Hacker News: lokelow

New comment by lokelow in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

lokelow — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 21:38:40 +0000

Agreed. I was trying to get it to review some auth refactoring in my app recently, and it appeared to find some vulnerabilities. as it was aggregating the results it was flagged and restarted the whole process with Opus 4.8 and all of my usage credits were gone.

Anthropic told me to use their `security-review` tool - as this was the exact scenario the tool is for - and it still got flagged.

New comment by lokelow in "Tony Hoare has died"

lokelow — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:39:34 +0000

I was introduced to him pretty late in the game, in this interview where he and Joe Armstrong and Carl Hewitt talked concurrency! It was interesting hearing them discuss their different thoughts and approaches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37wFVVVZlVU

New comment by lokelow in "Zig, Rust, and Other Languages"

lokelow — Sat, 16 Mar 2024 00:59:20 +0000

Gleam runs on the Erlang VM, and I believe it also compiles to WASM. That's pretty different than the other languages here. Cool language though, I am a big fan of the BEAM

New comment by lokelow in "Want to Stop Ransomware Attacks? Ban Bitcoin and Other Cryptocurrencies"

lokelow — Fri, 04 Jun 2021 10:25:20 +0000

>Here’s how these attacks work. A hacker penetrates a company’s systems—an often easy task, given many firms’ shoddy cybersecurity practices.

This seems like the real problem. "Banning cryptocurrencies", whatever that means, doesn't solve the security problem. If these critical systems are so vulnerable, shouldn't we be even more concerned about hackers who have more nefarious intentions than making some quick money?

New comment by lokelow in "I was bored and made a Conway's Game of Life app in Elixir"

lokelow — Sun, 26 Aug 2018 14:40:14 +0000

The patterns generated from the Big Bang are awesome-it looks so simple and so complex at the same time.

New comment by lokelow in "A Web Design Crash Course: From Developer to Developer"

lokelow — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 19:12:27 +0000

As a back end developer that’s been slowly getting into web development, I find the article helpful because it informs me of some design decisions I should be thinking about. By no means do I expect the author’s opinion to always be correct, especially since the design should always be driven by the content and intended audience. But it helps to know I should think about serif vs sans serif, etc. and how it may impact the final product.

New comment by lokelow in "Learning from Terminals to Design the Future of User Interfaces"

lokelow — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:43:09 +0000

> - Spaces: The animation tells the user what is going on! Having the entire screen change instantly would be confusing for the vast majority of users.

The video the author links from Minority Report of an "incredible and desirable" UI, has animations seemingly for this exact reason. One is basically the same as Spaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJqbivkm0Ms

I think UIs that give intuitive feedback are the best UIs, even if they are a tiny bit "slower". I'm happy to memorize a bunch of VIM commands because I write code everyday and it makes me much more productive, but I don't want to have to do this for every application. Especially once we start physically interacting with them.

New comment by lokelow in "Tidal Accused of Falsifying Beyonce and Kanye West Streaming Numbers"

lokelow — Wed, 09 May 2018 22:27:51 +0000

As I log in to Tidal right now, and got to top 20 albums, Kanye's The Life of Pablo is at #8 and Beyonce's Lemonade is at #9. TLOP has consistently been in the top 20 since it came out (over 2 years ago!) as has Lemonade (also over 2 years ago!). I don't buy any of it.

New comment by lokelow in "If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol"

lokelow — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 11:01:37 +0000

I have an up to date 4s, but that means iOS 9.3.5. It works great, only problem is web browsing. Most sites load too much junk and can crash the phone. Brave is the only browser I can use, and it works pretty good for most sites.