<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mywittyname</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mywittyname</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:34:37 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mywittyname" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mywittyname in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Go tooling has this kind of thing as well.  I'm not a huge fan of go, but last time I had to work with it, we leveraged a lot of codegen.</p>
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<p>There have been plenty of projects that do send junk data to these endpoints.  The problem is the junk data gets users noticed because some manager looking at dashboards gets an alert about some supersonic Corolla driving down the Pacific.  And they go yell at the team responsible.<p>As a result, analytics endpoints generally have some authentication and verification built into them.  Obviously, with enough time it's possible to reverse engineer these components.  But that's a lot of time and effort vs just blocking the request.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2026 21:24:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141448</link><dc:creator>mywittyname</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141448</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48141448</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mywittyname in "Removing the modem and GPS from my 2024 RAV4 hybrid"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Just be aware, this is something that will be noticed.  I've been building analytics systems for a while now and have had people do this.  Usually it gets picked up by the anomaly detection system or as an alert in the ETL pipeline when we try to transform it.<p>Personally, I just plop it into a "dead letter office" table, then verify it's not malicious.  But it's possible other companies would handle this differently.</p>
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<p>Out of curiosity, I checked if gcc would optimize i = i++ out, and it does!</p>
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<p>Question for you, since you seem like you know what you're doing here: How do I learn about stuff like agents.md?  I feel like every week there's a new Claude feature people are talking about and I have no idea how they learned about it.</p>
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<p>Yeah, the solution was to link it to the nvidia page of the card, then it was like, 'oh, okay.'  But at that point, I lost faith in it's ability to provide me with the information I was looking for.  If it's information is so out of date that it doesn't know about the 5000 series, how could I be confident that it knew the details I was asking about (game engine related research)?</p>
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<p>> As much as I hate to admit it, step one in most of my projects now is to ask AI about it. Maybe it’ll tell me something I don’t know.<p>Or, more likely, it will tell you something it doesn't know.<p>Reminds me of yesterday, when I was arguing with ChatGPT that the 5070TI was an actual video card.  It kept trying to correct me by saying I must have meant a 4070ti, since no such 5070ti card exists.</p>
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<p>Also, doesn't musk hate him?  I have to imagine he's behind this.</p>
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<p>Why are you miffed about it?  I legitimately hate reading golang with passion and find python to be pretty intuitive, outside of the odd ambitious list comprehensions.  I worked in a golang shop for several years, so it's not just an familiarity situation either.<p>We are just different.  That's not something to be mad about.</p>
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<p>My parents hate AI, as do my nieces and nephews.<p>It's not an age thing.  It seems to be an experience thing.  If AI is perceived to have ruined something you like, or otherwise negatively impacted your life, you're going to hate it.</p>
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<p>> I'm not sure about that. The "normies" around me love AI<p>Really?  Because every "normie" I know complains to me about how much they hate AI.<p>Lots of the the complaints center around it being forced on users, how all information on the web is AI generated anymore, thus can't be trusted, broader issues around how it makes society much less stable (bots, misinformation, fakeporn, and more recently, breaking security).  And, of course, those whose jobs are actively being replaced by AI <i>really</i> hate it.<p>The data centers going up locally are likely to be another avenue for complaints.</p>
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<p>I disagree.  Nothing about this was slow at all.  They wrote endlessly about how they would throw the frog into a vat of lava, dangled the frog over the lava for a good while before tossing them in.</p>
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<p>FB Marketplace is full of scammers too.  Every time we've tried to sell something, we've had people try to steal our phone number and register it with their Google Voice account.</p>
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<p>They do, it's only like 1-2 million barrels a day in capacity right now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 13:35:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934377</link><dc:creator>mywittyname</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934377</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47934377</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mywittyname in "The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> How do you see AI creating more jobs? (I need some hope right now lol).<p>More armies of one.  That single team of five now becomes 30 teams of one or two each.<p>Which largely how automation resulted in more jobs - the cost decrease induced demand.  Think about how cheap cameras, laptops & internet up-ended traditional media.  We went from 3-4 channels on TV in the 60s, to 3-400 channels on cable by the 90s, to 115 million channels on YouTube right now.  Because anyone with a basic phone can record and edit content, which used to require millions of dollars in equipment and took years to learn to do.  And people are happy to do so for a fraction of the revenue a TV station would require.</p>
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<p>Because it's the law misunderstanding technology.<p>Chatbots are not people.  They are computer programs.  And there's no other realm I can think of where merely interfacing with a computer program breaks attorney-client privilege.<p>It is equivalent to saying an email to your lawyer breaks privilege because you communicated with gmail.  And it gets turbofucked when you consider that a program may be sending your information to an LLM.  Would this same judge rule that having copilot installed in Outlook also breaks privilege because they "chatted with an outside party" while drafting an email (even if they didn't intend to send it to copilot)?<p>I can't think of a reason this isn't about the technology.</p>
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<p>Well, calling Claude a "third-party communique" here is the stretch.<p>Say a person used Excel via Office 365 to run some calculations to be given to their lawyer for their defense.  Is that considered to be "communicating with a third party?"  I don't think so, it's just a computer tool.<p>We call them "chatbots" and anthropomorphize LLMs, but, despite the name of Claude's parent company, Claude is not a person.</p>
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<p>You can use an offline model via ollama.  I'm sure better tools will emerge for less technically-inclined individuals.<p>Seems like there might be demand for chat clients with end-to-end encryption.</p>
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<p>It's significantly different.  It's better quality, more accurate, and more convincing.</p>
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<p>That probably means they receive a lot of small donations.  Payment processors often have a fee structure that's 2.9% + <flat fee around $0.30>.  So any donation below ~$4.50 would end up having a >=10% processing fee.<p>There could be currency exchange rates that are factored in at the donation end as well.<p>I agree that 10% is high, but it's still explainable.</p>
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