Hacker News: cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cpetersoHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:21:43 +0000<![CDATA[Cloudflare teams up with big browsers to help websites detect unwelcome visitors]]>Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/22/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/5259782

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666373

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

]]>Wed, 24 Jun 2026 22:30:59 +0000https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/06/22/cloudflare-teams-up-with-big-browsers-to-help-websites-tell-welcome-from-unwelcome-visitors/5259782cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666373https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48666373<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability"]]>Why was SVN preferable over git for finished assets?

]]>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:32:47 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578972cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578972https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48578972<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?"]]>SPOILER:

> According to the new proof, that ceiling is roughly 14 riffle shuffles for a 52-card deck, if you cut your deck in a random place with each shuffle. Beyond that point, the cards will be fully mixed.

Great article and worth reading even though you now know the answer. :)

]]>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:15:29 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576207cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576207https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48576207<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Show HN: Script to bulk delete Claude chats from the web UI"]]>The Claude (and ChatGPT) web UI supports incognito/temporary chats that are discarded when you close the tab. Click the ghost or dotted speech bubble icon in the upper right corner of the page.

I use this as my default mode so I don't clutter my chat history with random, one-off questions I ask. Unfortunately, there is no way to change your mind and save a productive incognito chat after you've started chatting.

]]>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:40:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507105cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507105https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507105<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"]]>[delayed]

]]>Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:46:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479963cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479963https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48479963<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"]]>And Apple already has a $20B search partnership with Google they can build on.

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451726cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451726https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48451726<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Firefox Merges Support for Vulkan Video Decoding"]]>It should be, unless there are new issues. This code change landed in Firefox 153 Nightly and 153 will become the next ESR version (July 21).

https://whattrainisitnow.com/release/?version=esr

]]>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:20:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441577cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441577https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48441577<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"]]>more like the "Obama Awards Obama a Medal" meme:

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/obama-awards-obama-a-medal

]]>Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:03:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403892cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403892https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48403892<![CDATA[DeepMind CEO says those cutting jobs because of AI 'lack imagination']]>Article URL: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/nobel-prize-winner-demis-hassabis-says-ai-job-cuts-are-dumb-research-agrees/91348959

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364740

Points: 9

# Comments: 0

]]>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:21:04 +0000https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/nobel-prize-winner-demis-hassabis-says-ai-job-cuts-are-dumb-research-agrees/91348959cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364740https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48364740<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"]]>You can also include other md files like AGENTS.md in CLAUDE.md:

  @AGENTS.md

]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 17:47:37 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360196cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360196https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48360196<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "SF startup is testing robots in Airbnbs, and trashing them, lawsuit claims"]]>The company could also test the bots in their employees’ homes for no cost. If employees aren’t comfortable with the bots in their own homes, then they shouldn’t let them loose in others’.

]]>Fri, 29 May 2026 08:07:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320411cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320411https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48320411<![CDATA[Hank Green: How to Fix the Internet]]>Article URL: https://time.com/article/2026/05/07/how-to-fix-the-internet/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313516

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Thu, 28 May 2026 18:40:44 +0000https://time.com/article/2026/05/07/how-to-fix-the-internet/cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313516https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48313516<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"]]>I name my branches for the overall task. The description of the branch’s head commit in jj status doesn’t tell the whole story.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 02:28:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262890cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262890https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262890<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu"]]>Having to list all the bookmarks you would list to auto-advance in your jj config.toml is a hassle and easy to forget.

]]>Mon, 25 May 2026 02:24:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262872cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262872https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48262872<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "-​-dangerously-skip-reading-code"]]>I see people asking LLMs to omit comments, but comments like PDL (Program Design Language) could be helpful for interactive development: ask the LLM to write pseudocode comments, review them, and then ask the LLM to expand them to actual code. People say comments should explain why, not how. That seems useful for both human reviewers and LLMs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_Design_Language

]]>Sun, 24 May 2026 07:03:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255155cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255155https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48255155<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code?"]]>Restarting Windows is actually “cleaner” than shutting down on modern PCs because shutdown saves some kernel state for Windows Fast Startup.

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 14:56:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248248cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48248248<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Microsoft starts canceling Claude Code licenses"]]>I’ve read (but haven’t tested yet) that you can still enable Opus 4.6 with:

  /model claude-opus-4-6[1M]

]]>Sat, 23 May 2026 13:51:31 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247694cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247694https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48247694<![CDATA[Cruise ships are sailing to a phantom destination that doesn't appear on any map]]>Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/travel/visiting-null-island-cruises

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233962

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

]]>Fri, 22 May 2026 10:13:41 +0000https://www.cnn.com/travel/visiting-null-island-cruisescpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233962https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48233962<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise"]]>Or describing something as “the unlock”.

]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 14:08:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169055cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169055https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48169055<![CDATA[New comment by cpeterso in "Accelerando (2005)"]]>Dennis E. Taylor’s “Bobiverse” series is goofy, yet hard, SF about a guy (Bob) whose uploaded mind gets sold when the cryogenic hosting company goes out of business. Given a job piloting a deep space probe, he starts replicating and exploring the galaxy.

]]>Sun, 17 May 2026 06:29:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166508cpetersohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166508https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48166508