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Comment by timmmmmmay | Hacker News Reader

I'm sure their coverage on other topics is truthful and informative though and it's only the ones where you know a lot about the topic where it's all a bunch of bullshit

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The first time I saw the comments here on an education article (my area of expertise and career focus), I realized just how full of shit most of us are. It made me really closely consider every comment here through a VERY critical lense.

The articles are usually close but not quite accurate. The comments are usually entertaining but overall wildly inaccurate.

The best comments are the ones formed as questions. I'm as guilty as anyone, but it is far more productive in comment sections to ask questions rather than saber rattle or peacock in front of people. Just my opinion of course.

Why wasn't this a question?

> I'm as guilty as anyone

Internet comments are essentially documented bar talk, and once you realize it, you stop angrily arguing with strangers all day.

Yeah but HN sort of bills itself as better than most places. It just simply is not; there's just a special sort of self confidence here that masks a ton of ignorance.

Yeah FWIW I think that's the aspect of this place I dislike the most. There's a sort of collective fiction that HN is a special place with better comments. At least Reddit has accepted that they're just the internet's version of bar gossip.

Not saying you aren't right, you most likely are. But still, I'd expect a paper called "The Economist" to perhaps be slightly better at some topics than others. Probably from the perspective of a "A Economist" it doesn't really matter the technical details, they're interested in the story from a different perspective.

That sentence is not bullshit as normies would understand it. One of the points of a harness is to have a privilege boundary around the agent. But that is just technobabble to the normies so they explain it like this.

> harness ... a privilege boundary around the agent

They don't really do that though. If you want something sandboxed you actually have to sandbox it, not plead with the LLM to please sandbox itself. A VM can be configured to do the former, harnesses do the latter.

If you say in your CLAUDE.MD that a certain directory is read only inputs, Claude Code will actually enforce that and deny any write to that directory by the agent. To name just one example.

...maybe. If there are any actual consequences if that software's invariants are violated you're better off using an external sandboxing mechanism. There are many excellent quality, battle tested options to choose from that you can actually rely on. Trusting claude code for this is highly questionable behavior for an organization, and would really throw the rest of their security posture into doubt IMO. Like if I learned a company was letting clod play in the same sandbox as developers' ssh keys, vpn certs, etc I'd take steps to make sure my organization absolutely never uses their software.

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