Hacker News: qlte

New comment by qlte in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

qlte — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:38:15 +0000

API keys have been routinely stolen in mass automated attacks for malicious usage long before LLMs even existed

New comment by qlte in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

qlte — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:33:51 +0000

> uninstall our software

This was a leak of keys added in a web UI

New comment by qlte in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

qlte — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:27:18 +0000

OpenCode = OpenCode CLI to most people (as seen in the dozens of comments making that assumption in this thread)

New comment by qlte in "New York City’s horse-drawn carriages expected to take their last trot"

qlte — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 01:44:53 +0000

  > City centres should be designed for people first and foremost, and be a celebration of our achievements and histories, not glorified carparks.

I think a poll of local residents would find a large majority view horse drawn carriages for hire as an irritating tourist trap that if anything detracts from a "people first" city center designed for human enjoyment.

New comment by qlte in "Tesla Roadster"

qlte — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:25:58 +0000

There are several model years that charged full price for FSD at sale and never received the necessary hardware upgrades.

New comment by qlte in "Tesla Roadster"

qlte — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 19:22:59 +0000

They demoed a non-working demo of solar roof that was supposed to be a drop-in replacement for normal tiles with huge fanfare which turned out to be utterly impractical in real world usage and later quietly killed entirely.

New comment by qlte in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

qlte — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:26:07 +0000

They're seemingly talking about a motorized platform inside a restaurant delivering to "the table" not those door to door delivery robots you drop food inside that drive on the sidewalk.

New comment by qlte in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

qlte — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 18:15:44 +0000

Yep, the "bullshit jobs" narrative sounds like an elegant description of corporate reality at the macro level, but always seems to fall apart whenever I've seen specific examples given which do in fact serve a useful purpose when interrogated.

(Whether a role's cost/value tradeoff is actually worth it for a company is a different question than the idealized model of a "bullshit job" doing nothing useful)

CoreWeave Founders Shield Fortunes with $3.3B Stock Sales

qlte — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 03:34:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-10-15/coreweave-founders-shield-fortunes-with-3-3-billion-stock-sales

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50113735

Points: 10

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New comment by qlte in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

qlte — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:10:25 +0000

The linked post points out that writing from the rationality community often spends excess time on insubstantial parts of an argument, which can actually distract focus from the truly essential reasoning and doesn't help the reader. I've read a lot from LessWrong/rationality adjacent community and agree with that observation.

New comment by qlte in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

qlte — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:31:46 +0000

I don't really see it as a question of "separating art from the artist". That's usually invoked when other aspects of the personal life of the artist has the potential to distract from the art itself.

The parent comment is closer to saying that Picasso wouldn't have been Picasso if in an alternate universe he had avoided controversial/politically charged subjects like the Spanish Civil War and instead appealed to the lowest common denominator for a mainstream commercial audience to sell postcards.

New comment by qlte in "Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher"

qlte — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:29:26 +0000

That table has classic "arbitrary LLM comparison" smell.

New comment by qlte in "Gemini 4 Argon"

qlte — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:11:23 +0000

OpenAI has too many options that may confuse users. I don't know if I should use ChatGPT app or Codex CLI or Astra for development.

New comment by qlte in "Passkeys are not a trap"

qlte — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:34:15 +0000

Hah, I had the exact same reaction.

So many words spent on HN articles complaining about USB-C or praising Lightning... fast forward a few years to now and I legitimately just pack one cable in my bag and charge any device I happen to bring with me.

New comment by qlte in "Gemini 4 Argon"

qlte — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:22:34 +0000

Like many other LLM tropes they were heavily overused which attracted attention. Normal English writing doesn't average 1 em dash per 2-3 sentences like I would often see during Peak Em Dash.

They aren't a complete rarity by any means but still relatively uncommon compared to the typical punctuation one sees in routine usage.

I loved em dashes back in high school and my English teacher would have definitely returned an assignment with a lot of red marks if I used em dashes as frequently as an LLM (speaking from experience).

New comment by qlte in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

qlte — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:47:34 +0000

This only works if the UK had a bunch of ACs in the 80s but got rid of them all in the last couple decades because of some vague degrowth bogeyman.

New comment by qlte in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

qlte — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:44:31 +0000

Certainly doesn't help that AI datacenters use energy consumption as a stand-in for scale, so now the "line must go up" market growth psychology is spreading into power consumption overall as a bigger = better thing.

New comment by qlte in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

qlte — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:57:21 +0000

Great how this is currently the 2nd highest comment despite completely ignoring the numerous fingerprinting techniques based on CSS alone (including one of the most famous fingerprinting methods by testing font support). Simply thanks to reflexive "JS=bad" upvotes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS_fingerprinting

New comment by qlte in "Passkeys are a trap"

qlte — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:06:01 +0000

Both Android and iOS support 3rd party password managers as the passkey store. Bitwarden with passkeys works seamlessly on both my iOS and Android devices (along with MacOS, Windows, and ChromeOS).

If passkeys are intended for platform lock-in then Big Tech is doing a really bad job...

New comment by qlte in "Passkeys are a trap"

qlte — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 07:00:14 +0000

...until you login to, say, your Microsoft account on one of like 27 domains that use the same SSO and your autofill doesn't trigger so you just grumble to yourself "man I hate the modern web" and manually copy/paste it in.

Hopefully after thoroughly checking the URL but you only have two minutes before the Uber gets here and just need to get this one last thing done ASAP...