Hacker News: dybber

New comment by dybber in "Claude Code reads AGENTS.md only when telemetry is on"

dybber — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 14:05:09 +0000

Will you extend your plugin to read skills and rules from `.agents`? Or should we write our own plugin/mod for that?

New comment by dybber in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

dybber — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:00:22 +0000

Maybe we can ask in a different way: would we allow very rich individuals to obtain nukes?

New comment by dybber in "Grok outage"

dybber — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:35:00 +0000

I wonder what provider they use at Tesla.

New comment by dybber in "Malware infects Android-based automotive head unit firmware"

dybber — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 13:52:35 +0000

I don’t believe this is Android auto running from a phone, but a situation where the manufacturer have used Android Automotive as operating system for the built in head unit. As e.g. on Volvo’s.

New comment by dybber in "The Amazon tax"

dybber — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:03:06 +0000

Same on iOS App Store. Search for “pocket cast” and you see “Pocket FM”. Search for “notion” and you will see “Notix: AI note taker”.

New comment by dybber in "Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI"

dybber — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:59:21 +0000

Google already controls Chrome/Chromium direction so much that you should use Firefox if you value an open web.

New comment by dybber in "Park by Robot at London Gatwick Airport"

dybber — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 18:04:30 +0000

I don’t think they’re mechanically simpler. Those kinds of underground garages probably require a lot of maintenance to keep running.

New comment by dybber in "London Gatwick has launched a robotic airport parking service"

dybber — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:58:39 +0000

Is parking with the windows open a normal thing to do in the UK?

New comment by dybber in "42% of adults rely on their parents for financial support"

dybber — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:13:56 +0000

The hacker news crowd is also more than just Americans. Some of us live in welfare states and/or societies with strong trade unions, which we know we can rely on instead, if we ever come to a situation where we need it.

New comment by dybber in "Codex Micro"

dybber — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:03:21 +0000

Their website is blocked by my ISP as being unsafe.

New comment by dybber in "Parental device use and the adolescent-caregiver attachment bond"

dybber — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:12:15 +0000

Maybe the new Commodore flip phone? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48552614

New comment by dybber in "Phosh 0.56.0"

dybber — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 18:38:11 +0000

In Denmark at least we have this, both our drivers license and social security cards are apps on our phones. I only need my old physical drivers license when I leave the country.

New comment by dybber in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

dybber — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:01:12 +0000

They need to balance between the Silicon Valley oligarchs desires and the MAGA voters possible reactions. Banning Volvo would probably not be well received by MAGA, at least Trump would need a bit more time to build the case that these vehicles are now unreliable.

New comment by dybber in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

dybber — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:55:00 +0000

Apple could make settings for controlling exactly what is shared with the various assistants installed including Siri itself. No need for defaulting to full access.

Apple is not abiding, because they want to use time to really ensure they have the best assistant, before they allow competitors to build assistants for iPhone that can replace Siri (in the EU only probably)

New comment by dybber in "Apple WWDC 2026"

dybber — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:38:48 +0000

Apple don’t want you to be able to say “Hi Alexa” or “Ok Google” to your iPhone, and wake it up.

We have all kinds of data access controls, these could probably also be built around Siri and competitors.

New comment by dybber in "OpenFOV – Webcam head tracking for iRacing"

dybber — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:10:19 +0000

But if you look behind yourself your head is pointing away from the screen.

New comment by dybber in "The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen"

dybber — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:33:46 +0000

> The first proper zero auth password reset I've seen in production.

LinkedIn had one back in the day, before you got paid for discovering it I guess, never got a decent reply from them, but they eventually solved it.

It went like this: they assumed that if you could read mail sent to some address, that address was yours and could be added to your account.

So if I send you a LinkedIn invite to an email address, and you click the accept invite button, that email address was added to your account. You could then send this email to any address you controlled (let’s say foo@example.com), then use the invite button link in a forged email and send it to someone else on their email, whenever they clicked foo@example.com was added to their account without them knowing.

When you got the response that you were friends, you also knew that you know had an email address added to that users account and you could do a full password reset by using the foo@example.com that you initially sent the email to.

I found it because someone invited a whole mailing list and after clicking it the mailing list email was suddenly added to various peoples accounts.

New comment by dybber in "AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford"

dybber — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:50:31 +0000

20 years ago this was not unheard of. One exam we had to translate C code to assembly for one of the exercises, convert to numbers to IEEE754 representations and similar, both tasks where access to a laptop would make it possible to cheat. Also had to modify some small computer architecture diagrams if I recall correctly.

For the linear algebra written exam it didn’t work as if you learned to solve the 4 previous years exams, you could be sure most of it was familiar, so you could just prepare for a few standard exercises without really understanding the content.

Our advanced algorithm course used a bit of a combination, with a project take home exam (knapsack like optimization problem - competing for the fastest implementation) combined with a two hour written exam with multiple choice answers, but again only with books, pencil and paper to get to the right answer. This I think could work today, having both the opened ended project + some multiple choice with pencil/paper.

New comment by dybber in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

dybber — Fri, 22 May 2026 19:36:40 +0000

Roundabouts with with 5-10 bicycles going in and out from the different roads all the time during rushhour (Copenhagen, Denmark)? I would love to see them looking for people’s tiny hand gestures and not just get stuck in our traffic over here.

New comment by dybber in "The Abstraction Fallacy: Why AI can simulate but not instantiate consciousness"

dybber — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:40:57 +0000

Reminds me of Peter Naurs Turing award lecture: https://video.ku.dk/video/12592041/turing-laureate-peter-nau...