Hacker News: clbrmbr

New comment by clbrmbr in "Googlebook"

clbrmbr — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:45:18 +0000

High-end Chromebook done right could be a very good thing for computer security.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Googlebook"

clbrmbr — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:44:09 +0000

I thought similarly, until I actually tried using AI to shop for clothes, now I’m a total convert. It’s like the best possible men’s fashion concierge…

New comment by clbrmbr in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

clbrmbr — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:05:51 +0000

Do you know if this exploit works on Docker containers? And if so, I assume it just allows escalation WITHIN the container? So this attack is scary for Linux desktops and servers, but a fully containerized system like common on CI/CD should be good. Right?

New comment by clbrmbr in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

clbrmbr — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:02:45 +0000

It’s interesting to compare how the agentic search performs, with these targeted reads and lots of tool calls in the stream, versus the older but still valid paradigm of using a high-reasoning model like GPT-X-pro and feeding in all the relevant files at once with no tools.

I have found that the “pro” approach is much more holistic and able to tackle rather “creative” problems that require very careful design and the overall artifact is tight and self-consistent. — Claude Code by comparison is incredible in exploration and targeted implementation but indeed is not great at seeing the forest.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

clbrmbr — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:45:23 +0000

So what do we do? Pin our dependencies (to hashes when possible), and only update when there are CVEs?

But problem is this could lead to abuse of the CVE system to try to force rapid adoption of attacked packages. What prevents this?

New comment by clbrmbr in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

clbrmbr — Fri, 08 May 2026 10:43:09 +0000

Wouldn’t you prefer to pin to SHA hashes? Or does your package manager cloud-side ensure immutability of releases?

New comment by clbrmbr in "Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML"

clbrmbr — Sun, 03 May 2026 12:48:31 +0000

I’ve had great success structuring requirements using Johnny Decimal. Well organized and numbered requirements for each project is mega helpful for agents and humans throughout the progress. Oh and I love açaí.

New comment by clbrmbr in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

clbrmbr — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:20:22 +0000

They also (at the cantonal level) have disparate education systems, with classes and grade levels mismatching between neighboring cantons. Yet, if you check what typical Swiss high school students are actually leaning (say at College de Candolle in Geneva), they are learning 3–5 languages, real literary analysis, and set theory. So somehow it’s working despite not having some perfect plan handed down by central authority. Hmm.

New comment by clbrmbr in "2,100 Swiss municipalities showing which provider handles their official email"

clbrmbr — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:16:58 +0000

Switzerland is apparently a federation of federations. Local self-determination. Amazing place if you ask me would move back there in a heartbeat.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs"

clbrmbr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:41:12 +0000

How can they change the tokenizer without a wholesale pre-train?

New comment by clbrmbr in "Claude Design"

clbrmbr — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:29:44 +0000

And all those Delphi programs (ok rn I can only think of the crackz but there must have been others).

What made these Delphi programs so unique in their UIs?

New comment by clbrmbr in "Claude Opus 4.7"

clbrmbr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:31:56 +0000

There’s also a paper [0] from many well known researchers that serves as a kind of informal agreement not to make the CoT unmonitorable via RL or neuralese. I also don’t think Anthropic researchers would break this “contract”.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11473

New comment by clbrmbr in "Claude Opus 4.7"

clbrmbr — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:21:53 +0000

But still CoT distillation WORKS. See the DeepSeek R1 paper.

New comment by clbrmbr in "The economics of software teams: Why most engineering orgs are flying blind"

clbrmbr — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 11:18:00 +0000

> There is no cohort of senior product leaders who developed their judgment in conditions where their teams were expected to demonstrate financial return, because those conditions did not exist during the years when that cohort was learning the craft.

There totally is such a cohort. There are plenty of bootstrapped companies or startups that took only an angel round and did not benefit from the low rate environment, in fact they suffered because of the very high price of SWE labor. But those engineering managers exist and are out there right now still building efficiently, quietly growing, passionately serving customers, and keeping a close eye on the bottom line and risks because that’s their livelihood.

New comment by clbrmbr in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

clbrmbr — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:53:33 +0000

25A removal is temporary pending a bar in congress even higher than that for impeachment (2/3 of house and senate).

New comment by clbrmbr in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

clbrmbr — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:16:04 +0000

> OpenAI was on the verge of closing a large investment from Thrive, a venture-capital firm founded by Josh Kushner, Jared Kushner’s brother, whom Altman had known for years. The deal would value OpenAI at eighty-six billion dollars and allow many employees to cash out millions in equity.

Probably a factor in the pro Sam camp. Hard to stand up against a big payday.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Iguanaworks has closed and our products are no longer sold"

clbrmbr — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 19:09:18 +0000

A few tricks to beat this are community, brand, an app that only works with the official version (hard to pull off and sad), and going more niche.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Molly guard in reverse"

clbrmbr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:57:15 +0000

@dang Can a moderator update the link? The original is much better and we shouldn’t promote the copyposter.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Molly guard in reverse"

clbrmbr — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 09:55:08 +0000

I once was a communications contractor for the major NJ power utility. One of their long time field techs (let’s just refer to him as Mr. T) was giving a tour of a substation that was built from the looks of it in the 50s. I have, you see, this bad habit of leaning on things… well Mr. T, without missing a beat, slid his forearm between my hip and a faded green Bakelite knob, the kind that goes in and out rather than twisting. He informed me that if I had leaned any further I would have shut off half of Newark.

New comment by clbrmbr in "Be intentional about how AI changes your codebase"

clbrmbr — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:32:50 +0000

Page not rendering well on iPhone Safari.

Good content tho!