Hacker News: swimmingbrainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=swimmingbrainHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:23:03 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by swimmingbrain in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"]]>From the directory listing having a cost-tracker.ts, upstreamproxy, coordinator, buddy and a full vim directory, it doesn't look like just an API client to me.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:18:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584693swimmingbrainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584693https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584693<![CDATA[New comment by swimmingbrain in "Universal Claude.md – cut Claude output tokens"]]>The "efficient market" framing assumes Anthropic wants to minimize output, but they don't. They charge per token, so the defaults being verbose isn't a bug they haven't gotten around to fixing.

That said, most of this repo is solving the wrong problem. "Answer before reasoning" actively hurts quality, and the benchmark is basically meaningless. But the anti-sycophancy rules should just be default. "Great Question!" has never really helped anyone debug anything.

]]>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:09:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584620swimmingbrainhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584620https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47584620<![CDATA[New comment by swimmingbrain in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""]]>the difference is "sent from my iPhone" is on YOUR outgoing email. you opted into that default. this is copilot editing someone else's PR description with promotional text for third party tools. that's not a signature, that's injection. imagine if gcc started appending "compiled with gcc, try our new optimization flags" to your README every time you built a project.

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