Hacker News: RachelF

New comment by RachelF in "Cisco gives engineer unlimited AI tokens to rewrite legacy code"

RachelF — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 06:24:44 +0000

Microsoft has patented that approach!

New comment by RachelF in "Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents"

RachelF — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:16:34 +0000

Both are true, it is a single point of failure and a single point of convenience.

What always puzzles me about this stuff and critical infrastructure like nuclear powerplants, is why is an internal network connected to the public Internet at all?

If you have to connect it to the Internet, then why is it talking to unknown devices?

New comment by RachelF in "If-then-else had to be invented (2020)"

RachelF — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 04:09:32 +0000

someone else ;-)

New comment by RachelF in "Radio-tagged Monarch butterflies"

RachelF — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 01:09:26 +0000

Thank you - the tracker they use weighs in at 60 milligrams, incredibly light.

New comment by RachelF in "Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more"

RachelF — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:41:19 +0000

Pretty much everything that talks http has this Brotli library linked in. A quick file search on a Windows dev box showed:

- git

- Sublime text

- VS studio

- CUDA

- .NET

- inkscape

- AzureTools

New comment by RachelF in "GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards"

RachelF — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:43:03 +0000

There's also a Windows version:

https://github.com/impacifist/Windows-GPU-UNLOCK

New comment by RachelF in "GPU-unlock: FP/BF16 instruction issue rate on Nvidia 3000's cards"

RachelF — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 18:23:59 +0000

A semi related: a patch for those with multiple cards. You can unlock around 20% increased card to card speed on consumer GPUs using this library:

https://github.com/aikitoria/open-gpu-kernel-modules

The hardware supports it, but then Nvidia disabled it if the driver detects cheaper cards. This bypasses the NVidia slowdown.

New comment by RachelF in "mitmproxy adds --emudhra option"

RachelF — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 04:43:45 +0000

Three bits of trust now - the number 4: https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certi...

New comment by RachelF in "Reverse engineer anything with agents, from app behavior down to native binaries"

RachelF — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:04:10 +0000

It will be interesting to see if anyone reverse engineers IDA Pro!

New comment by RachelF in "Telegram Desktop vulnerability allowed any user's file to be stolen"

RachelF — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 09:41:32 +0000

It looks very bad that Telegram took almost 3 months to fix this vulnerability.

Reported 25 June

Fixed 16 September

I wonder why it took them so long?

New comment by RachelF in "Data Center Darling's $30B IPO Dream Crushed in 48 Hours"

RachelF — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:20:10 +0000

There's more to this story than non-existent data centers.

The executive team is rather rotten, too. One of them, Oliver Curtis, having recently spent time in jail for insider trading.

New comment by RachelF in "Lobbying"

RachelF — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 05:14:36 +0000

Lots of big lobbying companies corrupting Australia, too.

Less "sophisticated" countries just tend cut out the lobbyist middleman and call it what it is - bribery.

New comment by RachelF in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

RachelF — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 05:22:32 +0000

There is not much goodwill in the world left towards Sony. They have screwed their customers over repeatedly (removal of PS3 Linux, PC spyware, removal of physical disks, banning arbitrary users online etc.), which makes the moral case for Sony piracy more ambiguous.

New comment by RachelF in "Using Blu-ray M-Disk as backup of last resort"

RachelF — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:57:04 +0000

Hard drives are way bigger, but M-Disk is more reliable for very long term storage.

New comment by RachelF in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

RachelF — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:27:47 +0000

This is true, progress has stopped on the RAM and VRAM front.

Many new laptops come with 8GB as standard, the same as 12 years ago.

My 1060 from 2016 has 6GB of VRAM. A 5060 from 2025 has 8GB.

New comment by RachelF in "Gemini 4 Argon"

RachelF — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:34:54 +0000

And the anti-psychotic drugs Google feeds Gemini makes it hallucinate badly.

New comment by RachelF in "Gemini 4 Argon"

RachelF — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:32:38 +0000

The US companies still have trillion dollar valuations like there is a monopoly. There just isn't one. They are all within a few percent of each other on the benchmarks.

The slightly lower Chinese open models are good enough for almost everything, too, and much cheaper. Like with humans there is plenty of employment for people with below genius level IQ's.

New comment by RachelF in "As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'"

RachelF — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 03:27:02 +0000

Australia already has AI tax judgements:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robodebt_scheme

"The refrigerator is dead": Samsung's AI fridges shut down after update

RachelF — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:28:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-refrigerator-is-dead-Samsung-s-AI-fridges-shut-down-after-update-causes-outrage.1406447.0.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49872507

Points: 13

# Comments: 8

New comment by RachelF in "SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video]"

RachelF — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 20:22:36 +0000

Or George Carlin - perhaps it's just me, but modern shows aren't that funny anymore.