<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cphoover</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cphoover</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 18:56:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cphoover" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>At the same time they are enacting another round of massive layoffs.<p>Why does this company deserve tax-breaks on their AI data-centers again?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 15:19:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209235</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209235</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48209235</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>100% agree. There's no substance to the argument, just the same cultish rhetoric from the aristocracy trying to fleece us into thinking that, while they simultaneously push mass layoffs and aim to drive down the price of labor, they are actually doing this to benefit us in the long run. "Just wait," they say. Once the AI future comes to fruition, you will eat "peaches and cream" and "bask in the sun all day." "You will dance in this utopian paradise." How could anyone possibly take this seriously, and are we expected not to see, plainly, the self-interested agenda being dressed up in the language of collective uplift?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2026 14:04:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180089</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180089</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180089</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Jedberg... Wow an internet legend replied to me! ><<p>> I'm much more worried about people who give full write access to their agents! But at least this solves that problem.<p>Yeah it goes without saying that write access would be crazy... But, it seems like people don't really care about the fact that they are just giving their private data to companies like Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.<p>> Branch anonymization
Branches default to a full copy of your production data.<p><-- This doesn't seem a safe default to me...<p>Perhaps a data policy should be required to be in place before a branch can be cloned... The default configuration giving the LLM full prod data access by default, is a bad standard to set, I think.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 18:05:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125332</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125332</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48125332</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Launch HN: Ardent (YC P26) – Postgres sandboxes in seconds with zero migration"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How many people are giving an LLM Agent full read access to their production data? That seems nuts to me.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 17:17:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124734</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124734</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48124734</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Incident with Issues and Webhooks – Resolved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They do that and open source projects that haven't left already will migrate.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2026 17:56:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012330</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012330</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48012330</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>AI Datacenters are not how all or probably even most HNers get paid...<p>> Most data centers colo multiple types of compute, not just those dedicated to inference or model training. Additonally, strangling the economics of the infrastructure layer makes entire ecosystems move abroad.<p>Sure but we are talking about whether the enormous investment into AI infrastructure is prudent or not. Also I reckon most people on here made a living just fine before everything moved to remote data centers, and many if not most HNers workloads could run on individual machines... But that's another conversation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 19:00:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978693</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978693</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47978693</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8&list=RD0XlO39kCQ-8&start_radio=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XlO39kCQ-8&list=RD0XlO39kCQ...</a><p>They Might Be Giants - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (Official Music Video)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 05:53:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930841</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930841</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47930841</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "I still prefer MCP over skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think language grammars are the an interesting way to define a ruleset too. Forget REST API's or MCP Servers for a second... Define a domain specific language, and let the language model generate a valid instruction within the confines of that grammar.<p>Than pass the program, your server or application can parse the instructions and work from the generated AST to do all sorts of interesting things, within the confines of your language features.<p>It's verifiable, since you are providing within the defined grammar, and with the parser provided.<p>It is implicitly sandboxed by the powers you give (or rather exclude) to your runtime via an interpreter/compiler<p>I've tried this before for a grammar I defined for searching documents, and found it to be quite good at creating valid often complex search instructions.</p>
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<p>Previously I made a chrome extension that removes them from web... But I haven't updated it in a while. Basically just inspects the HTML/CSS patterns of the shorts components and removes them from the page. You could probably code/vibe code a similar extension in 10m.</p>
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<p>5-10% accuracy is like the difference between a usable model, and unusable model.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:02:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520117</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520117</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47520117</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Drugwars for the TI-82/83/83 Calculators (2011)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>block dude was my favorite.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:53:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449884</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47449884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm no expert but to me, what's particularly silly about "breaking encryption" is it does nothing to prevent using user agents from employing their own encryption layers over other messaging system like gpg/pgp or others. So this does nothing to stop someone who is intent on hiding illegal content and it decreases security and privacy for the average user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:14:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197159</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197159</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45197159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "The Alexa feature "do not send voice recordings" you enabled no longer available"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Is all audio up to “Alexa” still processed on device?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2025 06:23:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385647</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385647</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43385647</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Musk ally is moving to close office behind free tax filing program at IRS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“They” have no constitutional authority to just “get rid of income tax” we live in a republic, NOT a monarchy.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:10:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265971</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265971</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43265971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Trust in Firefox and Mozilla Is Gone – Let's Talk Alternatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Isn’t that patch just converting inline strings to localized/internationalized strings?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:31:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230837</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43230837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Rust Is Eating JavaScript (2023)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>God this comment thread is a series of unsubstantiated subjective opinions trashing languages that people don’t like and ignoring the faults of the languages they do….<p>Why must we rehash this type of post every few months?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:44:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068885</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068885</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43068885</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Two upstart search engines are teaming up to take on Google"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why isn’t there a distributed, decentralized or open index that all of these startups can utilize? I understand that these startups are all are focusing in on different problem areas, but doesn’t it make sense to have something like open street maps so that all of these companies can share their compute resources in order to maintain something competitive with the big guys? Or even if it’s not fully decentralized these startups teaming up to build a bigger index for themselves makes a lot of sense to me.<p>I have no knowledge of this field but something like that would seem seem to make sense.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:04:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115537</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115537</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42115537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "Launch HN: Integuru (YC W24) – Reverse-engineer internal APIs using LLMs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wouldn't something like snapshot testing from a scheduled probe be more effective and reliable than using an LLM?<p>Every X hours test the endpoints and validate the types and field names are consistent... If they change then trigger some kind of alerting mechanism to the user.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:33:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991735</link><dc:creator>cphoover</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991735</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991735</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cphoover in "I lost my love for the web (2022)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently learned mobile browsers (safari and chrome) in iOS have made it pretty much impossible to disable JS on the iPhone… what the actual</p>
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<p>Agreed...Another gripe... the amount of people on HN complaining that a web-app doesn't 'work without JS, when the number of user's who disable JS inside their browser is well under 1%. HN users don't even consider they are not in anyway typical web users.</p>
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