Hacker News: anygivnthursday

New comment by anygivnthursday in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

anygivnthursday — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:35:51 +0000

With todays LLMs, yes. But if they can ever reach a level of a contractor in a reliable way and companies offering them willing to take responsibility (because confidence is high and rest is insured), then one can just hire a cheap AI agent to fulfill a contract - design, implement, deploy, run and maintain your service/website like the engineer before.

Calculators are not a replacement for accountants, online accounting services are in many cases. Which again can be run by an AI if they reach that level of reliability.

Today with LLMs this is still sci-fi, though.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Dear Microsoft, enough is enough"

anygivnthursday — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:32:00 +0000

Maybe this is what they meant by Internet Explorer mode in Edge

New comment by anygivnthursday in "[URL in comment] European Commission proposes tech sovereignty package"

anygivnthursday — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:30:35 +0000

correct link https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_...

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:16:44 +0000

Late edit, I wanted to clarify I do not share my user home, but the VM user home for backups, thats separate user that does not have my own users credentials etc

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:50:07 +0000

I dont think Claude itself needs much, its more like what you do with it. In my case it is doing some gradle builds and java tests with some postgres docker containers inside the vm so I gave it max 8G RAM with 4 cores and have no issues. I share my workspace folder (with virtiofs and also the user home so I can rebuild the vm from scratch and keep settings) because I like my tools on the host and my full creds are outside and I didnt want to keep syncing branches. I access it with ssh (with passt). So far no real issues.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Websites have a new way to spy on visitors: analyzing their SSD activity"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:00:18 +0000

You mean by default or it cannot be configured that way? I believe, I had Chrome configured to not allow storage by default, only for sites I added to an exclusion list. I cant remember now, but isnt there also an option to change the default on Firefox to deny or always ask for permission?

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Codex just found a "workaround" of not having sudo on my PC"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:41:01 +0000

This. I am running Claude in its own QEMU VM, it has git access to my project only if I explicitly unlock the ssh key for it. The other day I realized it trying to push a change, it didn't have permission, so it went looking for "workarounds" and found I had a github cli session and tried to use that, luckily the creds for that was also read scoped. But the point is, if I did not give permission and it sees I did not give permission, it should not try to find a workaround/exploit autonomously.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 25 May 2026 09:10:12 +0000

I regularly see Claude Opus 4.7 dropping constraints from an otherwise small CLAUDE.md at merely 20% context use. I have to keep reminding it, and it has all info ready in its context, still time to time decides to ignore parts.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

anygivnthursday — Fri, 22 May 2026 06:26:10 +0000

Not everyone is in eurozone, there are countries with instant QR payments that are not SEPA. It is nowdays quite common to get a QR with your invoice, online or in person, it might not be just SEPA. But for now cards are still more accepted, and work even if I leave my phone at home or it rans out of battery. Not sure how Wero or QR going to solve that, SEPA or not, but still useful for a lot of cases, online payments etc, even if it does not solve every edge case.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "FatGid: FreeBSD 14.x kernel local privilege escalation"

anygivnthursday — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:23:48 +0000

And OPNSense boxes

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

anygivnthursday — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:09:53 +0000

Doesn't Slovakia already have its own instant QR payment system?

Edit: oh, sorry, just realized you talking about international not domestic payments

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:21:06 +0000

From CI pipelines with pinned package versions and OIDC instead of permanent secrets limited, least privileges.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:11:03 +0000

I think Google took a different approach with gVisor and limited userspace kernel interface, tradeoffs...

New comment by anygivnthursday in "What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)"

anygivnthursday — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:42:07 +0000

Congrats! I quit around the same time cca 2012-2014.

I did not smoke on a plane, but smoking on trains (and many places indoor) was "normal" before like 2010 around my place. I did not like it even as a smoker and rather went out.

But fully echo you that quitting was one of the best decisions of my life.

Rob Pike: Tech industry losing its soul

anygivnthursday — Tue, 12 May 2026 08:01:52 +0000

Article URL: https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/116557975987213548

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105491

Points: 30

# Comments: 1

New comment by anygivnthursday in "LLM Hallucinations in the Wild"

anygivnthursday — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:49:09 +0000

> Large language models (LLMs) are known to generate plausible but false information across a wide range of contexts, yet the real-world magnitude and consequences of this hallucination problem remain poorly understood. Here we leverage a uniquely verifiable object - scientific citations - to audit 111 million references across 2.5 million papers in arXiv, bioRxiv, SSRN, and PubMed Central.

LLM Hallucinations in the Wild

anygivnthursday — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:49:09 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48105415

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by anygivnthursday in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:31:23 +0000

That isn't new, though. Managers often pushed unrealistic timelines and showed lack of care about tech debt well before vibe coding, just the timelines where different, and the magnitude will be bigger this time. But we also have LLMs to help it clean it up faster, I guess.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

anygivnthursday — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:19:00 +0000

But Mythos is not marketed as a tool that can do the same as other tools already available maybe slightly better, but as a revolution.

New comment by anygivnthursday in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

anygivnthursday — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:08:58 +0000

You can bootstrap from your custom ISO with some embedded starter key, upload ISO, loads into RAM and opens SSH, connect and run a playbook to encrypt the root drive where you deploy your OS with your SSH key. If you went with encrypted root, you might need to enter pass via console, or dropbear server in a pre-boot env you connect to via SSH to enter the key if you dont trust the console, or setup some custom network unlock mechanism, etc. But once unlocked your provider can still dump your keys from memory. There are also things like AMD SEV-SNP for some more confidential use cases.