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New comment by attogram in "Show HN: The Copyright Puppet Show"

attogram — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:55:36 +0000

More: https://github.com/attogram/dada-vibing/issues/184

Show HN: The Copyright Puppet Show

attogram — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:56:36 +0000

The story

https://zenodo.org/records/21000879

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721759

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by attogram in "Your AI Needs Scar Tissue"

attogram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:21:53 +0000

Ahh I see. I'm doing it per repo. This is distributed.

New comment by attogram in "Your AI Needs Scar Tissue"

attogram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:59:22 +0000

I once tried to teach an agent to have a 'pain reflex' and save memory. The experiment failed horribly.

New comment by attogram in "Your AI Needs Scar Tissue"

attogram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:57:44 +0000

Interesting. I have hypothesis that markdown in repo is better.

See https://github.com/attogram/academic-vibing/blob/main/academ...

New comment by attogram in "Your AI Needs Scar Tissue"

attogram — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:43:49 +0000

Summary? Is it "markdown as memory"?

New comment by attogram in "How to setup a local coding agent on macOS"

attogram — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:02:08 +0000

8b max on a std 16gb macbook. Anything more and your mac is toast

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Evolution of my AGENTS.md"

attogram — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:19:00 +0000

"Agents MUST do x" never works. 100% fail rate.

Show HN: Evolution of my AGENTS.md

attogram — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:13:50 +0000

The evolution of my AGENTS.md

- v0 - Braindump

- v1 - Organized braindump

- v2 - Strict state machine

- v3 - Loose state machine, md as memory

- v4 - Let's add skills!

- v5 - Shorter prose, more skills

- v6 - Sectioned. Each with

   - Bias via short prose

   - Yaml block of sect structure

   - Deep dive pointer to skills/[section]/SKILL.md

- v7 - ???

   - define the std sections

Discoveries:

- you can NOT instruct llms. You can only introduce bias to token generation.

- repo based memory via .md files is the way

- frequent session restarts saves both money and agent performance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441845

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by attogram in "Devs Deserve PII Protection from Agents"

attogram — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:53:31 +0000

And sanitizing via the LLM never really works.

Devs Deserve PII Protection from Agents

attogram — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:25:36 +0000

Your company is GDPR compliant.

"Here's your company MacBook. Its name is first-last-comp-dept. User name is first.last. Go be a productive dev”

Then you deployed coding agents.

"We have a DPA from Google. Use Gemini coding agent and be a more productive dev!"

Your full name is now always in agent context. Your full name is sent to USA datacenters.

Devs deserve PII protection too.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48408729

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by attogram in "PHPCoin: Pure PHP Blockchain"

attogram — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 22:28:11 +0000

Yes, the repo name has two n’s (`phpcoinn`) - phpcoin was already taken, so they added an extra n. Not a typo :)

New comment by attogram in "PHPCoin: Pure PHP Blockchain"

attogram — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:59:02 +0000

I recently found PHPCoin, a blockchain written entirely in PHP. A niche project!

Repo: https://github.com/phpcoinn/node

Website: https://phpcoin.net

- A real, live L1 chain, with a small but active dev team

- Supports smart contracts, dapps, and web apps

- Readable and hackable PHP code

PHPCoin: Pure PHP Blockchain

attogram — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:59:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/phpcoinn/node

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45958840

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Why write code if the LLM can just do the thing? (web app experiment)"

attogram — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 19:34:34 +0000

"It works. That's annoying." Indeed!

Would be cooler if support for local llms was added. Currently only has support for anthropic and openai. https://github.com/samrolken/nokode/blob/main/src/config/ind...

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

attogram — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:18:05 +0000

Good catch!

For folks curious about the rm -rf see https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/gall... line 339

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

attogram — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 15:00:03 +0000

Agreed! Known bug that will get squashed...

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

attogram — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:39:24 +0000

Some artifact from asciinema maybe. Only shows up in the preview gifs. Needs to be fixed!

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

attogram — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 12:36:14 +0000

See the spread-the-word script in https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/tree/main/spot... This script generates a series of shell commands to create a "spotlight" message on the main GitHub repository page. It does this by generating commands that make trivial changes to the top 12 files and directories and then commit those changes with custom messages.

New comment by attogram in "Show HN: Bash Screensavers"

attogram — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:15:17 +0000

Gallery of current screensavers: https://github.com/attogram/bash-screensavers/blob/main/gall...