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pests commented on Recreating Epstein PDFs from raw encoded attachments   neosmart.net/blog/recreat... · Posted by u/ComputerGuru
dperfect · 3 days ago
Nerdsnipe confirmed :)

Claude Opus came up with this script:

https://pastebin.com/ntE50PkZ

It produces a somewhat-readable PDF (first page at least) with this text output:

https://pastebin.com/SADsJZHd

(I used the cleaned output at https://pastebin.com/UXRAJdKJ mentioned in a comment by Joe on the blog page)

pests · 3 days ago
So it was a public event attended by 450 people:

https://www.mountsinai.org/about/newsroom/2012/dubin-breast-...

https://www.businessinsider.com/dubin-breast-center-benefit-...

Even names match up, but oddly the date is different.

pests commented on LinkedIn checks for 2953 browser extensions   github.com/mdp/linkedin-e... · Posted by u/mdp
avastel · 3 days ago
I wrote a blog post recently about the technique used by LinkedIn to do extension probing, as well as other ways to do it with less side effects

https://blog.castle.io/detecting-browser-extensions-for-bot-...

pests · 3 days ago
Nice write up, definitely exactly this.

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pests commented on The Codex App   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
barbazoo · 6 days ago
> "Localize my app and add the option to change units"

To me this still feels like the wrong way to interact with a coding agent. Does this lead people to success? I've never seen it not go off the rails in some way unless you provide clear boundaries as to what the scope of the expected change is. It's gonna write code if you don't even want it to yet, it's gonna write the test first or the logic first, whichever you don't want it to do. It'll be much too verbose or much too hacky, etc.

pests · 6 days ago
I've had no issues with prompts like that. I use Cursor with their plan mode, so I get a nice markdown file to iterate on or edit myself before it actually does anything.

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pests commented on List animals until failure   rose.systems/animalist/... · Posted by u/l1n
themanmaran · 8 days ago
68. The unique title texts are really fun. But I strongly disagree that "chipmunks are squirrels".
pests · 7 days ago
Well TIL prairie dogs are actually squirrels
pests commented on List animals until failure   rose.systems/animalist/... · Posted by u/l1n
pests · 7 days ago
70

and it made fun of me for forgetting "dog" :(

pests commented on What I learned building an opinionated and minimal coding agent   mariozechner.at/posts/202... · Posted by u/SatvikBeri
dagss · 7 days ago
> from copying and pasting code into ChatGPT, to Copilot auto-completions [...], to Cursor, and finally the new breed of coding agent harnesses like Claude Code, Codex, Amp, Droid, and opencode

Reading HN I feel a bit out of touch since I seem to be "stuck" on Cursor. Tried to make the jump further to Claude Code like everyone tells me to, but it just doesn't feel right...

It may be due to the size of my codebase -- I'm 6 months into solo developer bootstrap startup, so there isn't all that much there, and I can iterate very quickly with Cursor. And it's mostly SPA browser click-tested stuff. Comparatively it feels like Claude Code spends an eternity to do something.

(That said Cursor's UI does drive me crazy sometimes. In particular the extra layer of diff-review of AI changes (red/green) which is not integrated into git -- I would have preferred that to instead actively use something integrated in git (Staged vs Unstaged hunks). More important to have a good code review experience than to remember which changes I made vs which changes AI made..)

pests · 7 days ago
> remember which changes I made vs which changes AI made..

They are improving this use case too with their enhanced blame. I think it was mentioned in their latest update blog.

You'll be able to hover over lines to see if you wrote it, or an AI. If it was an AI, it will show which model and a reference to the prompt that generated it.

I do like Cursor quite a lot.

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