Hacker News: puttycat

New comment by puttycat in "Google changes its search box"

puttycat — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:04:08 +0000

ChatGPT is the only bot that reliably cites sources (through Web search mode).

The other bots either make up links or simply don't provide any information that is distinguishable from the LLM predictive output.

Ironically Gemini is also very bad at this, while it should have been the best at Web search.

Gemini also does something very patchy, which is to provide "links" which are in fact GET queries into classic Google search. I'm guessing they did it this way because the links generated/hallucinated by the LLM were too unreliable.

New comment by puttycat in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

puttycat — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:45:26 +0000

Interesting angle, didn't think of this. How do you think/find that current tools are optimized for being addictive?

New comment by puttycat in "Starlink users can be located and sometimes identified through terminal mapping"

puttycat — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:26:49 +0000

https://archive.is/TSOn9

Starlink users can be located and sometimes identified through terminal mapping

puttycat — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-05-12/ty-article-magazine/.premium/starlink-users-beware-israeli-tech-can-reveal-your-identity/0000019e-17f1-d618-adde-17f3e27d0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48113187

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by puttycat in "Meta's embrace of A.I. is making its employees miserable"

puttycat — Sat, 09 May 2026 21:47:10 +0000

I agree, but we do owe them PyTorch and React.

Upcoming El Niño: The World Is About to Get a Preview of Life in 2035

puttycat — Wed, 06 May 2026 19:47:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/opinion/el-nino-climate.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48040811

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by puttycat in "Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS"

puttycat — Sat, 02 May 2026 22:52:35 +0000

Can we also not ban people for pointing out an evidently funny naming?

New comment by puttycat in "Simulacrum of Knowledge Work"

puttycat — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 22:59:33 +0000

The goal of automation is to automate consistently perfect competence, not human failures.

You wouldn't use a calculator that is as good as a human and makes mistakes as often.

New comment by puttycat in "Michael Rabin has died"

puttycat — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 11:40:58 +0000

@dang this deserves a black ribbon

New comment by puttycat in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

puttycat — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:46:35 +0000

> Every request is end-to-end encrypted

Afaik you will need to decrypt the data the moment it needs to be fed into the model.

How do they do this then?

New comment by puttycat in "Jack Dorsey says Block employees now bring prototypes, not slides, to meetings"

puttycat — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 14:26:21 +0000

"CEO said a thing" journalism, discussed on HN very recently:

https://karlbode.com/ceo-said-a-thing-journalism/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577735

New comment by puttycat in "Kagi: April 1, 1996"

puttycat — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:20:35 +0000

Beautiful. I have tears in my eyes. Bring reasonable design back.

Defrag ASMR

puttycat — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:05:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554747

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by puttycat in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

puttycat — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:57:04 +0000

True, but the Docker attack surface is limited to a malicious actor distributing malicious images. (Bad enough in itself, I agree.)

Unreliable, unpredictable AI agents (and their parent companies) with system-wide permissions are a new kind of threat IMO.

New comment by puttycat in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

puttycat — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 11:52:42 +0000

Forgot to mention the craziness of trusting an AI software company with your private AI codebase (think Uber's abuse of ride data).

New comment by puttycat in "Go hard on agents, not on your filesystem"

puttycat — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:30:08 +0000

I am still amazed that people so easily accepted installing these agents on private machines.

We've been securing our systems in all ways possible for decades and then one day just said: oh hello unpredictable, unreliable, Turing-complete software that can exfiltrate and corrupt data in infinite unknown ways -- here's the keys, go wild.

New comment by puttycat in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

puttycat — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:11:50 +0000

> Companies claiming 100% of their product's code is now written by AI consistently put out the worst garbage you can imagine. Not pointing fingers, but memory leaks in the gigabytes, UI glitches, broken-ass features, crashes.

Spotify's CEO recently bragged about the app's code being written almost entirely by AI. Just saying.

The First Pancake Principle. How to Get Started

puttycat — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 02:11:41 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/weirdo-poetry/the-first-pancake-principle-a67e374bceea

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47484737

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by puttycat in "The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee (1830)"

puttycat — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 09:24:35 +0000

If you suffer from any kind of anxiety, and you drink caffeine, you should seriously consider quitting. Even if you only drink as little as one coffee per day. There's a very high chance that caffeine is the source of a large part of it.

I've been drinking coffee for 20 years and had always assumed that I was just an anxious, paranoid person. Quitting made me realize that I really wasn't.

Quitting/reducing has also cured my itchy skin problem.

I also highly recommend the subreddit r/decaf as a great source of information.

New comment by puttycat in "How to fold the Blade Runner origami unicorn (1996)"

puttycat — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 16:56:34 +0000

The nice one I found randomly in a store is by Adeline Klam. (originally in French, but I see there's an English version)