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New comment by undefeated in "Personal Computer by Perplexity"

undefeated — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:48:14 +0000

> always-on, local access to your machine's files, apps, and sessions

Uh... how about..., no...? What?

> Controllable from any device, anywhere

...

> There is a kill switch

Oh great, sounds like you're confident this is safe then!

Someone wake me up, please

New comment by undefeated in "AI agents break rules under everyday pressure"

undefeated — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 12:14:13 +0000

Unfortunately, it doesn't look like the EU will actually be able to put any meaningful guardrails on AI, as evidenced by the AI act. I honestly don't know whether it's an off-the-scales level of incompentence or just blatant corruption (I vote both), but in any event, I think AI regulation has already failed, somewhat irreversably.

New comment by undefeated in "AI agents break rules under everyday pressure"

undefeated — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:32:39 +0000

Uhm... duh?

> or cannot control any of the inputs to the llm

Seeing as LLMs are non-deterministic, I think even this is not enough of a restriction.

New comment by undefeated in "AI agents break rules under everyday pressure"

undefeated — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:29:55 +0000

Unlikely, because the free version of ChatGPT isn't really making them any money, so less tokens is actually better — which I assume is why anthropic pushes Haiku models on free users which are not just more quantized but also less wordy.

New comment by undefeated in "AI agents break rules under everyday pressure"

undefeated — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:18:15 +0000

I think part of the problem is that you need a model to classify the data, which needs to be trained on data that wasn't classified (or a dramatically smaller set of human-classified data), so it's effectively impossible to escape this sort of input bias.

Tangentially, I'd be far from the first to point out that these LLMs are now polluting their own training data, which makes filtering simulatenously all the more important and impossible.

New comment by undefeated in "AI agents break rules under everyday pressure"

undefeated — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 11:10:31 +0000

I never had a conversation like that — probably because I personally rarely use LLMs to actually generate code for me — but I've somehow subconciously learned to do this myself, especially with clarifying questions.

If I find myself needing to ask a clarifying question, I always edit the previous message to ask the next question because the models seem to always force what they said in their clarification into further responses.

It's... odd... to find myself conditioned, by the LLM, to the proper manners of conditioning the LLM.

New comment by undefeated in "Why I stopped using JSON for my APIs"

undefeated — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 07:32:15 +0000

Complaining about JSON and then proceeding to write your API in Dart is... interesting.

New comment by undefeated in "JavaScript Trademark Update"

undefeated — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:37:27 +0000

Surely you've never read the job description for a programming position

New comment by undefeated in "Solving `Passport Application` with Haskell"

undefeated — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 13:22:09 +0000

It benefits no one to acknowledge that months were spent and the only outcome is millions of dollars wated. Sure, they could try to hold the contractor accountable, but that would put them at risk of being held accountable themselves by their own superiors for hiring that contractor in the first place. So they pretend everything works great, and pay accordingly

New comment by undefeated in "X says it is closing operations in Brazil due to judge's content orders"

undefeated — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 17:14:02 +0000

Then again, we'd probably end up with all the same bullshit on Threads

New comment by undefeated in "Show HN: Detecting adblock, without JavaScript, by abusing HTTP 103 responses"

undefeated — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 19:05:51 +0000

At least we got some of my all-time favorite GitHub issues tho

New comment by undefeated in "A crowd destroyed a driverless Waymo car in San Francisco"

undefeated — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 23:20:43 +0000

News stories are generally considered off-topic https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by undefeated in "Show HN: Shipp, a deadly simple package manager for your C/C++ projects, in Rust"

undefeated — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:12:55 +0000

Looks cool! It would probably be useful if there were a way to include dependencies that aren't shipp packages though. Otherwise, since most projects one might depend on right now don't have shipp support, there's a risk of ending up having to use other dependency management solutions alongside shipp, making everything even _more_ complicated rather than simpler, right?

New comment by undefeated in "Japan's earthquake alters coastline, extends it by two football fields"

undefeated — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 23:26:58 +0000

Anything but the metric system

New comment by undefeated in "Ask HN: Do You Miss OOP?"

undefeated — Tue, 24 May 2022 13:22:32 +0000

Agreed. I recently had to write a package with some quite complex type inference requirements, so I had to resort to classes.

I've since had to issue 17 patches (it's been 3 weeks) even though the package has 100% test coverage.

New comment by undefeated in "Ask HN: Do you know of a browser based DSL development tool?"

undefeated — Sun, 22 May 2022 11:35:48 +0000

Was it only a BNF parser generator or did it also help with implementing the language's actual functionality?

New comment by undefeated in "Ask HN: Do you know of a browser based DSL development tool?"

undefeated — Sat, 21 May 2022 15:57:38 +0000

I've never heard of such a thing, but it sounds amazing!

Out of curiosity: How exactly did it work (for users)? I assume you'd write a grammar on the one pane, but how did you teach the tool to convert it into the output language? Was that embedded into the grammar?

New comment by undefeated in "Ask HN: What do you think of GraphQL?"

undefeated — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:49:35 +0000

I think it's more like "Company X is big and we have to be like company X if we want to be big too"

New comment by undefeated in "Ask HN: Is there a web app to collect emails?"

undefeated — Sat, 21 May 2022 13:47:36 +0000

Not that I know of, but definitely something I'm gonna put on my 'future project ideas' list.