Hacker News: harrouet

New comment by harrouet in "I hate compilers"

harrouet — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:37:05 +0000

You disagree but you're wrong.

Military context: a government would want to review the code and compile themselves. Provide a hash of the target binary to ensure they've compiled it correctly.

SDLC: provide auditors with _proof_ that the tested binary is indeed coming from the audited code

New comment by harrouet in "Midjourney Medical"

harrouet — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 09:45:35 +0000

I have seen AI projects to convert a tomography into actual 3D models.

Not easily, but not an unexplored field either.

New comment by harrouet in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

harrouet — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 06:24:25 +0000

Fits right in: overvalued, over-promising, pure bubble hype.

New comment by harrouet in "Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it"

harrouet — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:04:19 +0000

I stand corrected: https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2012/11/03/monkeys-and-in...

New comment by harrouet in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

harrouet — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:56:37 +0000

It is exactly the opposite for MPEG, which only specifies the decoder (i.e. how frames should be decoded).

New comment by harrouet in "Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it"

harrouet — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:56:17 +0000

There is this famous experiment with 9 monkeys in a room with a banana attached to the ceiling and a scale.

First day, a monkey climbs the scale, gets the banana and is happy.

Second day, they start spraying whomever gets on the scale. Monkeys hate this. They learn not to climb.

Third day, they take a monkey out and replace with another. The new monkey sees a banana up there and tries climbing the scale. He literally gets beaten out by the others, like "seems like you're new here".

Days 4-12, they've replaced one monkey per day, so that no monkey was here when it was possible to get the banana. None of them have ever been sprayed either. Still, they enforce the rule not to climb up there.

I am putting this example because in our society as well, there are many rules that are enforced without anyone questioning the "why". Yet the "why" is often more important to know than the rule itself.

Designers know this dichotomy between the "why" and the "how". Most people don't.

New comment by harrouet in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

harrouet — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:57:34 +0000

How about running that backdoor from a honeypot and check what it is trying to do?

New comment by harrouet in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

harrouet — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 09:50:47 +0000

Damned, there is a market for an "antivirus for developers".

New comment by harrouet in "CrankGPT"

harrouet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:10:46 +0000

Always amazed by the mount of time, effort and skill that goes into this kind of prank :).

(although I salute the attention it brings to an important cause)

New comment by harrouet in "Apple Foundation Models"

harrouet — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:02:31 +0000

This is Apple commoditizing LLMs while keeping control of the UX.

They are a hardware company and will keep selling the best machine for AI use. Well done.

New comment by harrouet in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

harrouet — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 08:37:20 +0000

OpenAI actually never had a focus. Their VC pith was: once the AI is good enough, it will find our business model. They've raised money on that.

With that said you are right, it seems OpenAI got numbed by ChatGPT's initial success and tried to be the go-to brand for consumers... which is Google's playground.

Meanwhile, Anthropic led the B2B market with a clever segmented approach, and got well-paying customers.

New comment by harrouet in "macOS Container Machines"

harrouet — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:58:48 +0000

Why did they have to invent their own solution instead of just shipping docker or an equivalent clone ?

New comment by harrouet in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

harrouet — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:57:45 +0000

Especially in asian countries where PC penetration is lower.

New comment by harrouet in "Apple Core AI Framework"

harrouet — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:31:18 +0000

Wait, is PPC open bar ?

New comment by harrouet in "Siri AI"

harrouet — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 06:11:28 +0000

Spot on!

I am also under the impression that the LLM tech is plateauing before bringing the promised productivity. Great as a coding assistant, great a summarizing a text, translating, great a helping plan a trip...

But for the rest, e.g. act as a life assistant, it is still far off with no hope to reach the desired performance level.

I would not be surprisd to see OpenAI and the likes to start reverting to Siri v1 strategies, i.e. "if this then that" kind of agent routing.

New comment by harrouet in "Natural England demands salt marshes before Hinkley Point C opens"

harrouet — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:34:27 +0000

Brexit is Brexit, I guess, but the environmental regulation remains as dumb as in the EU.

New comment by harrouet in "Shopify Is Down"

harrouet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000

Massive incident at Shopify since Jun 03, 2026 - 09:27 EDT.

All my sites are affected, I guess this is general.

Shopify outage [resolved]

harrouet — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:00:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.shopifystatus.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48384221

Points: 101

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New comment by harrouet in "Squillions: How money laundering won"

harrouet — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 10:02:11 +0000

How can one write about money laundering without talking about crypto currencies ?

New comment by harrouet in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

harrouet — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:55:49 +0000

One-year commitment won save their churn rate without vendor lock-in.

How about letting you maintain a vibe-coded repo only with access to the context that led to it ?