Hacker News: Numerlor

New comment by Numerlor in "An agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot"

Numerlor — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:51:14 +0000

The AI would probably jump on DoH, what they need is proper decrypted inspection which I'm not particularly convinced they do with the stories that keep coming out

New comment by Numerlor in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

Numerlor — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:25:57 +0000

Going to higher densities with DUV needs high multi patterning which is very inefficient and ends up costing more than if they could do EUV with fewer patterns.

It's well known tech that is used globally, just not to that degree as yield and throughput goes way down

New comment by Numerlor in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

Numerlor — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:26:52 +0000

I think the models getting dumber impacted that too, after a couple weeks both sol and Luna felt notably worse to me than they did at release

New comment by Numerlor in "Revolut confirms customer data breach through fake government requests"

Numerlor — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 11:33:47 +0000

Around banking it's usually because they have to

New comment by Numerlor in "Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review"

Numerlor — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 10:50:53 +0000

Well, it can do research without uploading malware or hacking into systems

New comment by Numerlor in "Anthropic discloses fourth AI hacking incident missed in earlier review"

Numerlor — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:57:12 +0000

Yep put some deep packet inspection firewall in front of it and stop it completely if it starts acting up persistently before it starts trying to bypass the firewall

New comment by Numerlor in "Python's pre-declared constants are kinda weird"

Numerlor — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 23:52:21 +0000

If 0. Etc. are also compiled out, at compile time __debug__ is simply False or True and the existing optimization paths take care of it.

Assigning to __debug__ wouldn't do anything to the compiler as it never actually reads the variable, so assignment would just cause weirdness from other use

New comment by Numerlor in "How to compromise your system with a job interview"

Numerlor — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:29:11 +0000

This really is the simplest path to somewhat decent security, and alongside it you may catch some programs doing requests that are fine for security but you'd rather it not do because of privacy.

New comment by Numerlor in "Chestnut – eGPU dock with open-source firmware"

Numerlor — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 12:40:06 +0000

They're claiming a lot, but don't have much to show for it

New comment by Numerlor in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

Numerlor — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:54:08 +0000

And if you go for actual GPUs it'll run much faster, I'd say 24gb may be pushing it for context, but my 5090 with 32GB VRAM is usually somewhere between 60 to 100 tok/s with mtp and 2-3k tok/s for prompt processing. I'm not sure what they cost now but it's definitely still quite far from the macbook, and there's also some other 32GB GPUs that are considerably more affordable

New comment by Numerlor in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

Numerlor — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 01:04:05 +0000

AC is sorely lacking in the EU, e.g. right now I have one in my office but not in my bedroom and nights are horrible, but I do read a lot about people overdoing it quite a bit with AC, aiming at 18-20°C during 30s outside which is a huge energy expenditure when a healthy human should be perfectly fine at higher temperatures

New comment by Numerlor in "EU fines Temu €200M for allowing sale of illegal products"

Numerlor — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:15:08 +0000

More niche hardware has been impossible for me to find in the EU marketplaces I got to with searches, with only availability from US ebay, and then Chinese marketplaces. Or if it does exist here it's the same used part but it costs 500€ instead of 40

New comment by Numerlor in "Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU"

Numerlor — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:08:48 +0000

Idle and light load is bad for degradation only because that's the most common scenario where the boosting algorith will actually go to the highest clocks. More loaded cores will have the CPU target lower clocks on all cores so that it actually can get the power for it and have the CPU be coolable, but if you're idle and then some task loads just a single core for a bit the CPU will boost it the highest it can. The voltage spikes from those boosts will cause local hotspots even if the CPU is cool overall

New comment by Numerlor in "Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU"

Numerlor — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:24:38 +0000

Not sure what's supposed to be wrong with that? The clock tree degrades at high voltage. Some theories I've seen were on the CPU requesting significantly higher voltages during alternating clocks when there's a short lull in load from e.g. a pipeline stall. Then there doesn't seem to be a good enough of a sensor net in the correct places for the CPU to react to this, so it just "burns" itself down gradually. Assuming these are true, actual fixes from intel would be relaxing boost clocks to ones that are universally safe and open themselves to a lawsuit from everyone that bought the high end SKUs, or do a new stepping which is extremely expensive for a done design.

When you degrade the CPU naturally needs higher voltages to be stable, until the point where it just breaks completely and no amount of voltage it help it. But if your CPU doesn't degrade because it hasn't been overdoing it on voltages then there'll be no issues for Vmin to shift.

As an anecdotal experience from someone I know that runs these in prod for game servers, limiting the CPU to 80°C and 1.4V-1.45V, 400A has been keeping them alive for years doing 24/7 loads. Maybe a bit lower on the voltage if one wants to be sure longer term, as they are fine with just mass RMAing these. There's also large amount of differences in the silicon quality between samples that can make one run cool and completely fine even at the old stock settings, and an another sample that'll have to pull say 1.5x the power for the same load and clocks having it degrade.

New comment by Numerlor in "Bug 1950764: Work Around Crash on Intel Raptor Lake CPU"

Numerlor — Mon, 25 May 2026 11:35:40 +0000

Undervolting would definitely help, and is the actual fix. The current Intel fixes were mostly just for the symptoms, as the main issue is high voltage+power when pushing high clocks, but they can't actually fix that as it'd downgrade the advertised clocks the cpus were sold with

New comment by Numerlor in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

Numerlor — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:42:03 +0000

SMS 2FA is the worst factor because of how insecure and phishable the phone network is, it deserves to die out where possible

New comment by Numerlor in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

Numerlor — Tue, 05 May 2026 10:39:34 +0000

Ublock origin works perfectly fine on Edge. With Firefox I've also had ram usage that was multiples of what I get with Edge, on both Linux and Windows

New comment by Numerlor in "Why does it take so long to release black fan versions?"

Numerlor — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:31:24 +0000

Because it's spinning blades among manufacturing tolerances you also have to account for the blades expanding when rotating at high speed, and possibly working with 40-50 °C air from the components

New comment by Numerlor in "DeepSeek v4"

Numerlor — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 07:16:27 +0000

I've liked Hermes agent, but never used Claude code so don't know how it compares

New comment by Numerlor in "The RAM shortage could last years"

Numerlor — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:14:31 +0000

Factories working at (significantly) less than full capacity gets a bit harder when you've got one of the most expensive machines on earth working in them, and production lines that'll be out of date in a couple of years