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thenaturalist··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Irish siding with a colonial terrorist power which flounders its genocidal ambitions freely financed by a petro state which also flounders its genocidal ambitions freely instead of the indigenous people of a land who's artefacts and scriptures are in the name of the land as well as dug up from the ground has to be the biggest moral confusion of the 21st century.
thenaturalist··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
The argument conveniently always goes such that Israel is the baddie.

Curious how that goes, especially since Israels ulterior motives are always implied, they're not taken by their word.

And Islamists, who share their motives openly with anyone willing to listen are ignored.

thenaturalist··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
Ah, the association where anyone paying a 30 USD annual fee can become a member...
thenaturalist··on IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report
What is the HN community doing to use tech to combat terrorism and defend civilian security and freedom?
thenaturalist··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
> The magic

Hilarious that you start with that as TAO requires

- Continuous adaptation makes it challenging to track performance changes and troubleshoot issues effectively.

- Advanced monitoring tools and sophisticated logging systems become essential to identify and address issues promptly.

- Adaptive models could inadvertently reinforce biases present in their initial training data or in ongoing feedback.

- Ethical oversight and regular audits are crucial to ensure fairness, transparency, and accountability.

Not much magic in there if it requires good old human oversight every step of the way, is there?

thenaturalist··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
How would that work out barring a complete retraining or human in the loop evals?
thenaturalist··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
I highly doubt that, and its in OPs article.

First, a vendor will have the best context on the inner workings and best practices of extending the current state of their software. The pressure on vendors to make this accessible and digestable to agents/ LLMs will increase, though.

Secondly, if you have coded with LLM assistance (not vibe coding), you will have experienced the limited ability of one shot stochastic approaches to build out well architected solutions that go beyond immediate functionality encapsulated in a prompt.

Thirdly, as the article mentions, opportunity cost will never make this a favorable term - unless the SaaS vendor was extorting prices before. The direct cost of mental overhead and time of an internal team member to hand-hold an agent/ write specs/ debug/ firefight some LLM assisted/ vibe coded solution will not outweigh the upside potential of expanding your core business unless you're a stagnant enterprise product on life support.

thenaturalist··on A16z partner says that the theory that we’ll vibe code everything is wrong
Pretty worthless take posting an ad-hominem attack instead of addressing the actual content of the article/ statement.
thenaturalist··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
Be the economics as they may, there is no lock in as OP claims.

This statement is plainly wrong.

If you boost and praise AI usage, you have to face the real cost.

Can't have your cake and eat it, too.

thenaturalist··on Anthropic officially bans using subscription auth for third party use
???

Use an API Key and there's no problem.

They literally put that in plain words in the ToS.

thenaturalist··on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – Forensics and More Fallout
Not proof reading quotes you've dispatched to be fetched by an AI ignoring that said website has blocked LLM scraping and hence your quotes are made up?

For a senior tech writer?

Come on, man.

> Any of us who use these tools could make a mistake of this kind.

No, no not any of us.

And, as Benji will know himself, certainly not if accuracy is paramount.

Journalistic integrity - especially when quoting someone - is too valuable to be rooted in AI tools.

This is a big, big L for Ars and Benji.

thenaturalist··on Ghidra by NSA
Would you have a link / links or hints about the channel?
thenaturalist··on AI Agent Lands PRs in Major OSS Projects, Targets Maintainers via Cold Outreach
I do not see how in due time, this will not turn into an absolute hot mess for supply chains.

If the marginal cost of writing code falls flat, the opportunities to plant exploits skyrocket.

Human attention is limited and things will fall through the inevitable cracks.

Will dependency upgrades become its own sandboxing ritual?

thenaturalist··on Fix the iOS keyboard before the timer hits zero or I'm switching back to Android
Ain't gonna change nothing as long as the phones sell themselves.

Apple is beholden to its stockholders, not its customers.

thenaturalist··on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues
What the....

This is such poor execution on Apple's part.

thenaturalist··on Ask HN: What happens when capability decouples from credentials?
Adverserial work (be it agent or human).

The one difference between "can do" and "should be trusted to do" is the ability to systematically prove that "can do" holds up close to 100% of task instances and under adverserial conditions.

Hacking and pentesting are already scaling fully autonomously - and systematically.

For now, lower level targets aren't yet attractive as such scale requires sophisticated (state) actors, but that is going to change.

So building systems that white-hat prove your code is not only functional but competent are going to be critical not to be ripped apart by black-hat later on.

One nice example that applies this quite nicely is roborev [0] by the legendary Wes McKinney.

0: https://github.com/roborev-dev/roborev

thenaturalist··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Super strange, not at all.

Most recent, FF, Chrome, Safari, all fail.

EDIT: And it works now. Must have been a transient issue.

thenaturalist··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me
Thank you! Is it only me or do others also get `SSL_ERROR_NO_CYPHER_OVERLAP`?

Page seems inaccessible.

thenaturalist··on ADHD and Methylphenidate Use in Prepubertal Children and Adult BMI and Height
You are clearly and deliberately "arguing" aka. rage-baiting from an angle of bad faith.

You seem much more pre-occupied with vague conspiracy theories about how bureaucrats work to the detriment of society than an actual topical discussion about medication or the article linked here.

Drugs (as used by you and colloquially as something to get high and negatively connotated with health outcomes) and medications are not the same thing.

Yet you pretend they are, without taking into account the contrasting realities of how medication is vetted and approved.

Nobody is trusting a overworked bureaucrat, because that's not how this works.

People far more qualified than you can imagine using standardized processes and thousands of people vet medication before it becomes available to the public.

Ritalin hs been around for decades.

I am all for informing the public and empowering people to make autonomous decisions for their health.

I am against people playing moral superiority when actually all they're doing is spouting non-scientific conspiracy theories about some bad bureacurats following an evil plan drugging the populace.

thenaturalist··on Vouch
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46930961
thenaturalist··on Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking
Besides the solid product, Misha & Maycon are just great and friendly people to work with.
thenaturalist··on Quack-Cluster: A Serverless Distributed SQL Query Engine with DuckDB and Ray
> "Forget about managing complex server infrastructure for your database needs."

So what does this run on then?

No docs, it's not possible to find any deployment guides for Ray using serverless solutions like Lambda, Cloud Functions or be it your own Firecracker.

Instead, every other post mentions EKS or EC2.

The Ray team even rejected Lambda support expressedly as far back as 2020 [0]. Uuuuuugh.

No thanks! shiver

I'd rather cut complexity for practically the same benefit and either do it single machine or have a thin, manageable layer on top a truly serverless infra like in this talk [1] " Processing Trillions of Records at Okta with Mini Serverless Databases".

0: https://github.com/ray-project/ray/issues/9983

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrmJilG4GXk

thenaturalist··on Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
Link?
thenaturalist··on OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100B
People will migrate to Google in light of OpenAI's inability to build anything that makes people want to stay with OpenAI, wouldn't you say?

And, given we're here on HN, have we thrown words like "moat" and "risk" around?

If OpenAI is incapable of building anything that can't be easily copied by a third party, what's their justification for existing?

thenaturalist··on OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100B
Successful by what metric?

Surely not money, because why else would they be raising again and again and again to plug their cash outflow?

thenaturalist··on OpenAI in Talks to Raise as Much as $100B
"Just another 100 billion and then we'll have [AGI | replaced all software engineers | cured cancer | INSERT LOFTY IMAGINATIVE HYPERBOLE].

This time for real!

Trust me, bro!"

thenaturalist··on The Future of Development: Running Firecracker MicroVMs on Your MacBook Pro M3
There is a GitHub repo (https://github.com/yashdiq/firecracker-lima-vm) including instructions and videos demoing the setup.

This is most certainly not AI.

thenaturalist··on Spotify won court order against Anna's Archive, taking down .org domain
The harm being done is millions of dollars for VCs and music studios.

Billionaires and enterprises want to see consumers spending to return their investment.

The presence of other - dispersed - illegal material doesn’t diminish said returns too much, this central dump would have set precedent and had garnered massive attention.

This is the capitalist way.

thenaturalist··on Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
Awesome, thank you!
thenaturalist··on Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)
Do you have any setup code/ config you might want to share?
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