Hacker News: arcanemachiner

New comment by arcanemachiner in "JSON formatter Chrome plugin now closed and injecting adware"

arcanemachiner — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:30:19 +0000

You either die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:24:27 +0000

Yes, I summarized the process in another comment recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47546014

That should be enough to get you going. It can be customized to your heart's content.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:22:17 +0000

See, I like this. "Create a new user account" is much better advice than "don't use a container".

My problem with the latter advice is that I know for a fact that people will read it, then continue to use absolutely no protection whasoever.

I have also wanted to use a simple file permission system, but I started with a container and I can't be troubled to switch yet.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Microsoft terminated the account VeraCrypt used to sign Windows drivers"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:31:50 +0000

Good heavens! My acronymical notes on Microsoft's product strategy are two revisions out of date!

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:19:59 +0000

Navi is good for generating personal cheatsheets:

https://github.com/denisidoro/navi

But for Git, I can't recommend lazygit enough. It's an incredible piece of software:

https://github.com/jesseduffield/lazygit

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:13:06 +0000

Every goddamn time with this type of dogshit advice.

Perfect is the enemy of good.

Don't just rawdog a coding agent because a perfectly viable solution (containers) takes an hour or two of work to set up.

There's a world of difference between "it can scan your network" and "I just uploaded my private SSH keys to the cloud".

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Slightly safer vibecoding by adopting old hacker habits"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 08:09:27 +0000

The main Claude Code GitHub repo even has a Devcontainer config:

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code

It's a great starting point, and can be customized as needed. With the devcontainer CLI, you can even use it from a terminal, no GUI/IDE required.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:03:17 +0000

That is both amazing and terrifying.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:52:14 +0000

Oh nice, I just wrote pretty much the same comment above yours.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:51:32 +0000

Personal opinions follow:

Claude Opus at 150K context starts getting dumber and dumber.

Claude Opus at 200K+ is mentally retarded. Abandon hope and start wrapping up the session.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Show HN: I built a tiny LLM to demystify how language models work"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 16:09:55 +0000

> does this work?

Absolutely. If you loaded this into an agentic coding harness with a decent model, I can practically guarantee it would be able to help you figure out what's going on.

> there is no more need for writing high level docs?

Absolutely not. That would be like exploring a cave without a flashlight, knowing that you could just feel your way around in the dark instead.

Code is not always self-documenting, and can often tell you how it was written, but not why.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "SideX – A Tauri-based port of Visual Studio Code"

arcanemachiner — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:36:36 +0000

The graveyard of LLM-generated comments from new accounts on the bottom of every thread supports your hypothesis.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Components of a Coding Agent"

arcanemachiner — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 08:43:59 +0000

Perhaps you would care to propose an alternative?

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Update on the eBay Scam"

arcanemachiner — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:50:06 +0000

As an ethical buyer, it's incredible... but I'll be damned if I ever take the risk of selling anything on eBay.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Free stuff makes us irrational"

arcanemachiner — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:07:06 +0000

- Stanley from The Office

New comment by arcanemachiner in "Ministack (Replacement for LocalStack)"

arcanemachiner — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 02:30:49 +0000

Yeah. Could at least run a formatter on it afterwards... You can even configure a hook for Claude to do that.

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

arcanemachiner — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:40:33 +0000

It's a config setting (probably the same end result though):

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#attribution-setting...

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

arcanemachiner — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:37:19 +0000

There is a config setting for this:

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/settings#attribution-setting...

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

arcanemachiner — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:45:38 +0000

I wish.

Claude Code is clearly a pile of vibe-coded garbage. The UI is janky and jumps all over the place, especially during longer sessions. (Which also have a several second delay to render. In a terminal).

Lately, it's been crashing if I hold the Backspace key down for too long.

Being open-source would be the best thing to happen to them. At least they would finally get a pair of human eyes looking at their codebase.

Claude is amazing, but the people at Anthropic make some insane decisions, including trying (and failing, apparently) to keep Claude Code a closed-source application.

New comment by arcanemachiner in "The Inference Shift – How Cheap Chips Could Put Frontier AI in Everyone's Hands"

arcanemachiner — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:02:04 +0000

This paper is about a set of technologies that could put it in her hands for the price of a used phone. And about why the economic consequences of that are much larger than most people realize.