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New comment by __alexander in "Why did the chicken cross the road?"

__alexander — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:07:03 +0000

https://youtu.be/HrZ8HbhnXYM?si=bc9DdHa7b8UFvHkj

New comment by __alexander in "LLMs not = Security Products"

__alexander — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:43:56 +0000

“!=“ is not a valid input for titles on HN.

LLMs not = Security Products

__alexander — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:36:23 +0000

Article URL: http://hooked-on-mnemonics.blogspot.com/2026/02/llms-security-products.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47208188

Points: 1

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New comment by __alexander in "Switch to Claude without starting over"

__alexander — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 13:54:00 +0000

The appeal for me is not having to constantly repeat instructions. Imagine having to repeat dietary restrictions every time you ask for a recipe.

New comment by __alexander in "Archaeologists find possible first direct evidence of Hannibal's war elephants"

__alexander — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:08:26 +0000

Everyone should visit Córdoba, Spain once in their life.

New comment by __alexander in "I fixed Windows native development"

__alexander — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 13:42:48 +0000

Another option is explore winget and chocolaty. Most build tools and compilers can be installed via the command line on windows. Ask your favorite LLM to create a powershell script to install them all.

New comment by __alexander in "Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively?"

__alexander — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 04:38:48 +0000

Here are my go to: Play video games on my steam deck or PlayStation portal, slow kettlebell exercises, YouTube videos, read books I keep on my desk, browse projects on github that people I follow have starred, tidy my workspace, sit on the front porch or go for a walk.

Things I don’t do: browse slack, social networking or news.

New comment by __alexander in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

__alexander — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 03:08:56 +0000

Murakami’s fiction novels are extremely different from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. If you want to try another non-fiction book of his check-out “Underground : The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche”, I loved it. If you go the fiction route “Kafka on the Shore” and “A Wild Sheep Chase” are a good starting point. Avoid some of his longer works unless you enjoy his style.

New comment by __alexander in "Ask HN: What did you read in 2025?"

__alexander — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 02:59:00 +0000

Here are the 29 books that I read but I probably read another 100 children books.

• How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science — Ronald T. Kneusel

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig

• Martín & Meditations on the South Valley — Jimmy Santiago Baca

• Akira, Vol. 6 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 5 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 4 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 3 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• Akira, Vol. 2 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Poems & Prayers — Matthew McConaughey

• Akira, Vol. 1 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Time’s Arrow — Martin Amis

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams

• Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever — Joseph Cox

• Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates

• The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America — Mark Whitaker

• Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction — Becky Kennedy // I would not recommend this book to anyone.

• Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu

• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — John Green

• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch

• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things — Adam Grant

• Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D — Fabien Sanglard

• Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton

• Killing Commendatore — Haruki Murakami

• James — Percival Everett

• Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre — Max Brooks

• Last Argument of Kings — Joe Abercrombie

New comment by __alexander in "Drinking the Largest Beer at the Airport Makes Everything Better"

__alexander — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:32:58 +0000

That site had great layout.

New comment by __alexander in "Algorithms for Optimization [pdf]"

__alexander — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 02:34:23 +0000

For anyone else curious about Kochenderfer's books

https://mykel.kochenderfer.com/textbooks/

New comment by __alexander in "Z3 API in Python: From Sudoku to N-Queens in Under 20 Lines (2015)"

__alexander — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 05:07:28 +0000

Thank you for the link.

New comment by __alexander in "Windhawk Windows classic theme mod for Windows 11"

__alexander — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 04:57:13 +0000

No disrespect but Windhawk’s process injection loader code was cut and paste from malware source code. I can’t imagine how many AV/EDR alerts that project has generated from using ROR API hashing and PEB symbol traversing.

New comment by __alexander in "How to Get a North Korea / Antarctica VPS"

__alexander — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 11:28:01 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_39

New comment by __alexander in "Show HN: I scraped 3B Goodreads reviews to train a better recommendation model"

__alexander — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 21:19:45 +0000

Care to share the scrapped data? I would love to play around with it.

New comment by __alexander in "Encoding x86 Instructions"

__alexander — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 18:36:37 +0000

It’s been a little bit since I watched it but I recall this playlist being useful/interesting

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJRRppeFlVGIvcTQNISPTxvNm...

New comment by __alexander in "It's insulting to read AI-generated blog posts"

__alexander — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 16:39:18 +0000

I feel the same way about AI generated README.md on Github.

New comment by __alexander in "Introduction to reverse-engineering vintage synth firmware"

__alexander — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 15:05:16 +0000

> All I had when I started was a copy of the firmware, a copy of the service manual, and a can-do attitude

This is how some of the best reverse engineers in the industry got started, especially when it comes to video game cheats.

New comment by __alexander in "UEFI shell vulnerabilities allow attackers to bypass Secure Boot"

__alexander — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:51:35 +0000

> UEFI-level anti-cheat bypasses

Anyone have a hash? I would love to reverse engineer one of these.

New comment by __alexander in "Ask HN: Went to prison for 18 months, lost access to my GitHub. What can I do?"

__alexander — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 17:47:14 +0000

Why not create a new account and fork your old repositories? You can restart with updating your old projects and overtime you’d build back up that reputation. I’d also add a note that you were the previous author and lost access to the repositories.