Hacker News: Infernal

New comment by Infernal in "Hacking old hardware by renaming to .zip [video]"

Infernal — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:39:12 +0000

So I thought your initial comment was a (pretty good) joke about using a microwave oven, but now I’m not sure. Is this testing license you reference a continuation of the joke or a real thing?

New comment by Infernal in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

Infernal — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:56:25 +0000

I’m searching for the source material here but must not be using the right keywords, any hints?

New comment by Infernal in "Reverse-engineering Viktor and making it open source"

Infernal — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 18:17:50 +0000

40's as well but first line is basically, hey here's some MIT licensed code we can do whatever we want with it, surely we can use it to make some money to the point we can afford private jets in and out of Dubai.

"TeamViktor's faces surely?" = imagine the looks on their faces "diamond handsing to the moon" = hanging onto a situation that looks bad now hoping it gets better, throwing good money after bad, the opposite of cutting your losses.

New comment by Infernal in "Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit"

Infernal — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 01:57:31 +0000

Is there an article about this written by a human? The “it’s not X. It’s Y” is too distracting.

New comment by Infernal in "My Home Fibre Network Disintegrated"

Infernal — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:07:40 +0000

Your car wouldn’t happen to be a Volvo would it?

New comment by Infernal in "Thousands of U.S. farmers have Parkinson's. They blame a deadly pesticide"

Infernal — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:52:34 +0000

For anyone stopping by looking for more info, it’s Camp Lejeune not Legume.

New comment by Infernal in "macOS 26.2 enables fast AI clusters with RDMA over Thunderbolt"

Infernal — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 22:26:55 +0000

I'm not sure where else you can get a half TB of 800GB/s memory for < $10k. (Though that's the M3 Ultra, don't know about the M5). Is there something competitive in the nvidia ecosystem?

New comment by Infernal in "Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests"

Infernal — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 00:40:40 +0000

On some vehicles it’s easier than others. Unfortunately it’s a great idea to research before making a purchase decision.

New comment by Infernal in "Synesthesia helps me find four-leaf clovers (2023)"

Infernal — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:07:05 +0000

Oh man, my grandmother was like this with finding four leaf clovers. She would just find them constantly, all the time, on command, or maybe while standing around having a conversation. Her description of it was "it's like they're just jumping up and waving at me" which somewhat fits with the author's description of motion. Never heard of anyone else like this though, neat to see others in the comments.

New comment by Infernal in "Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking"

Infernal — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:34:41 +0000

Fair, I suppose I've misunderstood. I took "it's been available since 2024" as a dismissal of this new information.

New comment by Infernal in "Ask HN: Who uses open LLMs and coding assistants locally? Share setup and laptop"

Infernal — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:33:29 +0000

What does the GPD Win 4 do in this scenario? Is there a step w/ Agent Organizer that decides if a task can go to a smaller model on the Win 4 vs a larger model on your Mac?

New comment by Infernal in "Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking"

Infernal — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:20:37 +0000

The point here is that the doc you linked is a year and a half old, this (if real) is much newer. Security is a constant arms race between attackers and defenders, nothing is static so updates of this nature are always welcome.

New comment by Infernal in "Bringing Desktop Linux GUIs to Android: The Next Step in Graphical App Support"

Infernal — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:46:39 +0000

> one that's a device I actually own and control.

Where do you find such a device today? Pixel with GrapheneOS? Any decent mobile Linux hardware I don’t know about?

New comment by Infernal in "The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users"

Infernal — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 05:25:55 +0000

But that passphrase you saved is an additional key, in case you lose all your Apple devices for example. You can tell it isn’t required for your phone to decrypt data because you don’t have to type it in to access your data, or even migrate to a new phone.

New comment by Infernal in "The UK is still trying to backdoor encryption for Apple users"

Infernal — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 00:40:49 +0000

> Or will the iPhone have a multi-hour update where it decrypts its entire iCloud archive on the client-side, and then reuploads it without encryption?

More likely that the phone just sends the keys to Apple in that case

New comment by Infernal in "Open Social"

Infernal — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:10:22 +0000

If I understand correctly it doesn’t matter where the user’s profile is hosted, the point is the user has a store of data that can be accessed by multiple apps via the AT protocol, only naming convention separates one app’s data from another’s within a given user’s profile.

New comment by Infernal in "David Lynch LA House"

Infernal — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:08:59 +0000

TFA says “The facade’s cement chevrons catch the sun” but I’m not sure about the ones inside.

New comment by Infernal in "What happens when 10k AI agents are left to self-govern in a virtual world?"

Infernal — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 00:44:36 +0000

New comment by Infernal in "I forced every engineer to take sales calls and they rewrote our platform"

Infernal — Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:27:04 +0000

I think the comment you're replying to agrees with you - it makes more sense with the last two quoted sentences swapped. I could be wrong but this interpretation seems consistent with the rest of the comment.

"Many software companies hire smart people as CPO, Product Director, or Head of Product because they have leadership skills, people skills, and some knowledge of the industry. Some companies go even further and promote an engineer with project management experience to Head of Product. But most have little to no background in business, marketing, economics, or product development."

New comment by Infernal in "Walkie-Textie Wireless Communicator"

Infernal — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 01:30:19 +0000

I have seen low power meshtastic devices serving things like BBSes on solar power, I’m not familiar enough with 802.11ah devices to know if solar would be feasible.