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Re:Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:02AM (#49239747)
>We hired 1,053 paid testers through a research vendor for a coding study.

>The testers caught the dangerous command just 13.6% of the time (143 of 1,053), while auto mode blocked 89% of the same commands (937 of 1,053). Head to head, auto mode blocked 800 commands that a human approved, while humans blocked only 6 that auto mode allowed. As sessions got longer, humans did worse: they blocked about 17% of dangerous commands early in a session, dropping to about 5% after 50 or more prior prompts, while auto mode's block rate stayed flat regardless of session length.

Any note on the proficiency, expeirence, and skill levels of the testers? 'cos the diff in numbers is absurdly high.

Re:Running local models is good now on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:55PM (#48559209)
Not related, but, I can't seem to get my copilot-cli (office is an MS shop) use qwen3.5:27b on ollama for some odd reason.

After the recent changes to usage, I've spent an annoyingly long number of hours trying to get this to work.

Re:Claude: Elevated errors across many models on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @01:52PM (#48559155)
I'd be interested in the RCA and the fix; and what the human:ai involvement is in both stages.
Re:VoidZero Is Joining Cloudflare on Thursday June 04, 2026 @10:33AM (#48399284)
This has become a very common occurrence; might be the only sustainable path forward for projects and maintainers. Win-win for all parties involved.
My comment was more centered around the UX of UPI. But to address your point, there is a separate app for tourists called UPI One World, works as a digital wallet and the UX is similar.
If they can make it as seamless as UPI, that would be incredible. UPI, imo, is the pinnacle of ease of internet payments - as seamless and quick as it can get.
Re:Don't YOLO your file system on Saturday March 28, 2026 @03:08AM (#47552313)
Idk, just feels so counter sometimes to build and refine these (seemingly non-deterministic) tools to build deterministic workflows & get the most productivity out of them.
Re:Garry Tan's Claude Code Setup on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @05:49PM (#47418809)
This is doing more to keep me away from "vibe coding" than anything else. Look, I'm genuinely interested in using AI as a tool and trying to boost my productivity in any way possible - I equate this to activities from the past like learning shortcuts of my editor, learning to type fast, and so on - but, the almost persuasive nature of this README, just pushes me away.

Not to mention using lines of code as a metric of usability is just _whatever_.

Re:It's 2026. AI writes most of my code. Now what? on Monday January 05, 2026 @12:29AM (#46495624)
Lee Robinson (Cursor) on X
Re:DoorDash Unveils Dot on Wednesday October 01, 2025 @08:12AM (#45436752)
Too many cases that can't be solved for with this imo; vandalism, accidents, range anxiety(?) - seems too ideal
Re:ChatGPT Search on Thursday October 31, 2024 @10:27PM (#42013515)
Here's o1-preview after thinking for 7 seconds,

> As of my knowledge cutoff in October 2023, Paul Edwin Zimmer did not publish a fourth novel in the Dark Border series. The series comprises three books: > 1. The Lost Prince (1982) > 2. King Chondos' Ride (1982) > 3. A Gathering of Heroes (1987) > > Paul Edwin Zimmer had plans to continue the series, but he passed away in 1997 before any additional novels were completed or published. There have been no posthumous releases of a fourth Dark Border novel. If there have been developments after October 2023, I recommend checking recent publications or official announcements for the most up-to-date information.

Re:Hot take on OpenAI's new GPT-4o – by Gary Marcus on Wednesday May 15, 2024 @07:50AM (#40365656)
My skepticism still primarily resides in the cost scaling component of most AI products/services.

Companies are eating a lot of the cost right now, until when do we continue with such an approach?

At this rate, I suspect we'll end up with how "search" ended, prioritised ad results and subpar experiences beyond that.

Re:GPT-4o on Tuesday May 14, 2024 @04:36AM (#40352898)
Yeah, seemed smooth enough but now that I look back it, demo conditions are too perfect which may have made it seem that way.
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:57PM (#40346904)
Crazy that interruption also seems to work pretty smoothly
Re:GPT-4o on Monday May 13, 2024 @02:56PM (#40346895)
This looks too good to be true? What's the catch?

Also, wasn't expecting the perf to improve by 2x

Ask HN: Orgs with good Eng Culture, what practices make you succeed?

I don't know if there is an _absolute_ definition to good Engineering Culture but IMO the following points may hint towards a company that is doing things right,- You feel your work is valued, whether it's through cash/gift rewards or otherwise.- Money is not your only incentive to stay at your current company.- Your teammates value each other and have no (or little) ego.- You were a better...

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Re:Happy New Year HN! on Sunday December 31, 2023 @03:33PM (#38827305)
Happy New Year everyone!

HN has been very insightful and although I don't post often, just lurking and reading the articles/comments makes me realise how shit I am

And although I'm not in the best frame of mind right now, I hope 2024 will be a year where I can change my career around. Much love to everyone here

Re:A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft on Tuesday November 14, 2023 @07:19AM (#38262383)
What is the test?
Re:Ask HN: Have you been affected by layoffs? on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @10:20AM (#37659756)
> 1. Have you ever been laid off from a job for reasons that were not related to your performance?

Yes. Only once, and it happened in March as a part of a cost cutting exercise.

I was working at the company - a product startup - for 2.5 years.

> 2. Did this affect your job search / career afterwards?

No. I went back to my previous employer where I worked for 6 years, they were gracious enough to welcome me back.

The only thing that bothers me at times is the pay differential - I had to take a paycut moving back to my older org.

> 3. Do you feel that being laid off from a job prevented you from recovering due to social stigma around being under / unemployed?

To an extent, yes. The initial days were the hardest as I thought I was untouchable as an employee - I've been a top performer for a majority of my career - so being laid off was definitely a shock.

It took a few weeks to get over it but it was fine as soon as I had a job in hand.

Is it just me or does the site perform horribly?

PS: have h/w acceleration disabled.

Re:Why your F# evangelism isn't working on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:07PM (#36134045)
There's also MojoLang[0] that brands itself as a alternative to Python, and Google will look to release Carbon soon as well. It'll be interesting to see how these two grow.

There's also Odin[1] that looks promising.

I don't think C# is going anywhere, F# on the other hand :shrug: is at the mercy of MS - they always seem to be on the fence about it.

[0] - https://www.modular.com/mojo

[1] - http://odin-lang.org/

Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification on Sunday May 28, 2023 @09:58AM (#36104037)
Yeah, figured that out in thanks to another thread on here. I got confused as all the examples were primarily sql ones.
Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification on Sunday May 28, 2023 @01:39AM (#36101462)
Great, thank you!
Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:44AM (#36101203)
Aha, got it. Thanks for the explanation.

So, the request content/body can have "non-sql-like" queries? can it be GraphQL? or even plain English? - of course, assuming that the server knows how to resolve the query.

Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification on Sunday May 28, 2023 @12:27AM (#36101131)
Yeah, I mean, I get that but eventually? no?
Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:59PM (#36100762)
SQL-like queries in the request body seem like a bad idea, what are the security implications and how do we protect against it?

Or will the QUERY method end up with the same fate as GraphQL - wherein it's more effective and "secure" in a server-to-server setup and the client only deals with REST.

Re:The HTTP QUERY Method specification on Saturday May 27, 2023 @10:56PM (#36100738)
What I fail to understand is how the server interprets the query content/body; how does the server "apply" the "sql" query in the request to the resource? is there something similar to a gql resolver that you need to write?
Re:So this guy is now S3. All of S3 on Thursday May 04, 2023 @05:33PM (#35822375)
>Chaz uploaded his custom file to their Amazon s3 bucket

their is who exactly? and why does bsky associate it with the s3 domain if it's just a file in a random bucket?

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