<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: apstls</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=apstls</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 23:30:41 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=apstls" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "CLI agents make self-hosting on a home server easier and fun"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's why you discard ICMP errors.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:03:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608916</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608916</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608916</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Show HN: Self-host Reddit – 2.38B posts, works offline, yours forever"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There are certainly things to be learned from analysis of the dataset. Keep your friends close but your enemies as JSON, or something...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:34:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608485</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608485</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608485</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Don't fall into the anti-AI hype"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sit down and re-read your comment one night with your "I am an engineer and will solve this as an engineering problem" hat firmly on. If you stop thinking of LLMs as lobotimized coworkers trapped inside an API wrapper and instead as computational primitives then things become much more interesting and the future becomes clearer to see.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2026 21:18:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608206</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608206</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46608206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Anthropic made a mistake in cutting off third-party clients"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> they are working hard on making it impossible for other models to support their every increasing agent feature set (skills, teleport and remote sessions, LSP, Chrome integration, etc). The move totally makes sense, like it or not.<p>I don't understand, why would other models not be able to support any, or some, or even a particular single one of these? I don't even see most of these as relevant to the model itself, but rather the harness/agentic framework around it. You could argue these require a base degree of model competence for following instructions, tool calling, etc, but these things are assumed for any SOTA model today, we are well past this. Almost all of these things, if not all, are already available in other CLI + IDE-based agentic coding tools.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2026 23:29:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595606</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595606</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46595606</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your work"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is it wrong that I take the prolonged lack of Linux support as a strong and direct negative signal for the capabilities of Anthropic models to autonomously or semi-autonomously work on moderately-sized codebases? I say this not as an LLM antagonist but as someone with a habit of mitigating disappointment by casting it to aggravation.</p>
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<p>grep --include=*.{c,h} -rnw -B3 -A15 'XXX' ./ | claude -p 'Analyze each code snippet and pick the five most concerning, from a security perspective.'</p>
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<p>Sounds very cool.<p>I wanted to try this out, so I opened Windsurf for the first time in ages and clicked the "Upgrade Available" button, which sent me to: <a href="https://windsurf.com/editor/update-linux" rel="nofollow">https://windsurf.com/editor/update-linux</a><p><pre><code>  Did you install using apt or apt-get? If so...
  
  1. Update package lists
  
  sudo apt-get update
  
  2. Upgrade Windsurf
  
  sudo apt-get upgrade windsurf
</code></pre>
Whle `apt-get upgrade windsurf` will technically upgrade Windsurf, instructing users to run a command that will attempt to upgrade all packages on their system is nuts when the command is provided in a context that strongly implies it will only upgrade Windsurf and has no warnings or footnotes to the contrary. Good thing I didn't ask Windsurf's agent to ugprade itself for me, I guess.<p>EDIT - I don't want to detract from the topic at hand, however - after upgrading (with `sudo apt-get install --only-upgrade windsurf` :)) and playing around a bit, the Codemaps feature indeed seems very nifty and worth checking out. Good job!</p>
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<p>Well, slam _dump_ does sound like a potentially apt description.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:39:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691562</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691562</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691562</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Trump pardons convicted Binance founder"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Genuinely curious: what were the abuses by the Biden and Obama administrations?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2025 06:37:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691554</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691554</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45691554</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>There is likely a small number of people who could collectively list out the events it _did_ help Iran avoid.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2025 19:51:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660806</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660806</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45660806</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "ICE Wants to Build Out a 24/7 Social Media Surveillance Team"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> The fact 2nd amendment crowd had a chance to prove their principles a few weeks ago and they did it with flying colors when the NRA came out against any restrictions for trans people.<p>This is effectively a strawman argument.<p>We are not discussing their principles that pertain to whom should be allowed to own guns, nor is that question even relevant to the heart of this topic. We are discussing the core, underlying principle that has been used as the primary justification for WHY people should have a constitutionally-protected right to own mechanized, efficient killing machines. You of course already know: the rhetoric (for literal centuries) has been that the preservation of our system of democracy from hostile internal actors requires a citizenry that has the means to effectively fight back.<p>Without a noble-sounding pretense of existential importance for 2A defenders to shield themselves with, things start to look a lot more like weighing "guns are fun, plus think about hunters" vs "we should reduce our yearly slaughter rate for schoolchildren to match those of other 1st world countries" and choosing the former. So, when people see what they believe to be the increasingly-obvious beginnings of authoritarian overreach in this country, and at the same time seeing most of the 2A crowd saying absolutely nothing about it, it looks like a genuinely remarkable, thoroughly nauseating display of hypocrisy and selfishness.<p>> But as a 2A supporter I don't feel any obligation to rage against ICE assembling a social media team. These seem to be completely disconnected concepts.<p>Dishonest framing aside ("assembling a social media team", like how drug cartels simply assemble a team of chemists, semantics be damned!) and with full context considered, I assume you are stating here that you see no problem with the current actions of this administration, both ICE-related and not, and have caught no whiffs of authoritarian overreach. Otherwise, social media monitoring and tracking teams within an organization that does not have the rules, oversight, requirements, or legal vulnerability of existing (previously) non-partisan agencies with similar teams, would be extremely concerning.<p>Though after writing this out, I'm not even clear on how much of this is a matter of opinion versus a matter of awareness and understanding of current events. One needs to only look at the events of the last 7 days to find egregious evidence of authoritarian movement, things that would've sent recent Democratic presidents into political exile and impeachment. I just learned that my neighbors and I are enemies of the US last Tuesday - literally, verbatim, "enemies from within" with no additional qualification beyond living in a blue city - for example.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:40:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468655</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468655</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45468655</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Less is safer: Reducing the risk of supply chain attacks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This statement is one of those useless exercises in pedantry like when people say "well technically coffee is a drug too, so..."<p>Code with publicly-known weaknesses poses exponentially more danger than code with unknown weaknesses.<p>It's like telling sysadmins to not waste time installing security patches because there are likely still vulnerabilities in the application. Great way to get n-day'd into a ransomware payment.</p>
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<p>This metaphor drops some pretty key definitional context. If the common belief prior to this race was that cars could not beat horses, maybe someday but not today, then the article is completely reasonable, even warranted.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 08:56:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287270</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287270</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45287270</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Should Fox, Newsmax, OANN, Alex Jones, Tucker, Bannon, the deputy director the the FBI (in a prior gig, to be fair), the  president of the United States (current & prior gigs), members of congress, MAGA influencers like Tim Pool, the company paying Tim Pool, the people paying the company that pays Tim Pool, etc, etc, etc, and etc, be allowed to?</p>
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<p>How could they if you don’t provide references to them?</p>
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<p>Could you explain further? Specifically in the context of this discussion/today’s meeting and conduct?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 20:44:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210394</link><dc:creator>apstls</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210394</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43210394</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by apstls in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Consider the space of possible paths  towards peace in UA that the current administration can choose from. Do you believe the paths with the highest likelihood of success for reaching a mutual peace agreement involve making one of the sides unhappy, uncomfortable, angry, or by publicly berating them?<p>It is true that he doesn’t care if people are unhappy or uncomfortable, it’s true he doesn’t care about optics, it is true that he has a set of things he wants to get done, and it’s true the first two points influence his approach to achieving the latter.  However the question - the only question that matters - still remains: is this approach the most effective course of action to choose? Maybe it’s not reasonable to assert with complete confidence that it isn’t, but it is certainly unreasonable to assert that it is.</p>
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<p>Out of curiosity, what are the other similar public meetings/negotiations you’re aware of that were conducted in a similar way?<p>Or generally, since you say this did not deviate from your expectations, what are the past events that influenced your baseline expectation for conduct on the geopolitical stage?</p>
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<p>I think these types of arguments need to at the very least acknowledge the distribution of cost between training and inference.</p>
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<p>LLM context windows are quite large now. This is very likely a simple matter of including NRQL docs or specification in the prompt.</p>
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