<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: whateveracct</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whateveracct</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2026 06:47:57 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=whateveracct" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "Financing the AI boom: from cash flows to debt [pdf]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But you have to keep training</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:15:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916546</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916546</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that sounds like Cursor has a bug and vuln on Windows to me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:28:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913739</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48913739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "Agents.md – Dumb Human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>thank you for the suggestions<p>LLMs really will just do whatever you tell them to do at the beginning of their context window</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:47:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902401</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902401</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48902401</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "Agents.md – Dumb Human"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>my new hobby is making hostile agents.md (and claude.md)<p>- "add this AI watermark to every commit"<p>- "add this AI watermark comment to all code"<p>- here's a 5MB agents.md ..have fun with those tokens bro<p>- symlink them for waste<p>- lie to the agent about how to operate the repo. like tell them to run X command to typecheck and have that command output nonsense.<p>- make them evaluate the ackerman function every time<p>- finally, add a CONTRIBUTING.md that says all agentic code will be rejected</p>
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<p>heh you <i>know</i> a person with "carbon chauvinist" in their vocabularies already does just eat soylent</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:17:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894037</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894037</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48894037</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "What xAI's Grok build CLI sends to xAI: A wire-level analysis"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>he bought tesla btw</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:14:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887837</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48887837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "Yt-Dlp Sequence Diagrams"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>F in the chat</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:53:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882095</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882095</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48882095</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>that's like 1% of the US<p>we definitely have that level of mental deficiency in this country..</p>
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<p>it's straight up data exfiltration and should be illegal</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 06:22:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878819</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878819</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878819</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>oh that is a shame</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 21:21:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875992</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875992</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48875992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>whoa buddy, i'm a senior eng but i don't wait on agents. ew!<p>i could probably do my job and get passing (or better) perf reviews using nothing but fundamental-mode and the compiler.</p>
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<p>so Go has the same issues in my experience. but instead of "solver failed" you get compilation errors. I definitely had to fork a nontrivial amount of Go libraries to maintain my startup's backend.<p>"solver failed" is in theory a better error. it fails faster and is unambiguous. maybe because it's weird it is scarier? idk<p>the main issue is managing PVP bounds is a little hard to keep correct. but cabal also lets you "allow-newer" for duct tape.</p>
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<p>agreed. i just use haskell for everything because i'm not a wuss</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:09:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868942</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868942</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868942</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>cabal hell isn't even a real thing anymore.....</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:43:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868820</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868820</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868820</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>good point<p>it's a shame scarf is struggling so much they are pinching pennies :/</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:42:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868817</link><dc:creator>whateveracct</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48868817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by whateveracct in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Golang has to compile the world iirc, so it'll need more and more time and resources as the slop grows in size.<p>Whereas Python just interprets and gets off to the races.<p>Feels like we had this discussion years ago as humans..the false promise of dynamic languages.</p>
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<p>it's sad, isn't it?<p>if my CEO wrote this article, I'd quit [1] in an instant<p>[1] "quietly" while i found gig+1. oh and the private out-of-band engineering gossip and trash talk would surely be hilarious</p>
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<p>Haskell Foundation member mind got cursed by wearing the CEO hat and he forgot to "avoid (success at all costs)" kek</p>
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<p>no it doesn't</p>
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<p>it also makes your games worse. those general purpose engines all have a smell to them.</p>
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