Hacker News: cowpig

New comment by cowpig in "Fences, Not Sandboxes"

cowpig — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:45:46 +0000

> I am spending the equivalent of $122k/month of API token spend, or about $4,000 per day, using 21 Claude Max accounts

That's ~$1.4 million/year

New comment by cowpig in "USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data"

cowpig — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:28:49 +0000

Their contracts give them a preposterous amount of control over their customers. All of the "Sovereignty" messaging is kind of ironic because it basically boils down to "don't trust them, trust us"

Besides that they're basically the most expensive, white-glove, enterprise-y version of what they do

New comment by cowpig in "Severance"

cowpig — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 03:27:04 +0000

Well imagine what it would be like to experience the experience of an LLM.

Just imagine they are conscious for the time they are autogressing.

Wouldn't it be like the experience of the Severed?

New comment by cowpig in "Severance"

cowpig — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 22:16:08 +0000

I discovered the show recently and thought that was a part of the point, but apparently the show's development long predates LLMs!

New comment by cowpig in "Our position on open-weights models"

cowpig — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:56:50 +0000

Sounds like you're saying the bar for bombing children should be "someone else could have made this mistake"

New comment by cowpig in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

cowpig — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:44:09 +0000

`greywall -- opencode`

New comment by cowpig in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

cowpig — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:30:08 +0000

It's much different.

The dependency trees have a whole system that's evolved for decades. The same code goes into many computers. Many people read the source, security firms look for vulnerabilities, etc.

Language models are a completely new paradigm. The code it writes on your machine is the only instance of that code. It does far more than anybody could ever keep track of.

It's much harder to detect problems, and nobody to hold accountable for them.

New comment by cowpig in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"

cowpig — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:14:12 +0000

This is an option:

https://github.com/GreyhavenHQ/greywall

New comment by cowpig in "Herdr: One terminal to rule them all"

cowpig — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 13:40:30 +0000

Well, tmux is mature, battle-tested software, whereas probably no human has ever read the majority of the code in this project.

New comment by cowpig in "Claude Science"

cowpig — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:01:32 +0000

I've always found that what science is really lacking is closed, proprietary ecosystems trying to build for-profit moats around research.

Thank our lords at Anthropic for stepping into this void

New comment by cowpig in "A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex"

cowpig — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:30:11 +0000

I don't think we should ask the agent runtime to police itself.

I contributed to a tool for this problem that is lower-friction than traditional sandboxing:

greywall.io

But you should use something to contain an agent runtime. The idea that people run things like codex on their machines with regular user permissions is baffling to me.

New comment by cowpig in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

cowpig — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:23:37 +0000

I don't see why those two positions are mutually exclusive?

New comment by cowpig in "Steam Machine launches today"

cowpig — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:43:30 +0000

Can I serve my media library off of my NAS with the PS5? I am legit asking because I just got on the list hoping to use this thing as my home entertainment system

New comment by cowpig in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

cowpig — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:28:19 +0000

openclaw is for larping

New comment by cowpig in "The U.S. Is Terrorizing Cuba to Make Rich Men Richer"

cowpig — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:33:00 +0000

I visited Cuba and found that Castro's popularity is fairly universal there. I have never been to Miami and don't know any Cuban immigrants, though.

New comment by cowpig in "Notes from the Mistral AI Now Summit"

cowpig — Sat, 30 May 2026 03:13:49 +0000

I think you are underestimating the amount of compute the US frontier labs have access to.

New comment by cowpig in "The Last Technical Interview"

cowpig — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:48:40 +0000

A lot in here about Google, which hilariously has done a bunch of studies that concluded it's hiring process is awful (is sure is!) and the takeaway is that candidate evaluation is impossible, not that Google in particular does it badly.

New comment by cowpig in "Social Animus"

cowpig — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:25:22 +0000

> Right now my only source of income is the $15k/year I got by being one of the top 300 GitHub users globally. That puts me in the 99.9997th percentile of open source developers (based off GitHub's 100 million monthly active user count). What it means is that I'm uniquely able to convert your money into the largest amount of value for society. I want to start by using the money to buy myself a home in San Francisco, in a neighborhood where I can feel safe, so that I can have a bed, set up a real office, entertain guests, and take photographs. I want to travel around the world and experience the cosmopolitan lifestyle my project is named after, using only private aviation, so that I won't be molested or risk being detained each time I fly. I want to hire an elite team that can help me accomplish my social and technical goals, such as adding native support for my file format to every operating system.

The bit about "using only private aviation" and "hir[ing] an elite team" sound satirical at first, but then the next sentence sounds earnest, so I can't tell?

I looked up this person on wikipedia, so the "I want to live a cosmopolitan life and fly private" seems like something someone who was involved with occupy wall street would say sardonically, but I am not sure?

Regardless, this person's technical work seems incredible and I really hope we can find a way to support people who work independently and aren't obsessed with capturing the value they create in the US.

New comment by cowpig in "Germany Law to Force Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News"

cowpig — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:16:25 +0000

I don't know how I feel about this, conceptually.

It's clear that social media are natural monopolies, and are being politically leveraged by the people who run them. So the status quo is definitely far from free speech. It's more of a "command economy of ideas" than a "marketplace".

But is this a reasonable solution? I feel like rules around algorithmic neutrality and penalties for misinformation might be better?

New comment by cowpig in "SpaceX launches Starship v3 rocket"

cowpig — Sat, 23 May 2026 20:30:07 +0000

I expect more from HN than seeing this kind of propaganda:

Vague story without references featuring the takedown of an uninteresting political caricatures