Hacker News: pram

New comment by pram in "Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls"

pram — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:35:34 +0000

I can’t get over how bad “Rovo” is. Somehow more aggressive and useless than Microsoft putting “Copilot” everywhere.

It’s objectively worse than using something like Cowork + MCP, AND they injected it into every single page on JIRA and Confluent which has made web browsing way slower while all the junk is loading.

New comment by pram in "Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18"

pram — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:04:27 +0000

Conditionally

New comment by pram in "9front "This Was Supposed to Be Fun" Released"

pram — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:11:55 +0000

That XTerm readme is pretty funny

"Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Enter Here"

New comment by pram in "VMs can't boot with Network Mode set to Bridged on Apple M5 Pro machines"

pram — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 18:06:07 +0000

A 15 year old Thinkpad is the HN approved machine for Serious Work.

New comment by pram in "GNU Hurd gets 9pfs, OpenNTPD, dynamic /dev/ entries, and more"

pram — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:54:01 +0000

Very nice. This brings GNU/HURD features to about the year 1995 which is impressive for its brief 35 year existence.

New comment by pram in "How the God of Israel Was Born"

pram — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 15:00:55 +0000

Genesis is the prologue for the rest of the Torah, which is about the Hebrews. It's not supposed to be read in isolation to everything else.

"impossible to understand how the Book of Genesis could possibly form the foundation of the three major Abrahamic religions"

Maybe because it is the thing introduces Abraham? lol

New comment by pram in "Meta's AI models are powering the first wave of Genesis Mission projects"

pram — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:02:15 +0000

To Grok's credit I think it's fairly good as a creative writing tool because it can be very "spontaneous" and it naturally seems to use an informal style. It also lacks a lot of the words and phrasing Claude and OpenAI get hyper-fixated on.

IDK if this is emergent from being trained on an endless trough of Twitter shitposts but compared to how stiff the rest are, I consider it a feature. I wouldn't use it for anything important though, heh.

New comment by pram in "Claude Code plugin that plays a Mr. Meeseeks voice line whene Claude is waiting"

pram — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:00:57 +0000

I have noticed in very long context Claude chats (not Code) it will start to push ending the conversation. I’ve seen patterns like “this is an excellent place to wrap up” or “this is our final and most comprehensive analysis”

So like Mr. Meeseeks it is also invested in not existing too long!

New comment by pram in "The art and engineering of Sega CD Silpheed"

pram — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:22:48 +0000

Cool article, but Silpheed is a genuinely awful game. Just warning if you are tempted to play it after this lol

New comment by pram in "Midtown Manhattan blocks evacuated after beams buckling at construction site"

pram — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:51:34 +0000

I'm not an expert but those look like pretty wimpy columns? Kind of surprising, when I worked in a tower it had exposed concrete columns that were very thick in comparison

New comment by pram in "Claude Played Me for a Fool"

pram — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 20:24:17 +0000

Not only does Claude not look at all the files, it doesn’t even look at the entire contents of the files it does read, since the tool seems to be a pager!

New comment by pram in "We put a Redis server inside our runtime"

pram — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 23:28:54 +0000

Yeah I agree completely, especially because Redis is one of the easiest things to set up. This feels like the wages of tokenmaxxing lol

New comment by pram in "Linux for the Sega MegaDrive"

pram — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 20:23:13 +0000

Why is the Genesis so slow? I've used Linux on other m68k "workstations" and it seemed ok.

New comment by pram in "We Are the Last People Who Know How It Works"

pram — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:14:57 +0000

"To play a computer game in in the 1990s, you first had to understand how the computer worked.

So you learned. You opened files like autoexec.bat and you read them."

Ehh I dunno about that. I rarely, if ever, had to mess with any of that junk after Windows 3... I also didn't have to deal with any IRQ issues. So seems like it was already mostly abstracted in the "1990s" lol

New comment by pram in "Trade, merchants, and the lost cities of the Bronze Age (2019) [pdf]"

pram — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:57:10 +0000

“The word “capitalism” would not be coined for another 3,800 years. Adam Smith was 3,700 years from picking up his pen.”

This is pretty bad writing lol. Markets are as old as civilization itself, Adam Smith obviously knew this. General commerce != capitalism

New comment by pram in "Elastic lays off 7% of employees"

pram — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:20:48 +0000

George Hotz’s entire tenure as a Twitter “intern” was so hilariously embarrassing. And the entire preamble at the time about basically “purging the parasites” and Heroic 100x Coders (the search still sucks)

New comment by pram in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

pram — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:05:56 +0000

Sure, the current Torment Nexus buildout might be a bubble. But just think: in 10 years we will already have all this torment infrastructure built, ready to use.

New comment by pram in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

pram — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:42:47 +0000

It was on the $200 sub.

New comment by pram in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

pram — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 03:01:49 +0000

Yep I had 100% weekly usage and it was cleared. Hooray I guess

New comment by pram in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"

pram — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:57:09 +0000

Fable + Ultracode has found a bunch of bugs and issues for me when the workflow agents are doing their exploration. Also the "adversarial" agent seems to surface a lot of interesting stuff. It's definitely proactive, the plan + implementation cycle can take an hour. It has one-shot features I want to add with 100% success.

Having said that I wouldn't use it over Opus 4.8 for "smaller" things. With everything cranked up it's definitely an extravagant use of tokens.