pencilcode's comments

On: ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

[pencilcode]

ai slop analysis finding CF detects non javascript capable browsers with no punchline

On: Software factories and the agentic moment

[pencilcode]

heard from a vp recently, software developers are committing seppuku.

On: When AI 'builds a browser,' check the repo before believing the hype

[pencilcode]

Just had my manager submit 3 PRs in a language he doesn’t understand (rust) and hasn’t ran or tested and is demanding quick reviews for hundreds of LoCs. These are tools but some people are clueless..

[Fervicus → pencilcode]

> These are tools

Just like your manager.

[patrickmay → pencilcode]

Tell him you need him at the code review to explain his coding decisions.

[mbac32768 → pencilcode]

It's only fair you ask an LLM to review it for you.

On: Cloudflare scrubs Aisuru botnet from top domains list

[pencilcode]

Find it a pity that the decision was to remove them instead of owning how the ranking is made. it’s going to be very very hard to differentiate between bots and humans at the dns query level, if possible at all. DNS magnitude is about the dispersion of source ips/networks and if this is a distributed bot net, it makes sense. and it’s about 1.1.1.1 queries, not overall dns queries, which they couldn’t possibly obtain. See this more as proof of the impact of these botnets, which I found super interesting. Removing them just makes it poorer imho.

On: Show HN: Comparing product rankings by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity

[pencilcode]

Brands will ofc start gaming this and enshitification ensues

On: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

[pencilcode]

Donate donate to Ukraine https://u24.gov.ua/ Trump is simply abject

On: Two Useful Prompts to Explore Intent and Behaviour

[pencilcode]

TIL Schrödinger Asshole - nice to be able to put a name on it

On: Tracking supermarket prices with Playwright

[pencilcode]

It’s pretty good actually. Used in a small scraping site and worked without a hitch.

On: Cortical Labs: "Human neural networks raised in a simulation"

[pencilcode]

This gives me nightmares tbh. Love that they say that they’re happy and healthy, lol.

[imposterr → pencilcode]

Very "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" for me.

[dsego → imposterr]

Darkness, imprisoning me All that I see, absolute horror I cannot live, I cannot die Trapped in myself, body my holding cell Landmine, has taken my sight Taken my speech, taken my hearing Taken my arms, taken my legs Taken my soul, left me with life in Hell

[edf13 → dsego]

It’s all it’s known, all it ever has… a higher being may feel the same sadness about us mere humans.

[isoprophlex → edf13]

A pig, in a cage, on antibiotics

On: Ask HN: Isn't ChatGPT unfair to the sources it scraped data from?

[pencilcode]

At the minimum, systems like chatgpt should be forced to link to their sources, so it gives something back and so that its assertions can be verified - right now, it’s just good at bullshitting through questions.