Hacker News: 0xDEFACED

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

0xDEFACED — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:12:38 +0000

this can't be how i find out...

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Claude 4.6 Jailbroken"

0xDEFACED — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 14:41:14 +0000

this goes a bit further than the typical "how do you make meth" jailbreak. notably;

>915 files extracted from the Claude.ai code execution sandbox in a single 20-minute mobile session via standard artifact download — including /etc/hosts with hardcoded Anthropic production IPs, JWT tokens from /proc/1/environ, and full gVisor fingerprint

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "A dot a day keeps the clutter away"

0xDEFACED — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:30:24 +0000

i have a truly marvelous story about interesting marginalia which this comment box is too small to contain

Ask HN: Is anyone still resisting the slop onslaught?

0xDEFACED — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 01:03:54 +0000

Even as recently as a month or two ago his site seemed, to me at least, to be one of the final bastions of the public internet without a significant portion of its content being AI generated. Now, it feels like at least half of the articles I click on are full of LLM-isms and otherwise obviously AI generated. In spite of this, the comments are full of enthusiastic agreement or ardent dissent. Out of dozens of comments, none bother to acknowledge the inauthenticity of the content.

Is it finally time to throw in the towel accept the inevitable? Is it enough that the topic of an article or blogpost is interesting, even if the text itself is a pile of tokens?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47581581

Points: 9

# Comments: 8

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

0xDEFACED — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:53:15 +0000

>No regression. No noise. Just compounding.

it seems like half the articles I click on here are generated, and in half of those, nobody in the comments seems to notice (or care)

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Ant Mill"

0xDEFACED — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:32:18 +0000

this is what claude is doing when he gets stuck in a "you're absolutely right!" loop

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

0xDEFACED — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:22:44 +0000

will private packages hosted on pyx be available for openai to use as training data?

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Electron microscopy shows ‘mouse bite’ defects in semiconductors"

0xDEFACED — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 01:38:24 +0000

any hope that this could be applied to improving memory fab yields and ease some of the capacity constraints on consumer devices? asking for a friend

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "On The Need For Understanding"

0xDEFACED — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:16:39 +0000

i've been thinking about this a lot the past few days, particularly about how coding agents can _help_ with understanding

i've been using opencode/opus to help with debugging lately, and it (he?) will happily dive into the source code of a dependency, the dependency's dependencies, and the C code that its binding to, all the way down to reading the libusb driver code and explaining what is going on where

whether or not i could have figured that all out on my own is beside the point; i wouldn't have take the time on a tight deadline to dig in deep. i would have done some poking and experiments and shipped a hacky workaround

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Palantir CEO Makes Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power"

0xDEFACED — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:28:29 +0000

does anyone have a link to the full news segment? it's not clear to me from the clip in the link that he's talking about Palantir; he makes multiple references to "this technology" without ever clarifying what "this" is.

sounds to me like he's talking more about AI disruption at large

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Apple's MacBook Neo makes repairs easier and cheaper than other MacBooks"

0xDEFACED — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:19:50 +0000

i sure hope so if apple intends to sell these things to school divisions. the levels of abuse i witnessed students dishing out to their chromebooks when i was a teacher was shocking to say the least

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Just-bash: Bash for Agents"

0xDEFACED — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:41:10 +0000

chmod with extra steps

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Skip the Tips: A game to select "No Tip" but dark patterns try to stop you"

0xDEFACED — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 04:46:27 +0000

is there a name for the phenomenon where a user immediately assumes the smallest and lowest contrast button on an interface is the option they want, before actually reading any of the words?

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Waymo exec reveals company uses remote workers in the Philippines"

0xDEFACED — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 00:05:50 +0000

not if the swerve would put you headlong into oncoming traffic

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Briar: Peer to Peer Encrypted Messaging"

0xDEFACED — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 14:23:10 +0000

Briar offers a companion ”mailbox” app for the exact reason you describe (i assume)

where did you read that it hosts an onion service? i guessed that's how it worked but couldn't find anything in their docs that said so.

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "GibberLink [AI-AI Communication]"

0xDEFACED — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 18:19:38 +0000

youre missing the forest for the trees. the library this demo is using for audio encoding (ggwave) was not made by the creators of this demo. speed (or lack thereof) aside, having a direct audio<->text encoding is much more computationally efficient than speech<->text generation.

on the subject of the encoding efficiency, the ggwave depo mentions the use of reed-solomon error correction to make transmission more reliable. im struggling to find any info on error correction used by bell 103 or other modems, but if they aren't as robust that could partially explain the discrepancy you're describing

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "I wrote a Game Boy Advance game in Zig"

0xDEFACED — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:00:58 +0000

wow, i also started using linux about 5 years ago due to frustrations with getting python to work on windows

sure, the windows installer is easy enough to get set up, but pretty quickly i started noticing a pattern in most documentation/tutorials.

Linux: one-line setup command

Windows: nothing, or a complicated, multi-step process (that rarely works without hiccups)

wasting my time going down rabbit holes debugging my environment was not as fun as actually writing code

Speech to Markdown

0xDEFACED — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 18:03:00 +0000

Article URL: https://tolly.xyz/blog/speech/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42117959

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Ask HN: Why do you all think that Htmx is such a recent development?"

0xDEFACED — Wed, 22 May 2024 17:09:02 +0000

What makes describing your UI with components that use a html template fragment and receive a context object a leaky abstraction, as opposed to components that use JSX and receive a props object?

New comment by 0xDEFACED in "Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game"

0xDEFACED — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:51:16 +0000

How long before someone runs Doom on Tetris?