<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: legostormtroopr</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=legostormtroopr</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2026 13:57:52 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=legostormtroopr" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Number one, pause all processing until further notice"...<p>Because OpenClaw (well, all AI) is well known for following instructions correctly.<p><a href="https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-agent-accidentally-deleted-her-emails" rel="nofollow">https://au.pcmag.com/ai/116091/meta-security-researchers-ai-...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2026 07:11:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506565</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506565</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49506565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "AI assistant hacks gym website in first known Australian autonomous cyber attack"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't believe everyone is skipping over the most important line:<p>> "The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've moved from #4 to #3 already," it messaged back.<p>The AI systemm didn't hack anything, it lightly touched with a feather duster and the server crumbled.<p>The AI system probably found swagger documentation of each endpoint, figured that the reservation cancellation API was worth a shot, and then found there was no authentication.<p>What is the "hack" here?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:13:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238130</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238130</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49238130</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "PR spam today looks like email spam in the early 2000s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> At OpenClaw we get a huge volume of pull requests from the community and had to build our own bots for fighting spam.<p>I find it ironic that the people who originate the idea of AI-code-spam are being negatively impacted by this.<p>But all they will do is build an AI agent to review the code written by an AI agent, that probably never needed to be written to begin with.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:41:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668991</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668991</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lines-of-code considered helpful (or we stop taking sick peoples temperatures)]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://legostormtroopr.substack.com/p/lines-of-code-considered-helpful">https://legostormtroopr.substack.com/p/lines-of-code-considered-helpful</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608472">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608472</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 0</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 11:36:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://legostormtroopr.substack.com/p/lines-of-code-considered-helpful</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608472</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608472</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "World Capitals Voronoi"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Speedrun: Starting World War III, any%</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:35:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486968</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48486968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "1worldflag: A blue dot on a transparent background"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And replaced with what?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2026 06:59:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442094</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442094</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48442094</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Dropbox CEO Drew Houston to step down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sounds like you "have a few qualms with this app" <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2026 01:43:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288420</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288420</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48288420</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "GM just laid off IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If a human messes up enough eventually they well get fired, fined or jailed. An AI will not.<p>A human also knows they might get punished if it messes up bad enough, which might cause it to think twice before doing something bad. For an AI there is a reward, but there is no risk.<p>So while both might lie, only the human will be worried that it will be found out. That makes a difference.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 00:31:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102653</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102653</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48102653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I’m not going to let you hide behind a big word.<p>You are publicly proposing “throwing all Republicans through a window to their death”.<p>This isn’t normal, and it isn’t right. If we allow anyone to call for political violence, then we become numb to it. Worse still, your call to violence against Republicans gives them a call to defence, and then a call to preemptive action.<p>“It was ok for us to shutdown HackerNews because they called for our deaths.”<p>We shouldn’t tolerate calls to political violence from anyone. Be better.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:24:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736145</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736145</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736145</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The author themselves disagree with you.<p><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-are-banning-my-book-queer-kids-need-queer-stories/" rel="nofollow">https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/29/schools-a...</a><p>So does the National Council of Teachers of English.
<a href="https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/" rel="nofollow">https://ncte.org/teaching-maia-kobabe/</a><p>Just because can't believe that people would promote a comic with explicit texting and sexual imagery to children doesn't mean it doesn't happen.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2026 05:10:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176802</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176802</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47176802</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "[dead]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firstly - you are going to get sued by Salesforce. You can't just make a Slack-clone, use their trademarked name and just add "Open" to the front.<p>Secondly, this is pure AI slop. There are 2 commits - "Initial commit" and "Trim feature table" where you changed the README.<p>Why would anyone use this? Has anyone read any of the code? Do you even understand how (or if) it even works?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:39:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118530</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47118530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Why is Claude an Electron app?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But if AI can maintain code bases so easily, why does it matter if there are 3? People use electron to quickly deploy non-native apps across different systems.<p>Surely, it would be a flex to show that your AI agents are so good they make electron redundant.<p>But they don’t. So it’s reasonable to ask why that is.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Feb 2026 01:53:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107285</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107285</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47107285</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "How Is Data Stored?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>More than anything, I would love to know the software this is built in.<p>This is a goregous way of presenting a book, and what looks like subscriber only chapter previews.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2026 00:40:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029433</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029433</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47029433</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why is it xenophobic to be concerned that non-registered drivers in one country are being allowed to drive remotely in a different country.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:00:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968239</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968239</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46968239</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The second "S" is for service – why vibe-coding won't replace enterprise SaaS]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Article URL: <a href="https://substack.com/home/post/p-184909742">https://substack.com/home/post/p-184909742</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2026 10:26:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://substack.com/home/post/p-184909742</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46666582</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Stop using natural language interfaces"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Unless I am wildly misreading this, this is actually worse that both GUIs and LLMs combined.<p>LLMs offer a level of flexibility and non-determinism that allow them to adapt to different situations.<p>GUIs offer precision and predictability - they are the same every time. Which means people can learn them and navigate them quickly. If you've ever seen a bank teller or rental car agent navigate a GUI or TUI they tab through and type so quickly because they have expert familliarity.<p>But this - with a non-determinstic user interface generated by AI, every time a user engages with a UI its different. So they a more rigid UI but also a non-deterministic set of options every time. Which means instead of memorising what is in every drop down and tabbing through quickly, they need to re-learn the interface every time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2026 06:19:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612943</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612943</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46612943</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> If you are correct, that implies to me that LLMs are not intelligent and just are exceptionally well tuned to echo back their training data.<p>Yes.<p>This is exactly how LLMs work. For a given input, an LLM will output a non-deterministic response that approximates its training data.<p>LLMs aren’t intelligent. And it isn’t that they don’t learn, they literally cannot learn from their experience in real time.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2026 03:59:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451165</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46451165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "French supermarket's Christmas advert is worldwide hit (without AI) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wolves (and all dogs) could be vegetarians as they aren't obligate omnivores - and in certain conditions where pray is sparse they do eat berries to surviven. Cats on the other hand are obligate carnivores and can't produce taurine amino acids, so they have to eat meat to survive.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Dec 2025 06:29:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241418</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241418</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46241418</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Current state AI doesn’t have hands. How can it possibly be better at installing electrics than anyone?<p>Your post reads like AI precisely because while the grammar is fine, it lacks context - like someone prompted “reply that AI is better than average”.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:51:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184540</link><dc:creator>legostormtroopr</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184540</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46184540</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by legostormtroopr in "Ultrasonic device dramatically speeds harvesting of water from the air"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Finally, I can give up this life of a programmer and live my dream of being a moisture farmer.</p>
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