Hacker News: Bromeo

New comment by Bromeo in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

Bromeo — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:44:34 +0000

How does it compare to opensnitch? https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

New comment by Bromeo in "Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for nuanced AI image generation"

Bromeo — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:17:39 +0000

This works with the openrouter API as well, which skips having to make a google account etc. Here's a Claude-coded openrouter compatible adaptation which seems to work fine: https://github.com/RomeoV/gemimg

A 1024x1024 image seems to cost about 3ct to generate.

New comment by Bromeo in "The Principles of Diffusion Models"

Bromeo — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:15:57 +0000

Are you familiar with the "Bitter Lesson" by recent Turing Award winner Rich Sutton? http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html

New comment by Bromeo in "Typst 0.14"

Bromeo — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 16:45:21 +0000

One thing I'm missing when making slides with typst is the ability to show short videos or animated gifs. Although to be fair this isn't easy in beamer either.

Typst can actually include gifs, but they don't move for me. I have some hopes that perhaps one could make slides straight in html which could alleviate the issue.

New comment by Bromeo in "Apertus 70B: Truly Open - Swiss LLM by ETH, EPFL and CSCS"

Bromeo — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:34:58 +0000

Looks like the performance is pretty decent, somewhere around Llama3.1 for general knowledge (Tables 17) but still a bit behind in Code and Reasoning (Table 18). Llama3.1 was released about one year ago.

Soham Interview Simulator

Bromeo — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 01:38:52 +0000

Article URL: https://soham.penrose.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44741522

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by Bromeo in "Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search"

Bromeo — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 22:13:12 +0000

Per-user search history can directly be sold to advertisers, no? I was under the impression Google and Microsoft do that, or at least use it internally to build a profile of each user, again used for advertising.

New comment by Bromeo in "ChatGPT Search"

Bromeo — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 21:52:55 +0000

Kagi answers that there is "CBMC", which is single-threaded, but that there are extensions "Deagle" and "Yogar-CBMC" that provide multi-threading for CBMC. It gives links to the papers for all three, however some of them are closed access (or in other words, fact checked, unlike arxiv).

New comment by Bromeo in "Git commit with hash `0000000`"

Bromeo — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:29:34 +0000

I just stumbled across this commit and couldn't believe my eyes, thought it may be interesting to some of you as well.

EDIT: Looking further into it, it looks like there's almost two thousand commits on github starting with this exact hash: https://github.com/search?q=hash%3A0000000&type=commits&p=1

Git commit with hash `0000000`

Bromeo — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 02:29:34 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/JuliaAPlavin/MakieExtra.jl/commit/000000007dac9715520764e334380ae8ab26d598

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41991403

Points: 20

# Comments: 8

New comment by Bromeo in "Show HN: Mdx – Execute your Markdown code blocks, now in Go"

Bromeo — Sat, 26 Oct 2024 20:49:49 +0000

Yup, looks like org-babel is at least 15 years old. https://github.com/taruti/org-babel/tree/master

I don't think it ever had huge adoption across whole teams, but I hope if there are new implementations that they take away a number of lessons you can gather from 15 years of org-babel.

New comment by Bromeo in "Our Git Hash Bug"

Bromeo — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:17:41 +0000

I suppose it's "RNG" if the commit has exactly one 'e' and otherwise only numbers, so that YAML interprets it as scientific notation. I assume otherwise it's always interpreted as a String, as a fallback.

New comment by Bromeo in "Maduro lost election, tallies collected by Venezuela's opposition show"

Bromeo — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:55:03 +0000

I find this comment to be very tone-deaf. Are you interested in buying stocks to support Venezuelan companies, or are you purely trying to make a quick buck off of the backs of Venezuelan people trying to prevent their country from being a dictatorship?

New comment by Bromeo in "Re-Evaluating GPT-4's Bar Exam Performance"

Bromeo — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 11:14:13 +0000

Very interesting. The abstract claims that although GPT-4 was claimed to score in the 92nd percentile on the bar exam, when correcting for a bunch of things they find that these results are overinflated, and that it only scores in the 15th percentile specifically on essays when compared to only people that passed the bar.

That still does put it into bar-passing territory, though, since it still scores better than about one sixth of the people that passed the exam.

New comment by Bromeo in "A man ordered to hide his boat painted the boat on his fence"

Bromeo — Fri, 31 May 2024 16:52:21 +0000

I really don't mind the green ones, in particular when the bikes are used as an alternative to a second car, which to my is significantly more "fugly".

New comment by Bromeo in "Optimizing Linux for an AMD Xiaomi/Framework Laptop"

Bromeo — Thu, 16 May 2024 10:53:45 +0000

Thanks for the nice writeup! So how many hours does your laptop get after all this?

It would also be interesting to see an "all default" install (arch or manjaro) somewhere, is someone knows a link.

Visualizing malicious IP addresses

Bromeo — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 23:32:07 +0000

Article URL: https://romeov.github.io/malicious_ip_addresses/malicious_ip_analysis.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164337

Points: 169

# Comments: 116

New comment by Bromeo in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

Bromeo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:42:52 +0000

I don't want to read too much into it, but the person (supposedly) submitting the PR seems to work at 1Password since December last year, as per his Linkedin. (And his Linkedin page has a link to the Github profile that made the PR).

New comment by Bromeo in "Comparing Performance of Julia on CPUs vs. GPUs and Julia-MPI vs. Fortran-MPI"

Bromeo — Sat, 06 Jan 2024 00:16:47 +0000

Probably they could get a nice speed up by changing the if condition from your link into a multiplication with (eoe != 0) two lines down instead.

New comment by Bromeo in "Last Pass Hacked"

Bromeo — Sat, 27 Aug 2022 04:01:58 +0000

Do you sync your passwords between devices?