Hacker News: wanderingmind

New comment by wanderingmind in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

wanderingmind — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:49:07 +0000

Its not, if you dont trust Anthropic, I hope you trust Daniel Steinberg of curl, who has said AI has gotten really good at detecting bugs and vulnerabilities. Here is his LinkedIN post https://www.linkedin.com/posts/danielstenberg_hackerone-acti...

New comment by wanderingmind in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

wanderingmind — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:43:41 +0000

So Mozilla is not part of this consortium, i'm guessing for deliberate reasons to make safari and chrome the default browsers. I don't think Firefox can survive the upcoming attacks, without robust support from foundational AI providers to secure the browser.

New comment by wanderingmind in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

wanderingmind — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 02:31:29 +0000

@dang maybe a candidate for reposting as the original posting did not get much traction

New comment by wanderingmind in "Google restricting Google AI Pro/Ultra subscribers for using OpenClaw"

wanderingmind — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 02:47:46 +0000

Best way to deal with this is take them to small claims court. If enough people do this, They have to send representations that will cost them enough to stop such nonsense.

New comment by wanderingmind in "Micropayments as a reality check for news sites"

wanderingmind — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 23:04:01 +0000

Micropayments gives me flexibility that subscription doesn't. I'm happy to pay $5 a month just to read Matt Levin. I'm not paying $40 for Bloomberg subscription. It also gives publishers signal on what really users care about and more importantly what are they willing to pay for. Maybe, there is a truly crypto market here for micropayments without the overhead of operators like Stripe

New comment by wanderingmind in "I’m joining OpenAI"

wanderingmind — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 09:01:23 +0000

Whenever technically more capable folks diss the growth of a non technical person into bigger roles, I'm obligated to post this Steve Jobs video being asked about Java.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeqPrUmVz-o&t=6

First Proof

wanderingmind — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 03:43:48 +0000

Article URL: https://1stproof.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46970525

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by wanderingmind in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

wanderingmind — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 06:38:18 +0000

I think you should merge it, dang, just for future reference. All the comments will be in a single thread.

New comment by wanderingmind in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

wanderingmind — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:59:36 +0000

My nitpick is that thinking and dreaming about solving the problem is part of doing. Its the planning phase. Skipping This planning phase in Software engineering is the root cause of most Day 2 operations issues. However I agree that thinking or announcing about outcome is not doing.

New comment by wanderingmind in "Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app"

wanderingmind — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 11:50:00 +0000

Sounds interesting I would love to use it if you get a chance to push to github

New comment by wanderingmind in "Statement from Jerome Powell"

wanderingmind — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 02:51:43 +0000

Hasn't this always been the case, what is different right now is that the tech enables to do this at scale, at much higher frequency that makes them more audacious, since no regular person can keep up with it. The over saturation of lies/fake news has lead to numbness and the hyper-normalisation. So, unless something directly is affecting us currently, we won't care

New comment by wanderingmind in "US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes"

wanderingmind — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:21:20 +0000

Corporations are people under the current SCOTUS interpretation. Which means they have the same rights under the US Constitution, so this should be struck down in no time in the courts. Another nothing burger likely to end up just manipulating the equity market and the derivative markets in the short term for large investors to capitalize.

New comment by wanderingmind in "Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)"

wanderingmind — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:45:57 +0000

For anyone looking for basic information of financial statements in business, the assumptions and estimates that go into it, I recommend Financial Intelligence by Joe Knight and Karen Berman. It helped me understand how much fuzziness happens in financial statements and how they can affect a business operation

New comment by wanderingmind in "Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2026?"

wanderingmind — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 11:42:12 +0000

1. Build AI voice agents for telephony, for personal use and maybe build for one other person

2. Make one cool toy from scratch with my kid using esp32

3. Reduce snacking and junk food to 1 day a week

4. Learn to tumble turn in swimming

New comment by wanderingmind in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

wanderingmind — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:50:13 +0000

The jury pronounces the sentence. What do you think sways the jurors - legalese complexity or straight up morality?

New comment by wanderingmind in "If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?"

wanderingmind — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 19:38:34 +0000

The fundamental change we need is to make corporations pay taxes on revenue (top line) and not on profits (bottom line). It's simple, easy to track and in par with income tax of regular people.

New comment by wanderingmind in "28M Hacker News comments as vector embedding search dataset"

wanderingmind — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:37:25 +0000

Can someone explain what's technically better in the recent embedding models. Has there been a big change in their architecture or is it lighter on memory or can handle longer context because of improved training?

New comment by wanderingmind in "So you wanna build a local RAG?"

wanderingmind — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 04:29:11 +0000

Care to explain more? I understand the prompt might not be used for training, but how about sanitizing the PII from tracking or logging or memory bugs in these serverless functions

New comment by wanderingmind in "AI World Clocks"

wanderingmind — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:35:32 +0000

The more I look at it, the more I realise the reason for cognitive overload I feel when using LLMs for coding. Same prompt to same model for a pretty straight forward task produces such wildly different outputs. Now, imagine how wildly different the code outputs when trying to generate two different logical functions. The casings are different, commenting is different, no semantic continuity. Now maybe if I give detailed prompts and ask it to follow, it might follow, but from my experience prompt adherence is not so great as well. I am at the stage where I just use LLMs as auto correct, rather than using it for any generation.

New comment by wanderingmind in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

wanderingmind — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 02:57:24 +0000

Teams is a must if you are a professional in Australia. However, I love my Debian+ i3 too much to give it up. Using it through chrome is not easy especially to chat. So, I install it as appomage through appman and it works beautifully well that I can automatically update as well.