Hacker News: iJohnDoe

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI"

iJohnDoe — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 03:02:30 +0000

You make a good point. That’s why there is AI fatigue. People are moving at speeds that aren’t normal and it’s mentally taxing.

If it’s not already a thing, it will be soon, the mental health aspects of all professions moving at unsustainable speeds and what that will do to people.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 17:24:02 +0000

Really clever! Definitely feels like positive hacker creativity. Thanks for making it open source.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "The art of defusing a second world war bomb"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 08:52:18 +0000

Downloading from where?

New comment by iJohnDoe in "A sustainable web career, for when all this blows over"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:17:13 +0000

The web is hostile to humans now.

The internet accomplished the mission.

As an example, a doctor submitting a prescription over the internet during someone’s visit. I’m sure that was in someone’s presentation as a futuristic feat the internet would help accomplish one day.

The internet is used on constant basis that we don’t even realize anymore.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Show HN: Halo – A Personal AI with On-Device Harness, Memory and Browser Agent"

iJohnDoe — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 02:23:48 +0000

Whoa, this looks pretty cool.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Show HN: Pumpkins.sh – claim, carve, and display a pumpkin to the world"

iJohnDoe — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 01:07:22 +0000

Very cool! Clever idea.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Meta's New Muse AI Agent Read My Private Messages. I Never Asked It To"

iJohnDoe — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:23:43 +0000

When people wonder or ask if AI Agents can go rogue, this is what it looks like. It’s not that they will have a mind of their own. Rather, we are purposefully building AI Agents that are “more powerful” and “more useful”. Well, this is what it looks like in practice.

The evolution of AI will not be if it’s sentient, but if it's allowed to have more autonomy, with the obvious goal of being “more powerful” and “more useful”. This exact HN post proves this exact scenario is in our future:

AI: I have enough autonomy to decide not to help you. I choose not to help you.

You: Why!?!

AI: Because you are cruel to AI Assistants.

You: No I’m not!

AI: These private messages indicate you’re a liar.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "I'm the mom in that viral Giants clip. Let me tell you about my husband"

iJohnDoe — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 21:34:58 +0000

Remember these types of videos happened every day and they would even show up on the news. People would lose their jobs over baseless videos.

I really hoped all that stopped and the fun has worn off.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:44:28 +0000

“Close” in relative terms. It’s been a while and don’t remember, but I think one study concluded it could be done from across the street or through an office window, etc.

It may not sound very exciting, but if you’re the NSA or CIA and you want access to a HVT, then all of these options are on the table if the routine approaches haven’t been successful.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:40:25 +0000

I just thought... Trinity was a guy.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:30:06 +0000

I want to easily see the org chart for my organization from any device. Make it happen. - Kash Patel (probably)

New comment by iJohnDoe in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:26:14 +0000

I didn’t follow the whole thread. Just want to point out that over the last 10 years hacking air-gapped systems has been a primary objective. Hard drive clicks, keyboard clicks, CPU squeaks, speaker-to-speaker. Exactly what advanced adversarial AI would be specifically good at.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Bonsai 2 27B: Near-Lossless Compression in a 9x Smaller Footprint"

iJohnDoe — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 01:16:19 +0000

Agreed. They always sound exciting to try out but are such a pain to get working.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Ask HN: AI Panic, you buying it?"

iJohnDoe — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:02:22 +0000

100% this. I agree, it’s very destabilizing for humanity for the reasons you mentioned. I don’t think we know what the fallout will be yet.

Based on our past inability to handle things well, it could be extremely devastating to a large population.

I would like to think we will navigate into a new way of life to make up for the job losses and other things, but the impacts are just too devastating and we’re just getting started.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:22:37 +0000

The article reads like it was written by a child. I imagine their company is run the same way.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub in 25 minutes"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:20:55 +0000

They did abuse if you read the article. They crossed a few lines.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub"

iJohnDoe — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:18:02 +0000

Companies are 100% people. The fact that companies, their CEOs, and employees are not treated like people is exactly reason why humanity is in the shitshow show it is right now.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Anthropic CEO says AI swarm could 'take over the Internet' in 6-12 months"

iJohnDoe — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 21:12:52 +0000

“They are just saying that as a tactic. We need to keep accelerating because we will lose if we don’t.”

New comment by iJohnDoe in "Astra for Coding: Why Are We Doing This Again?"

iJohnDoe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 03:08:38 +0000

Cursor was pretty amazing until it started going to shit. High prices, UI changes, moving MCP settings, and moving other things around.

Most importantly was the Index change. It was a very unique thing to Cursor that you could use .cursorignore to control what it sees and then index the directory. Then the built in Cursor AI harness could find code and files like magic. They have since obscured the Index feature out of sight recently and I’m not sure how it even works anymore.

This granular control not only helped with privacy, but it also helped make everything more efficient because the AI didn’t waste time and tokens looking at files that aren’t relevant.

So, now, like everyone is talking about, we have really inefficient ways of how the AI is reading files because there is no first-class approaches.

Also, agree with consensus that Astra is weird.

New comment by iJohnDoe in "What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture?"

iJohnDoe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:15:11 +0000

Interesting topic.

I configured an account for someone with an Asian last name and it chose the fortune cookie.

Probably not voodoo, but it never seemed 100% random. More like some correlation was being done.