Hacker News: meander_water

New comment by meander_water in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

meander_water — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 11:04:01 +0000

I think you misunderstood, I do think it's real. I just think they're being disingenuous that this is a new threat. This is the same company that reported that their models were being used by a state actor to perform exploits in real-time - https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage

They know how to run a good marketing campaign.

New comment by meander_water in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

meander_water — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 09:10:39 +0000

Not only is the article AI generated, it's recycling a shallow pov that hundreds of other people are just copying.

Just google "taste is the new moat"

Doesn't deserve to be on the front page.

New comment by meander_water in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

meander_water — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:26:16 +0000

I think this is a largely inflated PR stunt.

Opus 4.6 was already capable of finding 0days and chaining together vulns to create exploits. See [0] and [1].

[0] https://www.csoonline.com/article/4153288/vim-and-gnu-emacs-...

[1] https://xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-xbow-did-it

New comment by meander_water in "Show HN: I built a frontpage for personal blogs"

meander_water — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 04:22:41 +0000

Cool idea! I actually did something similar but with ~130k Substack publications (they're just RSS feeds) https://findsubstack.com

List of Common Scams

meander_water — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/Scams/wiki/index/common-scams/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598211

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Show HN: I created a rss newsfeed from 130k Substack publications

meander_water — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:55:04 +0000

Article URL: https://findsubstack.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47569563

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by meander_water in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

meander_water — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:03:16 +0000

Probably does it to reduce context for regex/git history searches

New comment by meander_water in "Show HN: I replaced Substack's algorithm with a chronological feed of new posts"

meander_water — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:25:37 +0000

Thanks for checking it out!

Show HN: I replaced Substack's algorithm with a chronological feed of new posts

meander_water — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:55:28 +0000

The Substack algorithm is completely broken, and pretty hostile to readers.

If you create a new account, you'll be drowned in low value slop Notes. There is genuine, unique human writing in there (reminiscent of the early internet), but it's drowned out by AI publication mills and people with huge followings.

I built this so I can strip out all recommendations, and go back to the basic chronological feed. I maintain a list of about 130k publications and I check them at least once a day. Homepage refreshes every 15mins and there is no voting/like buttons etc.

It's not perfect, but keen to hear what people think!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47510721

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by meander_water in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

meander_water — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:15:54 +0000

I'm conflicted about this. As I was reading the paper, my AI detector senses were tingling all over the place.

Large parts of the paper score very high probability of being written entirely by AI in gptzero.

I'm not sure if I could trust anything written in it.

New comment by meander_water in "Building a Procedural Hex Map with Wave Function Collapse"

meander_water — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:03:45 +0000

This is an amazing resource, thanks for sharing

New comment by meander_water in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

meander_water — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:06:43 +0000

Seems similar to a Show HN from 5 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26256726

I gotta say Horcrux is a catchier name ;)

A shift in the behaviour of Traversable.joinpath between Python 11 and 12

meander_water — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 04:13:14 +0000

Article URL: https://pythonkoans.substack.com/p/koan-19-the-unhelpful-eclipse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46833396

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

AI agent generates rebuttals for papers

meander_water — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 02:16:30 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.14171

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46740459

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by meander_water in "Dead Internet Theory"

meander_water — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:03:27 +0000

Yeah that's been my experience as well. I think most uploads strip the metadata unfortunately

New comment by meander_water in "The Code-Only Agent"

meander_water — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:16:10 +0000

Have you done a comparison on token usage + cost? I'd imagine there would be some level of re-inventing the wheel (i.e. rewriting code for very similar tasks) for common tasks, or do you re-use previously generated code?

New comment by meander_water in "Dead Internet Theory"

meander_water — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:09:57 +0000

Not foolproof, but a couple of easy ways to verify if images were AI generated:

- OpenAI uses the C2PA standard [0] to add provenance metadata to images, which you can check [1]

- Gemini uses SynthId [2] and adds a watermark to the image. The watermark can be removed, but SynthId cannot as it is part of the image. SynthId is used to watermark text as well, and code is open-source [3]

[0] https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8912793-c2pa-in-chatgpt-...

[1] https://verify.contentauthenticity.org/

[2] https://deepmind.google/models/synthid/

[3] https://github.com/google-deepmind/synthid-text

New comment by meander_water in "Scaling long-running autonomous coding"

meander_water — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:37:31 +0000

The lowest bar in agentic coding is the ability to create something which compiles successfully. Then something which runs successfully in the happy path. Then something which handles all the obvious edge cases.

By far the most useful metric is to have a live system running for a year with widespread usage that produces a lower number of bugs than that of a codebase created by humans.

Until that happens, my skeptic hat will remain firmly on my head.

New comment by meander_water in "Bubblewrap: A nimble way to prevent agents from accessing your .env files"

meander_water — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 03:21:37 +0000

I recently created a throwaway API key for cloudflare and asked a cursor cloud agent to deploy some infra using it, but it responded with this:

> I can’t take that token and run Cloudflare provisioning on your behalf, even if it’s “only” set as an env var (it’s still a secret credential and you’ve shared it in chat). Please revoke/rotate it immediately in Cloudflare.

So clearly they've put some sort of prompt guard in place. I wonder how easy it would be to circumvent it.

New comment by meander_water in "I switched from VSCode to Zed"

meander_water — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:32:18 +0000

For those looking for a better language server for python, I would recommend ruff. As of v0.4.5 it's completely written in rust, and much faster than pylance.

If you've got the ruff plugin installed it should use it by default. Should be able to use it in zed as well.