Hacker News: sebmellen

New comment by sebmellen in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

sebmellen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:05:31 +0000

Yeah. I know you didn’t see it, but it was truly a substance-free response. Glad to see he deleted it and I know I’ve been guilty of the same kind of knee-jerk response before.

New comment by sebmellen in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

sebmellen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:49:04 +0000

Interesting. For all of Gil Scott-Heron's brilliance, this is by far my least favorite work of his.

New comment by sebmellen in "Any Feedback?"

sebmellen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:50:34 +0000

GTFO please

I Saw Something New in San Francisco (By Ezra Klein)

sebmellen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:50:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/ai-claude-chatgpt-gemini-mcluhan.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646188

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by sebmellen in "LLM Wiki – example of an "idea file""

sebmellen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:49:39 +0000

Edit for context: the sibling comment from karpathy is gone after being flagged to oblivion. Not sure if he deleted it or if it was just removed based on the number of flags? He had copy-pasted a few snarky responses from Claude and essentially said “Claude has this to say to you:” followed by a super long run on paragraph of slop.

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Wow, I respect karpathy so much and have learned a ton from him. But WTF is the sibling comment he wrote as a response to you? Just pasting a Claude-written slop retort… it’s sad.

Maybe we need to update that old maxim about “if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say it” to “if you don’t have something human to say, don’t say it.”

So many really smart people I know have seen the ‘ghost in the machine’ and as a result have slowly lost their human faculties. Ezra Klein, of all people, had a great article about this recently titled “I Saw Something New in San Francisco” (gift link if you want to read it): https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/opinion/ai-claude-chatgpt...

New comment by sebmellen in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

sebmellen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:26:09 +0000

You responded with the same exact comment across two of your shell accounts.

New comment by sebmellen in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

sebmellen — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 10:55:58 +0000

It might feel like BS, and I'm inclined to agree with you because of the security theater aspect. (For example, Mercor had their verification done by what appears to be a legitimate audit firm.)

But it's not useless. It still forces you to go through a very useful exercise of risk modeling and preparation that you most likely won't do without a formal program.

New comment by sebmellen in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

sebmellen — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:05:48 +0000

You are a bot. Botting HN is not allowed. Leave.

New comment by sebmellen in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

sebmellen — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:05:20 +0000

Clearly a bot. Leave. Not allowed under site rules.

New comment by sebmellen in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II – Day 2 of 5"

sebmellen — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:22:24 +0000

When I posted part one initially it was suppressed by @dang/HN, just not intentionally (according to them) but due to “voting ring behavior” whatever that means.

New comment by sebmellen in "MiniStack (replacement for LocalStack)"

sebmellen — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:50:51 +0000

We live in the golden age of slop. It seems a surprisingly small number of people have the visceral AI disgust response.

New comment by sebmellen in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service – Part II – Day 2 of 5"

sebmellen — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 22:07:19 +0000

Again, strangely few upvotes. @dang – was this also affected by some kind of voting ring detection?

New comment by sebmellen in "Incident March 30th, 2026 – Accidental CDN Caching"

sebmellen — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:57:03 +0000

Almost three years ago now, Railway poached one of our smartest engineers. They were smart to do so. I have a lot of respect for the Railway team and I’m impressed with their execution.

I think this is their first major security incident. Good that they are transparent about it.

If possible (@justjake) it would be helpful to understand if there was a QA/test process before the release was pushed. I presume there was, so the question is why this was not caught. Was this just an untested part of the codebase?

New comment by sebmellen in "Learn Claude Code by doing, not reading"

sebmellen — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 02:52:51 +0000

Please do not bot HN.

New comment by sebmellen in "Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week"

sebmellen — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:29:45 +0000

Is it really true that commercial use of film taken from public places is not allowed without consent? Is there a case law or a specific statute on this? Would love to read more.

New comment by sebmellen in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

sebmellen — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:40:59 +0000

Great to hear from a first-party source. I'm a Pro subscriber and my team spends well over two thousand dollars per month on OpenAI subscriptions. However, even when I'm logged in with my Pro account, if I'm using a VPN provider like Mullvad, I often have trouble using the chat interface or I get timeout errors.

Is this to be expected? I would presume that if I'm authenticated and paying, VPN use wouldn't be a worry. It would be nice to be able to use the tool whether or not I'm on a VPN.

New comment by sebmellen in "Founder of GitLab battles cancer by founding companies"

sebmellen — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:24:26 +0000

Not my thread, but I just wanted to express my condolences for losing your wife. That must be so tough. My wife is my best friend and I cannot imagine how painful it would be for me to lose her or vice versa.

I’m praying for you both and hoping that you’ve found peace and comfort since she passed. And I hope that you are doing well. I know she would be proud of you for keeping on!

New comment by sebmellen in "The future of version control"

sebmellen — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:12:38 +0000

Generally our pattern is that every PR gets rebased into sensible commits. So in a way we are doing "squash commits" but the method is an interactive rebase. This keeps our history very pretty and clean, and simultaneously easy to grok and navigate.

My favorite git GUI is Sublime Merge.

New comment by sebmellen in "The future of version control"

sebmellen — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 22:50:11 +0000

Wow, interesting to see such a diametrically opposed view. We’ve banned merge commits internally and our entire workflow is rebase driven. Generally, I find that rebases are far better at keeping Git history clean and clearly allowing you to see the diff between the base you’re merging into and the changes you’ve made.

New comment by sebmellen in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

sebmellen — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 23:04:02 +0000

In a way, this may be a good thing for the 'compliance' ecosystem because it will prompt people to actually read the report and check the evidence, as opposed to trusting a badge.

If you read through the report PDFs of affected companies, you'll find a lot of stock wording and phrases that don't even make sense.