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New comment by with in "Copilot edited an ad into my PR"

with — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:29:18 +0000

Everyone is doing this now. Granted, on Codex / Claude Code, you can disable it, it’s not the default to have it disabled. For some reason on Cursor, they keep shoving the “Made with Cursor” into my PR description despite me disabling attribution, which looks really stupid on a work PR.

I’m so tired of all this BS. Why did this become normal? and how do we not read this as cheap advertising?

New comment by with in "Ask HN: Why Isn't Everything Public?"

with — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:35:38 +0000

yes, but the same people who have the power to make those same things public are the ones benefiting from the same fraud, waste, and corruption

New comment by with in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

with — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:26:05 +0000

> do these types of techniques really work?

They have been proven to: https://www.anthropic.com/research/small-samples-poison

New comment by with in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

with — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:21:54 +0000

if the idea can just be obliterated by an LLM, there was never a moat to begin with

New comment by with in "AI isn't killing jobs, it's 'unbundling' them into lower-paid chunks"

with — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:15:46 +0000

Just further proof that context is the real moat, not intelligence. All the models are already converging to be equally intelligent and that will only continue. GPT 5.4 / Opus 4.6 are the first two models I’ve used where I’m like, yeah, with the right spec/context they can pretty much do anything.

The “bundle” or “context” is the value.

New comment by with in "A decade of Docker containers"

with — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 07:38:50 +0000

nice share!

New comment by with in "A decade of Docker containers"

with — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:50:16 +0000

docker is bloated. i'm almost certain half of every image is dead weight. unused apt packages, full distros for a single binary, shell configs nobody touches. but the incentive is to make things work, not make them small. so bloat wins.

still, i use it every day and i don't see what replaces it. every "docker killer" solves one problem while ignoring the 50 things docker does well enough.

New comment by with in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

with — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 05:08:51 +0000

Thanks, I also saw this as PyPI and was confused, lol

New comment by with in "Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI"

with — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:01:11 +0000

Fair point, the "tuned to flag aggressively" claim was speculative on my part. Turnitin's own documentation says they favor false negatives over false positives.

That said, their accuracy claims have been disputed before. Inside Higher Ed [1] reported that Turnitin's real-world false positive rate was higher than originally asserted, and the company declined to disclose the updated number. And, USD also noted that while Turnitin claimed <1% false positives, a Washington Post investigation found a 50% rate on a smaller sample, and that non-native English speakers / neurodivergent students get flagged at higher rates [2].

Now, those are from 2023 and the product (and AI in general) has been updated drastically since. But the broader incentive problem holds even if the detector itself is conservatively tuned. The product is a black box. And the downstream cost of errors falls entirely on students, not on Turnitin's renewal rate. You don't need aggressive tuning for the incentive structure to be broken.

[1] https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/06/01/t...

[2] https://lawlibguides.sandiego.edu/c.php?g=1443311&p=10721367

New comment by with in "Training students to prove they're not robots is pushing them to use more AI"

with — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 21:30:01 +0000

nobody's asking who profits from false positives. these AI detection vendors have a direct financial incentive to flag aggressively. more flags = "more value" = more school contracts renewed. same playbook as selling antivirus to your grandma. sell fear, charge per seat, and make the false positive rate someone else's problem.

New comment by with in "When does MCP make sense vs CLI?"

with — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 23:59:17 +0000

MCP is a completely useless abstraction, and I’m not sure why anyone would push for it over basic cli tools / skills.

New comment by with in "Show HN: The Dot"

with — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:57:57 +0000

this looks chaotic. I love it

New comment by with in "Microgpt"

with — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:24:26 +0000

yep, agreed. wasn’t knocking the project at all, it’s great for exactly that purpose

New comment by with in "Microgpt"

with — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 07:09:16 +0000

"everything else is just efficiency" is a nice line but the efficiency is the hard part. the core of a search engine is also trivial, rank documents by relevance. google's moat was making it work at scale. same applies here.

New comment by with in "A new California law says all operating systems need to have age verification"

with — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 07:41:13 +0000

Our lawmakers have zero idea how software works.

"useradd bob" is an "account setup". does that need age verification too? haha

New comment by with in "Show HN: ClawCare – Security scanner and runtime guard for AI agent skills"

with — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:38:37 +0000

I understand the entire project was vibe coded, but can you at least write the post yourself?

New comment by with in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

with — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 07:15:16 +0000

the interesting question is why dario published this. these disputes normally stay behind NDAs and closed doors. going public means anthropic decided the reputational upside of being the company that said no outweighs the risk of burning the relationship permanently. that's a calculated move, not really just a principled one.

New comment by with in "Making MCP cheaper via CLI"

with — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 07:11:30 +0000

MCP's only real value is the auth handshake for third-party SaaS. the actual tool execution is worse than a subprocess call. more tokens, harder to debug, and the failure modes are worse. if someone just extracted the OAuth layer into a standard that CLIs could use, there's very little reason for the rest of the protocol to exist.

New comment by with in "Could users acting en masse take a major website down?"

with — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:18:53 +0000

It happens all the time, and it doesn’t even require coordination, just synchronized intent.

Examples:

- ai.com launching with a super bowl ad and being taken down just from large sign up volume

- Taylor Swift drops an album on Spotify, everyone rushes to stream it, crashes Spotify

- random small websites get featured on reddit front page and get hit offline

> how large would the number of users need to be

depends on the target. small website on shared hosting could be hit offline by 1000 concurrent users. major platform might need millions of users concurrently hitting write paths, not just loading cached/static content. or all requiring open sustained connections

> what would they have to do

just all do the same thing at the same time.

New comment by with in "Ask HN: What's it like working in big tech recently with all the AI tools?"

with — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:09:01 +0000

I work for a $50B+ company (is this big tech? idk), but I’ll answer this because we are fully embracing AI (Cursor, Claude Code, cloud agents, AI reviews, you name it)

> Have you noticed faster pace of development?

Yes, our org has had a 50% increase in PRs since Opus 4.5 released.

> Have you seen changes to code quality or code review?

Yes, significantly more bugs (no exact number), but consider it maybe 3-4x in volume. However, nothing catastrophic and everyone just uses AI for fast-follow fixes anyways. The company as a whole is embracing this style of development for better or worse.

> Do teammates that use these tools complete sprint tasks faster than those who don't?

Yes, but my entire team uses them. I’d say the ones who use it more effectively (crazy skill setups, better tooling/commands, better scaffolding) finish much faster. Probably 80% of my team still uses Cursor in the one-shot way with very vague requirements, and don’t have the AI connected to github, jira, slack, etc which can actually feed really important context into decision making.

If I do something more than once a day, I write a custom slash command for it. This has personally 2x’d my pace.