Hacker News: madeofpalk

New comment by madeofpalk in "Grit: Rewriting Git in Rust with agents"

madeofpalk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 23:14:00 +0000

Yeah, that's usually how contracts work.

You decide whether you have followed it or not. The other party will decide if they agree. If in dispute, you go to a judge and they decide also.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

madeofpalk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:30:02 +0000

No, this isn't the claim.

EU wants Apple to open 'Siri AI', with access to a personal context, open to other model/AI providers.

Apple says "We can't do this in a privacy preserving way".

You can definitely question what their true motivations are, but it seems pretty plausible that there is a moral case for this system to not be opened up to other providers who may do a worse job at privacy than Apple (especially when you are Apple and you trust yourself).

I think there is a place in these sorts of ecosystems for privileged players. If you buy an iPhone you implicitly must trust Apple to some degree.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

madeofpalk — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:55:59 +0000

As with many other things, AI exacerbates this problem. It’s so easy for many more of things things to happen unattended and in greater volume, and the AIs themselves can be tricked into doing these things, not helped by their patten of “prompt the user to approve 30 different inscrutable pythons and bash scripts”.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Are you expected to run five Python type-checkers now?"

madeofpalk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:52:34 +0000

> In about 22 years of writing ruby code, I have never ran into a situation once where I would have caught a bug through types

You must be the world's greatest programmer with perfect memory. Every nil pointer exception is a bug a (good) type checker could have caught. You've never had a NameError or NoMethodError in Ruby?

New comment by madeofpalk in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

madeofpalk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:44:30 +0000

There's loads of AI features out there that are powered by a model provider, yet are not branded by them. Why would this be different?

New comment by madeofpalk in "Siri AI"

madeofpalk — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:14:41 +0000

Is Siri any more or less than “just” an agentic harness such as OpenClaw? How much of what that harness does is up to the LLM or the harness itself?

In my mind the Gemini LLM defines the bounds of capability and capacity, but any actual functionality or usefulness (or lack of) comes from Apple’s Siri harness.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Anthropic, please ship an official Claude Desktop for Linux"

madeofpalk — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:25:44 +0000

I do other things on my computer apart from bash.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

madeofpalk — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:27:23 +0000

No. Percentages allow them to hide in the law of averages. Go tell those twenty thousand people that it's banal that Meta fucked up like this.

New comment by madeofpalk in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

madeofpalk — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 10:58:10 +0000

If it helps to prevent “terror” on a flight, then yes.

New comment by madeofpalk in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

madeofpalk — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 08:39:58 +0000

Similarly, I worked on in-flight user-facing software, and we were allowed to use a “plane pointing downwards” icon to denote arrival time, because the connotations to crash were too strong.

No one believed that the icon would make the plane crash, but it’s about creating an environment that makes people feel as safe and comfortable as possible. You don’t want people freaking out when they’re locked in a small metal tube in the sky.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

madeofpalk — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:16:06 +0000

Right - but those constraints are inherent to the medium. Like basically unconstrained screen sizes from large desktops to mobile, with the user free to resize anywhere in between (and can't be constrained in the way that 'real' apps often are). Input methods of both fine mouse control, and course touch.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

madeofpalk — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:32:29 +0000

> this is largely accidental complexity.

Is it? I know hating CSS is a fun pastime for folks around here, but maybe it’s just that building good, rich user interfaces that people can use is an inherently hard problem.

Sure, the browser is slightly more difficult due to maintaining backwards compatibility and multiple implementations, but I’ve yet to see a better UI framework/language that has to deal with the other constraints of the web platform.

New comment by madeofpalk in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

madeofpalk — Thu, 28 May 2026 14:54:45 +0000

Isn't this being held responsible for it?

New comment by madeofpalk in "Incident with Pull Requests, Issues, Git Operations and API Requests"

madeofpalk — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:28:36 +0000

It was previously showing, but I believe the incident has bee resolved now. At least, PRs work for me when they previously didn't.

New comment by madeofpalk in "GitHub is sinking"

madeofpalk — Sun, 10 May 2026 17:15:46 +0000

3 months post Microsoft acquisition, GitHub expanded the free plan to include unlimited private repos.

The next year they removed the limitation on collaborators on private repos for free users.

In the last 4 years they’ve significantly improved their project management tools. I think a lot of teams can make do with GitHub Projects, they’re pretty decent.

Who knows if any of these are directly because of Microsoft or not. But there has naturally been material improvements to GitHub in the years after being bought by Microsoft.

New comment by madeofpalk in "AI didn't delete your database, you did"

madeofpalk — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:19:31 +0000

People are eschewing their own accountability, blaming the tools instead for their poor decision making and lack of access controls.

Why is it possible for you to fat-finger your way to deleting production database locally?

New comment by madeofpalk in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

madeofpalk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:08:56 +0000

The objection is not anti-AI. It’s anti this specific API, for nuanced web compatibility reasons.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Mozilla's opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

madeofpalk — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 12:06:20 +0000

No, that’s not how this process usually happens.

New comment by madeofpalk in "Issue links now open in a popup"

madeofpalk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:24:58 +0000

Maybe fixing the root cause is slower, and this janky workaround was quicker as its something largely already built (a few views/links in Github already open issues in a drawer).

You've never done a temporary fix to stop the bleeding?

New comment by madeofpalk in "An update on GitHub availability"

madeofpalk — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:22:48 +0000

Like they did with Copilot last week? https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/changes-to-gi...

> New sign-ups for GitHub Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused. Pausing sign-ups allows us to serve existing customers more effectively.