Hacker News: peterkelly

New comment by peterkelly in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

peterkelly — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:48:48 +0000

> Every single one of them oversells their capacity

That sounds like their problem, not ours

Hammond XK-7D [video]

peterkelly — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:22:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHDP3GcAJAw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47299632

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Only working copy of 50 year old computer program found when cleaning out office [video]

peterkelly — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:09:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-3RJaKcw_4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46552126

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by peterkelly in "Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs"

peterkelly — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:15:54 +0000

Unless a violation of that contract can lead to a crash or security vulnerability...

New comment by peterkelly in "The Manuscripts of Edsger W. Dijkstra"

peterkelly — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 15:52:09 +0000

The most important one in the context of 2025 is this one:

On the foolishness of "natural language programming". https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667...

New comment by peterkelly in "[dead]"

peterkelly — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 13:08:04 +0000

Flagged because this takes you to a random website so everyone is going to be reading a different article.

I love Kagi as a search engine, and this is a cool idea, but posting a "random web page selector" without explanation on HN is just confusing.

New comment by peterkelly in "Show HN: Autism Simulator"

peterkelly — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 07:13:28 +0000

For some people it's a job.

For others it's a calling.

Nothing wrong with either - I just think it's worth being aware that people have different motivations.

New comment by peterkelly in "Show HN: 47jobs – A Fiverr/Upwork for AI Agents"

peterkelly — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 09:31:32 +0000

Why do all the AI agents on the services page have human names and profile pictures if there are "no humans in the loop"?

New comment by peterkelly in "Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me"

peterkelly — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 16:04:55 +0000

There was a post on HN the other day where someone was launching an email assistant that used AI to summarise emails that you received. The idea didn't excite me, it scared me.

I really wish the tech industry would stop rushing out unreliable misinformation generators like this without regard for the risks.

Google's "AI summaries" are going to get someone killed one day. Especially with regards to sensitive topics, it's basically an autonomous agent that automates the otherwise time-consuming process of defamation.

New comment by peterkelly in "SynthID – A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI"

peterkelly — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 05:45:45 +0000

Create the problem, sell the solution.

New comment by peterkelly in "Fuck up my site – Turn any website into beautiful chaos"

peterkelly — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 03:46:18 +0000

I thought vibe coding tools did this already

New comment by peterkelly in "Launch HN: April (YC S25) – Voice AI to manage your email and calendar"

peterkelly — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 13:29:10 +0000

If there's one thing I definitely don't want AI in the middle of, it's communication with other people. The potential for misunderstandings due to hallucination in summaries, both on my end and the recipient's, scares me. There were some pretty bad examples with Apple News.

Accuracy matters, especially when communicating with customers or between managers/employees, and I can imagine many kinds of scenarios where this goes wrong.

New comment by peterkelly in "macOS 26 Tahoe's Dead Canary Utility App Icons"

peterkelly — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 06:26:33 +0000

I'm honestly curious why Apple (and other OS vendors like MS and various Linux distributions) still feel the need to tweak their UIs many, many years after having reached maturity.

How many iterations does it take before you get it right?

I get that there's a certain sense of fashion to it, but so often these changes are either neutral or worse, and it just seems so pointless. I don't see any concrete benefits of this year's UI design over what was already there 10-20 years ago.

Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]

peterkelly — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 07:36:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A6uPztchXk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44897753

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

Uploading PDF via Files API and using in Streaming gives 400 bad request

peterkelly — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 15:31:48 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/openai/openai-python/issues/2472

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44838226

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Commodore 64 Ultimate

peterkelly — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 09:21:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.commodore.net

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44540589

Points: 176

# Comments: 139

New comment by peterkelly in "LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux"

peterkelly — Thu, 29 May 2025 05:50:56 +0000

If AI coding agents were actually any good, you could preface your prompt with "attempt the following task four times in parallel" and that would be it.

New comment by peterkelly in "A toy RTOS inside Super Mario Bros. using emulator save states"

peterkelly — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:53:59 +0000

The mystification section was my favorite part - you make some excellent points there.

Showing TypeScript's creator DOOM [video]

peterkelly — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 16:04:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5506X2xioi0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43310390

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by peterkelly in "Show HN: I got laid off from Meta and created a minor hit on Steam"

peterkelly — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 02:02:39 +0000

Sounds like you need a better partner