<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: hermannj314</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hermannj314</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:35:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=hermannj314" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions – Resolved"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Currently, I am doing firmware development for my clients, so I do not have a CI pipeline.  I'm doing build, test, flash manually on the bench.<p>(about to be hit with rotten vegetables by the purists...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995800</link><dc:creator>hermannj314</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995800</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49995800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "GitHub Incident with Git Operations, Pull Requests and Actions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exactly. I'm running forgejo in a container, pushing backups to a private S3 storage, and sent the forgejo team a small liberapay payment.<p>Maybe 30 minutes to get it all setup and then I moved on with my life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:47:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994499</link><dc:creator>hermannj314</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994499</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994499</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "When random is not actually random enough"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Assuming the code is black box, an outside observer would need no more than a thousand observations before they could definitely say something was off about your rand_1_to_10() mod 3 code (with 95% confidence).<p>But in the case of the random_u64() mod 10, you would need the heat death of the universe number of samples before that bias would be noticeably distinguishable from random.<p>Is there an actual example of where that specific case could be significant for anything other than maybe nation-state cryptography?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:56:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992988</link><dc:creator>hermannj314</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992988</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "Pi 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am using pi the same way everyone uses Codex and Claude, but pi makes it very simple to make folders to make the agent behave a certain way and that was easy for me to understand.<p>ChatGPT Desktop seems to intentionally hide what they are doing and where they are storing state, sessions, config, I never had any idea what is in context or what "archiving" even means.  I got sick of OpenAI hiding how ChatGPT Desktop was working. I opened pi and the default behavior shows me how much context I am using, how much that costs and tells me where it stores my session data.<p>Suddenly it was all demystified and that is why I use pi.  It has nothing to do with a functional gap, it was the joy a using a harness that was transparent about how it worked.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:45:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929922</link><dc:creator>hermannj314</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929922</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929922</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Torres v. Madrid (5-3)<p>Carpenter v. United States (5-4)<p>Collins v. Virginia (8-1)<p>Barnes v. Felix (9-0)<p>These are all Supreme Court cases that were specifically about the 4th amendment and happened in the last 10 years.<p>The 4th amendment is over 200 years old and yet requires constant supervision by the Supreme Court to define the word reasonable or to police the lower courts understanding of precedent.<p>So you are wrong, with whatever presumption you are making that the word "unreasonable" is well defined.</p>
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<p>It is not self-explanatory how to define the weasel word "unreasonable"</p>
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<p>I see no evidence that in our nation's 250 year history or the broader practice of law (specifically adversarial law), that lawyers are working to make their job more efficient, legal outcomes more reliable, or legal tools more accessible.<p>Burn their entire industry to the ground.  I welcome making the practice of law an AI-only field and ban humans from working in it to remove prejudice, misconduct, expense.  As a former foster parent, I've seen children being delayed justice for weeks because two lawyers couldn't find time for a 15 minute conversation in front a judge.   I've hated all lawyers ever since.  Gatekeeping priesthood of the 21st century.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:38:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873700</link><dc:creator>hermannj314</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873700</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49873700</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The retailer or distributor can also be named as a defendant if the manufacturer is difficult to track down, bankrupt or overseas according to me spending a few minutes reading about pressure cooker lawsuits.<p>I have lost track of the metaphor, but man pressure cooker lawsuits are more common than I thought.</p>
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<p>Is it possible to construct a control system where bad, fast and cheap can become good, fast, and cheap through repeated sampling and a strong spec/eval harness?<p>I am trying to keep an open mind with AI, but I also have little understanding of control theory, trying to learn.</p>
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<p>I would be interested in the broader objective. Was the goal to misrepresent the student population?<p>Photographers have always had discretion and can present their portfolio as if it were a random sample of an event even if it was actually curated to appeal to a statistical goal. This has been how colleges have lied for years about their demographics.</p>
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<p>Is there a local model that can run this?</p>
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<p>First they filmed the celebrities, then the politicians, then the cops, then came the ring cameras.  It was a slow erosion over decades, the justification drifting from "they are a public figure" to "they are standing near me"<p>I never knew why the paparazzi could harass celebrities and a few decades later we are all being secretly filmed for a Meta perv database.</p>
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<p>I living in a Republican part of the country, I think they believe power is its own morality.<p>A God that murders people because his feelings got hurt while demanding no one murder, a husband beats his wife and kids because he wasn't respected - these are valid in their moral framework, cruel asymmetrical power structures.<p>There is a dominant race, a dominant gender, and a dominant country in their view. Laws exist only to control the weak.<p>These people love Trump because he represents the slave owning, male-dominated, terrorist rebels that form the myth of who we are as a nation. His corruption and enrichment is why they love him.</p>
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<p>If someone came up to me and started filming me while I was in public, and then when I got in my car they followed me, I would also call the police.<p>The double standard demonstrated by Flock isn't the issue, they are the pieces of shit and of course they have no moral consistency.<p>But "He who fights with monsters should be careful, lest he thereby become a monster."  I thought we were united that people have a reasonable sense of temporal privacy in public - that being in public is ephemeral and not some permanent record to be analyzed in perpetuity.  We should not be fine stalking people and making them feel threatened, even those that want to build the panopticon state.</p>
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<p>Thanks for explaining, I will work on my approach, I didn't think I said anything that presented I agree with or believed the PR, only that it was context for why the A/I situation.<p>Yes I am well aware of what antifa means.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:54:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587731</link><dc:creator>hermannj314</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587731</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49587731</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by hermannj314 in "A/I shuts down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I am first hearing about this group today, but here is some context:<p><a href="https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/2026/08/designation-of-autistici-inventati-as-a-specially-designated-global-terrorist" rel="nofollow">https://www.state.gov/releases/office-of-the-spokesperson/20...</a><p>Apparently they provide the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and because of a 9/11 related executive order, the A/I is able to be branded a sponsor of terrorism.<p>I guess this makes it a crime to give them money or provide aid to them (if you are a US citizen).<p>EDIT: who is downvoting and why?  The 2nd sentence in the PR says "Autistici/Inventati (A/I Collective) is an Italy-based extremist group that builds and operates the digital infrastructure for violent Antifa cells and other far-left militants across the world"  Are you mad that I quote the article or mad that you disagree with Trump?  In either case, why are you downvoting me exactly?  I am genuinely curious.</p>
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<p>Excellent job, this was very fun to play.<p>I liked the explanations, graphics, interactive tesseract, all nice attentions to detail.<p>How much guidance did you give Astra?  Did you give a single prompt, an example site to mimic or was there more to the design and make process?</p>
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<p>I charitably assume if something can't be been done on a mobile it is because someone was granted an "on a phone" patent or clicking that button on a phone somehow will entitle Apple to 30% of my revenue stream in perpetuity.<p>I usually don't attribute it to malice or incompetence from hypothetical devs, instead I blame malice or incompetence from hypothetical lawyers.</p>
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<p>I want to mindlessly copy-paste this link to so many people rather than think for myself on how to respond to them.<p>We need a dontpastethedontpastetheai.com to get ahead of this.</p>
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<p>It is hard to find actual data that supports the claim that calling your congressperson matters, mostly the internet is full of anecdata and wishful thinking.<p>Effective altruism has some data that suggests it works marginally for state leglislators but works quite well for undecided federal officials.<p><a href="https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5oStggnYLGzomhvvn/talking-to-congress-can-constituents-contacting-their" rel="nofollow">https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/5oStggnYLGzomhvvn/...</a></p>
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