Hacker News: ethin

New comment by ethin in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

ethin — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:07:40 +0000

I'm no musician but I paid for a Reaper license just because the software is so good and useful and the licensing scheme is so reasonable. Like, it's kind of hard to beat that.

New comment by ethin in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

ethin — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:23:19 +0000

Okay, but how do we know that all 400 plus hits were actual vulnerabilities? I didn't read too deeply into it so I might've missed something but did someone test and validate each of those vulns to confirm that they were actually vulns?

New comment by ethin in "Bun's experimental Rust rewrite hits 99.8% test compatibility on Linux x64 glibc"

ethin — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:11:54 +0000

> But rust does make it a lot harder to leak memory by accident. Rust variables are automatically freed when they go out of scope.

RAII has entered the chat.

New comment by ethin in "Google broke reCAPTCHA for de-googled Android users"

ethin — Fri, 08 May 2026 23:56:26 +0000

The other problem with this is that there are few CAPTCHA alternatives.

CF turnstile is one, but of course that means Cloudflare owns even more of the web.

HCaptcha is inaccessible and actively discriminatory against individuals with disabilities and refuses to change, to the point that I suspect the only way that they will do anything is to file a class-action against them and sue them into the ground.

And I... Can't think of anything else. Other than to just get rid of Captchas entirely.

New comment by ethin in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

ethin — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:38:45 +0000

So, so many pro-AI/AI boosters just... Ignore this rather inconvenient fact in my experience. They will hype up how epic agentic coding is, or agentic is, all day long, but they will never tell you that LLMs are really benefiting scammers and criminals the most, who can now generate literally infinite content, for infinite amounts of time, because they don't need to verify or prove anything legitimate. And people who are apart of both of these groups are very, very good at sending, to the LLM, prompts that look completely innocent to any kind of guardrail or filter that these companies can devise. The only other use that is probably more profitable is porn. Really.

New comment by ethin in "I am worried about Bun"

ethin — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:41:30 +0000

Yeah but if you do that, you have to then turn around and look at how all the goalposts keep moving around. That is what I was (originally) trying to get at, and why I phrased it like I did. If we truly had actual (artificial) general intelligence (or were close to it) we would already have a solid definition/benchmark (and it... Probably wouldn't be what you said, but something a lot more detailed/thorough). Right now both AGI and ASI is just... Whatever. "It earns a hundred billion dollars in revenue," "It can do anything a general human can do" (ignoring the shear amount of ambiguity alone in that), "It can do most tasks a human can do" (again, ambiguous: which human, which tasks, on and on and on).

New comment by ethin in "I am worried about Bun"

ethin — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:33:06 +0000

No, I am not looking for ASI. We have yet to achieve AGI. Unless you can definitively prove that we already have? Because, I mean, if we've already achieved AGI then that obviously means that you can define what intelligence actually is, no?

New comment by ethin in "I am worried about Bun"

ethin — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:31:35 +0000

Right, but I never said it was a first-or-nothing scenario to begin with. Given that both AGI and ASI are so ambiguous as to be nothingburgers, talking about them is just a performative thought experiment IMO. An interesting one, certainly, but neither are even remotely close to being realized. Until we have some kind of clear definition that can be scientifically proven and reproduced, that will remain the case.

New comment by ethin in "I am worried about Bun"

ethin — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:09:37 +0000

This is also assuming that AGI is even possible. So far there is no evidence that this is actually doable over anything but billions of years (and even then we have no idea how nature really managed it).

Edit: Meant to say AGI (superintelligence didn't make sense). Superintelligence is undefinable at the moment so even considering if it's possible or not is more of a philosophical thing/si-fi thought experiment than anything else.

New comment by ethin in "GitHub Is Down"

ethin — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:13:12 +0000

Honestly, if GH keeps getting worse I may need to migrate away to Forgejo or something. The problem is GHA... Does anyone know of a service that is better and doesn't charge me an arm and a leg for runners (particularly MacOS ones)? I've been wanting to shift away from GHA for ages (because I hate it) but I don't know of any alternatives that are quite like it (or the costs involved).

New comment by ethin in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

ethin — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:41:48 +0000

The sad thing is that I expect this to rise as time passes. Most vibe-coders, from what I've seen, are exactly like this guy: they have no idea of trademark or copyright law and think that they can just... Do things like this without consequences. They will self-justify until they're blue in the face and not learn anything from it. There are, of course, exceptions to this generalization, but I don't know how significant said exceptions really are going to be to this.

New comment by ethin in "OpenAI’s o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"

ethin — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:29:49 +0000

Because people believe that they know everything about humans and how they work (or they hedge it). This is the exact same reason I don't trust supposed "experts" claiming AI will replace all these jobs: those same experts have no idea what these jobs actually entail and just look at the job title (and maybe the description) but have not once actually worked those jobs. And there is a huge chasm between "You read the job description" and "you actually know what it is like to be in this position and you fully understand everything that goes into it".

New comment by ethin in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

ethin — Fri, 01 May 2026 18:47:06 +0000

Yes, but that doesn't mean AI increased their revenue. Is there definitive proof that AI/LLMs caused this increase?

New comment by ethin in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

ethin — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:02:41 +0000

This is extremely naive. If you are in Germany and I am in the US and you get a default judgement against me (which would cost you money to get), good luck getting it enforced internationally. Hint: it's way, way harder than you think.

New comment by ethin in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

ethin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:07:42 +0000

I also got randomly invoiced $5.00 for absolutely no reason on the 28th. I don't have auto-reload enabled, nor did I explicitly buy extra usage.

New comment by ethin in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

ethin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:53:39 +0000

Isn't this illegal/fraudulent in many places? Pretty sure just randomly charging a customers payment method without their consent is definitely illegal.

New comment by ethin in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

ethin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:45:01 +0000

Can you back this up with actual data, or is this "I believe it to be true" vibes?

New comment by ethin in "Zed 1.0"

ethin — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:35:14 +0000

This editor sounds awesome, but it's sad they didn't make the UI accessible.

New comment by ethin in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

ethin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:12:54 +0000

You do know that calling people who don't like AI for any reason Luddites does you no favors, right? It just makes you look like your a part of a cult.

New comment by ethin in "AI's economics don't make sense"

ethin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:51:04 +0000

Even now they are insanely ambiguous with respect to their usage limits. They don't from what I know openly disclose them anywhere, so them saying "5x increase" is utterly meaningless, alongside "20x" or "10x" or whatnot, because we don't know what "x" is.