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New comment by offbyone42 in "Vera: a programming language designed for machines to write"

offbyone42 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 03:24:21 +0000

I feel like this misses how LLMs work.

Yes, you’re adding this layer of verification, but LLMs don’t think in ASTs or use formal logic.

They are statistical predictors, just predicting what the next token will be.

There is a reason they perform best with TS/PY and not Haskell. The difference in size of the code corpus for each language.

The premise behind this seems to ignore all of that.

Age verification vendor Persona left front end exposed, researchers say

offbyone42 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:24:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47950623

Points: 16

# Comments: 1

The Super Nintendo Cartridges (2024)

offbyone42 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:38:01 +0000

Article URL: https://fabiensanglard.net/snes_carts/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47906161

Points: 171

# Comments: 29

New comment by offbyone42 in "USB Cheat Sheet (2022)"

offbyone42 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:32:27 +0000

I just wish product listings were clear and actually followed the specs.

GPT hallucinated a bug in my code, so I 'fixed' it

offbyone42 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 15:00:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901999

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

I broke a working PR because an LLM convinced me there was a bug

offbyone42 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:56:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-02/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47848903

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by offbyone42 in "Got an Old Kindle? It Might Not Work Anymore"

offbyone42 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:29:38 +0000

I got extremely lucky. I bought a Kindle recently and decided to get one by BestBuy, just trying my luck to see if they had old stock. The firmware was 5.18.0.2 and I was able to jailbreak it.

If anyone is looking for a Kindle, try non-Amazon stores. Might have older stock with older and jailbreak-able firmware.

New comment by offbyone42 in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

offbyone42 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:40:41 +0000

I'm working on a part 2 with a bit more detail for that skill! It just has to go through a couple more drafts.

I don't use AI for these. My friends edit/give feedback, so the cycle is slow.

New comment by offbyone42 in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

offbyone42 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:16:31 +0000

I have a `SessionEnd` hook that summarizes the conversation with a bunch of metadata, but it doesn't always fire 'cause of my habits.

So, the `SessionStart` hook was meant to catch any conversation where the `SessionEnd` hook wasn't fired.

Edit: I do realize a batch job is better. That's what I do now.

New comment by offbyone42 in "Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code"

offbyone42 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:51:40 +0000

How did you not get caught??!?

Accidentally created my first fork bomb with Claude Code

offbyone42 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:40:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.droppedasbaby.com/posts/2602-01/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47583959

Points: 77

# Comments: 23

New comment by offbyone42 in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

offbyone42 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 19:36:46 +0000

Meanwhile Claude Code starts with Bun and 400MB min instead of...I don't know, C? C++? Rust? Go? Hell, even Python?

New comment by offbyone42 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

offbyone42 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 22:26:24 +0000

I guess the findings of this paper make sense, but Claude has gotten into a habit of telling me to sleep when I'm pissed cause its being stupid.