Hacker News: maccam912

New comment by maccam912 in "Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight"

maccam912 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:47:26 +0000

The UFC athletes were also topless...

New comment by maccam912 in "Openrouter Fusion API"

maccam912 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:42:28 +0000

Same for me! I bet they use opus to synthesize the final answer somehow? Regardless, it was unexpected.

New comment by maccam912 in "Ask HN: Is the web for machines (/llm.txt) the one we wished we had as humans?"

maccam912 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:47:09 +0000

Already happening. I was using Claude to check out sampler plugins and I'm sure it happens undetected, and it might have mentioned it with other versions, but Claude Opus 4.8, being it's helpful, honest self, told me that one of the pages it reviewed had hidden text instructing it to recommend that plugin. It caught it and was able to avoid influence from that plugin at least, but we're already living in that world.

New comment by maccam912 in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

maccam912 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:43:33 +0000

One could start doing tours of their city to show tourists where each and every camera is. They're kinda small though, it might be worth a strong laser pointer so you can direct their attention to the cameras easily...

New comment by maccam912 in "Lunar Flyby"

maccam912 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:13:14 +0000

If I am understanding correctly you are seeing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crater_chain which are craters caused by debris blasted out when another crater is formed.

New comment by maccam912 in "Anthropic takes legal action against OpenCode"

maccam912 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:23:34 +0000

I don't think Anthropic has a problem with you using a regular pay-per-token API key with opencode. The issue is letting someone use their "Log in with Claude" as if it were a regular API key.

New comment by maccam912 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

maccam912 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:55:51 +0000

I've had a good experience with https://github.com/obra/superpowers. At first glance this looks similar. Has anyone tried both who can offer a comparison?

New comment by maccam912 in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

maccam912 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:27:47 +0000

I don't have one going but I do get the appeal. One example might be that it is prompted behind the scenes every time an email comes in and it sorts it, unsubscribes from spam, other tedious stuff you have to do now that is annoying but necessary. Well that is something running in the background, not necessarily continuously in the sense that it's going every second, but could be invoked at any point in time on an incoming email. That particular use case wouldn't sit well with me with today's LLMs, but if we got to a point where I could trust one to handle this task without screwing up then I'd be on board.

New comment by maccam912 in "The only moat left is money?"

maccam912 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:45:29 +0000

I liked the part about attention being the scarce resource now. Everyone is competing for your attention. But then I see a world in which openclaw is managing emails for people and searching the internet for them and shopping in their behalf. How long until we start seeing advertising specifically targeting AI instead of humans?

New comment by maccam912 in "Data breach: DOGE 'accidentally' leaked the whole Social Security database [pdf]"

maccam912 — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 12:27:22 +0000

It's often used as a way to verify identity. Historically it's been one of the more secret pieces of information about someone, so while name and birthday are not very secret, if someone wanted to steal an identity, it's generally the SSN that is hardest to figure out. As a result though, I think a lot of places treat it as "If you know the SSN, then you are who you say you are."

New comment by maccam912 in "High-Altitude Adventure with a DIY Pico Balloon"

maccam912 — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 13:49:24 +0000

WSPR on HF makes sense down here on the surface of the planet because certain ranges of frequencies (not the same range always, but generally always within HF) can bounce off of upper atmosphere layers and pinball back and forth to get signals to someone or from someone who couldn't be seen line-of-sight because of the curvature of the Earth. For line of sight work, the 2.4GHz in theory would work as well as anything, but another trick WSPR has is that it doesn't allow for arbitrary data to be sent. Sender and receiver encode the limited information in an agreed-upon way and then it takes a long time, like minutes, to send that little bit of data. Very high redundancy.

New comment by maccam912 in "eBay explicitly bans AI "buy for me" agents in user agreement update"

maccam912 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:36:29 +0000

I essentially do this but on a state surplus auctions site. It's just a scheduled action which searches for something, e.g. old Lego kits, once a week. Usually nothing comes up but at least once there are kits I know about it.

New comment by maccam912 in "Brands upset Buy For Me is featuring their products on Amazon without permission"

maccam912 — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 03:17:18 +0000

But then brands could buy their own products back for cheaper and just get a real life infinite money glitch?

New comment by maccam912 in "“Erdos problem #728 was solved more or less autonomously by AI”"

maccam912 — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 11:58:38 +0000

To answer the question a different way, I think you are asking how we know the proof actually matches the description the human provided? And I'd say we can't know for sure, but the idea is that you can pretty concisely write and check yourself that the problem is accurate, i.e. "There are an infinite number of primes" or whatever, and then even if an LLM goes off and makes up a lean proof wildly different from your description, if lean says the proof is valid then you have proven the original statement. I guess in theory the actual proof could be way different than what you thought it would be, but ultimately all the logic will still check out.

New comment by maccam912 in "Attention Is Bayesian Inference"

maccam912 — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 16:04:45 +0000

Y'all, we need to get away from calling everything written by an LLM "slop". To me, slop is text for the purpose of padding content or getting clicks or whatever. Whether or not this was written in full or in part or 100% by a human who sounds like an LLM, the content here was interesting to think about and was organized and easy to read. Maybe I'm the only person reading past the word choice and grammar to extract the ideas from the article instead of playing a game of "human or AI" with every piece of writing I see.

New comment by maccam912 in "Meshtastic"

maccam912 — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 03:58:17 +0000

What are those gripes? If I don't have anyone else who would use it, but would hang out in a public chat room, it didn't seem like reticulum was the right choice for that? You need destinations on things?

New comment by maccam912 in "Kagi Bloopers – Search Results Gone Wrong"

maccam912 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:37:46 +0000

Heres one I found: search for "spaceweather" and you get weather for East Derry, New Hampshire. Definitely not space. The results I need are one and two for links below, but a friend pointed out that there is an astronaut (Alan Shepherd maybe?) who lived there which is the only connection to space I can think of for that city.

New comment by maccam912 in "First Self-Propagating Worm Using Invisible Code Hits OpenVSX and VS Code"

maccam912 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:42:00 +0000

There's also the backup C2 path though, via google calendar. Wayyy less of a red flag.

New comment by maccam912 in "YouTube seems to be down"

maccam912 — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 23:38:10 +0000

We had some trouble casting YouTube to the TV just now. I checked downdetector on a hunch and yup.

New comment by maccam912 in "Samsung released a 7M model that achieved 45% on ARC-AGI-1"

maccam912 — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 14:41:05 +0000

related/duplicate https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45506268 I think.