Hacker News: baobun

New comment by baobun in "Did the Pope use AI to write about the dangers of AI?"

baobun — Wed, 27 May 2026 06:44:30 +0000

Is this ironic?

> Three common and well-known tells in AI writing — sometimes genuinely deployed by humans but nowhere their profligate use by AI — are the regularity of em-dashes, the high frequency of specific words like “genuinely”, and the tendency to repeatedly invoke tricolons.

New comment by baobun in "[dead]"

baobun — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:59:18 +0000

Clickbait.

    Uh-oh
    For a moment there it seemed that you were trying to peek into this Monero address: 47xmhbRuYpSYSrVZx2RsPBhaAQByZq3ucAT6ULxHvDAu8c853ErpLHqBdDmpVzcmWFdZFCWrfZYwp3rqs14zxXx95S7Fyv2
    No?
    Hmmm... it really looks like you were, like, trying to check out this dude's balance.
    Well, Monero says 'No'!

New comment by baobun in "An update on GitHub availability"

baobun — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 09:28:10 +0000

Wow.

Security or trust not even making the list.

New comment by baobun in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

baobun — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:52:03 +0000

You're grasping for a reliable unsupervised truth machine. That's a fundamentally intractable problem until you limit it down to a wolframalpha clone. And not even that by LLMs.

New comment by baobun in "Scientists invented a fake disease. AI told people it was real"

baobun — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:45:06 +0000

All it takes to become world champion is a blog.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260218-i-hacked-chatgpt...

New comment by baobun in "We've raised $17M to build what comes after Git"

baobun — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:30:29 +0000

Should have known better than asking the monkey paw for more decentralized compute.

New comment by baobun in "Open source security at Astral"

baobun — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:00:46 +0000

The breaches will continue until morale improves.

New comment by baobun in "Show HN: I made a YouTube search form with advanced filters"

baobun — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:15:52 +0000

For real. Trying to find a specific video on youtube is a very similar experience to searching for legit cables and adapters on Amazon.

New comment by baobun in "Separating the Wayland compositor and window manager"

baobun — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:35:37 +0000

> For what it’s worth, I’ve been moving all my machines to lxde.

Any gotchas or regrets?

Haven't used it in many years and now considering going all in on making it (scaffolding of) next DE. So looking at the same move.

New comment by baobun in "Don't click on the LastPass 'create backup' link – it's a scam"

baobun — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 02:56:12 +0000

Better yet: Don't use LastPass.

New comment by baobun in "Programmer's Calculators"

baobun — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 00:45:06 +0000

I played around a bit with the Hp-16c JRPN emulator for hex calculations and usefulness was limited by max number size. Largest number I can input is 0xFFFF.

Does anyone know if the SwissMicro models support operating on larger numbers than 16 bits, ideally up to 64?

New comment by baobun in "Show HN: Chat with people who share the same Internet connection (= IP address)"

baobun — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:52:37 +0000

I guess this could be fun for people using shared VPN and proxy services

New comment by baobun in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

baobun — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:37:19 +0000

Once upon a beginning I believe assbly actually had human authors and readers in mind.

LLVM IR is a better example.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation#La...

New comment by baobun in "Nerd: A language for LLMs, not humans"

baobun — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:30:06 +0000

Loads! Hardly a novel idea.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate_representation#La...

New comment by baobun in "Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API"

baobun — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 01:24:01 +0000

All user accounts are also customers. Some are paying with data and contributing to metrics going up.

New comment by baobun in "Karpathy on Programming: “I've never felt this much behind”"

baobun — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 20:43:14 +0000

If you have never experienced becoming once, try DMT or a large amount of acid on a quiet day.

New comment by baobun in "Ask HN: What tiny tool do you use every day but never talk about?"

baobun — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:42:26 +0000

ncdu

netsurf

New comment by baobun in "Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices"

baobun — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:31:51 +0000

And for but the price of a coffee per month you get both dark mode and markdown support!

New comment by baobun in "Show HN: I built a universal clipboard that syncs realtime on multiple devices"

baobun — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 13:03:19 +0000

> For Developers

Would you mind sharing the source code?

> Copy API keys

...yeah, I think that'd be a hard requirement. I don't think there is value in a cliboard-as-a-SaaS that is not self-hostable or even auditable.

I think you are putting the cart before the horse and putting your users at risk by integrating credit card payments before sorting out the basics.

New comment by baobun in "A Vulnerability in Libsodium"

baobun — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:13:26 +0000

> The important point is to be able to recognize that and not coerce users into using your project only how you envisioned it and only like that. Some projects are failure on that count having switched on dictatorial direction on that aspect.

There is certainly a balance there. If every function inside your code is now considered part of your API contract, almost anything is a breaking change and you can basically forget about ever meaningfully refactoring that codebase.

Many times making things private or marking them as internal-only is the right call.

I'm not really intimate enough with libsodium to judge if they made the right cut there or not in hindsight.