Hacker News: bretpiatt

New comment by bretpiatt in "Hacking Moltbook"

bretpiatt — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:44:30 +0000

The solution exists in the financial controls world. Agent = drafter, human = approver. The challenge is very few applications are designed to allow this, Amazon's 1-click checkout is the exact opposite. Writing a proxy for each individual app you give it access to and shimming in your own line of what the agent can do and what it needs approval is a complex and brittle solution.

New comment by bretpiatt in "Auto-grading decade-old Hacker News discussions with hindsight"

bretpiatt — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:35:28 +0000

10 Years Ago, December 11, 2015 - Introducing Open AI -- very meta: https://karpathy.ai/hncapsule/2015-12-11/index.html#article-...

The company has changed and it seems the mission has as well.

Linux Foundation Announces the Formation of the Agentic AI Foundation

bretpiatt — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 20:47:55 +0000

Article URL: https://aaif.io/press/linux-foundation-announces-the-formation-of-the-agentic-ai-foundation-aaif-anchored-by-new-project-contributions-including-model-context-protocol-mcp-goose-and-agents-md/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46210424

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by bretpiatt in "Gemini 3 Pro Model Card [pdf]"

bretpiatt — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 15:50:29 +0000

Page 5, "The knowledge cutoff date for Gemini 3 Pro was January 2025."

Still taking nearly a year to train and run post training safety and stability tuning.

With 10x the infrastructure they could iterate much faster, I don't see AI infrastructure as a bubble, it is still a bottleneck on pace of innovation at today's active deployment level.

New comment by bretpiatt in "90%"

bretpiatt — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:30:18 +0000

I'm pretty much doing that in a containerized deployment for project I'm looking to open source soon called webbin:

  Technology Stack
   Frontend: React 18 + TypeScript + Vite + TailwindCSS
   Backend: Node.js + Express + Clustering
   Database: PostgreSQL 16 with performance optimization
   Cache: Redis 7 with active defragmentation
   Security: HTTPS/TLS with container-to-container encryption
   Orchestration: Docker Compose with health checks
   Monitoring: Built-in APM and performance tracking

  Services
   webbin-frontend - React TypeScript frontend with HTTPS
   webbin-backend - Node.js API with clustering support
   webbin-postgres - PostgreSQL 16 with performance tuning
   webbin-redis - Redis 7 with advanced caching
   webbin-certbot - SSL Certificate management, openssl for dev, LE for production
   webbin-testrunner - Testbot
   webbin-nginx - Proxy

  Access Points
   Frontend: https://localhost:5173
   Backend API: https://localhost:3001
   Health Check: https://localhost:3001/api/health

I'm around 15k LOC, all built in ~80 hours of interactive prompting mostly with Claude 4.0 Sonnet, then some Gemini 2.5 Pro for more devops activities.

Anthropic's Landmark Copyright Settlement: Implications for AI Developers

bretpiatt — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 04:13:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ropesgray.com/en/insights/alerts/2025/09/anthropics-landmark-copyright-settlement-implications-for-ai-developers-and-enterprise-users

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45177311

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

ChatPRD AI Product Manager

bretpiatt — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 11:31:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.chatprd.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44983217

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by bretpiatt in "Who got arrested in the raid on the XSS crime forum?"

bretpiatt — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 04:45:02 +0000

He's been a target numerous times https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Krebs#Career

Thankful he's willing to continue on the mission.

GPT-5 Livestream starts Aug 7 10am Pacific

bretpiatt — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 17:55:58 +0000

Article URL: https://x.com/i/trending/1953149560030949822

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44815377

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship

bretpiatt — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/07/chatgpt-ai-self-mutilation-satanism/683649/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44729651

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by bretpiatt in "Study mode"

bretpiatt — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 19:45:31 +0000

*slower with Sonnet 3.7 on large open source code bases where the developer is a senior member of the project core team.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

I believe we'll see the benefits and drawbacks of AI augmentation to humans performing various tasks will vary wildly based on the task, the way the AI is being asked to interact, and the AI model.

New comment by bretpiatt in "Win, lose, or draw: trends in English football match results"

bretpiatt — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 14:17:11 +0000

English football, unlike tic-tac-toe, can be thrilling and end in a draw. Possession mix, shots on goal, and more stats are useful to determine how exciting a match was from a box score.

Frankly, for me the most boring is a 2-0 win where the team scores those 2 in the first 20 to 30 minutes, swaps to a 5-4-1, and plays tiki-taka passing possession control without trying hard to advance the ball for the remaining hour of the match.

Ingram Micro Down

bretpiatt — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 15:48:40 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/msp/comments/1lqyayw/ingram_micro_down/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44465550

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

An Unexpected Journey with Cursor and Gemini 2.5 Pro

bretpiatt — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 11:58:54 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@sobyx/the-ais-existential-crisis-an-unexpected-journey-with-cursor-and-gemini-2-5-pro-7dd811ba7e5e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44442654

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Joining CNCF as Executive Director: Let's Build What's Next

bretpiatt — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 20:57:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2025/06/24/joining-cncf-as-executive-director-lets-build-whats-next/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44370969

Points: 3

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New comment by bretpiatt in "Snorting the AGI with Claude Code"

bretpiatt — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 02:46:49 +0000

I'm running terminal in one window with AI interaction and then VS Code with project on same directories so I can see via color coding updated or new files to review in the IDE.

How do you interact with your projects?

New comment by bretpiatt in "Bus stops here: Shanghai lets riders design their own routes"

bretpiatt — Wed, 14 May 2025 20:00:08 +0000

We're piloting VIA Link in San Antonio, TX to add on last mile Uber style from transit stations.

Link: https://www.viainfo.net/link/

New comment by bretpiatt in "Whistleblower: DOGE Siphoned NLRB Case Data"

bretpiatt — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 12:17:46 +0000

The screenshot of email from DCIO is what should be getting rolled out. This is not suspicious by itself from my perspective. SCuBA is a CISA project that improves security.

Source: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/services/secure-cloud-b...

Deel's CEO is now in Dubai, complicating Rippling's lawsuit

bretpiatt — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 21:00:43 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/deels-ceo-is-now-in-dubai-complicating-ripplings-lawsuit/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43698320

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by bretpiatt in "Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes"

bretpiatt — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 18:59:05 +0000

With their endowment above $50 billion, combined with Federal plus Non-Federal sponsored revenue at 16% of operating budget, it makes sense to me they just forgo Federal funds and operate independently.

If all 16% is canceled, then they'd need to draw an additional $1 billion per year from endowment at current budget levels.

That would put them above 7% draw so potentially unsustainable for perpetuity, historically they've averaged 11% returns though, so if past performance is a predictor of future, they can cover 100% of Federal gap and still grow the endowment annually with no new donations.