Hacker News: attogram

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...

Show HN: Bash Screensavers

attogram — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:12:32 +0000

A github project to collect a bunch of bash-based screensavers/visualizations.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45731366

Points: 246

# Comments: 77

New comment by attogram in "Web-codegen-scorer: evaluating the quality of web code generated by LLMs"

attogram — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 12:53:02 +0000

First, why no support for local models?

Second, the emojis in the readme scream AI generated more than any emdash ever could.

New comment by attogram in "The inventor of the web says we can recapture its magic. Is he right?"

attogram — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:20:54 +0000

Exactly. Give us a better URL with the full content, otherwise this post is useless.

New comment by attogram in "The Rise of Parasitic AI"

attogram — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 11:42:32 +0000

Sorry, but I see nothing about parasitic AIs here. Just lots of stuff about prompt engineering combined with unstable humans.

New comment by attogram in "How did Tether profit $13B in 2024 from USDT?"

attogram — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:21:16 +0000

Does USDC make profit in same range as USDT?

New comment by attogram in "Ask HN: What share of your daily dev tools/libraries are from Microsoft?"

attogram — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 14:12:01 +0000

So you are worried that you will be assimilated by the Microsoft borg. Valid concern. But all that free stuff is hard to stay away from!

New comment by attogram in "Contemplative Artificial Intelligence"

attogram — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 09:30:36 +0000

The "Boundless Care" concept seems akin to Hinkins' Maternal AI.