Hacker News: codechicago277

New comment by codechicago277 in "Tesla tells HW3 owner to 'be patient' after 7 years of waiting for FSD"

codechicago277 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:53:59 +0000

Maybe Elon can argue that no reasonable person would have taken his FSD promises seriously.

Polymarket's $269M Question: Did U.S. Forces 'Enter' Iran?

codechicago277 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:10:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/polymarket-iran-war-bets-975909a3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47730261

Points: 7

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New comment by codechicago277 in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

codechicago277 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:20:00 +0000

Sure, but with that definition parent’s comment becomes “wealth is a good indicator of wealth”, which while true certainly isn’t useful.

I’m assuming they meant to imply wealth is a measure of positive social impact, which is a bad measure for the reasons I stated. They also might mean it as a proxy for “rightness”, whatever that is, which is even more of a problem but for different reasons.

New comment by codechicago277 in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

codechicago277 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:15:20 +0000

Because 20% is not “probably got hacked” and overstates the problem for most users.

That doesn’t mean this isn’t a critical vulnerability, and I think it’s insane to run OpenClaw in its current state. But the current headline will burn your credibility, because 80% of users will be fine with no action, and they’ll take future security issues less seriously as a result.

New comment by codechicago277 in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

codechicago277 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:47:29 +0000

Not if this is crying wolf and causing those same people to ignore the very real security risks with using OpenClaw.

New comment by codechicago277 in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

codechicago277 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:33:16 +0000

HN posters are famously overconfident, sure, but wealth is a bad measure of success. Putin is one of the richest people on earth, but responsible for extreme political repression and global instability. Pablo Escobar did very well financially. Financial success says how well you’ve extracted wealth from others, and approximately zero about your contributions to society.

Einstein, Gandhi, Mandela, Martin Luther King Jr, Orwell had tremendous public impact and “success”, with relatively little wealth to show for it.

Wealth gives those with shallow sense of values an easy scoreboard to look down on others, which is how you get disasters like Sam Bankman-Fried’s failed attempt at “effective altruism”, or almost-trillionaires like Musk gutting the federal government, while extracting billions in public funding and subsidies.

New comment by codechicago277 in "Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching"

codechicago277 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 03:27:35 +0000

The problem is that these visible errors make us wonder what other errors in the post are less visible. Fixing them doesn’t fix the process that led to them.

Ask HN: Do your coworkers review their own AI generated code?

codechicago277 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 14:49:21 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531155

Points: 2

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New comment by codechicago277 in "Musketeer d'Artagnan's remains believed found under Dutch church"

codechicago277 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:59:02 +0000

Not very popular to admit LLMs have uses, I’ve used it to recommend similar movies or books to ones I like.

This is peak human to human sharing recommendations.

New comment by codechicago277 in "Give Django your time and money, not your tokens"

codechicago277 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:25:27 +0000

I disagree, this looks like the first signs that mass producing AI code without understanding hits a bottleneck at human systems. These open source responses have been necessary because of the volume of low quality contributions. It’ll be interesting to watch the ideas develop, because I agree that AI is here to stay.

Hack on U.S. Medical Company Shows Reach of Iran's Cyber Capabilities

codechicago277 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 13:37:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/hack-on-u-s-medical-company-shows-reach-of-irans-cyber-capabilities-85999878

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47398870

Points: 6

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New comment by codechicago277 in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

codechicago277 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:56:49 +0000

I wonder if this could be used for prompt injection, if you copy and paste the seemingly empty string into an LLM does it understand? Maybe the affect Unicode characters aren’t tokenized.

New comment by codechicago277 in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

codechicago277 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:23:34 +0000

Picked up a vibe, but couldn’t confirm it until the last paragraph, but yeah clearly drafted with at least major AI help.

New comment by codechicago277 in "When the chain becomes the product: Seven years inside a token-funded venture"

codechicago277 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:11:49 +0000

I remember Blockstack from the first crypto bull run. It was the product I thought had the most potential after Ethereum, building off of tools like Sia. The white papers [1] laid out a technical plan for fully building an internet on blockchain. It felt like the “decentralized internet” from Silicon Valley (the show), and must have inspired that plot point.

For an industry that was full of hype and fake products, it was one of the few you could download and get some use out of. I remember a very janky Google Docs clone running on the chain. Sad to see that they’ve lost their way. For now crypto still only has one value prop: token go up.

[1] https://cs.brown.edu/courses/csci2390/2019/readings/blocksta...

New comment by codechicago277 in "Learnings from paying artists royalties for AI-generated art"

codechicago277 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:22:33 +0000

Google Glass looked dorky, Meta Ray-Bans look cool.

New comment by codechicago277 in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

codechicago277 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:29:12 +0000

Just because it’s subjective doesn’t mean it’s incorrect. The slave holders were wrong, you and I are right. Less human sacrifice in the world is a good thing, and we shouldn’t require a perfect ethical framework before we act ethically, because some real things aren’t reducible to objective logic or perfectly consistent ontologies.

New comment by codechicago277 in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

codechicago277 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 21:12:13 +0000

There’s no possibility or need for morality to be universal, and societies have improved their ethics many times throughout history. Your take is nihilistic and presupposes that moral progress isn’t possible, even though we’ve seen objective moral progress many times.

New comment by codechicago277 in "The whole thing was a scam"

codechicago277 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:15:02 +0000

The only human to authorize a nuclear attack…

New comment by codechicago277 in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

codechicago277 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:31:30 +0000

Hedge funds make profits in a lot of ways that don’t lead to more liquid markets.

New comment by codechicago277 in "Can you reverse engineer our neural network?"

codechicago277 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:26:29 +0000

It isn’t all or nothing. The Cuban Missile Crisis should have led to war, but we stopped it. World War I never should have happened. The right answer is to acknowledge envy, greed, and laziness but find solutions to work around these problems.