Hacker News: greyman

New comment by greyman in "The Claude Code Leak"

greyman — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:58:32 +0000

From a moral perspective, I would argue that this is still theft of IP, even if it's a "clean room reimplementation". The code carries valuable information about what works and what doesn't — knowledge that Anthropic had to discover through real work and iteration. It's the same as a Chinese factory duplicating a product: they skipped the entire R&D phase and saved time and money.

New comment by greyman in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"

greyman — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:59:09 +0000

But nobody says code is free(?). Certainly not Claude, that experimental compiler costs $20K to build. That openclaw author admitted in Lex Fridman talk that he spends $10k's on tokens each month.

New comment by greyman in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

greyman — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:44:43 +0000

I usually now just ask agent, for example Gemini in Antigravity to check certain article or a group of articles, like "check all AI-related article in tldr.tech and tell what is interesting"... I am already a bit lazy to browse myself, and in this process I dont care about ads.

New comment by greyman in "AI uBlock Blacklist"

greyman — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:04:04 +0000

Meta question: do you guys feel the adblockers will maybe not be that important in the future? As for myself, I ended up to use just a few websites, but those are reputable and I don't mind a few ads they provide. The only adblock which is still very much needed is one for Youtube.

New comment by greyman in "Personal blogs are back, should niche blogs be next?"

greyman — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 20:13:34 +0000

Yes indeed, and also the title promise - I looked forward to read how the personal blogs are back, only to discover the author didnt provide any evidence, but not even examples. Maybe they are indeed back, if we count Substack newsletter archive as a "personal blog".

New comment by greyman in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"

greyman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:28:43 +0000

Why it is absurd? Conversation between me and ChatGPT can be read by a lawyer working for NYT, and that is what is absurd.

New comment by greyman in "Fighting the New York Times' invasion of user privacy"

greyman — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 15:26:02 +0000

But that vault can contain conversation between me and chatgpt, which I willingly did, but with the expectation that only openai has access to it. Why should some lawyer working for NYT have access to it? OpenAI is precisely correct, no matter what other motives could be there.

New comment by greyman in "ChatGPT Atlas"

greyman — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:44:55 +0000

I conditioned myself to not type too-revealing texts about myself into the computer. It isn't ideal but of course this is quite a big problem.

New comment by greyman in "The Socratic Journal Method: A Simple Journaling Method That Works"

greyman — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 17:05:21 +0000

Keep going with the blog, I found several good topics there.

New comment by greyman in "A blog does not need “analytics”"

greyman — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:38:53 +0000

Another direction is that more and more content is directly put on social media. I found I am visiting websites less and less, I even dont care about ad blockers anymore (YT is an exception).

New comment by greyman in "EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up"

greyman — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:37:27 +0000

Because all that scepticism, non-support etc. are like small micro-defeats that will suck the life energy. Not to mention all those taxes which sucks money energy. :-) But the deeper reason I see in in Europe is that everything is biased towards big and old, and not new and small.

New comment by greyman in "EU startups fail because their press refuses to hype them up"

greyman — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:34:36 +0000

>But what is lacking is some kind of large European tech journalism

Yes, even when tech media in europe would want to hype the original OP startup, they are not that influential in general. I follow tech news daily but all of them are U.S. media, there is nothing comparable here.

New comment by greyman in "Claude Code SDK"

greyman — Tue, 20 May 2025 11:16:13 +0000

Question: I agree, but doesn't that other model need to be trained so it knows how to work with MCP servers? Or that isn't an issue?

New comment by greyman in "How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned"

greyman — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:13:43 +0000

Thank you for your post, it's very sensible setup. Does Cloudflare Pages offer unlimited bandwidth?

New comment by greyman in "How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned"

greyman — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:12:35 +0000

As a corporate senior eng, this does't look like a mess to me - just a few things, easily configurable in the matter of hours. My only concern would be if Cloudflare pages offer truly unlimited bandwidth, but so far the site is live. :-)

New comment by greyman in "I stopped using AI code editors"

greyman — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 08:29:46 +0000

Yes this happens. Then I use "dumb" IDE like Goland... or, I didn't stop using it. My point is that I currently do not invest my time into learning "agentic IDE" like Cursor, since I am not sure this is something useful in the future.

New comment by greyman in "I stopped using AI code editors"

greyman — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:49:00 +0000

I also stopped using Cline as well as Claude Desktop + MCPs. Gemini for example is rushing forward, Google surely is putting huge resources into developing it, and if in the matter of months AI will be able to implement additional feature itself in 0-shot, why bother with IDE?

New comment by greyman in "I stopped using AI code editors"

greyman — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 06:46:29 +0000

I also stopped using AI code editors, but for different reasons. I realized, that with advances like Gemini 2.5 Pro, AI will soon be able to implement whole features, with correct prompt. So the real skills is how to prompt the AI a maintain the overall architecture of the project. I wonder if the IDEs like Cursor or Cline will ever be needed in the future; as for myself, I stopped investing into learning them. I currently use 2.5 Pro + Repo prompt app which prepares prompt and then apply the result to codebase semi-automatically.

New comment by greyman in "OpenAI adds MCP support to Agents SDK"

greyman — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 09:21:13 +0000

1) It isn't a standard yet, but what else apart from filesystem-mcp can be used for prompts like "write me README.md for this repo" (like really produce the file)

2) For me it is not clear the future is smaller self-hosted LLMs. As of today, most useful for me is to use best models, and those are not self-hosted.

New comment by greyman in "Show HN: Codemcp – Claude Code for Claude Pro subscribers – ditch API bills"

greyman — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 14:58:22 +0000

We do, but I am transitioning towards MCPs. One thing is that it is free, and secondly, Cline don't bring that much more to the table - in Claude desktop I can also ask to implement something, and then tell it to write solution to the source code files. This in effect does the same thing as Cline, but I feel I have bit more control.