Hacker News: keeran

New comment by keeran in "Claude can now search the web"

keeran — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 00:49:50 +0000

This was pretty much my first experience with LLM code generation when these things first came out.

It's still a present issue whenever I go light on prompt details and I _always_ get caught out by it and it _always_ infuriates me.

I'm sure there are endless discussions on front running overconfident false positives and being better at prompting and seeding a project context, but 1-2 years into this world is like 20 in regular space, and it shouldn't be happening any more.

New comment by keeran in "The worst programmer I know"

keeran — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:40:19 +0000

I had my highest appraisals and biggest bonuses when I didn't do the job I was hired to do.

I was assigned to help team members on the lowest rungs of "performance" metrics. My stats went to shit.

Some teammates smashed it, others didn't. My influence and pay increased and nothing felt right.

Ended up leaving the best org of the company because I couldn't (at the time) understand what was happening.

IMO, looking back, as amazing and 'right' as this scenario feels (OP and myself), it needs the full support of the entire company to make it work.

New comment by keeran in "I Taught ChatGPT to Invent a Language"

keeran — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 21:38:16 +0000

This is exactly how it does it. The entire conversation (including bot responses) is part of the payload on each new input/message request.

New comment by keeran in "Nvidia’s Implicit Warping is a potentially powerful deepfake technique"

keeran — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 19:40:29 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Cao0oy1CBg / https://lex.page/ :)

New comment by keeran in "The Alternative Genesis Block of Bitcoin"

keeran — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 12:32:04 +0000

Yet there it is at the top of HN.

New comment by keeran in "Cryptocurrency scam: Man swindled out of pension and life savings"

keeran — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 13:23:39 +0000

Ridiculous that this has a crypto label. It's the same game as all of the senior people I know who have been hit with fake anti virus, fake software updates, fake banking apps etc.

Start small and harmless, take a small payment, request higher access, get a screen share or account password. Game over.

New comment by keeran in "ZX Spectrum: Q&A with some of the folks who worked on legendary PC"

keeran — Sat, 30 Apr 2022 18:03:17 +0000

That's weird.. I don't recall feeling like it was a money thing that I had a Spectrum, only that my parents had made the 'wrong' call on a 50/50 decision (though I will forever be grateful for that early exposure to programming!)

Trying to search for local prices back then is tricky, but they look to have been in the same ballpark (£180-200).

New comment by keeran in "Fake Amazon reviews 'being sold in bulk' online"

keeran — Tue, 16 Feb 2021 04:02:37 +0000

Sellers generate fake orders for their products using real identities, actually send the product to those people, but leave a fake review in their name.

I've tried raising the issue repeatedly with Amazon, but I've now given up and look forward to the random crap I get sent almost on a monthly basis.

Alibaba Says Its AI Copywriting Tool Passed the Turing Test

keeran — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 02:20:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.adweek.com/digital/alibaba-says-its-ai-copywriting-tool-passed-the-turing-test/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17468425

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Every Noise at Once

keeran — Fri, 29 Jun 2018 22:09:34 +0000

Article URL: http://everynoise.com/engenremap.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17428221

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by keeran in "Show HN: Using LDA to suggest GitHub repositories based on what you have starred"

keeran — Sun, 01 Oct 2017 22:57:18 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent_Dirichlet_allocation

For anyone else who didn't know :D

New comment by keeran in "Docker Is Raising Funding at $1.3B Valuation"

keeran — Fri, 18 Aug 2017 19:03:05 +0000

FWIW you can host your own GitHub

https://enterprise.github.com

New comment by keeran in "Building a CustoMac: Buyer's Guide October 2016"

keeran — Sun, 30 Oct 2016 13:35:38 +0000

Last time I tried this is it was a complete ballache to get iMessage working - I expect other services are similarly problematic. Is this still a problem?

New comment by keeran in "The Anti-Helicopter Parent’s Plea: Let Kids Play"

keeran — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:22:49 +0000

Kinda amusing that it looks like the girl in flight is about to slam hard!

New comment by keeran in "Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft Create Partnership on AI"

keeran — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 22:35:10 +0000

Sad to not see Baidu on there.

Security Analysis of the Alexa Top 1M Sites (April 2016)

keeran — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:47:52 +0000

Article URL: https://pokeinthe.io/2016/04/15/state-of-security-alexa-one-top-million-2016-04/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11529661

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by keeran in "Oculus Rift: Available for pre-order"

keeran — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:28:45 +0000

That's how I justified the KickStarter.. boy has that paid off! :D

New comment by keeran in "Chemicals linked with severe respiratory disease found in e-cigarette flavors"

keeran — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 02:35:25 +0000

The vaping enthusiast community have known about this for over a year. The popular vendors have pretty much all converted their recipes to avoid being the black sheep who still ship diacetyl.

I'd love to know why this story is being pushed everywhere now - is there a bill / legislation coming up somewhere important?

New comment by keeran in "Smoking: Quitting is so hard"

keeran — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 14:04:05 +0000

I'm always preaching this sentiment - it is far superior, yet it seems like most governments want to stamp it out before the mass market innovation really kicks in.

New comment by keeran in "Ham or Spam? Gmail Not to Be Trusted for Important Mail"

keeran — Mon, 06 Jul 2015 12:32:39 +0000

I can't remember the last time gmail got it wrong. So there's counter-anecdotal evidence for you :)