Hacker News: Phelinofist

New comment by Phelinofist in "Use your Nvidia GPU's VRAM as swap space on Linux"

Phelinofist — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 07:38:28 +0000

So can VRAM actually be used like regular RAM? E.g. if I have a 16GB module and my GPU has 16GB VRAM, could it be made so that my system reports 32GB RAM? What would be the implications of that?

New comment by Phelinofist in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

Phelinofist — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:15:38 +0000

Yep, I use Cortecs - https://cortecs.ai/ "Europe's LLM ROUTER"

New comment by Phelinofist in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

Phelinofist — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:23:02 +0000

And the server admin, Hausemaster

New comment by Phelinofist in "Linux security mailing list 'almost unmanageable'"

Phelinofist — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:56:56 +0000

> perhaps with the intention to poison LLMs

How does that work?

New comment by Phelinofist in "1024000^2 Blocks, 2B2T Minecraft Server World Download Project, and Discoveries"

Phelinofist — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:54:01 +0000

It is also the oldest anarchy server in Minecraft

New comment by Phelinofist in "Claude for Legal"

Phelinofist — Thu, 14 May 2026 23:00:36 +0000

I guess he his referring to Musk. IIRC Anthropic uses compute of xAI or whatever it is called atm.

New comment by Phelinofist in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

Phelinofist — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:07:41 +0000

I get what you mean, but that can also happen with code written by humans.

New comment by Phelinofist in "Killswitch: Per-function short-circuit mitigation primitive"

Phelinofist — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:16:53 +0000

Could something like this also be done via BPF?

New comment by Phelinofist in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

Phelinofist — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:47:51 +0000

> since a malicious npm package already installed can get its payloads from a C2 server, it doesn't need an npm update

In general I agree, but I think these two vulns are 0day-y and pretty much every major distro is affected AFAIU, so there is perhaps slightly more potential than usual

New comment by Phelinofist in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

Phelinofist — Fri, 08 May 2026 09:22:34 +0000

Either my reading of your comment is wrong or you misunderstood the supply chain comment by OP I think: what they mean is that a supply chain attack that gets the exploit on a system would be great now because the reported vulns are unfixed pretty much everywhere

New comment by Phelinofist in "Agents can now create Cloudflare accounts, buy domains, and deploy"

Phelinofist — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:17:24 +0000

Soooo they built.... an API?

New comment by Phelinofist in "Men who stare at walls"

Phelinofist — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:37:50 +0000

I was thinking of Three Body Problem

New comment by Phelinofist in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Phelinofist — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:57:32 +0000

> JS also dramatically improves security

How so?

New comment by Phelinofist in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Phelinofist — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:55:38 +0000

Why not tails in a VM?

New comment by Phelinofist in "Bring your own Agent to MS Teams"

Phelinofist — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 07:14:23 +0000

IMHO they are not. Using the shortcodes via () works okay-ish, but open the emoji menu is just awfully slow, it takes a solid 5-8 secs for it to show the emojis not recently used. It's absolute garbage.

New comment by Phelinofist in "Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense"

Phelinofist — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 21:19:39 +0000

Sounds totally reasonable to trust OpenAI and the sociopath sama.

New comment by Phelinofist in "GitHub Stacked PRs"

Phelinofist — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:15:39 +0000

If the layers of a stack have a disjoint set of reviewers things are viewed in separation which might lead to issues if there is no one reviewing the full picture.

New comment by Phelinofist in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

Phelinofist — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:33:12 +0000

They have some kind of story and buildup, the thrill of doing something morally objective, sometimes the "getting caught" aspect

... or so I have heard

New comment by Phelinofist in "German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups"

Phelinofist — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:31:37 +0000

Spiegel recently did a video on them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuwRrqM6H1M

New comment by Phelinofist in "Running Tesla Model 3's computer on my desk using parts from crashed cars"

Phelinofist — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 11:35:34 +0000

Can confirm. We are required to test all of our stuff on a bench, but no one really trusts this, because everything is mocked anyway (RSI).