Hacker News: patrickdavey

A Fake Bug Report Hijacks Your AI Coding Agent – and Nothing Catches It

patrickdavey — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:50:54 +0000

Article URL: https://tenetsecurity.ai/blog/agentjacking-coding-agents-with-fake-sentry-errors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48507994

Points: 4

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Anthropic calls for global pause in AI development before humans lose control

patrickdavey — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:23:41 +0000

Article URL: https://siliconangle.com/2026/06/04/anthropic-calls-global-pause-ai-development-humans-lose-control/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48406873

Points: 5

# Comments: 4

New comment by patrickdavey in "Retro-Tech Parenting"

patrickdavey — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:08:12 +0000

Can you point to an article on how to do this? This sounds _amazing_

New comment by patrickdavey in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

patrickdavey — Tue, 26 May 2026 05:54:11 +0000

So you have an article you can point to?

New comment by patrickdavey in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

patrickdavey — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:22:48 +0000

Yip interesting, you're the second person in a week who has suggested the magnesium. I frankly never trust these suggestions of supplements (having tried some before), but, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12412596/ at least suggested it was a modest improvement. I'm going to give it a try at least.

New comment by patrickdavey in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

patrickdavey — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:58:01 +0000

I've tried a CPAP machine for 6 weeks and felt no different and gave up. I think I was a 6 on the scale. I wish it had worked though!

Currently I've just given up and embracing feeling relatively tired all the time. I've tried side sleeping devices (woody knows backpack) mandibular advancement splints etc.

So hard to tell (I find anyway) to get to a definitive answer

New comment by patrickdavey in "AI didn't kill your junior pipeline. You did"

patrickdavey — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:22:41 +0000

This article really captures what I'm feeling about the entire AI jobs landscape. What the heck happens when we don't have juniors for years?

There's gonna be trouble ahead (unless you truly believe AI will be able to completely replace all programming of course)

New comment by patrickdavey in "I’ve banned query strings"

patrickdavey — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:26:34 +0000

"It’s my website: I can do what I want with it. "

Right on! It's so liberating having your own wee corner of the internet.

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

patrickdavey — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 02:12:55 +0000

What a bad situation, and I genuinely feel for them. I do think they blamed a lot of other people and I think a section on what lessons they have learned themselves might be a good idea/look.

At minimum you want to have off site backups, preferably readonly (like an S3 bucket or whatever). And test the restore process.

I hope they get it sorted, what a mess.

New comment by patrickdavey in "1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History"

patrickdavey — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:19:40 +0000

If you're lucky enough to have a job. Which you probably won't in a Great Depression II

New comment by patrickdavey in "Untapped Way to Learn a Codebase: Build a Visualizer"

patrickdavey — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 07:48:28 +0000

I'm about to start a new role. What have you found most effective in using it to learn a new code base? Just asking questions about "what is this class doing" ? drawing architecture diagrams?

New comment by patrickdavey in "An Update on Heroku"

patrickdavey — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:00:49 +0000

Any write up on this?

New comment by patrickdavey in "An Update on Heroku"

patrickdavey — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 01:29:07 +0000

Kamal is basically self hosting though right? So you have to take care of keeping the underlying os patched etc. With heroku you only needed to think about git push.. ?

New comment by patrickdavey in "Show HN: Kings vs. Knight"

patrickdavey — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:49:32 +0000

May well have bugs as I just finished it (and really it should be baked into the UI so you can easily reverse)... however... here is the reverse play:

https://minichessgames.com/#/play/kings-vs-knight

Hope your daughter likes it.

New comment by patrickdavey in "Qwen3-TTS family is now open sourced: Voice design, clone, and generation"

patrickdavey — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 02:29:59 +0000

But this is different? Wholesale copying of copyrighted works and packaging it up and allowing it to be generated. It's not remotely reasonable

New comment by patrickdavey in "Show HN: Kings vs. Knight"

patrickdavey — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:11:40 +0000

Yup, I'm going to build out the reverse play when I find time in the next few weeks hopefully! I'll try to remember to comment here :)

Quite probably you did just run up against a bug in it! I'd have to see the position though.

Great question on the maximal theoretical length. Being pedantic I'd imagine infinite if I just move a knight back and forth and you move a king back and forth. (Though I disallow repeat moves for interests sake)

New comment by patrickdavey in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

patrickdavey — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 08:50:29 +0000

I've been working on https://www.minichessgames.com which I built with my 6 year old (she was the product owner ;). It's a site with a bunch of small puzzles (e.g. imagine a chess board with rocks thrown onto it, then move a single piece to a goal square). Lots of fun building it out. And radioactive pooping knights [1] is _amazing_ if I do say so myself ;).

1. https://www.minichessgames.com/#/play/pooping-knights

New comment by patrickdavey in "Show HN: Kings vs. Knight"

patrickdavey — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 04:26:07 +0000

It's just a basic minmax. The main mistake it makes is that if it can find an assured path to getting you it doesn't care how many moves in the future it is (even if it could win this turn).

That said, the audience is 6 year olds so I don't really want it to play perfectly!

New comment by patrickdavey in "Show HN: Kings vs. Knight"

patrickdavey — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:40:41 +0000

Thanks :). Did you manage to beat it (first time?) ;)

Show HN: Kings vs. Knight

patrickdavey — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 04:51:35 +0000

This is a play website I built out with my 6 year old to show her that you can also build for the web (not just consume!). The idea was to make a bunch of small mini games (more coming) where you can learn some basic chess strategy. In this game you play a knight vs 3 kings who try to trap you. Try to survive for 15 moves.

Once you get bored of that, there's the classic radioactive pooping knights [1] ;). It's also wrapped up into an app [2] if that's better :)

Very keen for feedback :)

1. https://minichessgames.com/#/play/pooping-knights 2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.minichessg...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572794

Points: 2

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