Hacker News: randyrand

New comment by randyrand in "Plans to stop children taking nude images"

randyrand — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:26:30 +0000

Imagine being this scared of nude people.

New comment by randyrand in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

randyrand — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:15:46 +0000

There are an excess of teachers in the USA already. It’s a big reason they aren’t paid that well.

No good reason to import them except to pay them even less.

New comment by randyrand in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

randyrand — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:51:02 +0000

What is the process for becoming a maintainer?

Without one they will slowly lose all maintainers by attrition.

New comment by randyrand in "ESP32-S31"

randyrand — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:17:01 +0000

It signals ESP-IDF compatibility

New comment by randyrand in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

randyrand — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:24:18 +0000

It’s clearly split old world vs new world.

But new world is getting pretty old now too.

New comment by randyrand in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

randyrand — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:19:24 +0000

Birthright citizenship is on the chopping block too. It’s only a matter of time.

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

randyrand — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:19:25 +0000

Same here! Switched over for the passkey support.

New comment by randyrand in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

randyrand — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:20:47 +0000

How many tok/s does codex usually run at?

New comment by randyrand in "Disney erased FiveThirtyEight"

randyrand — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:54:57 +0000

If you cared so much about it, why did you sell it?

New comment by randyrand in "Going full AI engineer, not touching code anymore"

randyrand — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:58:37 +0000

Very well written article.

For my biggest codebase I too read every diff. I know the project intimately. I care about it and I’ll pay the cost if it’s wrong.

For smaller greenfield projects it’s up in the air. If it works it works.

New comment by randyrand in "Microsoft AI CEO forecasts human-level AI in 18 months"

randyrand — Mon, 18 May 2026 00:25:17 +0000

I feel like ChatGPT is general and intelligent. No?

New comment by randyrand in "Google says criminal hackers used AI to find a major software flaw"

randyrand — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:21:31 +0000

At least, thats what we're told ;)

New comment by randyrand in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

randyrand — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:52:36 +0000

Source needs to be closed too practically speaking.

But I bet AI is pretty good at analyzing binary too.

Fix your bugs!

New comment by randyrand in "AI is breaking two vulnerability cultures"

randyrand — Sun, 10 May 2026 09:50:34 +0000

That’s really clever and quite funny!

New comment by randyrand in "Distributing Mac software is increasing my cortisol levels"

randyrand — Sun, 10 May 2026 00:34:10 +0000

> what do you actually want?

A UI option would make sense. That is what most users are comfortable with.

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

randyrand — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:58:10 +0000

Next: the back doors are written by the LLM!

New comment by randyrand in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

randyrand — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:51:07 +0000

I can go long session with it making great code.

But the first time I say “No, it should be …” it’s nearly game over. If you say it 3+ times in a row, you’re basically doomed.

Sure, you can get it to fix the bug, but it comes at the cost of future prompts often barely working.

New comment by randyrand in "Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money?"

randyrand — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:40:48 +0000

That's the wrong framing. It's to protect yourself against unhinged people. Nearly every group of people has been persecuted at some point.

New comment by randyrand in "Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money?"

randyrand — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:38:22 +0000

Some would! But it changes the value proposition significantly. That's why it needs to be a reasonably high amount.

New comment by randyrand in "Ask HN: Can HN ban new accounts? or charge money?"

randyrand — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:36:31 +0000

definitely. signal to noise on HN has always been incredibly higher than most other platforms.