Hacker News: lolpython

New comment by lolpython in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

lolpython — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:35:28 +0000

Windows supports it but git disables creating symlinks by default.

> Short version: there is no exact equivalent for POSIX symlinks on Windows, and the closest thing is unavailable for non-admins by default unless Developer Mode is enabled and a relatively recent Windows 10 version is used. Therefore, symlink emulation support is only turned on by default when that scenario is detected. Support can be enabled by the user, via the core.symlinks=true config setting.

See: https://gitforwindows.org/symbolic-links.html

New comment by lolpython in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

lolpython — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 21:25:34 +0000

Fine if you don't need to git checkout the repo on Windows :)

New comment by lolpython in "How well do agents use test/verification techniques?"

lolpython — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:38:57 +0000

I didn't understand this part in the article. It seems advantageous to have an AI do manual mutation testing because it can actually introduce realistic bugs, like raising an exception or returning a different, known error code. Instead of the quite limited approach offered by automated frameworks that mostly just change binary operators. The whole issue with manual mutation testing is that it's slow and has to be done by hand, but with AI it's not by hand any longer and if it takes a few minutes in the background, who cares.

New comment by lolpython in "Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations"

lolpython — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:56:28 +0000

To be fair, on mobile the title lengths staying reasonable really helps HN homepage readability.

New comment by lolpython in "Some conservationists are helping to restore Africa’s wild dog populations"

lolpython — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:47:06 +0000

Casualty of HN title mangling again. Original title: Africa’s Wild Dogs Are the Most Hated Carnivores on the Continent. Here’s Why Some Conservationists Are Saving Them Anyway

New comment by lolpython in "Taste Is All That's Left"

lolpython — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:25:07 +0000

That's idiotic, frankly.

New comment by lolpython in "Taste Is All That's Left"

lolpython — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:47:18 +0000

The author has updated the bottom of the post to clarify that it was not AI-generated. https://notashelf.dev/posts/taste-is-all-thats-left#post-mor...

New comment by lolpython in "CarPlay Is Additive"

lolpython — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:06:33 +0000

Can’t you do split screen navigation via the home screen (Dashboard View)? At least on cars I’ve rented I could have navigation on one side and music on the other in CarPlay.

New comment by lolpython in "America's Large Homebuilders Shift the Cost of Shoddy Construction to Buyers"

lolpython — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 01:04:39 +0000

For anyone who wants to see clear examples of these defects from an inspectors point of view… For a while I was completely addicted to watching inspection videos of brand new homes where the inspector shows poor craftsmanship and sometimes even dangerous defects - the best in the genre IMO is Cy https://youtube.com/@cyfyhomeinspections?si=zldoP3BpzK6mUzDc check out his YT shorts. Example after example of terrible defects in brand new homes in Arizona

New comment by lolpython in "Show HN: Secs-man, a secrets manager you can (not) rely on"

lolpython — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:14:54 +0000

It reads to me as "sex man" but aside from that, looks useful!

New comment by lolpython in "Show HN: Kage – Shadow any website to a single binary for offline viewing"

lolpython — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:23:44 +0000

This is cool. I could see myself downloading the articles behind the first couple pages of hacker news with this, for viewing on a flight or long distance train ride with spotty internet

New comment by lolpython in "Show HN: Auto-identity-remove – Automated data broker opt-out runner for macOS"

lolpython — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:48:41 +0000

Does this current approach succeed for many sites? I see that this repo was clearly vibe coded or at least heavily used AI to write it. That can be fine, it just makes it more difficult to follow how much was done already and how much is left to get this properly working. As for email verification, a stopgap solution could be to just tell me to click confirm on the emails and which senders to look out for. Properly reading the actual inbox on record across providers could be difficult, it requires an actual email client. Also, forgive me if I'm off base on this one, but your comment appears to be AI generated. If so, that violates site guidelines.

> Don't post generated comments or AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated

New comment by lolpython in "I automated opt-outs for 500 data broker sites (open source)"

lolpython — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:28:50 +0000

The mention of states is because (besides the author likely being located in the States) many of the opt out forms are US only and filter on US state. You could probably just use an uncommon state or territory like Guam and try it, it would still submit opt outs for matching records on sites that are international. For example https://www.familytreenow.com/optout is listed in the broker list, and that seems to work for international profiles.

New comment by lolpython in "DeepSeek V4–almost on the frontier, a fraction of the price"

lolpython — Sat, 02 May 2026 14:41:33 +0000

> https://openai.com/cyber

that link 404s

New comment by lolpython in "Kefir C17/C23 Compiler"

lolpython — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:49:29 +0000

Those sections don't really provide details on the author's motivations to be honest

What we once had (at the height of the XMPP era of the Internet) (2023)

lolpython — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 15:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kirsle.net/what-we-once-had-at-the-height-of-the-xmpp-era-of-the-internet

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47825014

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Seccomp – Unsafe at any speed (2022)

lolpython — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:54:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.habets.se/2022/03/seccomp-unsafe-at-any-speed.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311660

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by lolpython in "Ki Editor - an editor that operates on the AST"

lolpython — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:14:35 +0000

Expand Selection: Alt+Shift+→ (Windows/Linux) or Option+Shift+→ (Mac) Shrink Selection: Alt+Shift+← (Windows/Linux) or Option+Shift+← (Mac)

New comment by lolpython in "OpenAI – How to delete your account"

lolpython — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:52:44 +0000

I don’t see what’s unclear about that account deletion page to be honest. It reads clearly to me that the account has been deleted and if you want to use the same email again, you can create an entirely new account using the same email, but it doesn’t reactivate the account.

New comment by lolpython in "Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android"

lolpython — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:58:19 +0000

Ok, it's clear that I misunderstood. Thanks for clarifying.