Hacker News: Havoc

New comment by Havoc in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:14:32 +0000

Think with these low end decoy triggers you’re lucky if it implements standard never mind the optional parts.

You could always request a non optional feature and convert it up/down yourself

New comment by Havoc in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 17:11:36 +0000

I’ve had it catch a bunch of errors on borderline memory at home. (Despite the memory passing memtests).

New comment by Havoc in "Curl will not accept vulnerability reports during July 2026"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:39:54 +0000

Why is curl catching so many security issues?

I can see something like nginx being in that spot but curl is primarily user initiated and pointed at a known target rather than internet facing accepting connections

New comment by Havoc in "USB Power Delivery: Plugging into the Benefits"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:11:43 +0000

Don’t think you’ll find it cause it’s not an issue with the decoy - that’s the expected behaviour. 12v isn’t mandatory. Which is insane but here we are.

On the plus side some of the bottom tier anker chargers will do 12v.

Plus I think the very new PPS ones should too

New comment by Havoc in "Openrouter Fusion API"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:37:47 +0000

Interesting. Will definitely use this.

One scenario I can see it working is writing markdown specs before the coding starts and analysing it for gaps. That’s so few tokens that throwing as much LLM against it as possible is worthwhile regardless of cost per million tks

New comment by Havoc in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:15:23 +0000

Well I did run deepseek against the original. They all seem seem to spot different issues

New comment by Havoc in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:47:15 +0000

Switching to something else is still quite intimidating to the non hn crowd

New comment by Havoc in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"

Havoc — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 07:44:01 +0000

Pretty sure I’ve got multiple copies of Minecraft thanks to Microsoft login bullshit.

Recently moved desktop to Linux though so hopefully don’t need to deal with them again

New comment by Havoc in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:33:05 +0000

Initial testing seems promising. 5.2 found a fair few issues in code generated by 5.1

Also seems much more determined to do things the "right" way. e.g. Saw hardcoded credentials and wanted to purge that from git history and integrate a vault into the project

Feels a little slower, but I suspect what I'm feeling is verbose thinking rather than slower raw tokens

New comment by Havoc in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:36:39 +0000

Interesting to hear that Amazon is doubling down on mcp

New comment by Havoc in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:26:42 +0000

Merges and fine tunes are within reach of individuals with some money to burn so I’m sure a muni can do it

New comment by Havoc in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 18:25:11 +0000

Nex in turn is also based on qwen so don’t think they’re too far off

New comment by Havoc in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 14:00:33 +0000

True - if all else fails there is mistral. Really hope the EU ensures they keep chugging along even if it does take taxpayer money

New comment by Havoc in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:11:20 +0000

I tend to mix them. Write the thing with GLM and get DS or Opus to review the finished result for issues

New comment by Havoc in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:10:01 +0000

Well I do hope you're right - that's a brighter future for all

New comment by Havoc in ""Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?""

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:08:38 +0000

Think it depends on the client base tbh. I know one professional translator who got wiped out. And that happened before powerful GPT style translation.

The reason the english on your new toasters manual is broken is because that is good enough for 90%+ of use cases. If OP is getting 500 page style guides he's clearly in the 10% rather than the Karen's assumption about translators being wrong.

New comment by Havoc in "The Defeat of Nuclear Deterrence"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:58:18 +0000

The deterrence could weaken but I suspect a single use of a nuke could (assuming it doesn't MAD) bring back deterrence by normalising use somewhat.

If you think about post hiroshima...I don't think anyone doubted the US was willing to wipe out cities

So not entirely convinced it's dead

New comment by Havoc in "What happens to an economy when it's too hot to work?"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:55:11 +0000

Only the shitty ones. People in places with 40+ heat do in fact use laptops like everyone else

New comment by Havoc in "RTX 5080 and RTX 3090 Setup: 80 Tok/s on Qwen 3.6 27B Q8"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:44:10 +0000

Very nice!

Though if you're buying a X570 board I'd do crosshair viii dark hero - no buzzy chipset fan and can also do 2x8

New comment by Havoc in "The American World Cup Introduced Ad Breaks–and Everyone Hates It"

Havoc — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 01:35:40 +0000

TT hey sure are infusing the American capitalistic spirit into this one