to manage.

New comment by andyhedges in "Everything old is new again: Microservices"

andyhedges — Wed, 09 May 2018 06:47:11 +0000

SOA never required an ESB, this was simply vendors trying to shoehorn in a saleable unit of software - which they succeeded at better in the 90s. Likewise I've seen people implement microservices with an ESB in the middle.

Long an short of it is the ESB is an anti-pattern, always has been and SOA and microservices are the same thing.

Learn the Fundamentals Not the Shiny New Technology

andyhedges — Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:16:41 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.hedges.net/2017/04/25/learn-the-fundamentals-not-the-shiny-new-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14197057

Points: 3

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