Hacker News: fny

New comment by fny in "Deepfakes Tore a High School Apart"

fny — Fri, 22 May 2026 09:27:43 +0000

We need a way to prove what's real.

New comment by fny in "Show HN: Agent.email – sign up via curl, claim with a human OTP"

fny — Fri, 22 May 2026 00:46:12 +0000

> The internet was made for humans exclusively, designed to keep machines out by default.

The internet is also not made for humans. For years I've wanted something like this for e2e testing or personal scripts (cron etc) and your UX is by far the simplest.

I love AgentMail. It's made email dead simple for agents and testing any paths for email. I even have a /agent-mail skill I use for when I want a design doc or artifact emailed to me.

That said, agent self sign up seems like a novelty. Setting up account programmatically via curl is however useful. I imagine most customers -- especially those willing to pay for your paid tier -- would provision accounts ahead of time or reuse them.

Free for all account creation could be an option but it will attract spammers and their ilk. Your reputation may end up in the toilet which would also break agent mail for me.

No bueno.

New comment by fny in "Cloudflare CEO on how he chooses which employees to replace with AI"

fny — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:00:41 +0000

> AI isn’t coming for builders or sellers, but it is coming for measurers. Tireless, independent, efficient and available, AI systems can now measure an organization with a level of objective detail and precision that was previously impossible even for the best employees.

Honestly not the apocalyptic scenario I had on my bingo card.

New comment by fny in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

fny — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:03:32 +0000

Interpretable models can create rules like what you see.

New comment by fny in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

fny — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:05:53 +0000

Isn't the point of ML that you learn these rules from the data? The right approach to me would be to use ML models to detect patterns that correspond with fraud and then evaluate them to see if any make sense. This way you might discover new hyptotheses.

New comment by fny in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.7"

fny — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:52:14 +0000

I'm using Opus on xhigh 10+ hours a day, and I've only reached 80% of weekly limits when doing massive ports or refactors. I haven't once hit hourly limits, and I've used Claude very, very aggressively. I guess its a pain point for power users.

New comment by fny in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

fny — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:01:11 +0000

I'm not sure it matters what anyone claims. It's easy to use and experience its abilities and limitations.

New comment by fny in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"

fny — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:15:19 +0000

Tesla is already publically traded. It's valuation depends on investors buying into Musks vision.

As a rule, investors optimize for long term growth since that's what maximizes valuations. All the megacap companies are judged by future growth.

The effect is companies tend to exaggerate and lie about what they can achieve in the long term to juice their own stock. Elon's def got the juice.

New comment by fny in "Cisco workforce reductions"

fny — Thu, 14 May 2026 04:49:47 +0000

It's important to keep in mind Cisco made a billion AI and cybersec acquisitions in the past few years and they've downsized to 2022 levels.

This is not an AI job elimination story. I think the next recession will trigger that. The AI hype train ironically needs engineers of all stripes to run.

New comment by fny in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

fny — Thu, 14 May 2026 01:58:28 +0000

Of course not, but the expected return should be positive in the long run, no? Otherwise, you might as well donate to an existing university or research lab.

New comment by fny in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

fny — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:26:14 +0000

It's possible to rely on mouth movements instead of sound. I've been tweaking visual speech recognition models (VSR) for the past few weeks so that I can "talk" to my agents at the office without pissing everyone off. It works okay. Limiting language to "move this" "clear that" along side context cues vastly simplifies the problem and makes it far more possible on device.

I think its brilliant UX.

New comment by fny in "The Rise of the Bullshittery"

fny — Tue, 12 May 2026 20:48:35 +0000

The responsible alternative to not going is to return capital to your share holders who can then do the goose hunting themselves, and management should in invest their personal stock into other companies.

For very human reasons, they thing they have a better chance of finding the goose themselves.

New comment by fny in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

fny — Tue, 12 May 2026 06:45:19 +0000

TLDR is that the attacker leveraged actions/cache to cache a poisoned pnpm store which contains something that will be triggered during the package.json lifecycle. All it required was for someone to merge any PR to run whats in the cache trigger the second stage of the exploit: mint an OIDC token, build evil tarballs, and publish.

New comment by fny in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

fny — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:27:18 +0000

Secret: "compile" that orchestration prompt. Determinism is solved by turning prompts into code that can in turn run agents or run code or both.

Everyone misses this pattern with skills: you can just drop code alongside a SKILL.md to guarantee certain behaviors, but for some reason everyone's addicted to writing prompts. You don't even need to build a CLI. A simple skill.py with tasks does it. You can even have helpers that call `claude -p`!

New comment by fny in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

fny — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:29:56 +0000

This is why cooldowns have space for patches.

New comment by fny in "Grand Theft Oil Futures: Insider traders keep making a killing at our expense"

fny — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:52:59 +0000

The list doesn't corroborate that. The international component seems important.

New comment by fny in "Let's Buy Spirit Air"

fny — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:28:00 +0000

It's also not a sale of any sort. They're asking for pledges and have an accredited investor question.

New comment by fny in "Your Website Is Not for You"

fny — Fri, 01 May 2026 13:23:02 +0000

I think this applies to everyone. There's a lot of ego and pride that people can't shake.

Usually, the copy and structure of a landing page is dictated by founders or marketing folks. Sales people also make this mistake on their slides. They have too many slides about a fancy team, fancy product, and fancy features -- then maybe they show a tailored use case or two.

I highly recommend Donald Miller's Marketing Made Simple as an antidote.

New comment by fny in "The More Young People Use AI, the More They Hate It"

fny — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:21:25 +0000

> At the same time, 79 percent of those surveyed by Gallup “expressed concern that AI makes people lazier,” and 65 percent said that using chatbots “promotes instant gratification, not real understanding” and prevents people from engaging with ideas in a critical or meaningful way.

I don't see how these and other sentiments are unique to Gen Z at all.

The difference I've seen is that many zoomers have given up on learning in the first place. "What's the point?"

New comment by fny in "OpenAI models coming to Amazon Bedrock: Interview with OpenAI and AWS CEOs"

fny — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:10:52 +0000

You can sign ZDR agreements with any of the major LLM providers. Using AWS alone is also not sufficient. Even though AWS is running the model, you need to contact them for proper ZDR.[0]

[0]: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/claude...