Hacker News: Catloafdev

New comment by Catloafdev in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

Catloafdev — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:56:35 +0000

Do you have any reason to believe this?

This fits the NK MO to a T. It does not fit Israeli intelligence activity. Your claim rings hollow without any support.

New comment by Catloafdev in "A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There"

Catloafdev — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:43:34 +0000

Certain political topics bring out bots and narrative-pushing. It's very obvious with certain topics.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin"

Catloafdev — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:33:53 +0000

The value proposition isn't there.

If you reframe the perspective from 'free $500 sitting on a server' to 'requires actively utilizing an unreleased 0 day exploit on a server that will certainly be able to track exactly what was done, for a payout of... $500?'

That's pennies for something like this.

Add two zeros and it might get nabbed.

Edit: others have pointed out it's not really a 0-day anymore, they're right, so it's likely more a matter of time.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins"

Catloafdev — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 20:25:42 +0000

Is the CSS on the page all messed up for anyone else or just me?

https://i.imgur.com/fRVxjzq.png

New comment by Catloafdev in "RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes"

Catloafdev — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:55:27 +0000

Wholesale blocking foreign country IP's is both an extraordinarily common practice and extremely effective. It has nothing to do with the political topics you chose to voice.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Muse Spark Open"

Catloafdev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:07:47 +0000

> Muse is VERY sticky

How, exactly?

New comment by Catloafdev in "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"

Catloafdev — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:17:30 +0000

I can't help but give the biggest eye-roll at the barrage of 'fear open models' coming from Anthropic.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?"

Catloafdev — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:01:10 +0000

Is that why his parents are claiming foul play and hired a private investigator?

New comment by Catloafdev in "My personal AI agent posted my bank details on company Slack"

Catloafdev — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:12:52 +0000

> I used Grok Bot and gave it all my financial details and connected it to my work Slack and regret it

This is not the kind of story I would want to publicize if I were a CEO.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

Catloafdev — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:45:47 +0000

Strip mining is an extraordinarily appropriate metaphor.

Imagine a mine has an unknown number of rare materials. And you know the general location of a few of the most valuable spots. But you don't know what may be valuable right next to it. If the pieces that we know are valuable are suddenly gone, the incentive to mine that particular area drops considerably, dropping the chance to discover potentially brand new materials that would have been found the normal way.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

Catloafdev — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:38:20 +0000

This is a pretty hilarious thing to read juxtaposed with AGMAI's requests.

Basically "Here you go, have fun with this, fuck all your demands, by the way we're gonna be releasing the model stay tuned!"

New comment by Catloafdev in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

Catloafdev — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:32:01 +0000

Yes - the Chinese labs serve a market that rely on open-weight models and managed deployments, and the labs gain competitive relevance by releasing those models. The cache optimization feature they came up with required new software to utilize on the inference-end, meaning that open source software would need to be specifically updated to work with these models. It wasn't the type of advancement that they could even theoretically keep secret.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

Catloafdev — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:36:25 +0000

Which version are you using? Using code mode in the desktop Claude app, I do not see thinking traces at all, and I don't see any way to toggle it.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

Catloafdev — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 15:23:09 +0000

Thinking traces aren't in the Claude app (at least, not visibly). I assumed it's only available (if at all) via API.

New comment by Catloafdev in "Two-tier encryption in the UK"

Catloafdev — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 14:26:12 +0000

Buddy you aren't addressing the comments that are replying to you.

You gotta stay on-topic. You keep coming up with random things to compare to that make no sense to anybody but you. Who said it was legal to say "kill the king"?

New comment by Catloafdev in "Claude Opus 5.5"

Catloafdev — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 16:33:07 +0000

> Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally than prior models. Early testers found its writing clearer and easier to follow, which addresses some of the common feedback we heard about Opus 5.

Sounds like they noticed the complaints. I'm curious to see what LLM-isms this one may have.

New comment by Catloafdev in "GLM Built Its Own Inference Infrastructure"

Catloafdev — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:15:55 +0000

So we're basing winners and losers on vibes rather than money or performance?

New comment by Catloafdev in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

Catloafdev — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:05:42 +0000

Qwen3.8 Flash Next just released which hits that range.

Also, Deepseek V4 Flash can be run relatively well in hybrid 2-bit quantization on 128gb devices, with way better results than you'd expect for a typical 2-bit quant.

Those are currently the 'smartest' options for that memory level.

New comment by Catloafdev in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

Catloafdev — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:01:35 +0000

>until China solves the ASML problem

Which they are in progress on: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/how-china-built-its-manh...

New comment by Catloafdev in "How GLM built its own inference infrastructure"

Catloafdev — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:55:31 +0000

Intel shares are still up over 100% since the Trump admin invested in them and started going to bat for them.

I don't think your information is entirely accurate.