Hacker News: _lvbh

New comment by _lvbh in "Discord group guessed the URL to Anthropic's Mythos model before CISA used it"

_lvbh — Thu, 07 May 2026 05:06:06 +0000

This reminds me of when GPT-4 first released, the image capabilities were in preview and limited. A couple companies, including Perplexity, was leaking their API key on Replit & had early access by a couple weeks.

The dumb me at the time used it to do biology homework to do with diagrams instead of anything interesting...

I think the API endpoint was codenamed "rainbow" if I remember correctly. How time flies

New comment by _lvbh in "How Monero’s proof of work works"

_lvbh — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:11:36 +0000

Revolut -> USDC -> Monero via exchange

New comment by _lvbh in "Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

_lvbh — Mon, 04 May 2026 01:54:56 +0000

Not to mention it is almost entirely vibe-coded.

https://github.com/notepad-plus-plus-mac/notepad-plus-plus-m...

This type of behavior ought to get them blacklisted from the internet.

New comment by _lvbh in "If society had a scorecard, what would be on it?"

_lvbh — Sun, 03 May 2026 16:16:53 +0000

1. The standard of living for the bottom 5% of society in terms of basic needs (food, water, shelter, and health) 2. Equality. The distance between the bottom and top in terms of economic and political power. Not just votes, but absolute power including if lobbying is allowed. 3. Hours of work per capita required to maintain current standard of living

New comment by _lvbh in "If I could make my own GitHub"

_lvbh — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:34:16 +0000

Oh wow. Tangled's support for jujutsu is exactly what I've been looking for! There's my weekend gone to getting that self-hosted.

New comment by _lvbh in "Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?"

_lvbh — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:28:47 +0000

Love the place. Rent is good compared to the rest of the UK. People are friendly & welcoming. University isn't the best though.

New comment by _lvbh in "Human Source License (HSL)"

_lvbh — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 03:48:47 +0000

https://www.linkedin.com/in/ralph-m-debusmann-63204675/

Author works for that company. License is copied from https://github.com/xdgrulez/kafi which I presume was made for said company and therefore must contain the exception.

New comment by _lvbh in "Ask HN: Any Developer from Wales?"

_lvbh — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:32:16 +0000

Rare Wales mention! I'm currently in Cardiff (capital of Wales)

Most jobs here are C#, Java, and Python. Job market is decent. Lots of people have been moving here lately as developers. Expect very low pay relative to London or US though.

I also know some people living in Cardiff but working remote for companies in Reading or Warwick. Also a few people working fully remote for Bluesky.

I'm personally moving out (to San Francisco) to pursue a startup though

Arti: a Rust Tor Implementation – no longer experimental and ready for use

_lvbh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:10:04 +0000

Article URL: https://arti.torproject.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871899

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

A Practical Introduction to Constraint Programming Using CP-SAT and Python

_lvbh — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:01:40 +0000

Article URL: https://pganalyze.com/blog/a-practical-introduction-to-constraint-programming-using-cp-sat

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47871845

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

New comment by _lvbh in "Show HN: OpenDescent, decentralised encrypted messenger, no servers, no accounts"

_lvbh — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:25:03 +0000

AI generated slop with fake comments from new accounts

New comment by _lvbh in "Show HN: Screenshot web components with one click"

_lvbh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:34:05 +0000

I think on Firefox, if you right click and press screenshot, it lets you choose a component. Use that quite often

New comment by _lvbh in "Ask HN: What are you moving on to now that Claude Code is so rate limited?"

_lvbh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:20:09 +0000

I get GitHub Copilot Pro for free for some reason. One day I checked and it was just there. So I use that until it runs out. When it does, https://synthetic.new with Kimi K2.5 works surprisingly well for small tasks where I still make all the decisions.

But I find no matter what I use, it still makes more sense to code by hand for anything that actually matters.

The things I've vibe coded are throwaway scripts to generate a gif, user scripts to tweak annoying websites, and various utilities that just need to work.

New comment by _lvbh in "Show HN: Mtproto.zig – High-performance Telegram proxy with DPI evasion"

_lvbh — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:00:01 +0000

Very obvious with the GEMINI.md.

I wish there was a rule to ban AI submissions. Not because I think there's 0 value, but because there's just such a high volume and low signal to noise ratio

New comment by _lvbh in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

_lvbh — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:05:58 +0000

Could you link the story by any chance? I've been using Longhorn for a while and on one particular system, it has an odd tendency to corrupt XFS.

New comment by _lvbh in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

_lvbh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:09:29 +0000

There are definitely levels to this. Yes I think it can be caught by automated scanners in theory. Either commit by commit scanning and reproducible builds or fuzzing and getting the behavioral differences between versions

New comment by _lvbh in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

_lvbh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 13:06:36 +0000

Hence why you source data from multiple vendors I'd say. Rather than putting all eggs in one basket

New comment by _lvbh in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

_lvbh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 04:39:38 +0000

There are so many scanners these days these things get caught pretty quick. I think we need either npm or someone else to have a registry that only lets through packages that pass these scanners. Can even do the virustotal thing of aggregating reports by multiple scanners. NPM publishes attestation for trusted build environments. Google has oss-rebuild.

All it takes is an `npm config set` to switch registries anyways. The hard part is having a central party that is able to convince all the various security companies to collaborate rather than having dozens of different registries each from each company.

Rather than just a hard-coded delay, I think having policies on what checks must pass first makes sense with overrides for when CVEs show up.

(WIP)

New comment by _lvbh in "I'm betting on ATProto"

_lvbh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:33:53 +0000

Did it? Just checked and my feed is still completely untranslated. I have my settings set as English. I hope they don't do the weird YouTube thing of translating things from languages you know into the language you set. Multilingual people exist

New comment by _lvbh in "I'm betting on ATProto"

_lvbh — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:31:08 +0000

Utaite. Will find barely any anywhere else. Thankfully if you're in one of those sub-communities, you don't ever get recommended anything political or American.