Hacker News: ptrl600

New comment by ptrl600 in "A week of using Codex more than Claude"

ptrl600 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 08:12:00 +0000

Not subtraction, not division.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Deletes all instances of Microsoft's GDID and prevents minting of new ones"

ptrl600 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:18:06 +0000

Probably every language at once being expressed in the syntax of English.

New comment by ptrl600 in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

ptrl600 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 06:59:45 +0000

The dream is "I have an idea for some awesome software, I will set an army of lemmings out to do all the tough work of figuring out how it actually works".

Well I do have an idea for some awesome software, I know exactly what the user experience should be, but the lemmings are producing useless software that resembles my idea in the way a Fisher-Price phone resembles a real phone. With frontier models, now far less buggy useless software following code conventions perfectly.

New comment by ptrl600 in "The human-in-the-loop is tired"

ptrl600 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:52:14 +0000

I don't understand how people are using AI.

A lot of the time, what I want to build, doesn't have a succinct English sentence to describe it. If I describe the user requirement I just get a Fisher-Price toy thing that kind of ignores most of the adjectives and adverbs in my requirement. So I'd have to prompt with a big list of specs and algorithms for the specific thing I want. Then what's the point?

New comment by ptrl600 in "Ask HN: Does it still make sense to write code by hand?"

ptrl600 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:16:24 +0000

Yeah, still write by hand.

Even though the translation from English algorithm to code is the "boring" part that an LLM can do, the process of doing that works as a kind of REM sleep where I'm coming up with ways to make the program better

And for a lot of simple tasks, there's plenty of stuff where it's quicker to type a command than an English description of the same thing.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

ptrl600 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:24:35 +0000

Maybe we could all pitch in on the most evil book ever, with instructions on how to do every possible horrible thing. Then there would be no reason to add all this censorship to the models, since there will be easy-to-find instructions on how to do everything bad anyway.

New comment by ptrl600 in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

ptrl600 — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:28:39 +0000

Lots of copies of the Windows source code still on GitHub, which is problematic if you're interested in NT and want to contribute to Wine or something...hard to avoid running into restricted code

New comment by ptrl600 in "Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can"

ptrl600 — Thu, 21 May 2026 17:12:20 +0000

Usually when this type of thing happens, all the major players decide to do it at the same time.

New comment by ptrl600 in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

ptrl600 — Thu, 21 May 2026 09:09:09 +0000

It's clearly smarter than any PhD and dumber than any ant.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

ptrl600 — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:11:53 +0000

Yeah, you read it and expect the inversion to be inside-out or upside-down, defined in some hopelessly arcane way.

New comment by ptrl600 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

ptrl600 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:08:40 +0000

Works well enough that 1800 cals a day satiates. Caffeine on its own doesn't cut it.

I'm scared of intestinal motility sides from GLPs.

New comment by ptrl600 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

ptrl600 — Sat, 16 May 2026 09:14:16 +0000

Losing 5 pounds a month, 20 down and 10 to go.

New comment by ptrl600 in "The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)"

ptrl600 — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:56:51 +0000

Ephedrine isn't banned, not even behind a prescription, there's just rather strict limits on how much you can buy a month. I take a Bronkaid every morning with my coffee.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

ptrl600 — Thu, 14 May 2026 10:30:32 +0000

Hey, it forgot to change the README!

New comment by ptrl600 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

ptrl600 — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:27:48 +0000

What if it's a really good bit?

New comment by ptrl600 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

ptrl600 — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:38:27 +0000

Maybe soon there will be a market for a phone specifically for use as a dummy, to get past all this nonsense.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Android VPN IP Leak Even If Always-On VPN Enabled"

ptrl600 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:26:20 +0000

"PERMISSION_SYSTEM" meaning you can bypass the VPN, with no option to override from the user, looks broken by design to me.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

ptrl600 — Fri, 01 May 2026 02:27:05 +0000

Or place offhand comments on potential malicious uses of code, to freak it out.

New comment by ptrl600 in "Regression: malware reminder on every read still causes subagent refusals"

ptrl600 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 05:48:15 +0000

Interesting how so much money is wasted, likely because they put a period instead of a comma.

New comment by ptrl600 in "The Prompt API"

ptrl600 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:50:49 +0000

Perhaps we could have one column of text that contains the content with no tone, and a second column of text that contains only the tone with no content.