Hacker News: mcintyre1994

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "When I reject AI code even if it works"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 08:00:32 +0000

I find the same. Someone posted this benchmark here: https://petergpt.github.io/bullshit-benchmark/viewer/index.v...

It measures whether models push back on bullshit prompts or just go along with it, and Claude models are all the top performers.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Cell-based architecture for resilient payment systems"

mcintyre1994 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:42:44 +0000

A few years ago someone kept signing up for loads of bank accounts/credit cards in my name, with my address. I’m not sure what the point of it was. But while everyone else happily sent cards and stacks of welcome paperwork to me, Amex were the only one that contacted me and told me they’d detected something weird in the signup. They gave me some helpful advice to resolve that situation too.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 22:40:26 +0000

I feel like it has to eventually become X. Just because he’d find it funny for the stupidest people in the world to post about how he’s turned Twitter into a $2t or whatever company.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

mcintyre1994 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:24:57 +0000

It's all stock

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:38:12 +0000

TBH this is the main thing that made me start trusting Claude enough to actually find it useful, and I'm surprised other models haven't caught up. I assumed they had and I just wasn't aware because I'm not using them in the same way.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Apple Foundation Models"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:18:49 +0000

I think this is just Apple planning for their on-device models getting better, which makes sense given they have access to Gemini now. If developers use this for all their code calling an external LLM, then as Apple's model becomes more capable and covers more use cases it'll be easy to switch to it at individual call sites. That'll give apps better UX and save developers money on a bill that Apple doesn't get a cut of.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Phoenix LiveView 1.2"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:18:18 +0000

I haven’t used it for anything in production so I haven’t seen these issues, could you give a bit more detail? I’m mostly wondering why you’d have any more websocket messages that you respond to than you would APIs if you were using any other approach. Does LiveView itself respond to certain messages bypassing your app?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 08:42:12 +0000

Ah okay thankyou! Is the MCP server manually configured, or is there documentation on the suggested way to tell an agent to use sem? My guess was that setup was how to do that.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Sem: New primitive for code understanding – not LSPs, but entities on top of Git"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 07:47:46 +0000

This looks really neat, but I see its diff output as complimentary to git and wouldn’t want to replace git diff. Is there a way to just install the CLI and MCP server but not override git diff?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:41:40 +0000

I’m guessing they have no functional human support for the people who had their accounts stolen. I get the impression Meta didn’t know this was happening until they were contacted by the media.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

mcintyre1994 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 17:29:18 +0000

I get what you mean but SpaceX owns xAI, which is objectively a company that trains models and has massive distribution by owning X.

I don’t think their models are competitive with Google, and Google obviously has the best distribution imaginable, but they definitely are a competitor.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Meta enables ADB on deprecated Portal devices [video]"

mcintyre1994 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:06:19 +0000

Arguably the old fashioned ones where the CEO doesn’t have special shares that give them a voting supermajority?

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:29:29 +0000

Based on Accenture acquiring them, I’d guess the actual business wasn’t really interesting to Netflix. And that leaves the infrastructure, where the value they get is it being Netflix infrastructure. I can see why they spent the money on a really good brandable domain instead.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:10:43 +0000

I’ve never seen Claude do that. It makes the new tests pass by fixing previously unknown bugs in my experience.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "What I've Learned (So Far) Building Online Mini Games with Elixir and Swift"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 27 May 2026 05:50:23 +0000

I’d guess that 2 is a huge part of the answer to 1 here - Elixir makes real-time multiplayer easy.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 25 May 2026 08:23:51 +0000

A few UK banks detect that you're on a phone call and show a message like "we've never called you" or "we are not calling you right now" in their app, I think that's really smart.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

mcintyre1994 — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:48:39 +0000

I think that was a lot more justifiable when Twitter reliably let logged out users read tweets. X seem to tweak it all the time, or maybe it’s just broken a lot, but sometimes I can’t even load a tweet in a browser that isn’t logged in.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:30:12 +0000

It would be weird if Anthropic were genuinely using it as they say they have been for years but everyone else was a fake customer.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

mcintyre1994 — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:51:57 +0000

They didn’t. The first is from the Stainless blog post, the second is from Anthropic’s.

New comment by mcintyre1994 in "Moving away from Tailwind, and learning to structure my CSS"

mcintyre1994 — Sun, 17 May 2026 07:31:27 +0000

Maybe Svelte does it much better, but there were tonnes of scope-css-to-react-component approaches before Tailwind too.