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apetresc··on Dots: Always-on agents
It's hosted OpenClaw.
apetresc··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
The expense to review them deeply used to be large, a few years ago. There should be a review process that consists of putting the source code in some escrow build environment and letting an LLM do a full audit. What would that be, a few bucks at-cost?

Okay, can you concoct some prompt-injection-like scenario where you can fool increasingly sophisticated agents about the presence of your malware? Sure, maybe. It's MILES ahead of where both major app stores are today, though, where you can find obvious scams that sailed through review just by looking at their description.

apetresc··on Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md
I’m honestly not sure what distinction you’re drawing here. Is it the pluralization you’re objecting to?
apetresc··on Fuck it, make it anyway
That’s a fair analogy as well, though it makes a totally different point.

I think you’re right about the analogy itself, though it’s far from clear that society owes it to your grandma to hinder everyone’s access to cheap tomatoes just so she can feel more useful for her tomato-growing abilities.

apetresc··on Dario, Please
Huh? You think the public versions of the models have been “lobotomized” so they don’t know how to turn off a PC?

It’s not lobotomized, it’s a simple harness restriction that has nothing to do with the model or its capabilities. And either way, I’m not sure what that has to do with “negligence” or “intent”? You think frontier labs should be prosecuted because they don’t allow agents to turn off your PC?

apetresc··on Fuck it, make it anyway
I don’t see the analogy? AI is not preventing the craftsman programmer from coding. Your compiler hasn’t stopped “yielding fruit”, so to speak.

The correct analogy would be, your mom can also just go to the supermarket and get much cheaper mass-produced tomatoes; which is… exactly the current situation?

apetresc··on OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems
“Moves to advisory role” is just corporate speak for “retired/fired”. I can’t think of a single example of an executive who “moved to an advisory role” and demonstrated even an iota of influence after that point.
apetresc··on Show HN: Toast, a beautiful by default in terminal IDE
Considering that the very first paragraph of their README has:

> toast is for the developer who wants to stay in their terminal without spending hours getting it up to snuff.

I think he knows you can get anything you want in emacs/vim. The pitch is that toast is batteries-included.

apetresc··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Very obviously you get a Mac Studio for that, not a phone. (Oh, the 96GB Studio is almost $6000, you counter? Imagine how much it would cost in a phone form factor).

You can't possibly expect Apple to take that market segment seriously.

apetresc··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
What on earth would you do with an iOS device that has 96GB of RAM? You realize the last generation (i.e, the most powerful consumer phone in the world today) had 12 GB of RAM? You feel the need for eight times that amount?
apetresc··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
I don’t know too much about image processing, but my intuition tells me that distinguishing a photo of a 3d scene from a photo of a photo of a 3d scene is a much easier engineering problem than distinguishing it from an AI-generated diffusion. So even just reducing the problem to the former is still a worthy accomplishment.
apetresc··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
Maybe, if you tried, you could concoct some adversarial example of a stylesheet that a recent Claude model would trip up on and fail to color a button correctly on the first or even second try. But it would have to be some explicitly engineered trick, akin to an optical illusion for humans.

You can’t convince me that I’m somehow the odd one out because I regularly have no trouble getting Claude to recolor buttons.

apetresc··on iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max
Then you won’t be able to prove it was a genuine photograph? That sounds like the right failure mode.
apetresc··on Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue
So this site is just a fan-fiction that thinks it's somehow dunking on Claude? I've never had a session that remotely resembles any of this. I honestly can't tell what point this site thinks it's making.
apetresc··on Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
That’s a skill issue.
apetresc··on Check if a file was made with Claude
I'm so curious if you're actually able to keep a straight face while typing that.
apetresc··on Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance
A quick glance through the README would demonstrate the litany of improvements you can expect from a proper decomp/port, compared to emulation.
apetresc··on Show HN: TeXbrain, a LaTeX editor that runs pdfTeX in the browser via WASM
Anyone know if this includes TikZ?
apetresc··on Slack Code
Do you mean Teams + Claude? Because Teams and GitHub have had plenty of integration with each other for years.
apetresc··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
You need a "peer-reviewed paper" to believe that frontier labs are increasingly using agentic workflows to develop frontier models?
apetresc··on Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
The evidence is abundant and nearly impossible to ignore without increasingly focused effort.
apetresc··on A Discord Alternative – Echoed
How on earth do you expect them to show you whether there's anyone there you want to talk to?
apetresc··on Command and Conquer Generals natively ported to macOS, iPhone, iPad using Fable
Assuming nothing like DRM goes out of its way to prevent it, I’d be willing to bet significant money that by the time GTA6 is retro enough to require porting to “modern” platforms, precisely that sort of porting will not only be possible, it’ll be so commonplace that it won’t even merit an HN post when it happens.
apetresc··on Claude's AskUserQuestion: "No response after 60s – continued without an answer"
This isn't really security-related. The "AskUserQuestion" hook in question here is not the one that gets used for authorizing actions. That's a completely separate mechanism that is unaffected by this 60-second timer thing.

What this is referring to are those follow-up "here's two plausible alternative ways to do this, which one do you prefer?" questions you sometimes get, and usually at the beginning of a planning session when presumably you're still actively involved in the session. They get exponentially less likely as the turn goes on.

Maybe it's a good default, maybe it's not, I'll wait to pass judgment. But it's not security-related except in contrived scenarios you could construct where one side of an A-or-B UserQuestion has security implications that aren't caught by any other safeguard. I haven't ever really experienced that in practice.

apetresc··on Apple raises prices of MacBooks, iPads
How does that contradict the price increase? iPads still have RAM, yeah? If anything, not increasing the prices on iPads would undermine Macbook marketshare, would it not?
apetresc··on Apple WWDC 2026
Your first Apple keynote, huh?
apetresc··on Math Jokes in Alice in Wonderland
One of your favourite “real characters”? Do you just mean… people? Or does this mean something else I’m missing?
apetresc··on Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?
An em-dash is just Alt-(regular-dash) on most well-configured compose key configurations, it's not any harder.
apetresc··on Claude.ai unavailable and elevated errors on the API
Not so fast, it's currently 98.59%. That's technically two 9s!
apetresc··on Framework Laptop 13 Pro
This is my main question as well. Either stock or with some sort of separate hinge kit, that would completely seal the deal for me.
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