Hacker News: procone

New comment by procone in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

procone — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 15:17:59 +0000

YAML is a nightmare fuel spec.

In its quest to make markup "human readable", it has created countless footguns.

I honestly prefer XML at this point.

New comment by procone in "[dead]"

procone — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:28:45 +0000

So many (disclosed) claude-isms. The subject is interesting, the LLM-"hydrated" text is not.

It feels like work to skim through all the unnecessary em-dashes and actually read the article.

Granted, the article is not long, but I just don't have it in me. I already parse Claude output for my day job and I don't enjoy doing it for my leisure time.

New comment by procone in "Google has abandoned Google News?"

procone — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 20:39:39 +0000

Maybe because there was nothing to surface besides media panic?

Here's a study you probably won't read because science is somehow political these days. Hint: the numbers are a rounding error given 10MM doses. Myocarditis following COVID‐19 vaccine https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9538893/

New comment by procone in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

procone — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:05:43 +0000

Agreed 100%. I don't understand why we have to fear access to knowledge.

New comment by procone in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

procone — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:01:23 +0000

Model ablation exists and you can get far enough on commodity hardware with a local model.

Censorship is not the answer.

New comment by procone in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

procone — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:21:11 +0000

Incredibly insightful. Not everyone speaks English as a first language. On top of that, the title is not ambiguous.

New comment by procone in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

procone — Sat, 23 May 2026 15:48:56 +0000

Gross.

New comment by procone in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

procone — Sat, 23 May 2026 05:16:40 +0000

You have no idea what you're talking about and it shows by what you choose to type.

It's not exclusively caused by fitness or lack thereof. A cursory Google search would show you this. It's not "breathing at night", it's literally suffocating in your sleep.

This place used to be full of intellectuals. It's a real shame.

New comment by procone in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

procone — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:44:18 +0000

Oh you don't say? I'm genuinely curious to know what you reduced your AHI to with these exercises. Or are you just making things up?

Yeah we'll go with fabrications based solely on this sentence "But things like this aren’t necessarily profitable or worth a doctor’s time, so you have to do them yourself, or see therapists, etc"

New comment by procone in "Sleep research led to a new sleep apnea drug"

procone — Sat, 23 May 2026 02:37:52 +0000

What a ridiculous post. Please leave the Reddit pseudoscience at the door.

There are researchers actively working and studying people with sleep apnea. They're not suffering from "forward head posture" or "breathing wrong".

I have severe sleep apnea and no amount of "breathing exercises" are going to cause my soft palate to uncollapse itself while I'm trying to get REM sleep.

New comment by procone in "Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP"

procone — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:51:59 +0000

Requires an already compromised hypervisor / UEFI. Yawn.

New comment by procone in "Welcome to Hell Developer"

procone — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:52:32 +0000

I found this really hard to read due to the Claude-isms. "Classic" chicken and egg problem? 39 em-dashes, random numbered lists, etc.

If you're not going to even bother to take the time to write an article, why should I waste my time reading it?

New comment by procone in "OpenClaw is a security nightmare dressed up as a daydream"

procone — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:11:03 +0000

Still sounds trivial. Not sure why you're trying to make travel sound like a complex problem that can only be solved by burning tokens.

New comment by procone in ""Cancel ChatGPT" movement goes mainstream after OpenAI closes deal with U.S. Dow"

procone — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:03:36 +0000

It is certainly not a "search engine". Perhaps you should do some reading on how LLMs function.

New comment by procone in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

procone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:39:52 +0000

Wordpad was horrible! Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. They were a nightmare for any other platform other than windows.

What are these horrible takes?

New comment by procone in "Windows 11 Notepad to support Markdown"

procone — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 04:38:26 +0000

I can't believe I'm saying this on hackernews of all places... Markdown *is* plain text.

New comment by procone in "Linux From Scratch ends SysVinit support"

procone — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:30:34 +0000

I know this is a bit tongue in cheek, but the systemd hate is so old and tiresome at this point.

I need my systems to work. Not once in my career have I experienced a showstopping issue with systemd. I cannot say the same for sysV.

New comment by procone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

procone — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:11:32 +0000

Not bingo. The kernel doesn't provide antifeatures such as ChatGPT and ads on your start menu.

That would be your desktop environment... Which is also typically open source on Linux.

If KDE (desktop environment) developers decide to add ChatGPT or Claude integration, I can simply uninstall it and install a different DE.

New comment by procone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

procone — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:01:37 +0000

I fail to see your point. Kernel development by the aforementioned big players benefits everyone and is all done in the open. Hence, "open source". In fact they use a public mailing list to submit patches.

All of the patches are auditable. If I don't want a patch, I can *trivially* omit it from my kernel before compiling.

How exactly are open source kernel modules and drivers affecting my freedom?

New comment by procone in "Microsoft forced me to switch to Linux"

procone — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 19:36:56 +0000

How is this possible? I don't think you quite understand what "Linux" is.

There is no corporation, board, or CEO to force unwanted changes. Pretty much every piece of the operating system is free and open source.

If you don't like your "Linux", you can swap it out for another distribution or "distro".