Hacker News: danborn26

ActCam: Zero-Shot Joint Camera and 3D Motion Control for Video Generation

danborn26 — Sat, 09 May 2026 12:31:30 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06667

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074470

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

UniPool: A Globally Shared Expert Pool for Mixture-of-Experts

danborn26 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:19:10 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06665

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48074004

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by danborn26 in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

danborn26 — Sat, 09 May 2026 11:06:02 +0000

It is wild how many vulnerabilities are still popping up in io_uring. The attack surface is just so large.

New comment by danborn26 in "An Introduction to Meshtastic"

danborn26 — Sat, 09 May 2026 09:18:22 +0000

Meshtastic has been a game changer for local off-grid comms. The barrier to entry with ESP32 LoRa boards is low enough that anyone can spin up a node in minutes. Glad to see it getting more attention here.

New comment by danborn26 in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

danborn26 — Fri, 08 May 2026 17:04:55 +0000

Relying on prompt engineering for logic is incredibly fragile. Explicit state machines and programmatic routing provide the predictability that complex agents actually require.

New comment by danborn26 in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

danborn26 — Fri, 08 May 2026 12:53:53 +0000

The fragmentation logic in the networking stack has been a recurring source of bugs for years. It is surprising how these edge cases keep surviving multiple security audits.

New comment by danborn26 in "Natural Language Autoencoders: Turning Claude's Thoughts into Text"

danborn26 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:50:52 +0000

Extracting readable thoughts from the intermediate representations is a great step for transparency. It makes debugging model behavior much more viable.

New comment by danborn26 in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

danborn26 — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:53:34 +0000

A native Rust alternative to KaTeX is a welcome addition. This should make math rendering much easier to integrate into Rust based static site generators.

New comment by danborn26 in "Valve releases Steam Controller CAD files under Creative Commons license"

danborn26 — Thu, 07 May 2026 14:19:10 +0000

Open sourcing the CAD files is a huge win for repairability. I wish more hardware companies would adopt this approach for discontinued products.

New comment by danborn26 in "SQLite Is a Library of Congress Recommended Storage Format"

danborn26 — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:44:12 +0000

It is great to see SQLite getting this level of institutional recognition. The single file format makes archival storage incredibly straightforward compared to traditional database dumps.

New comment by danborn26 in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

danborn26 — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:22:28 +0000

Better Auth has been a huge time saver for me. Clerk's pricing got a bit out of hand for side projects.

New comment by danborn26 in "Google Cloud fraud defense, the next evolution of reCAPTCHA"

danborn26 — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:39:49 +0000

The constant arms race between bot detection and accessibility is exhausting. I hope this doesn't heavily penalize legitimate users on VPNs.

New comment by danborn26 in "Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server"

danborn26 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:10:36 +0000

The network optimizations they had to use in the late 90s for MMOs are still impressive today. Great effort on preserving this piece of gaming history.

New comment by danborn26 in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

danborn26 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:05:23 +0000

A 245TB SSD completely changes the density math for database nodes. The reduction in rack space alone makes this a huge win.

New comment by danborn26 in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"

danborn26 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:27:24 +0000

This aligns with what I've seen in production. Forcing an LLM to navigate a DOM is an incredible waste of compute when an API is available.

New comment by danborn26 in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

danborn26 — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:00:06 +0000

A 4GB silent payload is completely unacceptable for a browser. The bandwidth and storage waste alone should make this an opt-in feature.

New comment by danborn26 in "Accelerating Gemma 4: faster inference with multi-token prediction drafters"

danborn26 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:27:10 +0000

Multi-token prediction is exactly what we need for practical local inference. The speedup makes running these models on edge devices much more viable.

New comment by danborn26 in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

danborn26 — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:41:59 +0000

Async Rust still feels incredibly complex for typical use cases. The ecosystem fragmentation around executors makes it harder than it needs to be.

New comment by danborn26 in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

danborn26 — Tue, 05 May 2026 06:59:08 +0000

This seems like a significant oversight for a modern browser. Credential material should be aggressively zeroed out after use to minimize the attack surface.