Hacker News: phanimahesh

New comment by phanimahesh in "Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years"

phanimahesh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:45:48 +0000

A powertool that needs discretion and good judgement to be used well is being restricted to people with a track record of displaying good judgement. I see nothing wrong here.

AI enables volume, which is a problem. But it is also a useful tool. Does it increase review burden? Yes. Is it excessively wasteful energy wise? Yes. Should we avoid it? Probably no. We have to be pragmatic, and learn to use the tools responsibly.

New comment by phanimahesh in "Shipping Grayscale Photos at Small Scale"

phanimahesh — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:40:58 +0000

Me too. This is funny

New comment by phanimahesh in "Plasma Bigscreen – 10-foot interface for KDE plasma"

phanimahesh — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 03:24:52 +0000

Wait dbus isn't considered modern? What's the alternative these days?

New comment by phanimahesh in "The Age Verification Trap: Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection"

phanimahesh — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 07:48:12 +0000

The issuer knows everything and can help track if the wish to. The issue here is lack of trust in any corporate or government entity.

New comment by phanimahesh in "NanoClaw moved from Apple Containers to Docker"

phanimahesh — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:27:03 +0000

Crontab entry to read a file and run a prompt?

New comment by phanimahesh in "I’m joining OpenAI"

phanimahesh — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 03:09:50 +0000

The long list of domain names that vercel deployed to is interesting

New comment by phanimahesh in "The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday"

phanimahesh — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:33:14 +0000

Am I the only one who found the terminal more interesting?

New comment by phanimahesh in "What functional programmers get wrong about systems"

phanimahesh — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 11:30:06 +0000

Excuse me what? Fonts? How do fonts signal LLM usage now

New comment by phanimahesh in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

phanimahesh — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:34:34 +0000

That blog post is very light on details can be condensed to a single line/paragraph. LSM trees are more efficient for SSDs and modern databases use them.

I don't know enough to comment yet but will go read about it.

New comment by phanimahesh in "LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions"

phanimahesh — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 06:47:47 +0000

But that has no moat. Anyone can generate a database of natural numbers using SOTA models.

New comment by phanimahesh in "Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments"

phanimahesh — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 05:34:39 +0000

How would that help in this case?

New comment by phanimahesh in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"

phanimahesh — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:58:51 +0000

Can you share examples of new database architectures and products using them that are built for SSDs?

I'm sure we have different capabilities and constraints, but I am unaware of any fundamentally different approaches to indexes.

New comment by phanimahesh in "Claude Opus 4.6"

phanimahesh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 18:55:15 +0000

I only see **. Must be the security. When you type your password it gets converted to **.

Claude says ads are coming to AI but not to Claude

phanimahesh — Thu, 05 Feb 2026 10:17:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/claudeai/status/2019071113741906403/mediaViewer

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46898013

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by phanimahesh in "UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'"

phanimahesh — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:20:07 +0000

Before commenting water is cheap and plentiful please read the proposed definition.

> Water bankruptcy refers to “a state in which a human-water system has spent beyond its hydrological means for so long that it can no longer satisfy the claims upon it without inflicting unacceptable or irreversible damage to nature.”

New comment by phanimahesh in "UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'"

phanimahesh — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:19:22 +0000

New comment by phanimahesh in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

phanimahesh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 18:22:56 +0000

That is a strange viewpoint. Are we calling everyone who wants some control over their computers enemies of the state?

New comment by phanimahesh in "AI Usage Policy"

phanimahesh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 14:01:10 +0000

An unenforced threat is toothless. Publicly stating we do not appreciate XYZ pr that was ai generated, low effort and in bad faith is perfectly acceptable.

New comment by phanimahesh in "AI Usage Policy"

phanimahesh — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 13:57:51 +0000

Very little, until it stops being stupid in many ways. We don't need smart, we need tools to not be stupid. An unreliable tool is more dangerous and more useless than having no tool.

New comment by phanimahesh in "Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections"

phanimahesh — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:29:41 +0000

When digital content can be duplicated with ease, it is difficult to guarantee verified voter but untraceable vote.