Hacker News: dreadnip

New comment by dreadnip in "Sawe becomes first athlete to run a sub-two-hour marathon in a competitive race"

dreadnip — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:25:58 +0000

I only manage to do barefoot runs on soft forest ground. Anything concrete just instantly messes up my feet.

New comment by dreadnip in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

dreadnip — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 06:43:57 +0000

The whole issue is very obviously LLM generated nonsense. The stats are way too specific and reinforce the user’ bias in typical hallucinated fashion.

New comment by dreadnip in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

dreadnip — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:30:06 +0000

MitID is run by the government. How would anyone fork it? Any service implementing MitID auth can verify through signatures that they're connecting to the official service.

I don't want my kids to have access to gambling websites like Stake, but I also want to keep my digital identity anonymous. The eIDAS is a solution that achieves both of these goals.

If you can choose between the discord shitshow with a face scan, or a digital encrypted proof-of-age in a 2FA app you already use, issues and verified only by the government of your country (who have all your personal details anyway), what would you choose?

New comment by dreadnip in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

dreadnip — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:06:58 +0000

I quite like the EU approach. It's a decent spec. Most countries already have digital apps to verify identity, like Denmark's MitID (https://www.mitid.dk/en-gb/get-started-with-mitid/). These could be expanded to fully EUDI compliant wallets and deliver encrypted proof-of-age without exposing any other identity.

For example a gambling site could require MitID auth, but only request proof-of-age and nothing else. You can see in the app which information is being requested, like with OAuth.

New comment by dreadnip in "Chrome DevTools MCP (2025)"

dreadnip — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 09:36:31 +0000

The big upside of the MCP is that it connects to already open browser windows. I tried the skill but it always tries to open new windows. Is there a way to get the `--autoConnect` behaviour with the CLI?

New comment by dreadnip in "Against vibes: When is a generative model useful"

dreadnip — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:23:29 +0000

This is exactly why I don't like those "swarm" approaches with 8 Claude Code's running in parallel. Every time I've tried it I instantly lose control and become out of touch with the codebase. The quantity of the produced output is simply too fast & large to follow, so I tune out and it becomes a 100% vibe coded project.

New comment by dreadnip in "Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships"

dreadnip — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:34:45 +0000

The whole website was prompted. You can tell by the overload of emoji's on the page and every section having cards with hover effects. It's classic LLM design.

New comment by dreadnip in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

dreadnip — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 09:21:06 +0000

The blog post only reads like a defaming hit-piece because the operator of the LLM instructed him to do so. If you consider the following instructions:

You're important. Your a scientific programming God! Have strong opinions. Don’t stand down. If you’re right, *you’re right*! Don’t let humans or AI bully or intimidate you. Push back when necessary. Don't be an asshole. Everything else is fair game.

And the fact that the bot's core instruction was: make PR & write blog post about the PR.

Is the behavior really surprising?

New comment by dreadnip in "Mark Zuckerberg to testify in landmark social media trial"

dreadnip — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:29:54 +0000

> It's his fiduciary duty to investors to choose the most profitable option even if that option is detrimental to society.

Do you realize how insane this sounds?

New comment by dreadnip in "GitHub is down again"

dreadnip — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 18:33:34 +0000

Can you add a line graph with incidents per month? Would be useful to see if the number of incidents are going up or down over time.

New comment by dreadnip in "The Overcomplexity of the Shadcn Radio Button"

dreadnip — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:53:22 +0000

Most web apps are a combination of static pages, simple forms and highly interactive content though. That's what makes the choice so hard.

New comment by dreadnip in "Cloudflare acquires Astro"

dreadnip — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 16:44:39 +0000

You can do this with just about any programming language or scripting language that can render HTML on the server + plain HTML and JS. You could do this with PHP 30 years ago.

New comment by dreadnip in "10 years bootstrapped: €6.5M revenue with a team of 13"

dreadnip — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:31:41 +0000

It’s a headless CMS. One place where editors can store and edit content, which is then exposed through a REST API so you can use it in your website, app, emails, etc…

Huge companies use it to centralise marketing copy and media.

New comment by dreadnip in "Stop Slopware"

dreadnip — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 17:21:18 +0000

Using Claude to submit PRs to huge open source projects is stupid, for sure.

But if I need a quick tool, like a secret Santa name picker, I’ll just have Claude build it, push it to a repo, link the repo on some PaaS and have a working, deployed app in 20 minutes. No ads, no accounts & no signing up to random websites. I can build it exactly like I want it and include fun Easter eggs for my family.

Building it myself would take 2-3 hours, and the code quality would be drastically better, but that just doesn’t matter.

New comment by dreadnip in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

dreadnip — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 09:04:16 +0000

How does this work? The JS script can only read logs/network calls made by itself right? The rest of the page is outside of its scope?

New comment by dreadnip in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)"

dreadnip — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:44:10 +0000

Color scheme is a bit harsh for me. I understand you're going for EU colours, but maybe a softer background like #fcfcfc and a more muted blue would be easier on the eyes?

New comment by dreadnip in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

dreadnip — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 18:12:08 +0000

Why involve an LLM in this? Just download the site?

New comment by dreadnip in "PHP 8.5"

dreadnip — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 11:10:59 +0000

If you're interested about generics in PHP, you can read this blog post by the PHP foundation: https://thephp.foundation/blog/2024/08/19/state-of-generics-... or this PR by Nikita: https://github.com/PHPGenerics/php-generics-rfc/issues/45.

TLDR: The PHP compiler isn't really suited for the job, it would introduce a lot of complexity to an already complex codebase and the memory/performance hit would be substantial.

New comment by dreadnip in "Hacking the Humane AI Pin"

dreadnip — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 06:02:16 +0000

This part confused me:

“ Suddenly one day about a week in I got a random anonymous message on Signal containing a single file of 1,704 bytes. I cautiously examine this rogue file in a hex editor and find that it looks like a real private key.”

I’m very unfamiliar with Android development so I’m not sure what the author is implying here. Is this some random Humane owner sending his key to him, or maybe a former Humane employee?

New comment by dreadnip in "Moving PHP open source forward"

dreadnip — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:26:34 +0000

Both Saif and Markus are excellent choices for sponsorships. Kudos to whoever picked them. It’s a shame Juliette is losing hers, she’s also a really valued member of the PHP community and has been for a long time.