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stevenpetryk

979 karma · joined July 23, 2015

Creator of Mafs [1], a React math visualization library.

[1]: https://mafs.dev

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stevenpetryk··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
worth remembering hacker news cannot “realize” things.
stevenpetryk··on We charge $10k a week to delete AI-generated code
parent commenter may not be american
stevenpetryk··on Claude Tag
Yeah, there is a level of organizational trust that is required to use this tool (as with any system that allows distributing access via service accounts).

We do signal to Claude that there's a difference between a conversation's initiator versus incoming participants and we've found that in situations where people disagree on an approach, Claude patiently waits for a resolution while correcting any misunderstandings.

It's also worth mentioning that since Claude has its own identity, a coworker cannot enter a thread and commandeer _your_ identity; you collectively steer how Claude acts with its _own_ identity (it opens PRs as itself, browses Datadog as itself, etc).

stevenpetryk··on Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers
there is certainly code that sucks; but the article strikes me as someone conflating "code that sucks" with "code that is complex and big and takes a while to get used to".

I have found that a lot of the "massive amounts of bad code" left behind by "rockstar developers" is actually just a long slow drip of added complexity in the face of changing requirements. and I find that people think they're "refactoring the code for readability" when a lot of times, they are actually just "rewriting the code and therefore understanding it in that process".

stevenpetryk··on Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'
automated war machines are plenty to stop an angry mob imo.
stevenpetryk··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Well said. I think a more honest article would’ve been if the author just said “they aren’t conscious because that feels kinda weird and crazy, amirite?”
stevenpetryk··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
But in this "Elysium"-like scenario, that same class would have automated protection in place that makes them ~untouchable and capable of keeping the rest of humanity incapable of pushing back.
stevenpetryk··on Easyduino: Open Source PCB Devboards for KiCad
wow, I've been wanting a "PCB design system" like this for such a long time. I've always found it stupidly hard to just take an existing working board and tweak it.
stevenpetryk··on Filing the corners off my MacBooks
worth noting that silver macbooks are also anodized aluminum, so you'll also be filing off anodization
stevenpetryk··on Mouser: An open source alternative to Logi-Plus mouse software
I'm always afraid of the day Logitech takes this away. Somebody should try to make an open source deploy of this too.
stevenpetryk··on Apple Studio Display and Studio Display XDR
I've been pretty happy with my ASUS ProArt PA32QCV (32", 6k, but only 60Hz). Kinda infuriating that Apple doesn't let you adjust third-party monitor brightness though (and my work disallows apps like BetterDisplay).
stevenpetryk··on Google workers seek 'red lines' on military A.I., echoing Anthropic
It's not black and white. There is an entire spectrum of completely justifiable and extremely questionable uses of military power by the US.
stevenpetryk··on Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War
Being labeled a supply chain risk means that companies with government contracts cannot use Anthropic products _for those government contracts_, not that they have to cease all usage of Anthropic products. Reporters seem to be reporting on this incorrectly.
stevenpetryk··on Anthropic is Down
This sounds like a case of a bias called availability heuristic. It'd be worth remembering that you often don't notice people who are polite and normal nearly as much as people who are rude and obnoxious.
stevenpetryk··on Python is not a great language for data science
Totally agree. The author's most significant example is two code snippets that are quite similar and both pretty nice.
stevenpetryk··on The next chapter of the Microsoft–OpenAI partnership
I agree with your points in general but also, when I plugged in the parent comment's nonsense question, both Claude 4.5 Sonnet and GPT-5 asked me what I meant, and pointed out that it made no sense but might be some kind of metaphor, poem, or dream.
stevenpetryk··on Claude Skills
This is referred to as “online reinforcement learning” and is already something done by, for example Cursor for their tab prediction model.

https://cursor.com/blog/tab-rl

stevenpetryk··on NPM debug and chalk packages compromised
I'm a little confused, is this rage bait or what?

> Things were fine before they became mainstream

As in, things were fine before we had commonplace tooling to fetch third party software?

> package files that are set to grab the latest version

The three primary Node.js package managers all create a lockfile by default.

stevenpetryk··on Claudia – Desktop companion for Claude code
Wow, I really miss Apollo. I haven’t used Reddit since it got priced out.
stevenpetryk··on Anthropic signs a $200M deal with the Department of Defense
No, it’s 200 millimeter-dollars. Much different unit.
stevenpetryk··on Gridfinity: The modular, open-source grid storage system
It’s such a nice project. But boy do I think it would benefit from mass production. People spend a lot of time printing generic bins and baseplates that would be better spent just printing custom bins.
stevenpetryk··on Display any CSV file as a searchable, filterable, pretty HTML table
Could be easy enough to make a CLI tool that opens a browser to an HTML file in /tmp
stevenpetryk··on Intuit, Owner of TurboTax, Wins Battle Against America's Taxpayers
FreeTaxUSA only cost me like… $20? in California this year and had very little upsells. Highly recommend!
stevenpetryk··on Introducing command And commandfor In HTML
I’d much prefer el[‘show-popover’]()
stevenpetryk··on Are LLMs able to notice the “gorilla in the data”?
Obviously you need to place a fiducial mark on your cat.
stevenpetryk··on Grammarly acquires Coda
It’s a glorified autocorrect. It is not useful for people who are already decent at writing.
stevenpetryk··on I Want an Honest Office
Same. I want an office that feels safe, clean, and comfortable. I don’t think blood stains from a dead body motivate me to do anything other than look elsewhere.
stevenpetryk··on Show HN: Open-source private home security camera system (end-to-end encryption)
Have you found cameras you’re happy with? That’s the main thing holding me back is not knowing a good PoE camera to use.
stevenpetryk··on Daisy, an AI granny wasting scammers' time
Cream my corn again?
stevenpetryk··on Pi Chess Board
Extremely interesting, and kind of ingenious. Thank you.
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