Hacker News: heisenbit

New comment by heisenbit in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"

heisenbit — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:55:00 +0000

While I agree with adding code contributing to complexity is problematic there is lots of code in existing code basis which is overly complex due to past outdated requirements or less than perfect human coders. The current flood of AI driven security fixes demonstrates that AI can be pretty good in detecting security edge cases. It is not inconceivable to use it to also reduce code complexity.

New comment by heisenbit in "DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro"

heisenbit — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:27:26 +0000

And they are enticing human agents to further their agendas using techniques learned from the white mice.

New comment by heisenbit in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

heisenbit — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:59:01 +0000

Yesterday in Lidl I was a bit shocked seeing the coupons offered by their app. They did a really good job with their mixture of stuff I had bought or might buy.

New comment by heisenbit in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

heisenbit — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:34:36 +0000

My suspicion is that it violates the users copyright on their commit message.

Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got "Trendslop" in Return

heisenbit — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:03:35 +0000

Article URL: https://hbr.org/2026/03/researchers-asked-llms-for-strategic-advice-they-got-trendslop-in-return

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47988773

Points: 4

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New comment by heisenbit in "Finetuning Activates Verbatim Recall of Copyrighted Books in LLMs"

heisenbit — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:19:52 +0000

We will see such attempts first against weaker target. Users who are not having the enterprise indemnifications.

New comment by heisenbit in "An update on GitHub availability"

heisenbit — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 06:26:44 +0000

PRs were the culmination of human work. Now PRs are generated by machines to trigger human work. So the growth graph is not really absurd.

New comment by heisenbit in "The West forgot how to make things, now it’s forgetting how to code"

heisenbit — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 08:36:37 +0000

Yes, businesses tend to believe that.

No, every time people switch knowledge gets lost and code quality degrades.

In part I blame accounting rules justifying investments is easier than maintenance.

New comment by heisenbit in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

heisenbit — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 06:31:19 +0000

He is 50 and been in Apple almost all his working life. Is that not a mono-culture risk for a CEO?

New comment by heisenbit in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

heisenbit — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:31:07 +0000

crypto: incentives

ai: scaling finding opportunities

ai: improving exploit code engineering

ai: scaling automation of exploit execution

homogenization of infrastructures: simplifying target navigation

perfect storm

New comment by heisenbit in "FBI used iPhone notification data to retrieve deleted Signal messages"

heisenbit — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:30:22 +0000

I suspect they live in a database and are eventually going where GC data goes.

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

heisenbit — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:27:44 +0000

While they should not bash command lines can contain user names, email addresses and secrets.

New comment by heisenbit in "Why are we still using Markdown?"

heisenbit — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:39:09 +0000

Markdown lacks JavaScript and can be considered mostly harmless.

New comment by heisenbit in "Show HN: Dull – Instagram Without Reels, YouTube Without Shorts (iOS)"

heisenbit — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:16:27 +0000

The problem (or not depending on POV) is that TOS are subject to legal constraints. As the dominant platform YT in a critical service area needs to maneuver carefully.

New comment by heisenbit in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

heisenbit — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:17:29 +0000

The problem is that these markets allow to translate political power directly to money. Worse destructive events are rare, need a lot less action (butterfly effect) and leave thus less traces and command high odds. Once committed the ones in power have a vested interest in causing destruction.

New comment by heisenbit in "Connecticut and the 1 Kilometer Effect"

heisenbit — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:42:53 +0000

Hmm, this actually could have policy implications. If one wants to subsidize a new technology and allocated a limited budget often the first movers are getting it and those first movers may be clusters which is not ideal driving broad adoption. So creating very small geo buckets for adoption oriented subsidies would make sense.

New comment by heisenbit in "A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta"

heisenbit — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:38:45 +0000

Agents are providing to employees the long overdue benefits limited liability companies long enjoyed: Gambling with upside for themselves and other peoples downsides.

New comment by heisenbit in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

heisenbit — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:15:14 +0000

> No matter what he reported, he would have the other side threatening him.

That is why modern reportings best practice is to always support both sides. /s

New comment by heisenbit in "The enshittification of Amazon paperback books"

heisenbit — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 10:30:32 +0000

It is not just the print, it is also the way pages are cut and bound. The printed area is not where it should be on the page.

New comment by heisenbit in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

heisenbit — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:00:26 +0000

Not just dangerous but uninsured...