Hacker News: evenhash

New comment by evenhash in "All your agents are going async"

evenhash — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:22:45 +0000

> There is nothing wrong with the HTTP layer, it's just a way to get a string into the model.

I know you don’t mean it in a reductive sense, but it’s funny /sad that I can imagine

“HTTP is just a way to get a string into a model”

becoming a real piece of wisdom unironically dispensed on this site in the future. Maybe it already is.

New comment by evenhash in "Notes from the SF peptide scene"

evenhash — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 02:17:27 +0000

It is not “reasonably safe”. No reasonable person would inject themselves with drugs they bought from an unregulated pharmacy.

New comment by evenhash in "The AI revolution in math has arrived"

evenhash — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:30:05 +0000

Generally when people talk about using LLMs to do mathematics research they’re not talking about the LLM alone, but the LLM + a harness for it to write and execute theorem provers such as Lean or Coq to validate their results.

New comment by evenhash in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

evenhash — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:52:07 +0000

Unfortunately GitHub Copilot’s commit message generation feature is very human. It’s picked up some awful habits from lazy human devs. I almost always get some pointless “… to improve clarity” or “… for enhanced usability” at the end of the message.

VS Code has a setting that promises to change the prompt it uses to generate commit messages, but it mostly ignores my instructions, even very literal ones like “don’t use the words ‘enhance’ or ‘improve’”. And oddly having it set can sometimes result in Cyrillic characters showing up at the end of the message.

Ultimately I stopped using it, because editing the messages cost me more time than it saved.

/rant