Hacker News: VectorLock

New comment by VectorLock in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

VectorLock — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 17:58:43 +0000

Code switching in the post LLM era.

New comment by VectorLock in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 06:51:14 +0000

Pac man in Pac-man has cornering.

New comment by VectorLock in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:20:52 +0000

Yeah its AI slop without the corner easing. But maybe they can AI it better.

New comment by VectorLock in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:20:13 +0000

Cool AI slop but the lack of corner easing like the original game makes it less fun.

New comment by VectorLock in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:05:30 +0000

A broken clock is still occasionally right.

New comment by VectorLock in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:05:09 +0000

Given the current climate I'd be inclined to declare "tyranny" also but in this case I think given the degree of potential damage the slamming on of brakes is warranted when the alternative is, to strain a metaphor, going full speed off a cliff at relativistic speeds.

New comment by VectorLock in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:03:17 +0000

Not selective availability. COCOM Limits that prevent a GPS chip from operating above a certain speed and altitude.

New comment by VectorLock in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

VectorLock — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 00:23:37 +0000

Not that I'm ever one to support anything this regime does but I'm kind of okay with them pumping the brakes on this until we really get a handle on what the

The USG has limited capabilities on technologies from GPS chips to thermal imaging with "national security" implications for a while and now they're doing it but it seems people don't like how ill defined "Mythos-class" means. Would it be better if it was some %X on some benchmark that the frontier model peddlers could just limbo under to make it "acceptable" for release? Do we just accept that jailbreaking will never be prevented?

The part of all this I do have a problem with is the national state cybersecurity cat-and-mouse this kicks off. Will the US tech landscape have enough time to safely get a "Mythos-class" model to harden itself before China releases or leverages a "Mythos-class" cyber munition?

New comment by VectorLock in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

VectorLock — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:53 +0000

Maybe now we'll get a good voice prompt experience with Gemini on iPhone out of this deal.

New comment by VectorLock in "Blue Origin's New Glenn blows up during static fire test"

VectorLock — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:34:18 +0000

I'm guessing its a combination of needing to acquire a massive amount of land among a limited number of candidate locations and then layering logistical constraints on top of that.

New comment by VectorLock in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

VectorLock — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:52:21 +0000

Building is fun, but deciding what to build can be difficult. "Maker ennui."

New comment by VectorLock in "Antigravity 2.0 Tops the OpenSCAD Architectural 3D LLM Benchmark"

VectorLock — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:10:20 +0000

The forced upgrade from Gemini CLI which I liked as much, and as some ways better than Claude Code was bad. But them just sending out that email on Wednesday that basically said "Thanks for subscribing to Google One AI Pro, as of right now we're adding limits to your account. Tough shit you get nothing." left a REALLY bad taste in my mouth. I had previously praised the "AI Pro" subscription as a good value.

New comment by VectorLock in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

VectorLock — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:32:47 +0000

You might have been dreaming. I had a memory of the doctor saying "clamp down" and I bit down on the endoscope and he said "not you." I asked him if that happened and he said nothing like that happened at all and it was just a false memory/pseudo dream. Or he was lying to me.

I remember there was a lawsuit when a guy left his phone recording when they wheeled him in for a conscious sedation procedure and the doctors and nurses were making fun of him audibly how fat he was. Seems like they're confident enough in people not remembering for them to do that - or being able to dismiss it.

New comment by VectorLock in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

VectorLock — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:51:42 +0000

I had the same thoughts "but won't i feel it THEN?" when I was getting an upper endoscopy. The anesthesiologist said you're in such a trance, dreamlike state plus with the inability to form memories its like you're not your real "consciousness" but something different. Sort of like your brain is in "limp mode" and its not really _you._ This was both comforting and slightly terrifying in a different way.

New comment by VectorLock in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

VectorLock — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:40:17 +0000

The fact it went for vaporwave styling on its own is very telling.

New comment by VectorLock in "Googlebook"

VectorLock — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:39:07 +0000

The product photos that reveal about as much as a monster in a JJ Abrams movie is because I don't think they have "Google" production hardware it sounds like they'll be farming this out to the ASUSes and HPs of the world.

New comment by VectorLock in "Googlebook"

VectorLock — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:35:45 +0000

Just calling it a "Gbook" sounds infinitely cooler.

New comment by VectorLock in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

VectorLock — Tue, 05 May 2026 13:18:11 +0000

The number of times I've seen a configuration endless loop bring down anything are so few compared to the time wasted on DSLs and having to bend over backwards to do things a first-class programming language can do simply. Same with PCRE I've seen that maybe.. once.

New comment by VectorLock in "PyInfra 3.8.0"

VectorLock — Tue, 05 May 2026 02:08:10 +0000

The "you don't want a full programming language" trope I see repeated a lot but I think far more people end up wishing for a Turing complete language than wishing it _wasn't_ Turing complete.

New comment by VectorLock in "The operating cost of adult and gambling startups"

VectorLock — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 20:17:55 +0000

>Again, what do you think it is?

I don't know what it is, thats why I asked. Is the assertion that you're trying to make that drugs and gambling being addictive is a result of hormone imbalance in the addicts, rather than the addictive nature of those things?