Hacker News: odie5533

New comment by odie5533 in "Most people can't juggle one ball"

odie5533 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 20:22:20 +0000

Is it time to get good at darts yet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3eotWyZv5c

New comment by odie5533 in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

odie5533 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:23:20 +0000

Isn't the difference just harness then? I can write a harness that chunks code into individual functions or groups of functions and then feed it into a vulnerability analysis agent.

New comment by odie5533 in "PGLite Evangelism"

odie5533 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 17:04:30 +0000

Thank you for the fork! Back in November I made a PR to pgserver for postgres 18, but your version with vector extensions is even better!

New comment by odie5533 in "PGLite Evangelism"

odie5533 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:14:42 +0000

If AWS starts supporting SQLite I'd consider it. I need managed services, PITR backups, read replicas, and failover. My needs are simple like a web app talks to database in us-east-1. It doesn't seem like SQLite is built for that.

New comment by odie5533 in "PGLite Evangelism"

odie5533 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:03:18 +0000

Try pgserver https://github.com/orm011/pgserver It uses real Postgres rather than WASM

New comment by odie5533 in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

odie5533 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:31:29 +0000

It's always seemed like a solution looking for a problem.

New comment by odie5533 in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

odie5533 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:54:19 +0000

Can we rename it to Codex?

New comment by odie5533 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

odie5533 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:10:30 +0000

Claude Code has been working 24/7 for the past 4 days on creating a private server for a dead video game. It managed to get login, chat, inventory, and a few other features working. I provided it tools like Ghidra and x64dbg and pywinauto. Progress is slow but incremental. Each day new bits work that didn't before.

New comment by odie5533 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

odie5533 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:24:55 +0000

It's not a context issue so much as a focus issue. The agent will complete part of a task and then ask if I want it to continue. Even if I told it I want it to keep going until all tasks are complete. Using a wrapper deals with that behavior.

Most projects I do take 20 minutes or less for an agent to complete and those don't need a wrapper. But for longer tasks, like hours or days, it gets distracted.

New comment by odie5533 in "Get Shit Done: A meta-prompting, context engineering and spec-driven dev system"

odie5533 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 00:52:30 +0000

Wrappers are useful for some tasks. I use ralph loops for things that are extremely complicated and take days of work. Like reverse engineering projects or large scale migration efforts.

New comment by odie5533 in "Rack-mount hydroponics"

odie5533 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 07:18:50 +0000

I grow kale, mustard greens, herbs, and sprouts. I'm not looking to erase my need for produce. I just want to always have some fresh staples. Easier to pull off a few sprigs of parsley or some basil than it is to buy those little packs all the time.

New comment by odie5533 in "It's time to move your docs in the repo"

odie5533 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 20:12:08 +0000

What about a OneDrive folder shared with all developers, mounted in a place the AI can access? Putting docs in git makes it slow to iterate and share. That's my hesitancy with committing them.

New comment by odie5533 in "Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people"

odie5533 — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:31:43 +0000

Option 4 - Summon Shoggoth and no one exists to go to jail.

New comment by odie5533 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

odie5533 — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 00:19:56 +0000

I would think hard on Ghana. It has no shortage of black people living in poverty. Yet it's extremely safe compared to the US as a whole. You're far less likely to be the victim of a violent crime walking down a street in Ghana surrounded by impoverished black people than you are in many streets in the U.S. Not all of Africa is like that. Many countries are more dangerous than the U.S. But Ghana shows pretty clearly that it's not a racial or even strictly a poverty issue. And that increasing our incarceration rate is quite possibly the opposite of what needs to be done. We need to consider other solutions.

It feels good and easy to say lock the bad people up. But the numbers don't show that as a solution if the real issue you're trying to solve is decrease violent crime.

New comment by odie5533 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

odie5533 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:16:20 +0000

Why is your focus so narrow on ensuring people get punished for crimes rather than ensuring there is no crime? We have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Increasing that isn't going to turn us into Iceland.

New comment by odie5533 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

odie5533 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:11:57 +0000

Ghana has a murder rate of 1.84 and incarceration rate of 133 per 100k. It didn't get this stable by buying Flock cameras. They have nowhere near the surveillance of the U.S. And they have far fewer murders, far less violent crime, and far fewer incarcerations. If only the prosecutors had more evidence then it could be more like the U.S.!?

Woodmore, Maryland is 82% black. Chance of being a victim of a violent crime is 1 in 904. That's three times safer than the national average. It's an extremely safe community with an overwhelming majority of residents being black.

New comment by odie5533 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

odie5533 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:56:10 +0000

Iceland is one of the most peaceful countries in the world (murder rate 0.54), 36 incarcerations per 100k, police don't carry guns, and it's not known for its widespread mass surveillance system.

Portugal is one of the most peaceful in the world (murder rate 0.7), 118 incarcerations per 100k, and doesn't have license plate readers or mass surveillance.

USA murder rate is 6.3, 541 incarcerations per 100k, extremely high recidivism, and an amazing array of surveillance systems.

Portugal decriminalized all drugs in 2001. Guess they should have bought Flock cameras instead?

New comment by odie5533 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

odie5533 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:19:47 +0000

We spend $80 billion a year on incarceration in the US, and have the highest incarceration rate in the world. Your plan increases both. Do you honestly think that if we spend $160 billion or $240 billion a year and double or triple our incarcerated population that we'd solve crime?

Look at places and countries with low crime. They don't have the most Flock cameras, the most prisoners, or the most powerful surveillance evidence because while those may solve a crime, they don't solve crime as a whole.

New comment by odie5533 in "Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras"

odie5533 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 02:54:30 +0000

Flock cameras are assisted suicide for dying neighborhoods. They don't prevent crime, they record crime. Cleaning up vacant lots, planting trees, street lighting, trash removal, and traffic calming like adding planters and crosswalks reduce crime.

MineBench: LLM benchmark using voxel art

odie5533 — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://minebench.ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47062223

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