Hacker News: cyral

New comment by cyral in "Cursor 3"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

All the VS code stuff is literally still there

New comment by cyral in "Cursor 3"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:38:05 +0000

I just upgraded and you can still show/hide the entire editor like before

New comment by cyral in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:34:46 +0000

> If anything, too much slop goes through uncontested.

It's actually insane opening up /r/webdev and similar subreddits and seeing dozens of AI authored posts with 50+ comments and maybe a single person calling it out. Makes me feel crazy. It's not as much of a problem here, but there is absolutely a writing style that suddenly 50% of submissions are using. It's always to promote something and watching people fall for it over and over again is upsetting.

New comment by cyral in "LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions"

cyral — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:31:13 +0000

It might be normal language but lets say maybe 5% of real human blog writers use short punchy phrases like that. The noticeable problem is now its 50% of blog posts because almost every single AI authored post uses the same phrasing, it's tiring knowing you are just reading ChatGPT output. Its usually part of a low-effort funnel to guide you to some product/service.

New comment by cyral in "Algorithm Visualizer"

cyral — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 16:32:04 +0000

Very cool. One of my favorite professors in college would make 100+ slide powerpoints of algorithms and flip through them really fast in order to visualize what they were doing, it was really helpful.

New comment by cyral in "Temporal: The 9-year journey to fix time in JavaScript"

cyral — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:35:17 +0000

I've been doing this for so long and never knew there was a reviver param, thanks - that is super useful.

New comment by cyral in "Google API keys weren't secrets, but then Gemini changed the rules"

cyral — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:46:13 +0000

Yup, it was actually an interesting article but there are a few telltale parts that sound like every AI spam post on /r/webdev and similar. "No warning. No confirmation dialog. No email notification." is another. The three negatives repeated is present in so many AI generated promotional posts.

New comment by cyral in "Heathrow scraps liquid container limit"

cyral — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:56:23 +0000

I've seen this too in the US, the newer machines let them spin the scan around in 3D space and must make it much easier to tell if something needs inspection or not

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT Health"

cyral — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 17:25:53 +0000

Yes, in my area if you need to find a new doctor you literally can't. This is a major city. The online booking for any major hospital network literally shows no results because the next appointment would be 90+ days out. If you have an existing relationship maybe you can get in in two weeks.

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT Health"

cyral — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:26:51 +0000

Getting a potential answer right away is certainly temping over waiting weeks to get an appointment

New comment by cyral in "Total monthly number of StackOverflow questions over time"

cyral — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 03:15:37 +0000

The amount of docs that have a “Copy as markdown” or “Copy for AI” button has been noticeably increasing, and really helps the LLM with proper context.

New comment by cyral in "ChatGPT conversations still lack timestamps after years of requests"

cyral — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:40:25 +0000

You can click the three dots on any response and click "Branch in new chat". Not sure when it was added but it exists.

New comment by cyral in "Getting bitten by Intel's poor naming schemes"

cyral — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:07:43 +0000

Wild that it was released in 2016 for almost $9,000

New comment by cyral in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

cyral — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:52:09 +0000

Different scenario but it reminds me of when Missouri prosecuted a reporter who found that teacher's SSN numbers were exposed in the HTML of a webpage

> "Parson described the journalist as a “perpetrator” who “took the records of at least three educators, decoded the HTML source code, and viewed the Social Security number of those specific educators” in an “attempt to steal personal information and harm Missourians.”"

New comment by cyral in "Home Depot GitHub token exposed for a year, granted access to internal systems"

cyral — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 20:15:11 +0000

Not entirely unsurprising due to the theft issues they face

New comment by cyral in "The highest quality codebase"

cyral — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 16:25:20 +0000

Using the plan mode in cursor (or asking claude to first come up with a plan) makes it pretty good at generic "how can I improve" prompts. It can spend more effort exploring the codebase and thinking before implementing.

New comment by cyral in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

cyral — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:40:39 +0000

Great comment. I'll add that despite being a bit less powerful, the Composer 1 model in Cursor is also extremely fast - to the point where things that Claude would take 10+ minutes of tool calls now takes 30 seconds. That's the difference between deciding to write it yourself, or throwing a few sentences in Cursor and having it done right away. A year ago I'd never ask AI to do tasks without being very specific about which files and methodologies I want it to use, but codebase search has improved a ton and it can gather this info on it's own, often better than I can (if I haven't worked on particular feature or domain in a few months and need to re-familiarize myself with how it's structured). The bar for what AI can do today is a LOT higher than the average AI skeptic here thinks. As someone who has been using this since the GPT4 era, I'd say that I find a prompt about once a week that I figured LLMs would choke on and screw up - but they actually nail it. Whatever free model is running in Github Copilot is not going to do as well, which is probably where a lot of frustration comes from if that is all someone has experienced.

New comment by cyral in "I don't care how well your "AI" works"

cyral — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:28:13 +0000

The denial/cope here is insane

New comment by cyral in "I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla"

cyral — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 16:05:21 +0000

Had to scroll way too far to find a comment like this. Unfortunately HN famously doesn’t understand what the average consumer wants. The Dropbox comment comes to mind.

New comment by cyral in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

cyral — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 15:58:54 +0000

You can select the conversation style as shown in one of the images