Hacker News: acters

New comment by acters in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

acters — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 22:10:49 +0000

It's sometimes easier to lie than to tell the truth, and being on Linux telling the truth gets me more scrutiny than those pretending to be legit.

New comment by acters in "We made Grok 4.5, GPT-5.5, and Claude build the same apps"

acters — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:22:05 +0000

I worry that GPT 5.6 will be heavily restricted and have the same feature to fallback to another model like Claude fable 5 does all too often. That fallback shenanigans mess up actual benchmarks and I don't like it.

New comment by acters in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

acters — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:17:09 +0000

The biggest loss to them is the right to repair stuff. They will be still making it exceptionally difficult to repair their stuff, and might even dip into exotic materials to make cheaper parts fail more often, but this is a bigger loss to them in the long run.

Unfortunately, I hate that they got away with such a low AF fine.

New comment by acters in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

acters — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:36:28 +0000

I ran it through paddle paddle OCR and it flawlessly did it. Google's OCR through my phone's Google lens had also worked at getting a very good extraction but not 100% correct. Definitely would spend less time fixing it than hand copying.

IDK what the author was using but I feel like he could have shared how his OCR attempt went, but I am thinking he tried some naive OCR tools.

New comment by acters in "Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as protection"

acters — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:53:37 +0000

Plus, it is not the bottom I fear, it's the precedent from letting companies slide down the slope.

Regulation may try to stop it but history has shown some have slid to the point of no return or past a point where people can care enough to build out of.

Prevention is better than retroactively fixing stuff.

New comment by acters in "Claude Sonnet 5"

acters — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 18:47:50 +0000

I've been seeing LLMs act lazy from the very beginning. They got a little better but smaller models really only want to have a single task given to them. Mythos at least does work. RIP

New comment by acters in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

acters — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:34:53 +0000

Would the new upcoming AMD AI ryzen halo desktop be a better value offer? or dgx spark?

You would have to get a third party reseller/scalper or refurbished mac mini to get 64gb of ram ever since apple stopped selling it.

New comment by acters in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

acters — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 03:06:50 +0000

I am finding Chinese models are introducing more guidelines against cyber. Especially Kimi k2.7 code seems to have extra training against cyber security capabilities. Last one, k2.6 was a lot stronger at cyber but obviously the Kimi team improved over time, so this is not the best they can do but no one will be able to get the best anymore.

I expect future Chinese models to introduce even more of this type of bogus "safety" training.

Looks like if you are a white hat, then you will be fighting an uphill battle. Black hats will be fine, they will not care, they can just run a heretic model or specialty trained model.

New comment by acters in "GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks"

acters — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 02:57:18 +0000

I believe it is because GLM 5.2 has extra anti-cyber training instilled in it. Similar to Kimi k2.7 code.

Deepseek v4 pro being in preview with less "safety" training makes it stronger for that reason. Thinking will be different and in the end, it will actually try to be useful. Just expect future Chinese LLMs to further push out "safety" guided LLMs. The future is bleak for open weight models. Prepare to have "guidelines" enforced unceremoniously to all.

New comment by acters in "Cloning a Sennheiser BA2015 battery pack"

acters — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:29:12 +0000

Which is silly because they seem to struggle with maneuvering around the little plastic tab to have the battery detected as rechargeable.

New comment by acters in "Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]"

acters — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:07:23 +0000

I am guessing they are trying to make a distinction from mental horny vs physical horny

New comment by acters in "I built a vulnerable app and spent $1,500 seeing if LLMs could hack it"

acters — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 01:40:50 +0000

Yes tokens used (input and sometimes output) are always charged. You likely get charged for the preloaded system prompt, too.

New comment by acters in "Is AI causing a repeat of frontend’s lost decade?"

acters — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:19:39 +0000

AI consistently places animated objects behind a blur object which causes the browser to constantly repaint. Google's ai mode introduced one, some other websites clearly vibe codes included them too.

At first it confused me why my GPU usage spiked and fans started blowing harder, but now I see it is a common mistake that AI makes but no one tests properly. It is possible a human can make this mistake but I sheldom experienced this ever in my life until now.

I run 240hz monitors, and that meant the browser was trying to do 240 repaints per second. Blocking it with unlock origin is the only way. Ridiculous

New comment by acters in "The California state assembly has passed the 'Protect Our Games Act'"

acters — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:12:07 +0000

They will also prefer subscription or free-to-play than actual offline gaming. This is going to be a disaster

New comment by acters in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

acters — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:49:21 +0000

Fascinating, kimi k2 has good clock too from my limited time being on the site.

New comment by acters in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

acters — Sun, 17 May 2026 03:13:09 +0000

When ctf organizers attempt to make a challenge "harder", I find they push the challenge into a more "guessy" state. Instead of proving skill, you basically need to guess some obscure or random step in the puzzle that the challenge is meant to give you. It is one of the most common problems with any puzzle based challenge system.

New comment by acters in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

acters — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:27:15 +0000

Yeah, but we have AI now, we don't need our blog posts to over explain or state what it all means to general audiences. The author name-drops a bunch of CTF events hosted by a variety of independent organizations and name-drops well-known teams.

To help everyone, this Capture The Flag is specifically Cybersecurity adjacent, there is a Wikipedia article on it as the top Google search result for me when searching "CTF". This is why the acronym is used, because searching for the full will get you to the wrong "sport" vs the cybersecurity one.

I don't want to explain what a CTF is. look at the Wikipedia article. It is there for a good reason.

New comment by acters in "TurboQuant: A first-principles walkthrough"

acters — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:36:18 +0000

Just look at deepseek V4, this preview model uses only 8 GB for 1M token KV cache(the context). It's insanely efficient already. It's just that most models that are coming out are barely catching up with technical breakthroughs. Deepseek are pioneers.

Unfortunately V4 is not trained for most real world usage, it is mainly for world general knowledge.

New comment by acters in "Google Gemma 4 Runs Natively on iPhone with Full Offline AI Inference"

acters — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:06:48 +0000

Man can't wait for AI in my brain. And then intelligence will be pay to win.

New comment by acters in "LLMs learn what programmers create, not how programmers work"

acters — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 06:50:20 +0000

Instead of telling the LLM that "run"works like a cli, maybe just tell the LLM that "run" will execute sh/bash/zsh/etc scripts?