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taspeotis··on Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me
That's for OpenBSD, typical IoT firmware is tiny by comparison: a few init.rc scripts, some cron jobs, a php-cgi web UI, and glue code with hardcoded API keys. The total lines of code are orders of magnitude smaller, so the audit surface and expected cost are too.
taspeotis··on Sonnet 4.6 Elevated Rate of Errors
I mean if people have judged this important enough to be on the front page of HN ... I guess it's important enough to be on the front page?

But any combination of the Claude models are up or down on any given day: https://status.claude.com/

taspeotis··on Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me
> don't have the resources to buy 20000$ of tokens to go debug them

$20,000 - how many developers do these hardware companies have that they need to spend that much? Claude Team Premium is US$125/mo for a seat and even cheaper if you buy annually...

taspeotis··on Adobe modifies hosts file to detect whether Creative Cloud is installed
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20061101-03/?p=29...
taspeotis··on Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates
Hi, thanks for Claude Code. I was wondering though if you'd considering adding a mode to make text green and characters come down from the top of the screen individually, like in The Matrix?
taspeotis··on Reinventing the pull request
Mobile is particularly bad

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-lubeno-dev-blog-rei...

taspeotis··on [dead]
I wish people could promote their products without riding on the brand recognition of other companies.
taspeotis··on OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor

    OpenAI's latest repo has Claude as the third top contributor (twitter.com/codebynz)
    13 points by mirzap 19 minutes ago | flag | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
#9 here?

https://github.com/openai/parameter-golf/graphs/contributors

taspeotis··on No, Windows Start does not use React
Title is pretty bad. It should be “Yes Windows Start Uses React but Not the Way You or I Do As Web Developers.”
taspeotis··on Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety
Did they add another one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47442690

taspeotis··on The Ugliest Airplane: An Appreciation
(2021)
taspeotis··on Java is fast, code might not be
Knock Knock

Who’s there?

long pause

Java

taspeotis··on We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk
Yes god what the fuck. As someone who’s finished High School IT IS SO HARD TO READ WHAT HE WRITES
taspeotis··on LibreOffice blasts OnlyOffice for working with Microsoft to lock users in
Excuse me word processors are meant to have a ribbon, backstage view and where in LibreOffice is a sidepanel for me to talk to LibreLM to do agentic editing?

Plus if it runs on Android it must support snackbars.

taspeotis··on Claude Code's new hidden feature: Swarms
This sounds like BMAD?

https://github.com/bmad-code-org/BMAD-METHOD

taspeotis··on Apple picks Gemini to power Siri
Could it just fucking work? "Hey Siri turn on the [room name] room lights" and it gives me a positive chime and ... doesn't turn any lights on? In any of my rooms?
taspeotis··on ChatGPT Atlas
I have also had bad experiences with it and turned it off - especially for creative stuff like mocking up user interfaces it gets “poisoned” but whatever decision it made in some chat 6mo ago and never really iterates on different outcomes unless you steer it away which takes up a bunch of time.
taspeotis··on Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state
> I'm recomming my customers switch to Linux rather that Upgrade to Windows 11 (scottrlarson.com)

But of a bait and switch from that to the actual article title…

> Retiring Windows 10 and Microsoft's move towards a surveillance state

If nothing else adhering to HN’s guideline on titles would have saved me having to suffer through reading “recomming.”

taspeotis··on AppLovin nonconsensual installs
Yes: “App Store” on iOS protects you against exactly this.
taspeotis··on Anthropic's Prompt Engineering Tutorial (2024)
My workflow has gotten pretty lax around prompts since the models have gotten better. Especially with Claude 4.5 (and 4 before it) once they have a bit of context loaded about the task at hand.

I keep it short and conversational, but I do supervise it. If it goes off the rails just smash esc and give it a course correction.

And then if you're coming from no context: I throw a bit more detail in at the start and usually start by ending the initial prompt with a question asking it if it can see what I'm talking about in the code; or if it's going to be big: I use planning mode.

taspeotis··on Rating 26 years of Java changes
Which release did they add the URL class that checks for equality by connecting to the internet? 10/10
taspeotis··on GitHub Copilot CLI is now in public preview
Better late than never.
taspeotis··on Cloudflare Introduces NET Dollar
Make it stop
taspeotis··on React is winning by default and slowing innovation
Less technical take than the other comments: I don’t care. React is good.

After suffering through JavaScript Framework Fatigue I was glad Create React App “won” for a bit until it was neglected so much a bunch of other bundling tools popped up.

Now the winners seem to be Next.js-but-try-to-ignore-the-Vercel-upsell and Vite.

I’m using Vite + React wherever I can and it just works.

I don’t need something else.

taspeotis··on How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development
I’m training myself to have the muscle memory for putting it into planning mode before I start telling it what to do.
taspeotis··on Reshaped is now open source
In the README the getting started takes you to the changelog, rather than getting started.
taspeotis··on Is OOXML Artifically Complex?
Off topic sorry but with all the comments discussing Office's size and age and technical baggage ... does anyone know how they pivoted from X million lines of code for a desktop application to running it on the web with all those collaboration features?
taspeotis··on I ditched Docker for Podman
Podman works 99% for me, it’s getting better each release. But every so often I get bitten by some incompatibility and have to use Docker.

At the moment it seems docker compose misbehaves with Podman when WSL2 gets involved.

I look forward to when I can replace Docker entirely.

taspeotis··on The Size of Adobe Reader Installers Through the Years
And the log scale makes this a contender for https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisugly/
taspeotis··on OpenAI Progress
Honestly my quick take on the prompt was some sort of horror theme and GPT-1’s response fits nicely.
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