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New comment by glitch13 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

glitch13 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:20:11 +0000

Could you share the regex you used to come up with that sentiment analysis?

New comment by glitch13 in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

glitch13 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 21:54:27 +0000

> This includes the ability to skip updates during device setup to get to the desktop faster...

There's only one complaint that practically everyone has regarding what's required "during device setup," and it's not updates. I can't say I'm shocked that it's being ignored.

New comment by glitch13 in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

glitch13 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:11:49 +0000

I saw a similar conversation somewhere about some project saying they don't allow AI generated code.

It was asked that if "AI Generated Code" is just code suggested to you by a computer program, where does using the code that your IDE suggests in a dropdown? That's been around for decades. Is it LLM or "Gen AI" specific? If so, what specific aspect of that makes one use case good and one use case bad and what exactly separates them?

It's one of those situations where it seems easy to point at examples and say "this one's good and this one's bad", but when you need to write policy you start drowning in minutia.

New comment by glitch13 in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

glitch13 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:17:45 +0000

> It's because Elon Musk's Twitter purchase and subsequent management convinced every executive in tech that you can cut to the bone, fuck your product's quality completely, and be totally fine.

I agreed with you up to this point. Twitter largely operated in the red for its entire existence prior to his "restructuring" to make it leaner and profitable. In my opinion, twitter went to shit when the incentive for creating engagement switched from gaining social capital to gaining... erm... actual capital. The laissez-faire attitude about allowing fairly terrible behavior on there gave it a PR black eye that probably didn't help either in the eyes of advertisers.

If I had to guess what happened with Block (and that's what we're all doing, guessing): a CEO's job is to make the line go up, and saying you introduced tools to increase productivity with half the staff (especially if you're overstaffed) seems to me a pretty easy way to do that. I saw someone on here refer to it as "Vibe CEOing", which I think is pretty on point. Again, just my opinion/guess.

New comment by glitch13 in "Animalcules and Their Motors"

glitch13 — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:29:52 +0000

Destin at Smarter Every Day did a video about these motors a while back that was really good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPSm9gJkPxU

The guy he interviewed in that video, Prashant Singh, is credited in one of the pictures in the article.

New comment by glitch13 in "Supreme Court blocks controversial Purdue Pharma opioid settlement"

glitch13 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:07:01 +0000

The ruling was only about whether or not a bankruptcy court has the legal authority to declare that the individual members of the Sackler family are immune to being sued directly, which is an agreed-upon condition of the bankruptcy settlement. SCOTUS ruled that it did not, so the settlement as it stands is dead.

Purdue is not going to be operating in any capacity regardless of this ruling (except as a bank account holding the settlement funds).

New comment by glitch13 in "In Reversal, Guinness Gives a Frenchman's Matchstick Eiffel Tower the Record"

glitch13 — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 17:21:09 +0000

Yes, from what I understand their entire business model is based on selling "world record" certifications to people and brands for pr/marketing stunts:

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/business-marketing-solu...

New comment by glitch13 in "Enclave: An Unpickable Lock"

glitch13 — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 02:16:00 +0000

And we've dropped into a false set.

New comment by glitch13 in "OctoPrint"

glitch13 — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 22:25:04 +0000

If all Octoprint provided was the ability to print directly from Cura it would be worth it. Luckily it does much more than that.

The only downside I've found is I've lost the Ender 3 Pro's resume ability if the power goes out.

New comment by glitch13 in "What Cost Is Each State Obsessed With"

glitch13 — Wed, 03 Aug 2016 21:06:16 +0000

Looks like it only returns words that begin with consonants because of the "a". If you search for

"how much does an * cost in"

You get different results that begin with vowels as well as acronyms/abbreviations.

New comment by glitch13 in "The beginning of the end of Facebook’s traffic engine?"

glitch13 — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 01:22:38 +0000

I'm guessing that their move in 2015 to put the kibosh on organizations using their Facebook account to self-promote will have a larger impact on this sort of thing.

http://newsroom.fb.com/news/2014/11/news-feed-fyi-reducing-o...

They say it's in the name of reducing spam on your news feed, but something tells me that it's just a ruse to route that type of behavior to paid advertisements and to end the free ride for small businesses.