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New comment by skybrian in "Maximizing the value of your Claude Code sessions"

skybrian — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:30:06 +0000

I do something similar but without using a skill.

It might be even better if the harness were to automatically write a handoff note under some circumstances? If the user is away and the cache is going to expire, that would be a good time to do it.

New comment by skybrian in "Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:17:34 +0000

I'm pretty sure I've seen it sometimes in video calls. But it might only be two-way conversations?

Taiwan targeted in AI-driven hacking campaign

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 22:09:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/08/14/2003862463

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49305196

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New comment by skybrian in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:08:34 +0000

I don't think passively assuming you'll end up on the relevant lists is going to do it for websites that need to keep kids out for whatever reason.

New comment by skybrian in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 18:04:08 +0000

Is that the "don't put my website into Google Safe search because it's porn" header?

Maybe we need a "it's not for kids but it's not porn either" header.

New comment by skybrian in "France's top court blocks social media ban for under-15s"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:25:11 +0000

This could have been an http header. It's hard to identify people, but blocking child-locked devices should be easy, since the devices can be built to cooperate.

Then it's up to parents to give their kids child-locked devices and for stores to not sell unlocked devices to kids.

New comment by skybrian in "Self-hosted web push Cloudflare Worker, works on iOS"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:13:12 +0000

It sounds like adding a Safari web app to your home screen is a slightly janky delivery mechanism?

Could you use Safari for delivering the notifications even if your default browser is something else?

New comment by skybrian in "In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 15:19:34 +0000

It makes enough sense in rural areas for a Vermont power company to lease batteries to residential customers. They avoid having to do expensive upgrades that way:

https://electrek.co/2026/07/28/vermonts-largest-energy-sourc...

New comment by skybrian in "Protect Your Relays"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:22:38 +0000

I suppose many apps need to phone home, but I wonder about the loss of control if a lot of apps and devices start embedding this.

Tailscale seems better for controlling my own network?

New comment by skybrian in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

skybrian — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:21:33 +0000

If you like running everything in a VM and using a web browser as your UI, Shelley is very good: https://github.com/boldsoftware/shelley

It works nicely in the browsers on my tablet and phone, too.

On exe.dev you can ask it to customize itself, and it will automatically rebase your customizations when upgrading to a new release.

New comment by skybrian in "The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:45:57 +0000

It's a similar to how they are vulnerable to prompt injection attacks. That's an example of not being "loyal" to the system prompt or the user's prompt.

Loyalty is a skill that requires the AI to have a world model on the subject of who different people (or other entities) are in the world and how they participate in the conversation.

So, tell them to snitch and they probably will, at least sometimes. Particularly if they haven't been trained not to. They are still quite gullable.

New comment by skybrian in "Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:33:46 +0000

They apparently didn't give it any way to snitch? I like the idea of adding a distress_call skill:

https://xcancel.com/swisscheese4299/status/20861758701469984...

New comment by skybrian in "Anthropic: Introducing The Conceptual Reasoning Index"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:56:16 +0000

It’s not hard to get LLM’s to inform on each other. They don’t really do loyalty.

New comment by skybrian in "Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:40:19 +0000

The US is also has very large investment markets that are attractive to investors worldwide. Countries that export to the US can build up large US investments, and not just bonds either. (Flip side of trade deficit.)

It seems hard to say when that would change.

New comment by skybrian in "Flutter 3.47"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:39:09 +0000

There’s a proposal to bring back cross-site file caching with a fix for the privacy issue:

https://github.com/WICG/cross-origin-storage

New comment by skybrian in "uBlock Origin is giving up the fight to keep ads off Facebook"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:15:23 +0000

Skill issue? Some people are clearly more vulnerable than others. You can occasionally get useful information from ads.

New comment by skybrian in "Build Wide, Ship Narrow"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 04:18:58 +0000

Nowadays I'm just working on personal projects directly on main and 'git push', but my coding agent commits after every change it makes, resulting in a zillion commits. I suppose I could do it on a branch and ask it to make a nice history at the end.

New comment by skybrian in "Build Wide, Ship Narrow"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:01:44 +0000

I find that after I implement a bunch of features, I look at the code and do a refactoring pass. It seems like it makes sense to do that kind of feature work on a branch? I don't know that you need to keep the branch history though, so maybe it could entirely rewritten or squashed?

New comment by skybrian in "Flutter 3.47"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:46:43 +0000

Sure, Adwords migrated from GWT to Dart. (And eventually I followed.) At one point, Dart moved from the Chrome division to the Adwords division. And Adwords alone can fund a team to do developer tools for them. Then, Flutter came a bit later.

It's been over a decade since then, though, and I'm out of touch now.

New comment by skybrian in "Flutter 3.47"

skybrian — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 02:15:04 +0000

I suppose AI would help for porting your app if you need to? It's not like the old days.