Hacker News: sigmar

New comment by sigmar in "Vibe Code to Production with Google AI Studio"

sigmar — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:17:00 +0000

>agent now proactively detects when your app needs a database or login. After you approve a Firebase integration, it provisions Cloud Firestore for databases and Firebase Authentication for a secure sign-in with Google... securely integrate services like databases, payment processors or Google services like Maps. The agent detects when a key is required and safely stores it in the new Secrets Manager located in the Settings tab.

Has some really neat integrations. Really strikes me as a huge contrast with Apple, which yesterday seemed to oppose vibe coding (by preventing updates to Replit and Vibecode).

New comment by sigmar in "Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise to drove engagement, say whistleblowers"

sigmar — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:19:03 +0000

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New comment by sigmar in "Ask HN: How is AI-assisted coding going for you professionally?"

sigmar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 19:04:49 +0000

https://github.com/search?q=author%3AClaude&type=commits

New comment by sigmar in "Pentagon expands oversight of Stars and Stripes, limits content"

sigmar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 14:11:09 +0000

"Defense Department intended to “refocus” the news organization... it “should” republish content created by the Defense Department public affairs offices with a label describing its origin"

Article makes it clear that they're banning the publication of wire services with the goal to make this publication more like a DoD PR team and less like a news source.

New comment by sigmar in "Claude March 2026 usage promotion"

sigmar — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:30:07 +0000

You're probably right. I've been thinking about why anthropic's revenue keeps soaring. I think in terms of "new users trying the product" we're definitely somewhere in the slowing part of the S-curve (at least in the US), but there are other growth contributors. Two bigs ones are people finding new use-cases and people figuring out how to scale up current use-cases to use more tokens. Perhaps little temporary-usage-boosts like this give people permission to attempt new use-cases or more scale and realize they could use a higher tiered plan.

New comment by sigmar in "Malus – Clean Room as a Service"

sigmar — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:04:39 +0000

>Our proprietary AI robots independently recreate any open source project from scratch.

Fact that this is satire aside, why would a company like this limit this methodology to only open source? Since they can make a "dirty room" AI that uses computer-use models, plays with an app, observes how it looks from the outside (UI) and inside (with debug tools), creates a spec sheet of how the app functions, and then sends those specs to the "clean room" AI.

New comment by sigmar in "Are LLM merge rates not getting better?"

sigmar — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 13:00:26 +0000

>This means the step function has more predictive power (“fits better”) than the linear slope. For fun, we can also fit a function that is completely constant across the entire timespan. That happens to get the best Brier score.

I mean, sure. but it's obvious in that graph that the single openai model is dragging down the right side. Wouldn't it be better to just stick to analyzing models from only one lab so that this was showing change over time rather than differences between models?

New comment by sigmar in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."

sigmar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 20:46:02 +0000

Will using a voice-to-text app to create my comment get me banned? Especially if it creates a transcription mistake that might be characteristic of an LLM

New comment by sigmar in "AI Agent Hacks McKinsey"

sigmar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:17:32 +0000

>A McKinsey spokesperson told The Register that it fixed all of the issues identified by CodeWall within hours of learning about the problems.

Ah. Thanks for the link. I'm suspicious of everything posted to a blog without proof these days.

New comment by sigmar in "How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform"

sigmar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:39:24 +0000

I've got no idea who codewall is. Is there acknowledgment from McKinsey that they actually patched the issue referenced? I don't see any reference to "codewall ai" in any news article before yesterday and there's no names on the site.

https://www.google.com/search?q=codewall+ai

New comment by sigmar in "Whistleblower claims ex-DOGE member says he took Social Security data to new job"

sigmar — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:20:23 +0000

It may not have been your intent, but this comment seems to downplay the crime here. It's a crime to take the data even if he wasn't shopping it around as alleged. and the fact that he was 'young and stupid' makes the circumstances of how this happened much more important for an investigation by the IG (ie why was an immature person given so much power?)

New comment by sigmar in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

sigmar — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:28:10 +0000

>then his own familiarity with the previous LGPL implementation makes the new one almost certainly a derivative of the original.

The "clean room rewrite" is just an extreme way to have a bulletproof shield against litigation. Not doing it that way doesn't automatically make all new code he writes derivative solely because he saw how the code worked previously.

New comment by sigmar in "The changing goalposts of AGI and timelines"

sigmar — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 18:13:11 +0000

putting aside the obvious gender-based prejudice in this comment-

since when did the view that "humans should be in the loop before murderbots target and kill someone" become a "naive moral absolutist view of the world"? we're resigned to building the terminator now?

New comment by sigmar in "Hardening Firefox with Anthropic's Red Team"

sigmar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:42:12 +0000

>where a lot of people flooded them with seemingly well-written but ultimately wrong reports.

are there any projects to auto-verify submitted bug reports? perhaps by spinning up a VM and then having an agent attempt to reproduce the bug report? that would be neat.

New comment by sigmar in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

sigmar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:15:06 +0000

Yeah, that's possible, but seems to me more about contract law and creating an EULA for the code, than it is about copyright-derived enforcement. maybe 'copyleft' stuff will move in that direction.

it's barely tangential to the topic but worth pointing out, I don't think there's firm legal consensus on your library point, that is just the position of the FSF that that's true. IANAL tho. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Lib...

New comment by sigmar in "AI and the Ship of Theseus"

sigmar — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:31:16 +0000

You can't change the law with a license agreement and redefine what constitutes a derivative work. If that was possible, people could have done it pre-LLMs.

also how would you prove it was in the training set? re: your last sentence, the licensed work wasn't in the input in the chardet example ("no access to the old source tree")

New comment by sigmar in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

sigmar — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 01:14:53 +0000

Why do you assume the contract with palantir doesn't have similar terms? Weird assumption.

New comment by sigmar in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

sigmar — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:25:19 +0000

I think we're going to have several years of people claiming genAI "didn't really do something novel here," despite experts saying otherwise, because people are scared by the idea that complex problem solving isn't exclusive to humans (regardless of whether these models are approaching general intelligence).

New comment by sigmar in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

sigmar — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:05:36 +0000

>mass surveillance conducted by the adminstration (or any) is already done by Google, Microsoft, AWS, Oracle and Palantir and soon xAI (via X). So again, no point is being made here.

some companies do it, so that means anthropic has to do it? this seems like nihilism

New comment by sigmar in "Claude becomes number one app on the U.S. App Store"

sigmar — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 03:33:44 +0000

the claude contract was only 100M/year. about 0.7% of Claude's 14B revenue run rate. Not sure we know anything about the number for openai's new contract.