Hacker News: yen223

New comment by yen223 in "Write Your Own Copy"

yen223 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 06:23:21 +0000

This sounds AI haha

New comment by yen223 in "Y Combinator's CEO says he ships 37,000 lines of AI code per day"

yen223 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:42:08 +0000

Just once I wish they would talk about the product they actually shipped

New comment by yen223 in "Good CTE, Bad CTE"

yen223 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:09:44 +0000

I've always thought of CTEs as a code organisation tool, not an optimisation tool. The fact the some rdbms treats them as an optimisation fence was a bug, not a feature.

New comment by yen223 in "Ask HN: What's your favorite number, and why?"

yen223 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:33:51 +0000

91, which to me is a prime number no matter what the maths say

New comment by yen223 in "Tell HN: Pangram is easily-defeatable with Claude"

yen223 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:41:03 +0000

This is a losing game for Pangram

There's no special "humanity" quality in text. If a human can write it, there's no reason a sufficiently strong pattern matcher can't write it too.

New comment by yen223 in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

yen223 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:05:18 +0000

How many of you had to stop using Claude because of the Pentagon edict?

New comment by yen223 in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

yen223 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:36:58 +0000

There's a lot of overlap between the "disregard this" vulnerability among LLMs and social engineering vulnerabilities among humans.

The mitigations are also largely the same, i.e. limit the blast radius of what a single compromised agent (LLM or human) can do

New comment by yen223 in "“Disregard That” Attacks"

yen223 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:26:40 +0000

https://bsky.app/profile/weiyen.net/post/3m7kenmok4c2n

I did something similar. Try framing your maths question in terms of teeth

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:47:51 +0000

That's fine. I'm not making a value judgement about which LLMs you should use, if any.

I'm only pushing back against someone thinking "oh HN talks about Claude a lot, therefore Claude must be extremely popular". The information bubble is a real problem.

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:41:29 +0000

I suspect we're underestimating the number of users Deepseek has in Asia.

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 03:39:02 +0000

It's probably true that Anthropic's revenue is booming. But we need massive grains of salt:

a) they are private and revenue numbers for private companies are hopelessly unreliable, and

b) they are planning an IPO, so there's an extra incentive to big up the numbers. Anthropic always brings up ARR, which is very gameable when the year hasn't ended yet

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:13:12 +0000

WhatsApp is more popular than Slack, Teams and Telegram combined. WhatsApp has something like 2-3 billion users worldwide

WhatsApp vs Slack + Teams is a bit of an apples to oranges comparison though.

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 02:06:02 +0000

Late last year was like 3 months ago.

I'm bullish on Claude. It will see a surge in users, and will likely surpass Perplexity this year. However I don't think it will catch up to even Meta AI (which had 10x the number of users) this year.

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:29:15 +0000

I like Claude, but polling done on Americans late last year shows otherwise:

https://epoch.ai/data/polling

Overseas numbers are likely worse for Claude.

Try and ask someone not in tech what they think of Claude or Anthropic. There's a high chance they've never heard of either.

Things might have changed with Anthropic showing up at the Superbowl, and in the news over their fight with the Pentagon.

New comment by yen223 in "Push events into a running session with channels"

yen223 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:13:51 +0000

A lot of such cases. Claude itself had (has?) fewer users than Perplexity, let alone Meta AI, Gemini or ChatGPT

New comment by yen223 in "Willingness to look stupid"

yen223 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:59:28 +0000

Bears look smart, bulls do things

New comment by yen223 in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

yen223 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:48:22 +0000

Gotta crush the competition

New comment by yen223 in "Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?"

yen223 — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:40:23 +0000

The typography in Maggie Appleton's blog is unparalleled

https://maggieappleton.com/

New comment by yen223 in "BMW Group to deploy humanoid robots in production in Germany for the first time"

yen223 — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 10:04:33 +0000

I suspect the average excel spreadsheet has fewer bugs than the average custom in-house enterprise software

New comment by yen223 in "British Columbia is permanently adopting daylight time"

yen223 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 23:38:49 +0000

please nobody tell this person about milliseconds