Hacker News: popey

New comment by popey in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

popey — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:10:07 +0000

That was a nice diversion. I got 76,750.

Position: Coding Benchmarks Are Misaligned with Agentic Software Engineering

popey — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17799

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48590689

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by popey in "Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe"

popey — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:37:10 +0000

It took a bit of clicking, but no login needed to see the "feed". https://cringeout.com/feed

A Proposed Framework for Evaluating AI Agent Skills

popey — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 10:24:02 +0000

Article URL: https://tessl.io/blog/a-proposed-framework-for-evaluating-skills-research-eng-blog/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47832351

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by popey in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

popey — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:54:10 +0000

My worry with the confidence scoring is that it conflates "an agent used this and didn't obviously break" with "this is correct". An agent can follow bad advice for several steps before anything fails. So a KU gaining confirmation weight doesn't tell you much about whether it's actually true, just that it propagated. You're crowd-sourcing correctness from sources that can't reliably detect their own mistakes.

It's why at Tessl we treat evals as a first-class part of the development process rather than an afterthought. Without some mechanism to verify quality beyond adoption, you end up with a very efficient way to spread confident nonsense at scale.

A 'high blast radius': Amazon probes surge in outages linked to AI coding tools

popey — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:57:28 +0000

Article URL: https://tessl.io/blog/a-high-blast-radius-amazon-probes-surge-in-outages-linked-to-ai-coding-tools/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47348510

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by popey in "Agents.md file isn't the problem. Your lack of Evals is"

popey — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:15:03 +0000

The agents are smart enough to write the evals too.

It's agents all the way down!

Submit a GitHub repo containing skills to Tessl, and it will generate the evals, run them, and present the results. https://tessl.io/registry/skills/submit

The evals and results are all shown, no login necessary, so you can assess them yourself. e.g. https://tessl.io/registry/skills/github/coreyhaines31/market... (click details to see the eval texts).

Skills on Tessl: the package manager for agent skills

popey — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 16:52:27 +0000

Article URL: https://tessl.io/blog/skills-are-software-and-they-need-a-lifecycle-introducing-skills-on-tessl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46826730

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Kilo bets on context as the bridge between AI coding agents and chat apps

popey — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 16:05:37 +0000

Article URL: https://tessl.io/blog/kilo-bets-on-context-as-the-bridge-between-ai-coding-agents-and-chat-apps/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46693391

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains

popey — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:06:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.popey.com/2026/01/malware-purveyors-taking-over-published-snap-email-domains/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662100

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Conventional commit generator using local LLMs

popey — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 11:11:48 +0000

Article URL: https://wimpysworld.com/posts/faff-ollama-conventional-commit-generator/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44199672

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: I made a script to automate removing your Twitter/X followers

popey — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:13:47 +0000

I wanted a way to get my old Twitter account down to zero following and zero followers. I removed all the people I follow a while back, but couldn't find a quick, free and easy way to remove the people *following* *me*.

I didn't want to pay for API access just for this. So I wrote a Python "bot" that uses Selenium to act like a human, clicking the "remove follower" button. I was (mildly) surprised how easy it is to make something that can fake being a human on Twitter. It has delays to reduce the likelihood it will trigger anti-bot detection on their end.

I left it running overnight on a spare laptop, and my follower count went from 16K to 8K. So in theory, it'll hit zero tomorrow if I leave it running.

No doubt it might break at some point, but it works for now. YMMV

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42802574

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Google launches a 'neutral' Chromium development fund

popey — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:07:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24340196/google-neutral-chromium-development-fund

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42650770

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by popey in "Show HN: Open-Source Security Monitoring with AI and License Compliance"

popey — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 12:42:46 +0000

The vulnerability database search didn't find CVE-2024-9990 - a valid CVE according to NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9990

I submitted a package-lock.json file to the playground and got a vulnerability report after processing. The sort order next to the pie chart is weird. Medium / High / Critical / Low. I'd expect Critical / High / Medium / Low?

The vuln report ended up in my email spam folder.

I had to hit 'resend' multiple times to receive the verification email. Once I did, I had to either create a new account or login. I don't yet have a password. When I tried to create an account, it said my email was already taken. This onboarding flow seems quite janky.

Is Vulert Open Source software? I couldn't find any links or repos. What does "Join the Open-Source Security Movement" mean in this context?

GitHub offering security tools, advice to Open Source Projects

popey — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/announcing-github-secure-open-source-fund/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42193291

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess

popey — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:59:12 +0000

Article URL: https://gld.mcphail.uk/posts/ubuntu-security-updates-are-a-confusing-mess/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40940555

Points: 88

# Comments: 38

New comment by popey in "Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process"

popey — Fri, 31 May 2024 14:45:38 +0000

Probably because the Car Thing was never made available outside the US.

New comment by popey in "I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources"

popey — Fri, 31 May 2024 12:02:33 +0000

I submitted two open-source tools. The submission form has a field for 'License' in which the only two options are 'Free' and 'Commercial'. Those aren't licenses. Maybe adjust that field to either say 'cost' or 'terms', or actually have a license field which lets you paste an SPDX entry (or entries) or pick a license from a list.

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

popey — Wed, 29 May 2024 21:26:32 +0000

Article URL: http://russolsen.com/articles/2012/08/09/the-best-programming-advice-i-ever-got.html

Hacker News: popey

New comment by popey in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

Position: Coding Benchmarks Are Misaligned with Agentic Software Engineering

New comment by popey in "Show HN: Social Network for Corporate Cringe"

A Proposed Framework for Evaluating AI Agent Skills

New comment by popey in "Show HN: Cq – Stack Overflow for AI coding agents"

A 'high blast radius': Amazon probes surge in outages linked to AI coding tools

New comment by popey in "Agents.md file isn't the problem. Your lack of Evals is"

Skills on Tessl: the package manager for agent skills

Kilo bets on context as the bridge between AI coding agents and chat apps

Malware Peddlers Are Now Hijacking Snap Publisher Domains

Conventional commit generator using local LLMs

Show HN: I made a script to automate removing your Twitter/X followers

Google launches a 'neutral' Chromium development fund

New comment by popey in "Show HN: Open-Source Security Monitoring with AI and License Compliance"

GitHub offering security tools, advice to Open Source Projects

Ubuntu Security Updates Are a Confusing Mess

New comment by popey in "Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process"

New comment by popey in "I created the largest curated directory of cybersecurity tools and resources"

The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got (2012)

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