Hacker News: quantumleaper

New comment by quantumleaper in "Computer use in Gemini 3.5 Flash"

quantumleaper — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 20:59:51 +0000

This doesn't require computer use, just a bash tool (and possibly fetch to get ffmpeg documentation)

New comment by quantumleaper in "Claude Code – Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You"

quantumleaper — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:55:40 +0000

If software engineering were truly solved, like Anthropic claims, anyone could just vibecode it back. If only they stopped being allergic to the word "open" and open-sourced Claude Code, which, at this point, there is no practical reason not to.

New comment by quantumleaper in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

quantumleaper — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:32:33 +0000

The kind of farm that would use AI is already 99% machinery and automation.

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

quantumleaper — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:40:14 +0000

It looks like an output of one of those AI video editors that some (often vibecoded) startups use for their product launch videos. Just drop some assets in, and it spams witty taglines with dramatic transition effects.

New comment by quantumleaper in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

quantumleaper — Tue, 19 May 2026 11:09:13 +0000

This is what many AI supply-chain security startups (like the one that posted the article) are already doing with all NPM packages, so save yourself the Claude tokens. All of these compromises were detected within minutes, but it takes some time (<1 hour) for NPM to unpublish all of the affected packages.

New comment by quantumleaper in "Agentic Trading with Safe Guardrails"

quantumleaper — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:11:42 +0000

The belief that there is some kind of market-impacting underground "wisdom of the crowd" to be found on all these public social platforms is an artifact of the GameStop craze that never went away.

New comment by quantumleaper in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

quantumleaper — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:45:48 +0000

I don't know how it could fail - Bun loses popularity among devs? Is it an objective metric? From what I understand, Node.js remains dominant across the industry as a whole, with Deno and Bun mostly used by startups.

Anthropic can always fire the Opus/Mythos token machine gun on any problem (bugs, features, security) to ensure PR success, and there would be plenty of AI-sphere startups already drinking the kool-aid that would consider the whole vibe-coding thing to Bun's benefit.

New comment by quantumleaper in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

quantumleaper — Sun, 17 May 2026 16:32:30 +0000

A bit off topic, but see how Anthropic publicity stunts went from "Claude C Compiler" with 100K LOC to the recent Bun Rust rewrite with 1M LOC (10x!) in just 3 months.

I get that it's "novel" creation vs porting, but given that they reported that the C compiler cost them $20k in API costs, the Bun rewrite must be at least $200k, maybe even closer to a million. Pure madness.

New comment by quantumleaper in "HTML Lists"

quantumleaper — Sat, 16 May 2026 18:01:31 +0000

Your link states it's not supported in iOS Safari at all, even though it has been supported in macOS Safari since 2013.

New comment by quantumleaper in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

quantumleaper — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:55:12 +0000

Should be quick and easy with WebGPU, too.

New comment by quantumleaper in "Googlebook"

quantumleaper — Tue, 12 May 2026 19:45:08 +0000

Google MegaPixel!

New comment by quantumleaper in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

quantumleaper — Tue, 12 May 2026 05:38:03 +0000

Copilot is a legacy brand from 2021 (anyone remembers it's free beta? good times) when it was just a rudimentary autocomplete powered by GPT-3. I don't think it aligns with Microsoft's views and priorities now.

New comment by quantumleaper in "Denuvo has been cracked in all single-player games it previously protected"

quantumleaper — Sun, 03 May 2026 23:29:36 +0000

DRM is an optional Steamworks feature, the developer can opt out by simply not using it.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/drm

New comment by quantumleaper in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

quantumleaper — Sun, 03 May 2026 19:21:29 +0000

You are right, I misremembered this announcement [1]. They are switching from a 4-week to a 2-week release schedule this September.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/blog/chrome-two-week-release

New comment by quantumleaper in "How far behind is each major Chromium browser?"

quantumleaper — Sun, 03 May 2026 17:24:02 +0000

Cool idea, but without longer-term tracking of how long each browser lags for each Chromium release, it's hard to draw any meaningful conclusions. It's also clear that in the case of major vulnerabilities, vendors would fast-track adoption of the patch.

I would definitely include the fact that "major" versions of Chromium are released every 2 weeks. For instance, Vivaldi is on version 146.0.7680.218 that released this Tuesday [1], only 5 days ago.

[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/f97d14f8a0a...

New comment by quantumleaper in "Apocalypse Early Warning System"

quantumleaper — Sat, 02 May 2026 00:32:32 +0000

My bet is it's the day of the Super Bowl or the Las Vegas Grand Prix.

New comment by quantumleaper in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

quantumleaper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:59:02 +0000

Unfortunately, there is no way to use Google Pay on it. I'm all for trading some convenience for privacy, but not having to carry all my cards is too much of a convenience for me :(

New comment by quantumleaper in "Your phone is about to stop being yours"

quantumleaper — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:42:29 +0000

With a free account, it needs to be reinstalled every 7 days because the signature expires. It's hardly convenient for personal use.