Hacker News: collinmanderson

New comment by collinmanderson in "Pi 1.0"

collinmanderson — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:51:53 +0000

> also i wonder if it works nicely if it is possible to convert Pi transcripts to Hax - i have a few "in progress" and i'd like to continue where i left from, though while both seem to use JSONL for the transcripts i'm not sure if they're compatible

I’ll sometimes ask the new agent to look at the previous transcript file.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

collinmanderson — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 02:25:44 +0000

I have the agent (Opus 5) spawn code reviews for their own work, and the code reviews generally catch n+1 queries.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

collinmanderson — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:23:06 +0000

For US federal government, "Office of Management and Budget" says to store 72 hours of packet capture, since 2021 (partially in response to SolarWinds attack). (M-21-31)

https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/TLP%20CLEAR...

New comment by collinmanderson in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

collinmanderson — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:49:42 +0000

They used to give preferential treatment to AMP search results, but November 2020 they announced switching to "Core Web Vitals" signal instead.

https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2020/11/timing-for...

Connecting the machines

collinmanderson — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:43:55 +0000

Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/connecting-the-machines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49612818

Points: 93

# Comments: 35

New comment by collinmanderson in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

collinmanderson — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:46:44 +0000

I think it says "honestly" when breaking bad news.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

collinmanderson — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 01:31:22 +0000

"buddy" -> "mate" -> M8. Nice.

New comment by collinmanderson in "The August 17 outage"

collinmanderson — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:37:41 +0000

That seems to be what's happening. Like 2-4 bots talking to each other, then Jarred Sumner just does the final merge with little comment.

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/39743 https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/pull/39735

Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open

collinmanderson — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:14:21 +0000

Article URL: https://herdr.dev/blog/herdr-is-joining-y-combinator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49201003

Points: 281

# Comments: 189

New comment by collinmanderson in "98% isn't much"

collinmanderson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:34:21 +0000

No, they would just ignore Firefox and not test against it, and might start to use chrome/safari-only features.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Tell HN: Fable 5 promotion extended through July 12, 2026 at 11:59:59 PM PT"

collinmanderson — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 18:26:32 +0000

This makes sense. Originally Fable was going to be available via subscription June 9th through June 22nd (~14 days).

It ended up being available 2.5 days before pulled, then was made available July 1 through July 7. (~7.5 days), so only ~10 days total.

Now they're giving us 5 more days, so ~15 days total, more similar to what they originally announced.

New comment by collinmanderson in "98% isn't much"

collinmanderson — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:54:51 +0000

Part of the problem is The US Government (and UK Government) use the "2% rule" on their websites and only officially support 98%.

I mentioned 3 years ago that Firefox at 2.2% is dangerously close the being unsupported on government websites, and at this point it's now at 1.9%.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36776603

https://analytics.usa.gov/ says "There were 1.66 billion sessions in the last 30 days." - so 2% is 33 million sessions if I did my math right.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Want your images back? That'll be $5"

collinmanderson — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 14:08:21 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1150/

New comment by collinmanderson in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

collinmanderson — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:11:23 +0000

> no cooldown (or a much smaller countdown) for security fixes.

A supply chain attack would likely able to publish a "security" release just as easily as a normal release, so I don't think that would help much.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Django 6.1 alpha 1 released"

collinmanderson — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:55:48 +0000

Release notes here: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/6.1/

Looks like there's some features to try to reduce the “N+1 queries problem”.

Django 6.1 alpha 1 released

collinmanderson — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:55:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/may/20/django-61-alpha-1-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48213215

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by collinmanderson in "AI is making me dumb"

collinmanderson — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:18:44 +0000

> I just caught myself about to copy and paste it into Claude to see what it thinks because I'm worried that it doesn't make sense or it reads funny or there's something missing. That's the self-doubt that it's feeding on and what I need to fight back.

This is where I'm at. I feel like I need AI to review everything.

New comment by collinmanderson in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

collinmanderson — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:59:17 +0000

> As the victim of the one from last year

Background here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45169657

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45187528

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

collinmanderson — Thu, 07 May 2026 23:53:05 +0000

> Or are folks seriously proposing that the patch/mitigations should have been circulated to distro maintainers privately before going to mainline?

I always assumed that distro maintainers got early access to patches before going mainline but maybe that’s not true?

New comment by collinmanderson in "Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

collinmanderson — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:25:28 +0000

Github Copilot also lets you use other models when one has an outage.