Hacker News: SomaticPirate

New comment by SomaticPirate in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

SomaticPirate — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:20:52 +0000

What is firecracker needed? Couldn’t this just run in a container directly? I understand some of the isolation concerns but a browser and container breakout is a billion dollar CVE, no?

New comment by SomaticPirate in "AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study"

SomaticPirate — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:38:36 +0000

You are probably going to pay about the same.

While you might find a lawyer who bills fewer hours, think about what would happen if you got a second legal opinion from another human lawyer. The second lawyer would still need to do essentially the same work. In fact, their ethics would likely require them to independently review the facts, documents, and legal issues before giving you advice.

So even if AI gives you a draft, the lawyer is not simply checking grammar or spotting obvious mistakes. They still have to verify the analysis, look for missing issues, and decide whether the work is legally sound. Could even be more expensive

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

SomaticPirate — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 01:27:40 +0000

No doubt these companies are woefully overvalued. But this won’t stop me from putting in orders for several thousand dollars of shares with at market open. There will undoubtedly be plenty of buyers and I expect them to gain rapid entry into the indexes which will unlock a flood of additional capital from 401ks and pensions

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

SomaticPirate — Sat, 23 May 2026 21:08:46 +0000

Not to speak on the anguish that this would undoubtedly cause but economically? This is like shooting yourself in the kneecap. America doesn’t nearly have the social security net of European countries and ours is already overburdened. Without younger, immigrant workers paying into our social security net the US govt will either need to print money (double digit inflation) or start raiding the evil tech bros RSUs for Medicare money.

Being a natvist is an expensive proposition. Expect your retirement to decrease in real value and struggle to find acceptable healthcare as you age (healthcare in the US is increasingly staffed by immigrants, especially nursing).

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

SomaticPirate — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:35:55 +0000

This is my read too. Google wants more control here. They have been banning accounts and the repo for gemini-cli is a dumpster fire of issues

New comment by SomaticPirate in "The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Work"

SomaticPirate — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:55:52 +0000

https://www.ft.com/content/b15407bd-7b86-45c3-9780-0c92117cc...

They are buying from Chinese dealers. And sadly, as with most GLP-1s they likely will need to take them for the rest of their life or suffer some incredible rebound weight loss/ negative health effects.

These medications are incredible if you are overweight and need them. But they are not a panacea. Also arguably buying these drugs from Chinese dealers means there is no recourse if you get a bad batch.

There is a pseudo testing setup around Finnrick but talk to anyone with a PhD in biochemistry and there are numerous ways these molecules can be improperly manufactured.

Surprised to see so many on HN being relatively careless with their heath

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

SomaticPirate — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:02:45 +0000

I think unethical and illegal activity is par for the course in most realms of American business. And I would replace “sued into oblivion” with mandatory arbitration and “appropriate settlement”.

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers"

SomaticPirate — Mon, 04 May 2026 06:11:08 +0000

inb4 this technique is subsumed into the next MoE model release

LLMs are evolving so fast I wouldn’t be surprised if this technique was not needed in <6 months

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Kimi K2.6 just beat Claude, GPT-5.5, and Gemini in a coding challenge"

SomaticPirate — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:20:22 +0000

This seems to be testing the models on leetcode style prompts that also require the model to implement TCP calls to send the results. Interesting but probably not a apples to apples comparison. The fact only Grok qualified for the first one seems suspect

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs"

SomaticPirate — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 06:45:44 +0000

Exactly. So just buy it. They have the money or does Sam need a moonbase to complete his villain arc. Any of these AI companies could come out and start paying creators a licensing fee. Instead of being forced to pay damages which is their current approach

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Why has there been so little progress on Alzheimer's disease?"

SomaticPirate — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 07:24:14 +0000

I agree with you but Ozempic is a bad example here. Part of the reason it is so valuable is that patients usually must take it for the rest of their lives. Its actually the perfect example of “evil” pharma since patients slmost akways regain the weight if they stop taking it. This leads to dependence or people searching for grey market sources.

An example of “good” pharma would be Hepatitis C. We can now cure that. Although, pharma is charging the lifetime equivalent in order to do that (a treatment can run over $100k and insurance balks at covering it)

So pharma will absolutely develop a cure if they can. They however will still charge you as if you had to take a dose for the rest of your life.

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

SomaticPirate — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:47:52 +0000

Every American here has allowed the quickest decline of a superpower in history. The damage to our country is irreparable and going to result in a worse life for generations to come

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens (2025)"

SomaticPirate — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:43:28 +0000

A useful reminder that just because an LLM "appears" to be thinking and reasoning that it likely isn't. If it hasn't seen something similar or "in distribution" before, then it typically doesn't perform well.

Is Chain-of-Thought Reasoning of LLMs a Mirage? A Data Distribution Lens (2025)

SomaticPirate — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:39:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47893429

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Fulu bounty for Ring Camera jailbreak reaches $23k

SomaticPirate — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 20:48:04 +0000

Article URL: https://bounties.fulu.org/bounties/ring-video-doorbells

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47810407

Points: 39

# Comments: 2

New comment by SomaticPirate in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

SomaticPirate — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:15:27 +0000

What is the arcane Terminal command to undo this access?

New comment by SomaticPirate in "The Raft consensus algorithm explained through "Mean Girls" (2019)"

SomaticPirate — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:08:02 +0000

“Chat generate me an explanation blog posts on the Raft consensus algorithm… but explain it through mean girls”

New comment by SomaticPirate in "Show HN: Is Hormuz open yet?"

SomaticPirate — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 03:51:13 +0000

This website is down now for me

New comment by SomaticPirate in "FBI Extracted Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database"

SomaticPirate — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:45:00 +0000

This is well known in the op-sec communities. iOS and Android notifications route through their servers and can be stored indefinitely (ie especially under a court order) You need to disable the content previews if you want to be secure. But even the notification metadata can be quite valuable to law enforcement (who is messaging you, what time of day, etc.)

Also standard requirement on govt mobile devices to disable notifications. Mattermost provides this option at the server level to block notifications entirely for ios/android devices.

New comment by SomaticPirate in "OpenYak – An open-source Cowork that runs any model and owns your filesystem"

SomaticPirate — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 05:52:18 +0000

Not to be too conspiratorial here but since the founder of OpenClaw was snatched up, there seems to be a rush of “open source” AI projects desperately bidding to be alternatives. Which can generate huge returns if one of the major players decides that “they also need a cowork-style product”

So its uniquely viable to be a sellout here and attempt to clone a major lab’s attempt on the off-chance you get acquired later