Hacker News: 0xDEADFED5

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "In Memoriam: John L. Young, Cryptome Co-Founder"

0xDEADFED5 — Mon, 19 May 2025 05:04:11 +0000

oh wow, a true legend. RIP John.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "A study of lightning fatalities inside buildings while using smartphones [pdf] (2024)"

0xDEADFED5 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 21:01:16 +0000

typically phone chargers aren't grounded, so probably not relevant? lightning travels through the ground, so i'd expect the ground wires to be rather dangerous. also, neutral is bonded to ground at the meter (at least here)... so also not good?

Show HN: A DMCA resistant fork of no-defender

0xDEADFED5 — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 01:52:10 +0000

I use no-defender, but noticed it got sent down the memory hole. Here's an updated version that doesn't ship any 3rd party binaries.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43758388

Points: 7

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New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Reverse engineering the obfuscated TikTok VM"

0xDEADFED5 — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 07:00:20 +0000

this is cool. i briefly worked on a TikTok bot a while back and it was a huge pain in the ass.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in ""We're building a new static type checker for Python""

0xDEADFED5 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 22:36:30 +0000

i type hint for the poor bastards who have to use my code. it's a lot more pleasant to read and reason about.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "DeepSeek's Hidden Bias: How We Cut It by 76% Without Performance Loss"

0xDEADFED5 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 20:41:14 +0000

i've been generating training data from different models to train a small personality sim NN for a game. all the different biases are interesting.

basically i present the LLM with a social situation, and ask it to take an action based on personality facets + relationship with target.

deepseek is super biased against violence. Llama 3.3 is totally okay with violence, but will never choose to "take no action", etc.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

0xDEADFED5 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:07:12 +0000

the fact that a person is closeted gay, or that location data revealed exactly when they were with a mistress

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Shavarsh Karapetyan"

0xDEADFED5 — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:35:11 +0000

right? i'd be kinda wary about hanging out with the guy =)

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Kirin demos "electric salt spoon" at CES"

0xDEADFED5 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 10:02:51 +0000

I read about this the other day. The main thing I remember was the weird grip required...a fist grip? I'd be curious to hear more about that aspect...

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Finland's zero homeless strategy (2021)"

0xDEADFED5 — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 00:26:16 +0000

Most addicts end up recovering

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Luigi Mangione's account has been renamed on Stack Overflow"

0xDEADFED5 — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 06:34:52 +0000

Dirtbag move to keep his content but erase his name

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "My takeaways from 12 months of therapy"

0xDEADFED5 — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 11:47:19 +0000

if you learn things from therapy that improve your life then i guess it has worked.

i imagine success stories tend to self-select as well. if you go to therapy in the first place it means you're admitting a need and willingness to change.

if a person thinks they know everything and can't benefit from therapy then they're probably unlikely to gain anything from the experience.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "ASCII porn predates the Internet but it's still everywhere (2019)"

0xDEADFED5 — Thu, 02 Jan 2025 10:32:41 +0000

check out my website:

https://terminoid.com/discover/

i still need to add seeking and stuff, but it works. like asciinema but based on xterm.js

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "FBI: Largest homemade explosives cache in agency history found in Virginia"

0xDEADFED5 — Wed, 01 Jan 2025 09:23:05 +0000

so you also made a tennis ball rocket?

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Dumping Memory to Bypass BitLocker on Windows 11"

0xDEADFED5 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 04:33:08 +0000

I know this is besides the point, but still kinda relevant:

Even on Win11 it's still possible to do the old utilman (or other suitable module) replacement hack from Windows repair (trigger by interrupting boot), from there you can change account passwords at will.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Guide to mechanical keyboards"

0xDEADFED5 — Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:35:01 +0000

A few fancy keyboards with magnetic switches (I'm using a SteelSeries one) let you set the activation distance. Maybe trying one and maxing out the activation distance would work for you?

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "The Swedish cabin on the frontline of a possible hybrid war"

0xDEADFED5 — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 03:08:23 +0000

yes, but you have to pine for it

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)"

0xDEADFED5 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:54:55 +0000

Fwiw on 22.04 i can use current kernel but otherwise follow Intel's instructions and the stuff works (old as it is now). I'm currently trying to figure out the best way to finetune Qwen 2.5 3B, the old axolotl ain't up to it. Not sure if I'm gonna work on a fork of axolotl or try something else at this point.

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Making AMD GPUs competitive for LLM inference (2023)"

0xDEADFED5 — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 01:46:57 +0000

Big agree on Intel working on SYCL. I've millions of tasks thru SYCL llama.cpp at this point, and though SYCL reliably does 5-6x the prompt processing speed of the Vulkan builds, current Vulkan builds are now up to 50% faster at token generation than SYCL on my Intel GPU

New comment by 0xDEADFED5 in "Ask HN: Who's building on Python NoGIL?"

0xDEADFED5 — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 22:09:23 +0000

Waiting for CFFI or pywin32 free-threaded support since I don't have time to work on CFFI myself