Hacker News: giladd

New comment by giladd in "Goodbye Claude, hello Pi"

giladd — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 10:10:54 +0000

I did that. Customized Pi to run in Bubblewrap, made an action authorization flow, etc. But that's throwing the baby with the bathwater. This gives you a harmless, less capable agent. To get both safety and usefulness, Ant's solution of a fast classifier works really well.

New comment by giladd in "Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi"

giladd — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 06:39:08 +0000

ty, edited

New comment by giladd in "Goodbye Claude, hello Pi"

giladd — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 06:05:03 +0000

Does Pi come with an auto mode that blocks dangerous actions? It didn't last time I checked, and these measures are critical to protect prod (and your personal files, etc) from a confused agent.

I gave the harness a try and it is refreshing, but the insistence on staying bare bones and not implementing basic functionality natively, together with no vetting process for popular 3rd party modules, made me return to Claude Code.

New comment by giladd in "Goodbye Claude, Hello Pi"

giladd — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:57:18 +0000

Does Pi support that natively?

New comment by giladd in "Claude Code sends your email address to websites"

giladd — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 05:30:20 +0000

I recently discovered service accounts do exist. Though it might be on the Atlassian level, not Jira specifically.

Should be this: https://support.atlassian.com/user-management/docs/understan... https://support.atlassian.com/user-management/docs/manage-ap...

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

giladd — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 21:28:27 +0000

I think that's true in the micro sense that the fringe techies and terminally online big tech-averse crowd had a moment where they could collectively choose a better way to communicate.

Sadly, convenience always wins, and most people need a better reason to "switch platforms" (which is, ironically, what moving your socials to atproto/fedi means). Together with the dismal state of general education on digital independence, such revolutions just won't happen for the overwhelming majority of internet users. The lack of GPG usage is a common example, but people don't even own their email domains :)

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

giladd — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 15:55:21 +0000

I get you, though it's mostly a problem if the userbase is split (I suppose it is, I'm unfamiliar). If so, it's a long-term problem only if one does not eat the other. Having a mainstream protocol/stack is a good thing.

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN"

giladd — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 12:12:14 +0000

I'm pretty sure the AT protocol is meant to solve this. Not so sure that any of the big players in the social media industry are enthusiastic to use it, though.

New comment by giladd in "A Printer Printing onto Paper"

giladd — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 13:42:03 +0000

That's awesome. With everything being digital though, I wonder who are the main consumers for personal home printers. Aside from TTRPG players I suppose.

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Twixt – transform one word into another in four moves"

giladd — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:52:05 +0000

This is a pretty awesome little game, seems more rewarding than most something-le games I've seen. Will share with friends.

Will you / could you add access to past puzzles? That's the first thing I looked for but couldn't find.

New comment by giladd in "Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets"

giladd — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:18:16 +0000

This is pretty cool, nice project. Can you expand on what threat model this combats?

Also, does the replace op happen only for specific fields in HTTP, or for every matching string in the request? I can imagine the latter if you want to support non-standard authentications methods, though there's always the edge case where the secret string placeholder is not used as a secret and should not be replaced.

New comment by giladd in "Sabotaging projects by overthinking, scope creep, and structural diffing"

giladd — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:19:09 +0000

> Perhaps there’s some kind of conservation law here: Any increases in programming speed will be offset by a corresponding increase in unnecessary features, rabbit holes, and diversions.

This resonates hard. LLMs enable true perfectionism, the ability to completely fulfil your vision for a project. This lets you add many features without burning out due to fatigue or boredom. However (as the author points out), most projects' original goal does not require these complementary features.

New comment by giladd in "Sci-Fi Short Film “There Is No Antimemetics Division” [video]"

giladd — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:41:08 +0000

It's been a long time since a book has gripped my attention like the one this short film is based on. It has many interesting ideas and a plot with some truly unexpected twists.

The latest version of the book distances itself from the source material (a good decision imo): The SCP Foundation. It's an extremely interesting project, with some parallels to FOSS. I wonder if there are other joint literary projects of similar scale.