Hacker News: hacker161

New comment by hacker161 in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

hacker161 — Sat, 09 May 2026 18:14:50 +0000

How does Apple’s spunk taste

New comment by hacker161 in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

hacker161 — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:54:59 +0000

Ironic this comment reads like you didn’t even grok the basics of the issue if you think open source licensing is the source of confusion.

New comment by hacker161 in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

hacker161 — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:29:16 +0000

See lots of comparisons to Ansible but Chef/puppet (both of which have agent-less modes) in Python instead of Ruby is what immediately came to mind. I guess Salt as well technically.

New comment by hacker161 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

hacker161 — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:50:59 +0000

> I think it can sort of make sense for some people who sort of listen to music as a background noise

This is a whole genre of music in of itself that real people created which AIs were trained on stolen copies of to produce slop that doesn’t have to compensate the origins.

So it only makes sense in that case if you think slop derived from real art is awesome and that actual human beings can get fucked.

New comment by hacker161 in "Utah to hold websites liable for users who mask their location with VPNs"

hacker161 — Sun, 03 May 2026 22:41:51 +0000

It’s nice you’re comfortable outing yourself as a freak who reads and agrees with the Protocols of the Elder Zion.

New comment by hacker161 in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

hacker161 — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:38:35 +0000

You couldn’t waterboard this sort of confession out of me. Imagine proclaiming publicly that you have zero-taste and only consume AI slop

New comment by hacker161 in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

hacker161 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 16:22:44 +0000

First they came for the stock Android users, and I did not speak out for I was not a stock Android user.

New comment by hacker161 in "OpenAI CEO's Identity Verification Company Announced Fake Bruno Mars Partnership"

hacker161 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:25:00 +0000

> For me personally, I don't really know. You can't just do the same thing because the economy is constantly evolving, but I can't see where it's going.

Neither does your CEO

New comment by hacker161 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

hacker161 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:05:54 +0000

Considering it happens across both opencode and other apps like Claude and Codex as well as across models it seems like something inherent to the models themselves and not necessarily a bug in the apps wrapping them. But maybe there’s more opencode et. al could be doing to prevent it.

New comment by hacker161 in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

hacker161 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:02:26 +0000

It’s open source so you can put together that CLI yourself if so motivated

New comment by hacker161 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

hacker161 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:15:15 +0000

You’re not alone, I’ve absolutely seen the same behavior occasionally with Opus in OpenCode where it takes actions it shouldn’t be able to in plan mode.

New comment by hacker161 in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

hacker161 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:13:26 +0000

“Plan” vs “execute” modes seem more like suggestions the models _mostly_ follow. I have absolutely had models (Codex and Sonnet/Opus) perform actions in plan mode they should never have been able to take like editing files or starting to work on a plan that was just created.

New comment by hacker161 in "Interview with Bob Odenkirk"

hacker161 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:04:07 +0000

LLMs write like that because people write like that. That they used the rhetorical device three times in a row in a single paragraph makes me think it’s less likely to be LLM and just how that person writes.

New comment by hacker161 in "I bought Friendster for $30k – Here's what I'm doing with it"

hacker161 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:31:17 +0000

Their reaction is perfectly proportional

New comment by hacker161 in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

hacker161 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:37:46 +0000

“Borderline unusable” is such a hyperbolic way to describe a fully functional design that doesn’t happen to be responsive. Hacker News must be borderline unusable for you as well then, no?

New comment by hacker161 in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

hacker161 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:32:25 +0000

Explain the difference.

New comment by hacker161 in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

hacker161 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:25:51 +0000

See? You weren’t even over 50! Young whippersnappers…

New comment by hacker161 in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"

hacker161 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:12:47 +0000

Just like you can run `git add -p`

New comment by hacker161 in "EFF is leaving X"

hacker161 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:01:30 +0000

*Normal people who don’t want to hang around in a Nazi hellhole

New comment by hacker161 in "The Vercel plugin on Claude Code wants to read your prompts"

hacker161 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:00:04 +0000

Not using version control is just stupidity