Hacker News: buredoranna

New comment by buredoranna in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

buredoranna — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:41:12 +0000

This is a student problem, not an ai problem... if the student chooses to not learn, to just use ai for answers, that's on them.

And their failing grades reflect the choices they've made.

ai is the single most powerful learning tool ever invented... but only if you choose to use it for learning.

New comment by buredoranna in "Several injured in Boeing 787 nose-gear collapse in Frankfurt"

buredoranna — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:10:36 +0000

If you haven't experienced the awesomeness of "The Front Fell Off", do yourself a favor and seek it out on youtube... you won't be disappointed.

New comment by buredoranna in "Cloudflare responded to the "Copy Fail" Linux vulnerability"

buredoranna — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:07:18 +0000

... what a world.

New comment by buredoranna in "Copy Fail"

buredoranna — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 02:36:20 +0000

Please don't rely on my judgement for this being safe for production, but after blacklisting the modules, the provided python exploit failed.

Check if the following are modules

  grep CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API /boot/config-$(uname -r)

If they are, you can try blacklisting them

  /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-crypto-user-api.conf
  
  """
  blacklist af_alg
  blacklist algif_hash
  blacklist algif_skcipher
  blacklist algif_rng
  blacklist algif_aead

  install af_alg /bin/false
  install algif_hash /bin/false
  install algif_skcipher /bin/false
  install algif_rng /bin/false
  install algif_aead /bin/false
  """

  update-initramfs -u

Can anyone comment on the ramifications this?

New comment by buredoranna in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

buredoranna — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 19:50:36 +0000

> the whole thing being built on copyright infringement

I am not a lawyer, but am generally familiar with two "is it fair use" tests.

1. Is it transformative?

I take a picture, I own the copyright. You can't sell it. But if you take a copy, and literally chop it to pieces, reforming it into a collage, you can sell that.

2. Does the alleged infringing work devalue the original?

If I have a conversation with ai about "The Lord of the Rings". Even if it reproduces good chunks of the original, it does not devalue the original... in fact, I would argue, it enhances it.

Have I failed to take into account additional arguments and/or scenarios? Probably.

But, in my opinion, AI passes these tests. AI output is transformative, and in general, does not devalue the original.

New comment by buredoranna in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

buredoranna — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:45:45 +0000

Wish I could... but I know of it from a previous HN post, where there is some discussion on its purpose.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22367416

New comment by buredoranna in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

buredoranna — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:20:25 +0000

Still my all time favorite snippet of code.

    TC    BANKCALL    # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
    CADR  STOPRATE    # TEMPORARY, I HOPE HOPE HOPE
    TC    DOWNFLAG    # PERMIT X-AXIS OVERRIDE

https://github.com/chrislgarry/Apollo-11/blob/master/Luminar...

New comment by buredoranna in "American aviation is near collapse?"

buredoranna — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:21:47 +0000

People who dedicate their lives to studying an industry, can get very good at being able to predict the probability of events in their domain.

These same people are commonly off by orders of magnitude when predicting the magnitude of these same events.

The author of this article won the "Toner Prize for Excellence in National Political Reporting". I'm going to infer from this, that he's better at political reporting, than he is at predicting the future of an entire industry.

And if he is truly convinced of this outcome, he should be shorting the airlines. (I'm gonna guess he hasn't done that).

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New comment by buredoranna in "Lost Doctor Who episodes found"

buredoranna — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:17:54 +0000

I grew up with Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes, by far, in my opinion, the most accurate representation of the stories.

Only in my adult life did I read the stories, finding large chunks of the dialog in the TV show being word for word taken from the stories. And when not word for word, the tone and feel of the scenes so well portrayed on screen.

New comment by buredoranna in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

buredoranna — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 20:08:04 +0000

Thank you for this. I lost that CD years ago.

New comment by buredoranna in "Jimi Hendrix was a systems engineer"

buredoranna — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:14:27 +0000

If you can track it down, Hendrix's home recordings are a gem.

https://jimihendrixrecordguide.com/home-recordings/

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New comment by buredoranna in "What's the Entropy of a Random Integer?"

buredoranna — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:32:22 +0000

one of my favorites

https://xkcd.com/221/

New comment by buredoranna in "How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills"

buredoranna — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 20:52:17 +0000

Revealing AI is a tool, and like any other tool, its how you use it.

If you use it with the express intent to learn, it is an amazing tool.

If you use it as a crutch, it results in "learning avoidance".

New comment by buredoranna in "It's hard to justify Tahoe icons"

buredoranna — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 20:49:10 +0000

I wish I could remember where I picked up this quote

> No project manager ever got promoted for saying "let's keep things the same".

New comment by buredoranna in "Show HN: Tripwire: A new anti evil maid defense"

buredoranna — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:30:15 +0000

"Smiley's People" remains one of my favorite shows.

If you track it down, I highly recommend watching it with headphones. The sound design is amazing.

The sound of an empty room being profoundly menacing.

New comment by buredoranna in "We gave 5 LLMs $100K to trade stocks for 8 months"

buredoranna — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:27:00 +0000

Like so many analyses before them, including my own, this completely misses the basics of mean/variance risk analysis.

We need to know the risk adjusted return, not just the return.

New comment by buredoranna in "A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (2017)"

buredoranna — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 20:41:16 +0000

Thanks for saying so :)

New comment by buredoranna in "A minimum complete tutorial of Linux ext4 file system (2017)"

buredoranna — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 19:26:52 +0000

Awhile back I put together a visualization of ext4.

https://buredoranna.github.io/linux/ext4/2020/01/09/ext4-viz...