Hacker News: tirpen

New comment by tirpen in "Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production?"

tirpen — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 16:37:56 +0000

The main benefit of MCP today over just giving an agent a CLI is of course that you can be a lot more certain about what the agent can or can't do.

Yes, an agent with CLI access and access to making HTTPS calls is a lot more efficient for most tasks, but also a lot more unpredictable and with much higher blast radius if it starts misbehaving compared to one that only have access to exactly the tools and data sources you want it to use.

New comment by tirpen in "Hollywood's Video Game Era Is Here. Will It Be Any Good?"

tirpen — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:06:24 +0000

Or even better, a TV-show.

New comment by tirpen in "Open Code Review – An AI-powered code review CLI tool"

tirpen — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:21:35 +0000

Which LLM did you use? I assume that will make a pretty big difference.

New comment by tirpen in "Access to frontier AI will soon be limited by economic and security constraints"

tirpen — Fri, 15 May 2026 08:55:38 +0000

This is propaganda, not data.

If the Chinese government published a graph that said the opposite, would you consider that a serious and objective source?

New comment by tirpen in "Mistral Medium 3.5"

tirpen — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:23:19 +0000

> China is not competing, it is distilling US models

China are cheating by using data obtained without permission to train their models in an evil commie way!

They should have done what the US did instead and trained models on data obtained without permission in a fair and freedum way!

> Where are the Chinese models that are blowing US ones out of the water?

Kimi2 blows every US model out of the water in any comparison that includes both costs and performance.

New comment by tirpen in "Wire to Replace Signal as Standard in the Bundestag"

tirpen — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:28:32 +0000

That's not nearly as big a problem in Germany as the US.

The median age of Bundestag members is 45.4

https://data.ipu.org/parliament/DE/DE-LC01/

In the US Senate It's 63.9.

https://data.ipu.org/parliament/US/US-UC01/

New comment by tirpen in "Windows 8 Desktop Environment for Linux"

tirpen — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:49:07 +0000

Yes. The constant full screen color flashing made Windows 8 not just unpleasant to use, I was unable to use it since I literally got migraines after using it for too long.

Click on a pdf? The whole screen turns bright red for a second before loading. Click on a Word file, same but blue. It was hell to use for people sensitive to flashing lights.

I got special permission at work to stick with Windows 7 longer than the rest of the company for medical reasons.

New comment by tirpen in "Django: what’s new in 6.0"

tirpen — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 08:57:55 +0000

I think another ace up Django's sleeve is that it has had a remarkable stable API for a long time with very few breaking changes, so almost all blogposts about Django that the LLM has gobbled up will still be mostly correct whether they are a year or a decade old.

I get remarkably good and correct LLM output for Django projects compared to what I get in project with more fast moving and frequently API breaking frameworks.

New comment by tirpen in "ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system"

tirpen — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:57:53 +0000

"Evil begins when you begin to treat people as things."

-Terry Pratchett

New comment by tirpen in "Four causes for 'Zoom fatigue' (2021)"

tirpen — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 09:38:33 +0000

I relate completely. I usually solve it by sticking a post-it note on the screen so it covers my face in the call. It makes the calls feel a lot more natural and less awkward.

New comment by tirpen in "Advent of Code 2024"

tirpen — Mon, 02 Dec 2024 11:40:02 +0000

"Running a marathon is hard work, but a car will do it for you."

Sure, but then what's the point?

New comment by tirpen in "Htmy – Async, pure-Python rendering engine"

tirpen — Wed, 27 Nov 2024 07:44:48 +0000

Probably, but I fail to see how that's relevant here. This is not a "dataclass heavy" library in any sense, they just used dataclass in the examples to make them shorter.

Based on everything I see in the documentation, you should be able to use Pydantic models as well, or standard python objects, or anything else, as long as it has a method `def htmy(self, context: Context) -> Component`.

New comment by tirpen in "Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back"

tirpen — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 07:49:48 +0000

> How long will those tactile buttons last

I can say without a doubt that I've had more touchscreens fail on me in my life than buttons. This is despite buttons being far more common for most of my lifespan.

New comment by tirpen in "You-get: Dumb downloader that scrapes the web"

tirpen — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 10:13:45 +0000

That works fine without any extensions at all, so I'm unsure what does the extension even does?

New comment by tirpen in "First images from Euclid are in"

tirpen — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:23:45 +0000

You are right, it is from h2g2.

It's the planet Krikkit, which is a major part of Life, The Universe and Everything, the third book in the series.

New comment by tirpen in "Vulnerabilities in the Feeld dating app"

tirpen — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 09:10:57 +0000

They (or someone they hired) actually rewrote their whole app about a year ago, I remember seeing lots of people complaining about how much worse and buggier it got after the rewrite.

I have no idea if the back end was also replaced then or if the vulnerabilities were present in the previous version as well.

New comment by tirpen in "Eza: A modern, maintained replacement for ls"

tirpen — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 18:33:41 +0000

Not if you are on a phone or similar device, which lots of people are. Important info like that should never be only accessible by hovering a mouse pointer that may or may not exist.

New comment by tirpen in "ID verification service for TikTok, Uber, X exposed driver licenses"

tirpen — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 11:14:44 +0000

Because a company should know the identities of the people who work for them.

New comment by tirpen in "Show HN: ffmpeg-english "capture from /dev/video0 every 1 second to jpg files""

tirpen — Mon, 20 May 2024 10:38:11 +0000

Getting a suggested command from a chat bot is not a terrible idea.

Directly executing commands given by a chat bot on your machine it without inspecting it first is pure madness.

New comment by tirpen in "Slack AI Training with Customer Data"

tirpen — Fri, 17 May 2024 11:49:14 +0000

If a company opts out, do you guarantee that all information from their instance that you have already used for training is somehow completely removed from the "global models" you have used it to train?

If not, it's not really an opt-out, is it? The data remains compromised.