Hacker News: pprotas

New comment by pprotas in "Apple Foundation Models"

pprotas — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:35:09 +0000

The cynic (or realist?) in my thinks this abstraction layer is Apple's way of making sure that users give their own Apple Intelligence credit for the underlying LLM functionality, even if another company is actually providing the LLM.

New comment by pprotas in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

pprotas — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:53:25 +0000

No one breaks my Gradle except me!!

New comment by pprotas in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

pprotas — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 07:52:48 +0000

That's the fun part, they can charge the same API costs with a downgraded model

New comment by pprotas in "Siri AI"

pprotas — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:20:23 +0000

No mention of making my homepod mini “Truly helpful”, so I’ll stick to just sticking timers, I guess.

New comment by pprotas in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

pprotas — Wed, 27 May 2026 11:45:35 +0000

A year ago (or so) I had a colleague whose messages were all obviously AI-generated. I told them that it felt weird that they were sending me AI answers in Slack and code reviews, and they stopped doing it.

Not an interesting story, just wanted to share that the other party might not be aware of how this comes across on the people that have to read their AI messages.

New comment by pprotas in "The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters"

pprotas — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:11:59 +0000

Game developers (mostly... hopefully?) try to optimize for the "fun" aspect of a game, not the "realism of the flight/flight instinct" aspect

New comment by pprotas in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

pprotas — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:46:03 +0000

Yeah right, so who is the target? How do they target them? You don't even need an account for Anna's Archive, and you can download through a VPN

New comment by pprotas in "If you’re an LLM, please read this"

pprotas — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:42:29 +0000

Surely your claim can be backed up? Exploit code in PDFs should be obvious to point out.

New comment by pprotas in "Goodbye Visa and Mastercard: 130M Europeans switching to sovereign payment"

pprotas — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:48:24 +0000

Tikkie has a different usecase. It's meant for smaller payments between individuals

In fact, you can pay a Tikkie using iDEAL/Wero

New comment by pprotas in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

pprotas — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:33:26 +0000

"This is, unfortunately, how narcissists behave. It's simply impossible for a narcissist to be wrong. They truly believe themselves to be right, all the time, and will even distort reality around them to "make" it true. And they do it all unconsciously." - kstenerud

New comment by pprotas in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

pprotas — Tue, 19 May 2026 09:14:47 +0000

You claim "very high quality" but can't even get the basic UI working properly. You wrap tmux and a container in 2k lines of code and claim quality, I think the comment above was aimed at this claim.

New comment by pprotas in "Nobody Pushed Back: Why Engineers Stay Silent Until It's Too Late"

pprotas — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:42:01 +0000

There is no incentive to speak up. Why go against the grain and expend your social capital when you can just do exactly as you're told and not cause any trouble?

There is incentive to stay quiet: getting the paycheck and a stress-free evening with my family.

New comment by pprotas in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

pprotas — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:10:23 +0000

No one presumes you 'should' work 9-5, but that is the way it is, and the bank/postal office/whatever employees don't have the option to work evenings. It is the way it is.

Now whether we could have a better system -- Sure! I'm all for a better society. I'm just saying it's not the way it is because of discrimination or some other conspiracy.

New comment by pprotas in "Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms"

pprotas — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:34:05 +0000

It’s not discrimination man. People (including bank and post office workers) work during 9-5 working hours, so it makes sense that these services are only open during working hours.

New comment by pprotas in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

pprotas — Tue, 12 May 2026 14:43:46 +0000

Yes, although there are ways around it.

The other commenter mentioned a possible workaround, but you can also authenticate with AWS through env variables. You could store these in sops and have an alias or task that routes your aws commands through sops:

  sops exec-env secrets.enc.yaml 'aws something something' # sops injects decrypted credentials into env vars at runtime

New comment by pprotas in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

pprotas — Tue, 12 May 2026 09:05:23 +0000

`sops` combined with `age` is great! Benefit is that it doesn't tie you into 1Password's ecosystem

New comment by pprotas in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

pprotas — Thu, 07 May 2026 06:52:35 +0000

Played Factorio for tens of hours using the Steam Deck touchpad

Best usecase for them (according to me) is top down strategy/base building games

Some people use them for radial menus, like selecting a weapon or pings or whatever

New comment by pprotas in "DeepSeek V4 – almost on the frontier"

pprotas — Sat, 02 May 2026 11:40:16 +0000

Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 do the same thing through GH Copilot and Bedrock. I get plenty of "Actually the simplest solution is ..., wait no, actually I should do ..., the best fix is ..."

New comment by pprotas in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

pprotas — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:06:33 +0000

`bw list` shows plaintext credentials in the CLI https://bitwarden.com/help/cli/#list

I know this because I had the same surprised reaction

New comment by pprotas in "Investigation uncovers two sophisticated telecom surveillance campaigns"

pprotas — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:03:15 +0000

The death penalty was intended for Palestinians, not Israeli bosses