Hacker News: peterkelly

New comment by peterkelly in "Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12"

peterkelly — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:48:36 +0000

Now all the malware can move from the install script to the module itself where it will inevitably still be run

New comment by peterkelly in "1-Click GitHub Token Stealing via a VSCode Bug"

peterkelly — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 06:54:22 +0000

If only there were some kind of system for recording the version history and viewing what changes had been made to the code between releases.

New comment by peterkelly in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2026)"

peterkelly — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:44:08 +0000

PhD in Computer Science with 15+ years experience bridging the gap between the worlds of compilers/interpreters and scientific & business workflow orchestration systems. The world deserves better languages and developer tooling and it's my mission to continue exploring what's possible.

Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Compilers, interpreters, language runtimes, distributed systems. Rust, Python, C, C++, TypeScript, Postgres.

Résumé/CV: https://www.pmkelly.net/resume.pdf

Email: peter@pmkelly.net

New comment by peterkelly in "DAG Workflow Engine"

peterkelly — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:46:22 +0000

I've always been of the view that for a workflow language, you should use a proper, turing-complete functional language which gives you all the usual flexiblity for transformations on intermediate data, while also supporting things like automatic parallelisation of things like external, compute-intensive tasks.

I recommend checking out https://github.com/peterkelly/rex and also my PhD thesis on the topic https://www.pmkelly.net/publications/thesis.pdf.

The gap in flexiblity between DAG-only and a full language designed for the task is a significant one.

Remembering the Computer Literacy Project (1992) [video]

peterkelly — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:30:18 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47960116

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

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