Hacker News: mellosouls

It's the SUV tyranny: where have all the normal family cars gone?

mellosouls — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:55:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/15/suv-normal-family-cars-roads-supersized-consumer-choice

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308948

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Secondhand UK and Irish booksellers suspect AI firms behind strange bulk orders

mellosouls — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 08:35:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/15/uk-ireland-booksellers-suspect-ai-companies-bulk-orders-data-acquisition

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49308856

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by mellosouls in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

mellosouls — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:23:23 +0000

Not optimistic.

Boris actually seemed to be a charismatic leader in the same class as Blair and Thatcher but seems to have been rather morally flawed which ended up bringing about his downfall.

The other leaders have been uninspriring second raters - Andy Burnham himself is a Gordon Brown B-side fully compromised by PFI but perhaps he's grown via his mayorship.

Seems now to have some of the common touch of Boris which is positive.

Britain itself is quite a grey and timid place, challenged by both fear and awe of it's great history and the complex consequences of its impact on the world.

It's neither the diverse heaven the left would tell you, staggering unfairly under the weight of brexit foisted on an unwitting populace by the big bad press barons, or the front line of the fight against Islam and a liberal-triggered decline into a violent dystopia that our more swivel-eyed compatriots on the right would have you believe.

However there are some insights to be gained by listening to all those voices about it's current state and potential - but the ensuing noise represents the confusion and disagreement that is holding us back from moving into the light with purpose.

New comment by mellosouls in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

mellosouls — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:00:01 +0000

What could go wrong with preferring people who have ingrained disconnect between the objects on screen and real living humans.

New comment by mellosouls in "Grok Bot"

mellosouls — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:50:54 +0000

Grokbot is another derivative of open source originals like Open Claw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenClaw

New comment by mellosouls in "Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet"

mellosouls — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:34:47 +0000

Hmmm, this seems to be making easy something you normally should not do.

New comment by mellosouls in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

mellosouls — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:26:31 +0000

This is a rehash of the Guardian article (submitted here yesterday with no traction), which should the the link:

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-po...

Rogue AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in a popular class

mellosouls — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:54:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.the-independent.com/tech/security/ai-agent-hacks-gym-openclaw-anthropic-b3030267.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49243709

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mellosouls in "50k Boat Names"

mellosouls — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:13:53 +0000

Snap!

New comment by mellosouls in "50k Boat Names"

mellosouls — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:12:49 +0000

Disappointed to see no mention of Boaty McBoatface.

Can't be that often boat naming becomes headlines.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaty_McBoatface

Harry Potter fans force reroute of £430M undersea cable to avoid Dobby's 'grave'

mellosouls — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:14:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/10/harry-potter-fans-force-relocation-of-430m-undersea-cable-to-avoid-dobbys-grave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240818

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

Enough with all the world-historic milestones

mellosouls — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:16:32 +0000

Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9979

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49230060

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mellosouls in "Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents"

mellosouls — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:41:10 +0000

The claimed public GitHub 404s

https://github.com/edgarfloresguerra2011-a11y/marketnow

I think this is supposed to be a ShowHN.

It's a little confusing but it looks like another skills directory that is claiming to be audited and trustable.

The attempt to back that up in the About Us is laudable but needs work to both hone the message and bring the proof centrally.

The UI at the moment isn't really distinguishable from all the other AI-designed projects.

Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video]

mellosouls — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:24:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49217735

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by mellosouls in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

mellosouls — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:23:29 +0000

Yep, now the probability of alien civilisations is completely unknown, but half the completely unknown it was before.

New comment by mellosouls in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

mellosouls — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:54:27 +0000

The text quoted in a sibling comment implies the author is describing an effect whereby poor ux decisions - even if seemingly small - serve as a foundation to "attract" further negative patterns, gravity being the analogy.

Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI

mellosouls — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:48:52 +0000

Article URL: https://power2026.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49178687

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mellosouls in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

mellosouls — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 04:21:25 +0000

even an AI assist that makes coding twice as fast would, in theory, improve developers’ overall productivity by less than 15 percent. The other 85 percent of their time remains untouched

I stopped reading after this. AI has massively impacted most aspects of my non-coding work including the mentioned planning, understanding legacy code bases, setting up environments, etc etc.

Either this article is written by people with skill issues or - given the platform - its a biased and protectionist take that will fall quickly under the march of reality.

Claude Code Source Code Analysis

mellosouls — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:05:08 +0000

Article URL: https://kuber.studio/blog/AI/Claude-Code%27s-Entire-Source-Code-Got-Leaked-via-a-Sourcemap-in-npm,-Let%27s-Talk-About-it

Hacker News: mellosouls

It's the SUV tyranny: where have all the normal family cars gone?

Secondhand UK and Irish booksellers suspect AI firms behind strange bulk orders

New comment by mellosouls in "Count Binface receives over a quarter of votes in Clacton by-election"

New comment by mellosouls in "US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers"

New comment by mellosouls in "Grok Bot"

New comment by mellosouls in "Show HN: Git-knife – edit commit messages, authors, and dates like a spreadsheet"

New comment by mellosouls in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

Rogue AI agent hacks gym to get its user a spot in a popular class

New comment by mellosouls in "50k Boat Names"

New comment by mellosouls in "50k Boat Names"

Harry Potter fans force reroute of £430M undersea cable to avoid Dobby's 'grave'

Enough with all the world-historic milestones

New comment by mellosouls in "Real-time MCP interceptor that blocks .env reads and dangerous commands agents"

Black Hat USA 2026: The OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident [video]

New comment by mellosouls in "Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice"

New comment by mellosouls in "“Gravity is worth asking about”"

Electricity Pricing in the Age of AI

New comment by mellosouls in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

Claude Code Source Code Analysis

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