Hacker News: blcknight

New comment by blcknight in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

blcknight — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:18:58 +0000

There is a cognitive ceiling for what you can do with smaller models. Animals with simpler neural pathways often outperform whatever think they are capable of but there's no substitute for scale. I don't think you'll ever get a 4B or 8B model equivalent to Opus 4.6. Maybe just for coding tasks but certainly not Opus' breadth.

New comment by blcknight in "Lay offs at Red Hat"

blcknight — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:19:25 +0000

:-(

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

blcknight — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:59:17 +0000

Yea this is the thing that makes no sense to me. Any frontier model can unmiminize minified JS pretty decently. Obviously not everything comes through, comments and such, but I always assumed the reason it wasn't open source was to prevent an endless shitstorm of AI slop PR's, not because they were trying to protect secret sauce.

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

blcknight — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:02:10 +0000

My GitHub fork of anthropics/claude-code just got taken down with a DMCA notice lol

It did not have a copy of the leaked code...

Anthropic thinking 1) they can unring this bell, and 2) removing forks from people who have contributed (well, what little you can contribute to their repo), is ridiculous.

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DMCA: https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2026/03/2026-03-3...

GitHub's note at the top says: "Note: Because the reported network that contained the allegedly infringing content was larger than one hundred (100) repositories, and the submitter alleged that all or most of the forks were infringing to the same extent as the parent repository, GitHub processed the takedown notice against the entire network of 8.1K repositories, inclusive of the parent repository."

New comment by blcknight in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

blcknight — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:40:23 +0000

I would look at how podman for Mac manages this; it is more transparent about what's happening and why it needs a VM. It also lets you control more about how the VM is executed.

New comment by blcknight in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

blcknight — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:09:04 +0000

Everyone close to Anthropic leadership has claimed they’re the real deal and it’s not a stunt. I don’t think it’s bull. They are trying to find a reasonable middle ground and settled on some red lines they won’t cross.

New comment by blcknight in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

blcknight — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 06:29:13 +0000

There are many android devices with eink screens. Mostly Chinese brands. BOOX, Hisense, etc. some phones. Some ereaders.

New comment by blcknight in "Nova Launcher added Facebook and Google Ads tracking"

blcknight — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:53:27 +0000

That’s disappointing. My primary launcher on my eink devices since it works so well on them.

New comment by blcknight in "Critical vulnerability in LangChain – CVE-2025-68664"

blcknight — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 02:48:18 +0000

What would you use instead?

I built an internal CI chat bot with it like 6 months ago when I was learning. It’s deployed and doing what everyone needs it to do.

Claude Code can do most of what it does without needing anything special. I think that’s the future but I hate the vendor lock in Anthropic is pushing with CC.

All my python tools could be skills, and some folks are doing that now but I don’t need to chase after every shiny thing — otherwise I’d never stop rewriting the damn thing.

Especially since there’s no standardizing yet on plugins/skills/commands/hooks yet.

New comment by blcknight in "OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI"

blcknight — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 16:41:51 +0000

I like Anthropic’s plugin system. I wish everyone would standardize on it instead of everyone having a billion different ways to do slash commmands, skills, etc.

New comment by blcknight in "Donating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI Foundation"

blcknight — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 03:13:30 +0000

Anthropic wants to ditch MCP and not be on the hook for it in the future -- but lots of enterprises haven't realized its a dumb, vibe coded standard that is missing so much. They need to hand the hot potato off to someone else.

New comment by blcknight in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

blcknight — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 02:35:29 +0000

They have though, they added the "ask ChatGPT" thing which is friggin useless

New comment by blcknight in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

blcknight — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 01:29:15 +0000

> Tesla Recalls All Vehicles After AI Autopilot Becomes "Too Sentient: A Cybertruck that began driving to therapy sessions its owner hadn't scheduled

> npm Package "is-even" Now Has More Dependencies Than the Linux Kernel

:D :D

I love this

New comment by blcknight in "Apple's slow AI pace becomes a strength as market grows weary of spending"

blcknight — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 23:02:30 +0000

Gemini, grok, etc all have 100x better experiences with voice. Apple is bad at this.

I’m an hour from Cambridge, MA. Ask the weather? I always get Cambridge, UK. Siri is terrible.

They can’t even make a functional keyboard anymore. The text prediction and autocorrect is worse now than it was in 2010!

These are all solved problems in 2025.

New comment by blcknight in "IBM to acquire Confluent"

blcknight — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:35:28 +0000

I'm pretty sure Jim had aspirations of being IBM CEO but they picked Arvind instead.

New comment by blcknight in "Google Antigravity exfiltrates data via indirect prompt injection attack"

blcknight — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 03:08:02 +0000

It baffles me that we've spent decades building great abstractions to isolate processes with containers and VM's, and we've mostly thrown it out the window with all these AI tools like Cursor, Antigravity, and Claude Code -- at least in their default configurations.

New comment by blcknight in "Project Gemini"

blcknight — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:30:14 +0000

Gemini's native protocol isn't HTTP, they invented their own. I don't really see what this does you couldn't do with simple HTML pages (or Gopher 35 years ago).

New comment by blcknight in "Project Gemini"

blcknight — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:13:27 +0000

So Gopher?

New comment by blcknight in "GM Deprecating In-Car App Store for Models as Recent as 2020"

blcknight — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 04:37:13 +0000

From the brand that brought you “people don’t want CarPlay”

New comment by blcknight in "Tell HN: Azure outage"

blcknight — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 10:55:15 +0000

Ah yes, let's put our multibillion dollar ecommerce site on... checks notes Hetzner.

Lol