Hacker News: olmo23

New comment by olmo23 in "AI could be the end of the digital wave, not the next big thing"

olmo23 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:22:50 +0000

I don't think it would take very long to regain those skills either.

New comment by olmo23 in "They See Your Photos"

olmo23 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 14:09:08 +0000

Cropping doesn't necessarily remove exif. It doesn't even always remove the original pixels (simply setting cropTop and cropLeft and similar fields).

My mind was blown when I saw rainbolt uncrop a picture.

Anyways as mentioned elsewhere: when I tried it the vision api was overloaded but I still received the location data. And it was from a picture taken inside my car (no landmarks or horizons visible).

New comment by olmo23 in "They See Your Photos"

olmo23 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:54:24 +0000

I think it uses exif data for that, because when I tried it did show my location but the vision api was overloaded, so nothing more showed up.

New comment by olmo23 in "A compelling title that is cryptic enough to get you to take action on it"

olmo23 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 13:42:49 +0000

A short reply without much substance

New comment by olmo23 in "Gone (Almost) Phishin'"

olmo23 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:47:58 +0000

I told my parents: if they are ever called by anyone, to tell them "now is not a good time, please give me a case number and I'll call back when I do have the time."

And then, this is important, look up the number for the customer service hotline online.

I feel like this is a simple solution that works 100% of the time.

New comment by olmo23 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

olmo23 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:36:24 +0000

I agree the functions in a file should probably be reasonably-sized.

It's also interesting to note that due to the way round-tripping tool-calls work, splitting code up into multiple files is counter-productive. You're better off with a single large file.

New comment by olmo23 in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

olmo23 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:33:28 +0000

I think he was referring to a cryptographic signature, possibly using the "web of trust" to get the key. I'm not convinced we need central authority to solve this.

New comment by olmo23 in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

olmo23 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:59:52 +0000

If you already know some php python javascript and/or c, you can pretty much just wing with Claude code.

New comment by olmo23 in "Vite 8.0 Is Out"

olmo23 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 09:02:41 +0000

If you're already passing over the sources to strip the types, why would you also not do tree-shaking and minifications?

New comment by olmo23 in "Show HN: DenchClaw – Local CRM on Top of OpenClaw"

olmo23 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:32:51 +0000

It's so they can talk to their bot using Apple iMessage. That's pretty much it.

New comment by olmo23 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

olmo23 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:11:27 +0000

Another great take I found online: "Don't send us a PR, send us the prompt you used to generate the PR."

New comment by olmo23 in "100M-Row Challenge with PHP"

olmo23 — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:51:45 +0000

this is never going to be faster because it requires syscalls

New comment by olmo23 in "Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes"

olmo23 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:43:26 +0000

it would be prompted for the master password again, according to the website

New comment by olmo23 in "Building SQLite with a small swarm"

olmo23 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 10:16:28 +0000

IIRC the official test-suite is not open-source, so I'm not sure how possible this is.

New comment by olmo23 in "Claude Code On-the-Go"

olmo23 — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 08:16:01 +0000

Be realistic, demand the impossible.

New comment by olmo23 in "Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value"

olmo23 — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 12:03:21 +0000

You can not rely on brute force alone to compute these numbers. They are uncomputable.

New comment by olmo23 in "The challenge of maintaining curl"

olmo23 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:49:48 +0000

In my experience most of the work a programmer does just isn't very difficult. LLMs are perfectly fine for that.

New comment by olmo23 in "Forty-Four Esolangs: The Art of Esoteric Code"

olmo23 — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 09:11:21 +0000

Racket is the canonical LISP (well, Scheme) to recommend to new users.

https://racket-lang.org/

New comment by olmo23 in "Claude Code Unleashed"

olmo23 — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:14:11 +0000

They gave us copilot and honestly for me it's been a bit of a double-edged sword. I often use it with Claude 4 as model. What I noticed is that the tool is able and eager to make large sweeping modifications to the code base where I would be apprehensive and look for an easier way.

For example: changing the type signatures of all functions in a module to pass along some extra state, a huge amount of work. I ended up reverting the changes and replacing the functionality with thread local storage (well, dynamically scoped variables).

So, definitely not a panacea, but still well worth the money.

New comment by olmo23 in "Andrej Karpathy: Software in the era of AI [video]"

olmo23 — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 08:07:46 +0000

2.0 programs (model weights) are created by running 1.0 programs (training runs).

I don't think it's currently possible to ask a model to generate the weights for a model.