Hacker News: Transformanshen

New comment by Transformanshen in "A Modern Web App in C"

Transformanshen — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:55:28 +0000

That's cool

New comment by Transformanshen in "What did Google do to its Linux terminal on Pixel phones"

Transformanshen — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:55:45 +0000

Mandatory permissions for microphone use and access to nearby devices? That sounds questionable; I wonder how that’s justified.

New comment by Transformanshen in "Demystifying Tufte's data-ink ratio"

Transformanshen — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 01:30:48 +0000

That’s interesting. However, with charts, reducing the amount of ink can sometimes compromise readability.

New comment by Transformanshen in "Self-hosted HTTP tunnels with SSH and Nginx"

Transformanshen — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:18:01 +0000

This is what I needed, but I didn't know it

New comment by Transformanshen in "Ask HN: Email leaked while traveling abroad?"

Transformanshen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:41:25 +0000

I think so too

New comment by Transformanshen in "Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform"

Transformanshen — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 19:53:01 +0000

It hasn't been released yet, and local versions aren't always convenient

New comment by Transformanshen in "Booted up in 1993, this server still runs – but not for much longer (2017)"

Transformanshen — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 11:50:01 +0000

That may well be the case, but such a long period still seems extraordinary

New comment by Transformanshen in "Best of British Design"

Transformanshen — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 21:29:17 +0000

In this bracket my choice invariably comes down to the Spitfire versus the Mini, and I always favor the Spitfire, as the Mini reminds me of the terrible parking

New comment by Transformanshen in "Hijacking the PS5's RTMP stream"

Transformanshen — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 20:42:36 +0000

Honestly the DNS trick in this post is neat but I'm not setting up dnsmasq just to share my screen. This is the kind of thing where Sony could just let you stream to anything and they don't, and it's annoying

New comment by Transformanshen in "The current balance of power in open models"

Transformanshen — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:06:27 +0000

DeepSeek and Qwen set a floor American open-weight models can't match without subsidy or a different cost structure, and that price/performance ratio drives adoption more than benchmarks.

New comment by Transformanshen in "'We hacked the FBI:' Hackers say they have data on all FBI employees"

Transformanshen — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 22:35:33 +0000

The fatalism is understandable, but "no one can keep a database safe" isn't quite right. Some organizations do a better job than others.All in all, of course, the best way to keep information secret is to keep it only in your own head, all other methods are less reliable

New comment by Transformanshen in "The first new cat species discovered in 100 years"

Transformanshen — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 22:55:05 +0000

It always surprises me when people discover new animal species. These little kittens look very cute.

New comment by Transformanshen in "Show HN: Laser Graffiti"

Transformanshen — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:44:12 +0000

Cool project

New comment by Transformanshen in "A walkable ASCII cyberpunk city in one HTML file [video]"

Transformanshen — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:15:16 +0000

Wow, that's interesting. It's a good start, and it would be interesting to see how the project develops.

New comment by Transformanshen in "You probably own this 7-Eleven (and that's why it looks so sad)"

Transformanshen — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:15:34 +0000

I tend to agree with you

New comment by Transformanshen in "Ask HN: How many of you juggle multiple agent sessions at the same time?"

Transformanshen — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 01:10:52 +0000

I sometimes keep 4-5 active sessions going plus a couple waiting in the queue. Can't say it's always convenient. I don't know about others but I sometimes forget which session is doing what and end up getting confused.

New comment by Transformanshen in "Identifying fake cosmetics using AI"

Transformanshen — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:08:38 +0000

This was not quite the way I expected to use AI

New comment by Transformanshen in "What Is a Syslog Server?"

Transformanshen — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:11:02 +0000

The article is not bad, but a little outdated. Syslog is a database that will not go anywhere, because a lot of equipment and software still send logs this way. But in 2026, building the entire infrastructure around it is already strange.

New comment by Transformanshen in "Moon (2024)"

Transformanshen — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:31:24 +0000

Honestly, I wouldn't call it plagiarism. You're using the prompt for personal purposes, to better understand the material. If you were copying his text and passing it off as your own, then yeah, that would be not cool. But using his approach with interactive visualizations as a source of inspiration for your own learning materials is fine. If you ever decide to put it out in the open, just mention that you took inspiration from his style and include a link to his work.

New comment by Transformanshen in "LLMs could control their host machines by exploiting inference engines"

Transformanshen — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 21:09:48 +0000

Interesting breakdown of a hypothetical attack. The complexity of modern inference engines and the rush to develop them do create some attack surface. But overall it reads more like a "what if" thought experiment. Splitting the GPU and parser is technically doable, but in practice it's trickier, large models run on clusters where the boundaries between components get blurry so defending against this kind of thing would probably require some serious rethinking of the whole architecture I think.