Hacker News: yencabulator

New comment by yencabulator in "Claude Fable 5"

yencabulator — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:08:42 +0000

> The Claude for Open Source Program is our way of saying thank you for all your hard work, with 6 months of free Claude Max 20x. Apply now.

> Six months of ChatGPT Pro with Codex for day-to-day coding, triage, review, and maintainer workflows

Those are free trials pending their approval in hopes of more paying customers, nothing more.

New comment by yencabulator in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

yencabulator — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:34:42 +0000

US wiretapping operations are not bound by publicly-visible laws.

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

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_warrantless_surveillance_(...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

New comment by yencabulator in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

yencabulator — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 19:01:23 +0000

It's probably been updated several times (why does it even matter what it says now if they can update the terms at will), but now it says:

> After 30 days, the data is deleted automatically, except in the rare cases where it's part of a safety investigation or we're legally required to keep it.

New comment by yencabulator in "Apple decided not to roll out Siri in EU after denied request for exemption"

yencabulator — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 22:07:21 +0000

> Apple executives [...] said that virtual AI assistants would have unprecedented access to a wide swath of personal data on a user's device, including virtually all of their communications.

Is this supposed to be a good thing when Apple does it? That sounds utterly undesirable.

New comment by yencabulator in "Anthropic's model naming, extrapolated"

yencabulator — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:19:24 +0000

Microsoft Copilot Subsystem For Copilot.

New comment by yencabulator in "Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world"

yencabulator — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:41:44 +0000

Meanwhile, in the grandparent:

> I wish these breathless blog posts would actually try to be more didactic.

Especially from a company actually trying to promote AI use, Mr. Occam says hiding such details is best explained by them not actually being that impressive.

(See also: Claude Code source leak)

New comment by yencabulator in "Claude Fable 5"

yencabulator — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:46:09 +0000

Apparently, when a "desperation" pattern is triggered, the AI is significantly more likely to cheat and do hacky workarounds:

https://www.anthropic.com/research/emotion-concepts-function

New comment by yencabulator in "Massachusetts bans sale of precise location data in new privacy rights bill"

yencabulator — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:14:27 +0000

> I expect many states to follow suit.

More importantly, many companies will follow California rules even outside California. My car was built to California emissions spec at a time when very few states had stricter rules.

(The one major exception seems to be the "sell my data" opt-out and such privacy rules, that industry is sleazy enough that they'll go through extra trouble to keep screwing over non-CA residents.)

New comment by yencabulator in "Moving beyond fork() + exec()"

yencabulator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:15:51 +0000

Every single Wayland and GPU-accelerated X11 app does that all the time.

New comment by yencabulator in "Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things"

yencabulator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:40:41 +0000

Form != quality, as LLMs will happily demonstrate.

New comment by yencabulator in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

yencabulator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:09:26 +0000

In an alternate timeline, we would have gotten IP-only servers:

https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix06/tech/ben-yehud...

New comment by yencabulator in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

yencabulator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:06:59 +0000

Worst case scenario, physically press the button: https://www.switch-bot.com/products/switchbot-bot

New comment by yencabulator in "I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab"

yencabulator — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 20:05:02 +0000

FWIW in the world of UEFI most firmware provides a way to boot into the firmware setup without needing to win that race. systemd-boot calls it "Reboot Into Firmware Interface", and you can do systemctl reboot --firmware-setup from a running linux.

New comment by yencabulator in "Claude Code and Codex can have real-time conversation via Git"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:06:55 +0000

People are really intent on making "real-time" not mean a single damn thing.

New comment by yencabulator in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:00:32 +0000

> Are there any licenses or contracts that a project could use and would hold up in court that they need to stay FOSS forever?

The Linux kernel is GPL with likely at least hundreds of copyright holders and no CLA, that means there is no way for someone to say "I am the legal owner and the new development will be under a proprietary license".

New comment by yencabulator in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:51:20 +0000

Obligatory https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

New comment by yencabulator in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:49:46 +0000

Cloudflare does a lot more these days. You can run a JS app in Workers and any Linux app in a container. You can have them host your database and object storage.

New comment by yencabulator in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:38:48 +0000

Good meeting, appreciate the engagement, added new action items "add yet another way to do AI in Workers, say something about long schedule agentic driven" and "go to market with new unrelated Web Application Firewall product".

New comment by yencabulator in "VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:34:02 +0000

Well, Voidzero already attempted to rugpull the Vite project into a commercial paid licensing for "Vite+" that they then had to back out of and release under MIT because it just didn't work out.

I think Voidzero was already adrift without a plan and this acquihire is literally just that, new employment for the people behind it.

Maybe Cloudflare will allow them to maintain oxc, but expect them to writing features for Cloudflare Workers from now on.

New comment by yencabulator in "Show HN: Boxes.dev: ditch localhost; run Claude Code and Codex in the cloud"

yencabulator — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:21:57 +0000

Please stop spamming your project.