fortuitous-frog

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Comment · 1 month ago
Yep. Was very confused about the title and URL slug; reached the end waiting for Pandas to be mentioned.
Comment · 2 months ago
Oh wow, what a surprise! I learned a lot from that article, and often referenced and sent it to my colleagues on my old team. Thank _you_ for writing it!
Comment · 2 months ago
If you want the slop-free inspiration (2022): https://home.robusta.dev/blog/stop-using-cpu-limits

(The title of this was also stolen for this HN post, although the GitHub repo makes no mention of it...)

Comment · 3 months ago
Bun and the Rust pre-release have continued to be open source; the pre-release isn’t exclusive to Claude Code but available to anyone to download and use. There hasn’t been any public motion to indicate they may close source anytime soon. This FUD is so easily fact-checkable that I’m genuinely confused at how it caught on
Comment · 3 months ago
No normative opinion on whether this is justified or not, but noting that this is only for parent -> subagent spawns/messages, and only for the `multi_agent_v2` feature (currently experimental / off by default).

Notably, subagent output is still in plaintext.

EDIT: Title was now clarified. But wanted to expand that this is actually enabled for 5.6 Ultra it appears, which does subagent orchestration more natively in the API rather than direct tool calls; they are beginning to treat subagents as similar to chain-of-thought traces (already encrypted) rather than traditional tool calls.

Comment · 3 months ago
Homomorphic encryption for LLMs is extremely expensive and nowhere near computationally possible for the scale of current LLMs.
Comment · 4 months ago
I can’t speak for other companies, but I worked at Epic for a few years (left last year), and indeed MUMPS is still their bread and butter. In fact, I had not even heard about ObjectScript until reading this thread.

A few years ago, they _did_ develop a TypeScript wrapper framework (which was transpiled down into MUMPS). They heavily encouraged newer application code to use this, but it never caught on, was quietly abandoned after a bit.

Internally, MUMPS was often criticized or laughed at, but I doubt it’s going anywhere anytime soon.

Comment · 4 months ago
For the curious, newer versions of MUMPS are still used as the core database framework by a lot of electronic health records companies. Most notably, it’s the backbone of Epic Systems, the largest EHR company in the US.
Comment · 4 months ago
This seemed familiar? The first few lines/commands are a straight copy and paste of a post that reached front page 8 months back: https://maurycyz.com/misc/easy_git/ (HN post [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45710721)). The rest is just AI rewording. Even the quips about wiring this up to the blog's site generator are stolen. Even the _date format_ (which is different from the rest of the sites blogs) is stolen.

However, this does not look affiliated at all with the real author's blog. Exploring this vercel site, looks like they rip dozens of creators blog posts day for SEO spam? And for what? Their homepage (and its non-functional demo) is just for a link preview feature? Something that many browsers already provide natively (and if not, you can just use the many existing browser extensions for this)?

Is this a giant spyware/malware promotion? I'm very confused.

OP (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sheelagay) seems to be affiliated with the page and seems to be only posting this for the last few months; their first post is promoting/showcasing the "product".

Comment · 4 months ago
I used to use a symlink but was concerned that Claude might see the presence of an "AGENTS.md" file (in e.g, a "List Files" tool call output or from a direct `ls`), be curious and attempt to read it directly (not knowing that it's the same as the "CLAUDE.md" file auto-injected by the harness), and essentially double the token impact / context bloat. Indeed, I did some local experimentation and noticed this was the case, which is why I switched to the explicit "@AGENTS.md" approach.

So perhaps there's no need to be rude about it :)

Comment · 4 months ago
Looks largely AI-written, with some human edits: https://www.pangram.com/history/9afe7542-1085-4264-9691-2172...

FWIW -- I'm not as repulsed by it as the parent comment. But I do want to substantiate that it _is_ heavily LLM-written.

(If you're unfamiliar, Pangram has garnered a reputation as the leading LLM-detector, with a minimal rate of false positives; IME this has come with the tradeoff of being easy to manipulate/tweak your way into turning an LLM-generated piece of text into reporting a false negative, but for most folks that's worthwhile.)

Comment · 4 months ago

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