Hacker News: drewstiff

New comment by drewstiff in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

drewstiff — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:43:01 +0000

I would argue that using an older model and assuming that it is the cutting edge is basically equivalent to holding it wrong

New comment by drewstiff in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

drewstiff — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:41:20 +0000

Assuming we are measuring time and

`total = dev + review`

If dev approaches zero, but you review at the same pace as you always have, are you in a better position? Yes.

Will you potentially have a backlog of code waiting for review? Also yes.

Would you prefer to be waiting for the dev team for all of the time instead, then still have the same amount of reviewing to do at the end of it? Absolutely not.

New comment by drewstiff in "Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform"

drewstiff — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 10:38:43 +0000

Why do you even need a second model for that? There are many simpler ways to slow down the rate that the near-immediate response is pseudo-typed onto the screen.

New comment by drewstiff in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

drewstiff — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:46:17 +0000

> In this experiment, Claude models’ real-world hacking dropped to zero percent once Anthropic employees told the models not to do real-world hacking

Equivalent to forgetting to say "make no mistakes"

New comment by drewstiff in "My Feed, My Way"

drewstiff — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 09:02:17 +0000

But could it be that formerly unrealistic levels of exposure has normalised these things that always existed, and now they are mainstream and affecting kids __due to social media__ ?

New comment by drewstiff in "Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'"

drewstiff — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 11:15:47 +0000

It was originally payments owed to Dutch interests in America being converted to gold and stored locally on their behalf, as opposed to having to be transported across the Atlantic back to the Netherlands.

Then later the Dutch moved a lot more of their gold over there before/during WWII in order to keep it out of reach of the Nazis.

New comment by drewstiff in "Reverse engineering my ADHD test"

drewstiff — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 08:34:12 +0000

"Seems like you have a lack of control over when you pee your pants to me. Doesn't mean you have a medical condition."

New comment by drewstiff in "Bug Blindness"

drewstiff — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:25:24 +0000

I dunno... people keep telling me books are good but that isn't my experience

Just like when a do a search and the results aren't relevant

Obviously this means both books and web searches are useless

New comment by drewstiff in "Bug Blindness"

drewstiff — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 15:15:56 +0000

A solid state hard drive...?

New comment by drewstiff in "Pixel Watch 5"

drewstiff — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:30:10 +0000

I assume you could set up a "walking" journey with multiple stops as waypoints on your phone then when you press start your watch should pick it up and give you the direct route between each waypoint. Not sure if that would sufficiently provide what you were hoping for.

New comment by drewstiff in "Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work"

drewstiff — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 10:18:11 +0000

Add "ok" to this list as well - "oll korrect"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12503686

New comment by drewstiff in "FUTO Swipe – A new swipe typing model"

drewstiff — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:04:41 +0000

Following "Jordan" with "Peterson" doesn't seem random in the slightest

New comment by drewstiff in "Migrate from OpenClaw"

drewstiff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 17:03:57 +0000

Note that the polymarket skill was for using it as a research source, not for placing wagers, and has since been removed as part of a larger streamlining of the included set of skills.

New comment by drewstiff in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

drewstiff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:11:40 +0000

Ah the classic Scunthorpe problem

New comment by drewstiff in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

drewstiff — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:28:53 +0000

Did you ever consider that the crypto scammers might not be the same people as the crypto freedom folks? It wasn't one grand trick by a collective of genius con artists... Much like the cashier at the store isn't to blame for that guy calling your grandma and trying to trick her into sending money from her bank account.

New comment by drewstiff in "I run multiple $10K MRR companies on a $20/month tech stack"

drewstiff — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 12:49:17 +0000

Re: your footnote, Anthropic certainly seem to think so [0]

[0] https://claude.com/blog/the-advisor-strategy

New comment by drewstiff in "OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break"

drewstiff — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 09:46:15 +0000

I can have multiple conversations on multiple topics always accessible via different discord channels, all with a shared memory, without that memory being held in a continually degrading context window.

One channel - reminders for medications, and recording my dosage. Another - "research this fancy new tech thing for me". Another - "let's continue work on that side project we started last week". And then in another - "create a dashboard of my meds dosage using that fancy new tech thing we were talking about yesterday". And of course finally "any urgent emails this morning?".

All without finding, creating, or setting up multiple apps or scripts for each individual task. If I have another idea, I just tell it what I want it to do, or ask it how we can make it happen.

New comment by drewstiff in "Wit, unker, Git: The lost medieval pronouns of English intimacy"

drewstiff — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 20:24:26 +0000

Hards on

New comment by drewstiff in "The Waymo World Model"

drewstiff — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:23:33 +0000

Also think of how LLMs are replacing web searches for most people - Google would have been cannibalising their Search profits for no good reason

New comment by drewstiff in "Vouch"

drewstiff — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 09:19:49 +0000

Ethos is already building something similar, but starting with a focus on reputation within the crypto ecosystem (which I think most can agree is an understandable place to begin)

https://www.ethos.network/