Hacker News: vrighter

New comment by vrighter in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

vrighter — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:03:14 +0000

the real llm is the friends we make along the way!

New comment by vrighter in "A €0.01 bank transfer could compromise a banking AI agent"

vrighter — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:02:40 +0000

If your task is to ensure an armed bomb does not explode, how can entroducing a second armed bomb be helpful?

New comment by vrighter in "UK set to announce social media ban for under-16s"

vrighter — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 17:37:13 +0000

it was the case when i was younger and phones were still dumb. We've gone backwards

New comment by vrighter in "Show HN: Lightweight C++23 S3 client with no extra deps (just curl and OpenSSL)"

vrighter — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:47:45 +0000

a lightweight car kit that comes with everything you need to build a fully working car! All you need to add is a working engine (sold separately).

New comment by vrighter in "KPMG's AI report turns into a demo of AI hallucinations"

vrighter — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:47:21 +0000

that always seems to be the case though

New comment by vrighter in "DeepSeek Made AI Cheap. Now It Needs Billions to Keep It Cheap"

vrighter — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:34:06 +0000

This sounds like it was never really cheap to begin with. Just like everyone else, the end of the runway is showing.

New comment by vrighter in "Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post"

vrighter — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:27:34 +0000

you compare the derivative yesterday, you measure the derivative today. difference between them is the jerk. It tells you where you are on the S-curve

New comment by vrighter in "OneDrive data now has an expiry date"

vrighter — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 12:34:48 +0000

isn't that also the case witf onedrive because it deletes local copies?

New comment by vrighter in "Deno 2.8"

vrighter — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:53:11 +0000

but you can relatively easily sandbox anything you want and close all escape hatches. If you want to turn off the monkeypatching functionality, that's just a metatable or two away. I can and regularly disable monkeypatching on some of my libraries (especially where it interacts with c++ interop). JS now has proxy objects, but lua has been able to do this since way before

And also those stackful coroutines, would have made callback hell non-existent, and no async/await function coloring either (as long as you started one coroutine somewhere up the call stack.

New comment by vrighter in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

vrighter — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:43:04 +0000

When I have it, you'll be the first to know

New comment by vrighter in "User-Replaceable Batteries Are Coming Back in a Big Way"

vrighter — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 09:11:52 +0000

This will be a no-op in practice. Since pretty much anyone can guarantee 80% after 1000 cycles nowadays. It's just the current state of modern battery technology.

New comment by vrighter in "AI Doesn't Have ROI"

vrighter — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 15:58:11 +0000

i don't think the gpus are up to that task

New comment by vrighter in "If Windows were designed today, would the Registry exist? [video]"

vrighter — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:28:47 +0000

gnome has one...

New comment by vrighter in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

vrighter — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:32:24 +0000

I chose a hybrid method (I don't study anymore, this is just for personal stuff).

I bought a cheap graphics tablet, and still handwrite my math, but on a digital whiteboard on my PC so I can save and take backups of it, and waste less paper. But I still get the tactility, and its associated benefits (the act of handwriting something helps you remember it better)

New comment by vrighter in "Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act "evil""

vrighter — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:15:42 +0000

Why would it be? It's just text. Just like non-fiction.

New comment by vrighter in "Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act "evil""

vrighter — Mon, 25 May 2026 10:14:48 +0000

they "fixed" it by implementing a workaround for this specific thing. "Fixing" llms will pretty much always be reactionary, at least with the current paradigm.

New comment by vrighter in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

vrighter — Mon, 25 May 2026 07:57:59 +0000

reminds me of the long blockchain corporation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Blockchain_Corp.

New comment by vrighter in "Usborne 1980s Computer Books"

vrighter — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:07:52 +0000

i have learned so much from these books. I owe my current carreer to them, probably

New comment by vrighter in "Deno 2.8"

vrighter — Sat, 23 May 2026 13:39:34 +0000

one more reason I would have preferred a world in which lua was used in js's place

New comment by vrighter in "YAML? That's Norway Problem"

vrighter — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:21:42 +0000

computers find yaml hard to parse too :)