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New comment by dpflan in "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)"

dpflan — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:36:32 +0000

Along similar lines, the economist John Kenneth Galbraith has a book on financial bubbles and irrational crowd mentalities in financial market over the centuries: A Short History of Financial Euphoria [1]. Short, approachable, and interesting.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/270746.A_Short_Histor...

New comment by dpflan in "Alphabet Announces First Quarter 2026 Results"

dpflan — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 21:22:48 +0000

- https://www.rip-grep.com/

- https://www.rip-grep.com/microsoft

New comment by dpflan in "Make tmux pretty and usable (2024)"

dpflan — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:36:10 +0000

Do you have a "dot files" repo? It would contain things like this, config files for tmux, zsh, , etc.

New comment by dpflan in "VOID: Video Object and Interaction Deletion"

dpflan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 10:08:32 +0000

Reminded me of "Garfield Minus Garfield" - https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/

"""

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

"""

New comment by dpflan in "Goodbye to Sora"

dpflan — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:42:08 +0000

“The world is too much with us” - W. Wordsworth

The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! This Sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not. Great God! I’d rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn; So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea; Or hear old Triton blow his wreathèd horn.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/the-world-is-to...

New comment by dpflan in "Nvidia NemoClaw"

dpflan — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 23:46:45 +0000

Yes, probably a good one to Pump and Dump, Pump and Gump, Gump and Dump.

Datadog: Give Your Agent a Puppy: Introducing Pup CLI

dpflan — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:22:21 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/datadog-labs/pup

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47074768

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by dpflan in "Systems Thinking"

dpflan — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 17:38:36 +0000

Sometimes you don't know what needs to be built until you build it. These end-to-end prototypes are how to enhance your understanding and develop deeper intuition about possibilities, where risks lie, etc.

Security firm finds Moltbook's 1.5M 'AI agents' run by 17K humans

dpflan — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 14:36:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.perplexity.ai/page/security-firm-finds-moltbook-s-4J6M_cdYSySFQdnd49tfOQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46900093

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

Software Development: Sixty years of learning the same lesson

dpflan — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 13:40:43 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.robbowley.net/2026/01/30/sixty-years-of-learning-the-same-lesson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46870840

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: What Happened to Prompt Injection?

dpflan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:06:20 +0000

The perils of LLMs and prompt injection seem to be resoundingly quiet or overshadowed by the wonderful sounding noise of agents and Clawd/Claude/local assistant bots.

Is leading work on handling prompt injection moving forward? I would assume yes, but it's cat-mouse so hush-hush? How are enterprises managing the risk of xLM's exposed and outside of private networks while prompt injection attacks are just waiting to be applied?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46856826

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dpflan in "A few random notes from Claude coding quite a bit last few weeks"

dpflan — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:46:37 +0000

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Much of my career has been spent in teams at companies with products that are undergoing the transition from "hip app built by scrappy team" to "profitable, reliable software" and it is painful. Going from something where you have 5 people who know all the ins and outs and can fix serious bugs or ship features in a few days to something that has easy clean boundaries to scale to 100 engineers of a wide range of familiarities with the tech, the problem domain, skill levels, and opinions is just really hard. I am not convinced yet that AI will solve the problem, and I am also unsure it doesn't risk making it worse (at least in the short term)

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This perspective is crucial. Scale is the great equalizer / demoralizer, scale of the org and scale of the systems. Systems become complex quickly, and verifiability of correctness and function becomes harder. Companies that built from day with AI and have AI influencing them as they scale, where does complexity begin to run up against the limitations of AI and cause regression? Or if all goes well, amplification?

What will AI do to your career? (Maxim Fateev – CEO Temporal)

dpflan — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 19:27:22 +0000

Article URL: https://temporal.io/blog/what-will-ai-do-to-your-career

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46785100

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dpflan in "The Adolescence of Technology"

dpflan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 19:43:55 +0000

The more verifiable the domain the better suited. We see similar reports of benefits from advanced mathematics research from Terrence Tao, granted some reports seem to amount to very few knew some data existed that was relevant to the proof, but the LLM had it in its training corpus. Still, verifiably correct domains are well-suited.

So the concept formal verification is as relevant as ever, and when building interconnected programs the complexity rises and verifiability becomes more difficult.

New comment by dpflan in "KAOS – The Kubernetes Agent Orchestration System"

dpflan — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:57:32 +0000

Do you mind adding more color and details to your closing thought? I’m curious if you know if projects that exist to help with this.

New comment by dpflan in "From Human Ergonomics to Agent Ergonomics"

dpflan — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:14:27 +0000

I found this to be an interesting analysis:

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What has changed is where the durable value actually lives. It is increasingly useful to separate the stack into a few layers:

- The computing, IO, and compiler kernel libraries based on CUDA, compiler frameworks like MLIR or JAX’s XLA, and of course Apache Arrow.

-The database systems and caching layers, ideally connected with ADBC’s zero-serialization connnectivity.

- The language bindings and orchestration layers that expose those capabilities.

- The application or agent interfaces that sit on top.

When viewed this way, most of the long term value clearly resides in the first two layers (compute and data access), not the last two.

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New comment by dpflan in "Claude Code Hits Different (From Interconnects by Nathan Lambert)"

dpflan — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:22:04 +0000

"""

Claude Code with Opus 4.5 is a watershed moment, moving software creation from an artisanal, craftsman activity to a true industrial process.

It’s the Gutenberg press. The sewing machine. The photo camera.

"""

- Sergey Karayev

> https://x.com/sergeykarayev/status/2007899893483045321

Claude Code Hits Different (From Interconnects by Nathan Lambert)

dpflan — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:21:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/claude-code-hits-different

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46557111

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Professional software developers don't vibe, they control

dpflan — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 20:06:46 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.14012

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46437391

Points: 217

# Comments: 247

New comment by dpflan in "Rue: Higher level than Rust, lower level than Go"

dpflan — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 15:57:16 +0000

Fair enough! I do like how others are framing this is as "write less code" -- if Rue makes one think more and more about the code that finally makes it to the production, that can be a real win.