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New comment by colonCapitalDee in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

colonCapitalDee — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:32:22 +0000

Then we can't do it. Cost is a requirement

The Shape of Jaggedness

colonCapitalDee — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:27:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/the-shape-of-ai-jaggedness-bottlenecks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47533238

Points: 2

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New comment by colonCapitalDee in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

colonCapitalDee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:09:42 +0000

No such thing as a free lunch. Zero typing is an unrealistic and unachievable goal

PyHanko: Cryptographically sign and verify PDF files

colonCapitalDee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:08:12 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/MatthiasValvekens/pyHanko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47513514

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "Show HN: I took back Video.js after 16 years and we rewrote it to be 88% smaller"

colonCapitalDee — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 05:06:17 +0000

You should check out HLS and DASH. If you're already familiar and you're not using them because they don't meet your requirements, then apologies for the foolish recommendation. If not, this could solve your problem.

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "US to deploy additional troops to the Middle East, officials say"

colonCapitalDee — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:07:48 +0000

They're probably going to do an aerial insertion via helicopter (Ospreys technically), which doesn't require transiting Hormuz. These big amphibious assault ships are built for both maritime and aerial insertions.

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

colonCapitalDee — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:02:20 +0000

You're right, you are using it wrong. An LLM can read code faster than you can, write code faster than you can, and knows more things than you do. By "you" I mean you, me, and anyone with a biological brain.

Where LLMs are behind humans is depth of insight. Doing anything non-trivial requires insight.

The key to effectively using LLMs is to provide the insight yourself, then let the LLM do the grunt work. Kind of like paint by numbers. In your case, I would recommend some combination of defining the API of the library you want yourself manually, thinking through how you would implement it and writing down the broad strokes of the process for the LLM, and collecting reference materials like a format spec, any docs, the code that's creating these packets, and so on.

Don't Call Me Francis

colonCapitalDee — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:42:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.persuasion.community/p/dont-call-me-francis

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47443943

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

Why the US Should Ratify the Congressional Apportionment Amendment

colonCapitalDee — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 05:53:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/last-rights

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47332108

Points: 26

# Comments: 6

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

colonCapitalDee — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 09:29:46 +0000

You're looking for something like Vercel or Firebase

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "New imagery suggests U.S. responsible for Iran school strike"

colonCapitalDee — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:09:25 +0000

You're intentionally missing the point. Every time a bomb drops we're rolling the dice. Hits on civilian targets are inevitable, just like bugs are inevitable. The only solution is not to go to war at all. Don't blame the person who dropped the bomb, blame the people who ordered the bombs to be dropped.

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "GPT-5.4"

colonCapitalDee — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 22:01:44 +0000

That's why it happened. It still shouldn't have happened.

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "We Will Not Be Divided"

colonCapitalDee — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:29:00 +0000

Ok? And? Trump could use the DPA to force Ford to make tanks in a war, just like how Trump could use the DPA to force Anthropic to make AI in a war. Are we in a war? No. We are not in a crisis.

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "Computer Says No"

colonCapitalDee — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 02:38:41 +0000

That is an extremely cool skill

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "Microgpt"

colonCapitalDee — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 02:25:30 +0000

Beautiful work

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "We Will Not Be Divided"

colonCapitalDee — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 04:54:24 +0000

There's a hell of a difference between "we don't like your terms so we're going to use a different supplier" and "we don't like your terms, so we're going to use the power of the federal government to compel you to change them". The president is the commander-in-chief of the military, but Anthropic is not part of the military! Outside serving the public interest in a crisis, the president has no right to compel Anthropic to do anything. We are clearly not in a crisis, much less a crisis that demands kill bots and domestic surveillance. This is clear overreach, and claiming a constitutional justification is mockery.

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus"

colonCapitalDee — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:01:18 +0000

You can literally click "Show Code"

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks"

colonCapitalDee — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:24:47 +0000

I have a custom skill-creator skill that contains this:

> A common pitfall is for Claude to create skills and fill them up with generated information about how to complete a task. The problem with this is that the generated content is all content that's already inside Claude's probability space. Claude is effectively telling itself information that it already knows!

> Instead, Claude should strive to document in SKILL.md only information that:

> 1. Is outside of Claude's training data (information that Claude had to learn through research, experimentation, or experience) > 2. Is context specific (something that Claude knows now, but won't know later after its context window is cleared) > 3. Aligns future Claude with current Claude (information that will guide future Claude in acting how we want it to act)

> Claude should also avoid recording derived data. Lead a horse to water, don't teach it how to drink. If there's an easily available source that will tell Claude all it needs to know, point Claude at that source. If the information Claude needs can be trivially derived from information Claude already knows or has already been provided, don't provide the derived data.

For those interested the full skill is here: https://github.com/j-r-beckett/SpeedReader/blob/main/.claude...

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "IBM tripling entry-level jobs after finding the limits of AI adoption"

colonCapitalDee — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 05:01:58 +0000

There are no models that you can run locally that'll match a frontier LLM

New comment by colonCapitalDee in "A header-only C vector database library"

colonCapitalDee — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 01:30:35 +0000

C's package management story is unfriendly to say the least. A header only library simplifies it dramatically, and makes it much more straightforward to integrate dependencies into your application.