The bicycle frame is a bit wonky but the pelican itself is great: https://gist.github.com/simonw/a6806ce41b4c721e240a4548ecdbe...
do you have a gif? i need an evolving pelican gif
Readit News6thbit commented on Claude Opus 4.6 anthropic.com/news/claude... · Posted by u/HellsMaddy
6thbit commented on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? · Posted by u/terabytest
I manually wrote a "bad" spec, asked it for feedback, improved spec until the problem, the solution and overall implementation design were clear and had a very high level of detail and were trying to do exactly what I needed. The lots of thinking, reading and manual editing helped me understand the problem way better than where I began from.
New session: Fed the entire spec, asked to build generic scaffolding only. New session: Fed the entire spec, asked to build generic TEST scaffolding. New session: Extract features to implement out of spec doc into .md files New session: Perform research on codebase with the problem statement "in mind", write results to another .md. Performed manual review of every .md. New session(s): Fed research and feature .md and asked for ONE task at a time, ensuring tests were written as per spec and keep iterating until they passed. Code reviewed beginning with test assertions, and asked for modifications if required. Before commit, asked to update progress on .md.
Ended up with very solid large project including a technology I wasn't an expert on but familiar, that I would feel confident evolving without an agent if I had to, learned a lot in the process. It would've taken me at least 2 weeks to read docs about it and at least another 3 to implement by hand; I was done in 2 total.
https://roc.camera/
This was on hn this year, and it was, in classic HN fashion, dismissed as a problem in search of a solution. Well, perhaps people in this thread will think differently
> verifiably real moments
would someone benefit from demonstraing a photo is real?
The top usecase I can think of it to ensure AI is trained on real photos. Any upside for humans?
6thbit commented on Show HN: What if your menu bar was a keyboard-controlled command center? extrabar.app/... · Posted by u/pugdogdev
Tangent:
“ No permissions. No telemetry. Just local actions.”
That phrasing is so GPT coded. Same for other portions of the text.
Just feeling curious that the tone is there, not judging your usage of tools.
6thbit commented on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available letsencrypt.org/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/jaas
Why 6 day and not 8?
- 8 is a lucky number and a power of 2
- 8 lets me refresh weekly and have a fixed day of the week to check whether there was some API 429 timeout
- 6 is the value of every digit in the number of the beast
- I just don't like 6!
Worry not, cause it's not 6 days (144 hours), it is 6-ish days: 160 hours
And 160 is the sum of the first 11 primes, as well as the sum of the cubes of the first three primes!
6thbit commented on 6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available letsencrypt.org/2026/01/1... · Posted by u/jaas
This comment used to say that was in staging only.
(Nevermind, i was confused following the links from original article)
6thbit commented on The latest Firefox version broke ChatGPT website old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/... · Posted by u/vanni
Some request errors relate to "NS_INVALID_CONTENT_ENCODING". In such requests that is set to Content-Encoding: br
Did the new firefox break the Brotli encoding?
I really don't understand this. My line of thinking is that if someone is technical enough to root his phone he understands the risks. Why would they force banking apps to detect and not work on rooted phones? Why would the government care so much?
"detect unauthorized interference with the Mobile Banking application"
I wonder if this has become a feasible avenue for scammers to interfere via other apps they could convince someone to install on rooted phones. Or if they are worried about skilled people being able to debug/MITM and find vulnerabilities on the banks.
Though from that statement alone, sounds more of a measure to protect banks than customers.
I believe another factor specific for HN is the inability to downvote forces people to respond in negative light.
The most controversial submissions always have a tighter comment to upvote ratio.
The most controversial comments tend to be the most replied to.