Hacker News: mschulkind

New comment by mschulkind in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

mschulkind — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:19:39 +0000

There's absolutely nothing special about any of these agents. They're regular processes that execute some subshells. They're trivially jailable.

New comment by mschulkind in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

mschulkind — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 16:59:03 +0000

They renamed ultra to max about a week ago.

New comment by mschulkind in "Show HN: Marky – A lightweight Markdown viewer for agentic coding"

mschulkind — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:31:27 +0000

Seems like I'm just part of the club here, but I've also been working on something similar recently.

https://vantageapp.dev/

I find connecting understanding between humans and agents is one of the most important parts of the agentic development cycle, and markdown is a great way to handle that.

Not only can you point it at an entire directory, you can point it at multiple projects, quick load a project with a keyboard shortcut, and also easily see recent file that changed to help you find the 75th file your agent just wrote for you.

Recently, I've started to add a review interface where you can track changes, and add comments for your agent, and then instead of trying to do some complicated integration with an agent, it just has a copy button, and it copies all the comments, which context, and instructions for the agent how to reply.

I also find that I generate TONS of markdown junk during development, and I needed a way to handle it and keep it out of the main repository so I built this tool:

https://github.com/mschulkind-oss/swarf/

New comment by mschulkind in "How many products does Microsoft have named 'Copilot'?"

mschulkind — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:16:47 +0000

I use it because they offer absurdly cheap prices that they're clearly losing money on. I can get $1000 at API prices of Opus 4.6, for in the range of $2 my cost through copilot.

New comment by mschulkind in "Cursor 3"

mschulkind — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:05:48 +0000

You can do this with copilot, for the $40/mo range, AND you get to use opus 4.6 for all of it. Copilot is absurdly cheap if you can make it fit your work profile.

New comment by mschulkind in "The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up"

mschulkind — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:27:27 +0000

Kind of overstating things here. Noalox has not been required for modern materials made in like the last 30 years.

New comment by mschulkind in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

mschulkind — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 17:17:51 +0000

Just use openrouter or a similar aggregator.

New comment by mschulkind in "OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race"

mschulkind — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:24:34 +0000

You can turn that off in /settings

New comment by mschulkind in "Show HN: PolyGPT – ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity responses side-by-side"

mschulkind — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:21:21 +0000

Just give me a day to vibe code an interface to side by side judge judging models...

New comment by mschulkind in "Questions for Cloudflare"

mschulkind — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 05:48:29 +0000

The person above who replied to you thinks you're talking about a proverbial lemonade stand taking payments via Visa. That's the misunderstanding.

That aside, I think the example is good. It's a bit like priority inversion in scheduling. With no agreement from the lemonade seller they've suddenly changed greatly in terms of their criticality to some value creation chain.

New comment by mschulkind in "You can now buy used Ford vehicles on Amazon"

mschulkind — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:49:06 +0000

Except generally pre-owned is short for certified pre-owned like it is here, which means you get a much better warranty than buying on the used market.

New comment by mschulkind in "6B Miles Driven"

mschulkind — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 16:07:23 +0000

Basic autopilot is unrelated to FSD these days. Every aspect is improved.

Isn't there a trial you can try?

New comment by mschulkind in "Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography"

mschulkind — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 22:07:47 +0000

One of my favorite ways to use LLM agents for coding is to have them write extensive documentation on whatever I'm about to dig in coding on. Pretty low stakes if the LLM makes a few mistakes. It's perhaps even a better place to start for skeptics.

New comment by mschulkind in "Omnimax"

mschulkind — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 22:34:58 +0000

"I grew up just a few blocks from here."

"Who put the bomp in the bomp sha bomp!"

I too had a similar reaction the first time I saw an imax.

New comment by mschulkind in "Triforce – a beamformer for Apple Silicon laptops"

mschulkind — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:56:15 +0000

Surely a carpeted closet full of clothes is better than a car

New comment by mschulkind in "Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems"

mschulkind — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 02:56:27 +0000

No, not really.

If you have an AI that can answer 90% of queries correctly AND now this is the key, it knows which 90% it can answer correctly, human in the loop can be incredibly valuable to answer that other 10%.

New comment by mschulkind in "Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer"

mschulkind — Wed, 17 Apr 2024 18:36:39 +0000

Aren't you just describing a bag-of-words model?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-of-words_model

New comment by mschulkind in "Biden's new student loan forgiveness erase up to $20k in interest for millions"

mschulkind — Sun, 14 Apr 2024 20:21:50 +0000

So is student loan interest

New comment by mschulkind in "Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator"

mschulkind — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:38:36 +0000

Check out this AI vocals plugin. It's pretty impressive already.

https://youtu.be/PCYTqDSUbvU

New comment by mschulkind in "Show HN: Control Panel for YouTube"

mschulkind — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:53:59 +0000

My solution is to clean things up on mobile. Swipe and click delete is a lot easier than that 3-dot menu, but still no bulk options.