Hacker News: majorbugger

New comment by majorbugger in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

majorbugger — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:19:43 +0000

Interesting approach to exfiltration but that can't be prevented really because of lethal trifecta.

New comment by majorbugger in "Why write code in 2026"

majorbugger — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:54:36 +0000

I have also never used punch cards, what does it prove?

New comment by majorbugger in "Why write code in 2026"

majorbugger — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:05:41 +0000

Why is this even a legit question? I need to keep writing code to stay relevant, not to forget my craft, be able to review code... So many reasons. AI doesn't change a thing.

New comment by majorbugger in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

majorbugger — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:22:14 +0000

Nothing, because the question makes no sense.

New comment by majorbugger in "AI Built a Nuke and Still Lost"

majorbugger — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 09:02:32 +0000

> Somewhere in the first game, between a bug fix and a strategy note, I asked the agent what this was actually like for it

Yeah because LLM "experiences" the game

New comment by majorbugger in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

majorbugger — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:31:23 +0000

Let's see the recent Guardian article: The UK government vastly underestimated the climate impact of artificial intelligence, it has emerged, after officials raised their estimate of carbon emissions from AI by a factor of more than 100.

According to new data quietly published this week, energy use by AI datacentres in the UK could cause the emission of up to 123m tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO₂) – about as much as generated by 2.7 million people – over the next 10 years.

That latest figure replaces a previous estimate – since deleted – that claimed emissions would reach a maximum of 0.142m tonnes of CO₂ in a single year.

New comment by majorbugger in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

majorbugger — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:28:12 +0000

What angers me on the other hand is calling something "performative" while completely ignoring the facts. Have you checked the projected impact of new data centers on CO2 emmissions?

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

majorbugger — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:29:19 +0000

Yeah nah it's yet another security risk. There was an article recently about Claude Code desktop installing some browser files, it wasn't a hole per-se but doesn't make the whole thing trustworthy.

New comment by majorbugger in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

majorbugger — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:33:39 +0000

The corporate overlords are becoming too benevolent these days! Why not monitor employees' thoughts in real time?

New comment by majorbugger in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

majorbugger — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:06:50 +0000

I would like to meet the person behind the "postinstall scripts" idea and try to understand how they thought it was a good idea.

New comment by majorbugger in "Using AI to write better code more slowly"

majorbugger — Tue, 26 May 2026 08:15:46 +0000

You have very optimistic assumptions about AI. Of course AI will not "replace you" on its own, but some person in the company will decide it.

New comment by majorbugger in "Bytecode VMs in surprising places (2024)"

majorbugger — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:53:09 +0000

Does it mean we can play Doom on WinRar?

New comment by majorbugger in "Kindle loyalists scramble as Amazon turns page on old e-readers"

majorbugger — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:15:33 +0000

Two of my paperwhites died so i took the opportunity to switch to kobo and couldn't be happier.

New comment by majorbugger in "MacBook Neo Deep Dive: Benchmarks, Wafer Economics, and the 8GB Gamble"

majorbugger — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:46:13 +0000

I don't understand this logic. You can live with 8 GB but there is nothing to "appreciate". It's enough for some stuff but totally short for other stuff.

New comment by majorbugger in "Programming Still Sucks"

majorbugger — Thu, 07 May 2026 07:16:32 +0000

Yes it does. Typical example - layoffs to make to stock perform better.

New comment by majorbugger in "I'm scared about biological computing"

majorbugger — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:34:48 +0000

It's not obvious at all

New comment by majorbugger in "Meetings are forcing functions"

majorbugger — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 02:23:06 +0000

As a developer I have absolutely no qualms with the weekly meetings and since we're fully remote, it's actually nice to be in touch with my team mates, even if they talk about the part they're doing right now for a while.

What I had issues with in the past is forced daily meeting (on top of other meetings) that just created stress and fatigue for me. Starting my day with a standup was literally the worst way to start it ever.

New comment by majorbugger in "Code is run more than read (2023)"

majorbugger — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:29:11 +0000

Which is great until you have to make changes to this kind of code, not to mention a massive refactoring.

New comment by majorbugger in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

majorbugger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:25:03 +0000

Yeah, it's annoying to have good support for dates in Java since 2014, instead of only getting it now like in JS.

New comment by majorbugger in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

majorbugger — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:52:57 +0000

Good morning, or as they say in the NPM world, which package got compromised today?