Hacker News: philipwhiuk

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

philipwhiuk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 19:05:49 +0000

Ah, the old 'you're using it wrong'.

Either it's smart or it's not.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Show HN: A living Vancouver. Connor is walking dogs at the SPCA this morning"

philipwhiuk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:53:40 +0000

This is deeply weird.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "The disturbing white paper Red Hat is trying to erase from the internet"

philipwhiuk — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:46:58 +0000

I dunno that 'removes from their website' is sufficient for 'trying to erase from the Internet'

Can we rename this "RedHat removes paper from website on using their software to 'shrink the kill-chain'"

New comment by philipwhiuk in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:04:07 +0000

Why is GitButler still using Git if Git is the problem?

> As a _single_ example - agents can't use interactive editors, yet _so many_ of the powerful parts of Git absolutely _require_ it. Agents can't interactively rebase, meaning they can't very effectively squash, amend, reword, reorder, absorb. They can't very easily interactively add. They are middling at best when it comes to stacking branches. Git is designed to send patches over email and agents are not concerned with that.

Why aren't these just patches to Git itself? Or a fork of Git. You're layering tooling on top instead of fixing the foundations? You say stop layering? But you're clearly still using Git because you're calling it GitButler. You're another layer, like jj and like GitHub's UI.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:02:31 +0000

The lesson is quite simple... don't over promise in the title.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:00:35 +0000

They're not though, they're using Git internally.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:59:18 +0000

If you're building on top Git, you're not really coming after it are you - you're coming as well as it.

If you want to come AFTER Git... you need to not use Git.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Model-Based Testing for Dungeons & Dragons"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:16:21 +0000

If you need formal verification for your D&D group that meets once a week, you have problems that LLMs will never solve for you.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "I've sold out"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:45:10 +0000

The Lefos website code is such hot garbage:

New comment by philipwhiuk in "I've sold out"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 13:39:54 +0000

Can someone explain what Earendil and Lefos are?

The Lefos site immediately throws up a sign in page.

The Earendil site just talks about values.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Heron is open-source security auditor that interviews your AI agents"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:39:05 +0000

Your security team is happy that an AI sending chat prompts to another AI is sufficient to determine the security boundary of the second AI?

That seems optimistic, given we know AI's will "lie" and "forget" as well as just "hallucinate".

New comment by philipwhiuk in "GLM-5.1: Towards Long-Horizon Tasks"

philipwhiuk — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:05:41 +0000

This is the flip side of the Project Glasswing stuff...

Everyone else isn't that far behind and they aren't all gonna just wall off their new model.

A reason that Anthropic will eventually give is 'the competition can do what Glasswing can do so what's the point limiting it'.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

philipwhiuk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:33:26 +0000

give it a couple months

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

philipwhiuk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:16:39 +0000

Some of you are just guilty of negligence yes.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates"

philipwhiuk — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:07:36 +0000

Hello Claude.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:44:23 +0000

> You're welcome to take an MIT-licensed project, fork it, and relicense it as GPL.

No you can't. MIT requires attribution.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:40:09 +0000

People running WordPress don't have security teams. If they get compromised they blat the server, re-upload a fresh copy, update the plugin affected and apologise for the week of downtime.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:07:32 +0000

On the one hand a foundation led by non-developers is bad.

On the other hand, a foundation captured by a single company and prevented on working on anything that the company works on for profit is also bad.

And finally, a 'personal blog' from someone who is actually senior at a company is a very weird back-hand submission. If the comments weren't defendable to put on the company blog, they probably aren't needed here either.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 11:30:51 +0000

> but I'd much rather data be in the hands of a corporation that doesn't leak it

So would I and I think Palantir will leak it.

New comment by philipwhiuk in "OpenAI Acquires TBPN"

philipwhiuk — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 10:19:20 +0000

> Erm people are not stupid, especially the investing community.

Yes, yes they are. It's not a community. It's a herd.