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New comment by wepple in "Flipper One – we need your help"

wepple — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:27:47 +0000

It was recently edited. I assume they saw this feedback

New comment by wepple in "Alberta startup sells no-tech tractors for half price"

wepple — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:47:50 +0000

I love that the 5.9 lives on

ursa-ag.com For (a little bit) more info

New comment by wepple in "Ask HN: I quit my job over weaponized robots to start my own venture"

wepple — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:29:17 +0000

Spinning it up is not the problem. You want to spend the time to throughly test it (or have your agent swarm test it) so you don’t waste the opportunity of having HN input?

I’d be wary of a founder with such bad NIH

New comment by wepple in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"

wepple — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:48:51 +0000

Fixing is now the bottleneck.

Most patches are non-trivial and then each project/maintainer has a preferred coding style, and they’re being inundated with PRs already, and don’t take kindly to slop.

LLMs can find the CVE fully zero interaction, so it scales trivially.

New comment by wepple in "Show HN: Zerobox – Sandbox any command with file, network, credential controls"

wepple — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:08:49 +0000

You should probably add a huge disclaimer that this is an untested, experimental project.

Related, a direct comparison to other sandboxes and what you offer over those would be nice

New comment by wepple in "Tech jobs are getting demolished in ways not seen since 2008"

wepple — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 17:30:12 +0000

Extensive discussion on this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

(This looks like a BI rehash of that topic)

New comment by wepple in "Tell HN: I'm 60 years old. Claude Code has re-ignited a passion"

wepple — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:09:27 +0000

As a parent to two young kids and in more of a leadership position at work, Claude allows me to grind through my backlog of ideas in minutes between other tasks, and see which ones take flight.

New comment by wepple in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

wepple — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:29:00 +0000

I personally observe AI creation phenomenally good code, much better than I can write. At insane speed, with minimal oversight. And today’s AI is the worst we will ever have.

Progress in AI can easily be measured by the speed at which the goalposts move - from “it can’t count” to “yeah but the entire browser it wrote didnt compile in the CI pipeline”

New comment by wepple in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

wepple — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:52:29 +0000

Batshit crazy?

3 years ago LLMs couldn’t solve 7x8.

Now they’re building complex applications in one shot, solving previously unsolved math and science problems.

Heck, one company built a (prototype but functional) web browser

And you say it’s crazy that in the future it’ll be able to build a mail app or OS?

New comment by wepple in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

wepple — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 13:12:36 +0000

> It is there to reduce our agency, to make it easier to fire us, to put us in even more precarious position

Could be. It could also end up freeing us from every commercial dependency we have. Write your own OS, your own mail app, design your own machinery to farm with.

It’s here, so I don’t know where you’re going with “I’m unhappy this is happening and someone should do something”

New comment by wepple in "Google Workspace CLI"

wepple — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:04:21 +0000

Don’t hold your breath

New comment by wepple in "Why every automaker is quietly bringing back the inline-six engine"

wepple — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:31:17 +0000

This has been done before; heat and having two crankshafts kinda kills it

New comment by wepple in "Keep Android Open"

wepple — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 20:28:22 +0000

I never said anything about 2FA magic links? We can do much, much better via things like FaceID integrated passkeys, and probably further steps from there.

> Stop requiring computers/phones for everything.

Ah yes, that sounds straight forward. Let us know when you’ve deployed that to prod.

New comment by wepple in "Keep Android Open"

wepple — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:22:35 +0000

Hilarious example to use, because that literally is an effort that’s underway.

Thousands of people get scammed and have their lives ruined every year, so deprecating passwords is absolutely the right move

New comment by wepple in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

wepple — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 11:00:59 +0000

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

New comment by wepple in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

wepple — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 11:25:49 +0000

I was very surprised to find the opposite yesterday. I was asking ChatGPT about firearms and it hit a safeguard ~”I cannot give gun purchasing advice” so I switched to Gemini, and it happily answered the exact copy/paste question

Historically it was the opposite; OpenAI was yolo and Gemini overly cautious to the point of severely limiting utility

New comment by wepple in "Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild"

wepple — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 18:10:24 +0000

> but demonstrating a reliable way to exploit them

Is this a requirement for most bug bounty programs? Particularly the “reliable” bit?

New comment by wepple in "Tractor"

wepple — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 23:28:05 +0000

Driving even basic PTO attachments? That’s borderline

New comment by wepple in "Worlds largest electric ship launched by Tasmanian boatbuilder"

wepple — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 13:56:11 +0000

The relocation was the big question on my mind.

The other is: when will they charge? Does this ship not run at night?

New comment by wepple in "Google's year in review: areas with research breakthroughs in 2025"

wepple — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:33:16 +0000

Disclosure: I work @ goog, opinions my own

There’s absolutely been a lot of focus on LLMs, but they simply work very well at a lot of things.

That said, Carbon (C++ successor) is an active experimental (open source) project. Fuchsia (operating system, also open) is shipping to consumer products today. Non-LLM AI research capabilities were delivered at a level I’m not sure is matched by any other frontier lab? Hardware (TPUs, opentitan, etc). Beam is mind-blowing and IMO such a sleeper that I can’t wait for people to try.

So whilst LLMs certainly take the limelight, Google is still working on new languages, operating systems, ground-up silicon etc. few (if any?) companies are doing that.