Hacker News: vultour

New comment by vultour in "Don't be a meat proxy"

vultour — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:43:30 +0000

What happened to "I don't know" or "I'm not sure"? Why do you need to direct someone to ask an LLM? If somebody asks me a question I don't know the answer to I'm not sending them anywhere, I tell them I don't know.

New comment by vultour in "Superlogical"

vultour — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 10:17:58 +0000

My first thought was that they have several people who seem like they'll expect very serious compensation but no actual product, then I noticed they already seem to have a whole bunch of VC backers. I'm not gonna lie, I'm a little jealous of people who can make a flashy vaporware pitch deck and ride the VC gravy train.

New comment by vultour in "Our position on open-weights models"

vultour — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:40:17 +0000

I have yet to see someone explain why they even needed an LLM to figure out what's going on, other than further proliferating this industry AI psychosis. Are their engineers actually so incompetent that they can't read a bunch of logs without AI? Here I was thinking these fancy AI companies are only hiring the best and the brightest, but apparently 7 rounds of leetcode does a number on your hiring process.

New comment by vultour in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

vultour — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 19:06:13 +0000

You literally need two or three mouse buttons for a FPS game. This argument might have worked if you said MMO because there’s a million abilities you can use but there’s absolutely nothing special about Razer mice when it comes to FPS specifically.

New comment by vultour in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"

vultour — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:45:50 +0000

The link talks about more than just SQL injection. SQL injection can be fully mitigated using prepared statements. They were the solution 15 years ago when I was getting started with PHP in high school and it's still applicable today. The fact that SQL injection remains an issue speaks volumes about the general quality of software engineers.

New comment by vultour in "Half-Baked Product"

vultour — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 11:17:34 +0000

Do you need a 7-second TikTok summary?

New comment by vultour in "SQLite is all you need for durable workflows"

vultour — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:54:14 +0000

The GitHub statistics for the project this website represents are insane. It has a sole author that has averaged approximately 20,000 lines of code every week in the past month. How do you even maintain that alone?

New comment by vultour in "OpenAI and Government of Malta partner to roll out ChatGPT Plus to all citizens"

vultour — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:30:17 +0000

I’ve never gone through a paid training course that wasn’t a complete waste of time. It’s at the point where people at work know there isn’t even a point in offering these to me. “But why don’t you take the Terraform training?” Because I’m not going to waste my time with a 3-day course where it takes the first day to install and configure Terraform. I can install it on my computer in 5 minutes. I think people usually see these as a paid vacation, but I find them so insufferably boring I’d rather just work.

New comment by vultour in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

vultour — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:09:24 +0000

I'm going to be honest with you, I never even considered that the pinnacle of enterprise software would have a public issue tracker (do they?). If something doesn't work the way I expect I just accept it and move on.

New comment by vultour in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

vultour — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:33:02 +0000

No, just relative within the repo. Some repositories just happen to have a very deep folder structure.

New comment by vultour in "GitLab announces workforce reduction and end of their CREDIT values"

vultour — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:18:34 +0000

GitLab could be the perfect case study on AI-powered efficiency improvements. I have never interacted with a piece of software that, for every single problem I found, there was an open issue always at least 4-7 years old that was just being shuffled around by managers adding and removing random labels.

Surely with all of these ridiculous developer productivity gains enabled by AI, they should finally be able to fix all of these ancient issues quickly and clean up the backlog.

Nope, “workforce reduction” thanks to AI again. This charade is getting boring.

New comment by vultour in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

vultour — Thu, 07 May 2026 09:05:15 +0000

My colleague had a problem with commit messages, so now they're all written by AI. I don't know what depth of hell he managed to get the prompt from, but they're all now in the format "Updated /path/to/file: fixed issue in thingamabob", which means they're all at least 200 characters long and half of it is the file path, an absolutely pointless thing to put in a commit message. The best part is that whenever you look at GitLab or GitHub, instead of seeing the commit message next to the file you just see the file name again, then the message is cut off.

New comment by vultour in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

vultour — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:46:38 +0000

There is simply no chance that LLMs are saving you 30 hours of work a week, especially if they're doing something where you'd have to do the research yourself. Either you're just simply wrong, or you went from understanding the code you were writing to skimming whatever the magic box spits out and either merging it outright or pawning off the effort of review on someone else.

New comment by vultour in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

vultour — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:42:24 +0000

Are you ashamed of other people finding out you used Claude? I think the co-authored-by bit should not be a setting at all, AI-generated code should be clearly identified.

New comment by vultour in "Ping-pong robot beats top-level human players"

vultour — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 11:32:27 +0000

I'm sorry but none of this sounds in any way exciting or like a breakthrough. There are ASML machines that hit microscopic tin particles with a laser 50,000 times per second, but it's somehow an achievement we've managed to create a ping pong paddle that's fast enough to hit a ball? Precision robotics have been used in manufacturing for decades.

New comment by vultour in ""The new Copilot app for Windows 11 is really just Microsoft Edge""

vultour — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:28:46 +0000

Is this a joke? You proclaim your support for a party that proudly posts AI-generated pictures of Obama as a monkey, shits out vitriol-filled messages on literally every holiday, and sends the gestapo to execute American citizens in the streets, and then you demand civil discourse? I'm sorry but that ship has sailed, there is no reason why someone should maintain a civil discussion with you.

New comment by vultour in "CERN uses ultra-compact AI models on FPGAs for real-time LHC data filtering"

vultour — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:28:30 +0000

Because if it’s not an LLM it’s not good for the current hype cycle. Calling everything AI makes the line go up.

New comment by vultour in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

vultour — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:07:58 +0000

These have been popping up on all the TeamPCP compromises lately

New comment by vultour in "Aqua Security locking down trivvy gh; Restricting to allowlist of IPs"

vultour — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:58:34 +0000

A bunch of AquaSec stuff has been getting compromised since the initial incident at end of February. Apparently in the latest attack they managed to compromise their internal organisation: https://opensourcemalware.com/blog/teampcp-aquasec-com-githu...

New comment by vultour in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

vultour — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:09:46 +0000

I spend probably thousands of hours in Firefox every year and I don't think I've ever had it crash.