Hacker News: derrida

New comment by derrida in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

derrida — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 06:08:29 +0000

do you guys need a sweeper, janitor, someone to go fetch coffee or something?

New comment by derrida in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

derrida — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:21:39 +0000

> What is there to discuss?

The governance crisis: how can we follow science on so many things, how can countries completely change on short order, but not for this...

New comment by derrida in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

derrida — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 02:00:36 +0000

Eternal September of the Spotless Mind.

New comment by derrida in "SearXNG: A free internet metasearch engine"

derrida — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 01:01:05 +0000

Wow! that looks like a bit of software I have been dreaming about for awhile - will definately check out! You're at least doing something right in communicating the reasons why and appeal for starters! All the best!

New comment by derrida in "OpenRA"

derrida — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:05:39 +0000

"ENGINEERING"

Gatekeeping: A Partial History of Cold Fusion

derrida — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:38:07 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.09996

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920281

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by derrida in "Claude Opus 4.7"

derrida — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:19:32 +0000

Not a haiku, more a koan.

New comment by derrida in "Tell HN: OpenAI silently removed Study Mode from ChatGPT"

derrida — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:30:23 +0000

Has ChatGPT gotten worse over past few months or is it I just have seen other things higher quality, or they stopped caring about user or something?

All of a sudden feels like it gives me boilerplate and boiler plate of PR and cheesy reasoning, and like no actual answers - worse even - highly confident wrong answers that it then seeks to justify or explain (like it doesn't seem humble enough to be like "Actually, got that wrong" or if challenged it just caves over, accepts too readilythe assumptions in what the user is asking, or just blindly accepts a premise of the question) it's almost useless, like before it used to seem like could get it to emulate the way a certain writer or discourse speaks, now it seems like this derpy highschool just wants to be in kid that went into public relations and the language no matter what the topic seems always the same, it's really spammy feeling,

I could be asking it questions about like how medieval monks talked about light and the breath in latin and it will be replying like I'm interested in monetising or improving my lifestyle or some b.s. I don't think it used to be this way?

reminds of a circa 2003-6 wordpress sites - blackhat seo - feeling to generate back links to push affiliate links or something, with markov generated content designed to push back links for the actual human written landing page

It's not like this on the other llms, something's up.

Or maybe they have just found the niche and it is a bunch of people who do think like that - like I dunno - middle management the world over

that is scary ... bonus ghastly incantations of the epistemology of middle management

Vitalik Buterin – "My self-sovereign / local / private / secure LLM setup"

derrida — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2026/04/02/secure_llms.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47610534

Points: 37

# Comments: 6

New comment by derrida in "Prompt-caching – auto-injects Anthropic cache breakpoints (90% token savings)"

derrida — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:12:57 +0000

Is it perhaps because this is for claude code but there's other tools that use anthropics api like custom agents? (some i prefer to use than claude code - e.g sketch.dev what is now called shelley at exe.dev) perhaps?

New comment by derrida in "Show HN: Ghidra MCP Server – 110 tools for AI-assisted reverse engineering"

derrida — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 10:51:10 +0000

I have no idea about any of that but like I wasn't thinking of github until you mentioned it and this comment I upvoted because was informative and relevant to the discussion and I don't know about R.E but curious to try and this kind of activity just seems like the sort of things people who are interested in software, learning and aware of security do... like to find bugs or malware or something... FOSS or not - actually "especially if not FOSS" you'd kinda like people to scan their binaries at and have that knowledge indigenous wouldn't you? while thinking of code security etc, anyway

Is this a bad look for Derrida.org?

Anyway, "not my business"

New comment by derrida in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

derrida — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 03:14:07 +0000

ok thank you! I did not know that, I'm ashamed to admit! sort of like studying physics at university a decade later forgetting V=IR when I actually needed it for some solar install. I took "technical hiatus" about 5 years and recently coming back.

Anyway cut to the chase, I just checked out Mathew Greens post on the subject, he is on my list of default "trust what he says about cryptography" along with some others like djb, nadia henninger etc

Embarrased to say I did not realise, I should of known! 10+ years ago I used to lurk the IRC dev chans of every relevant cypherpunk project, including of text secure and otr-chat when I saw signal being made and before that was witnessing chats with devs and ian goldberg and stuff, I just assumed Telegram was multiparty OTR,

OOPS!

Long winded post because that is embarrassing (as someone who studied cryptography undergrad in 2009 mathematics, 2010 did postgrad wargames and computer security course and worse - whose word once about 2012-2013 was taken on these matters by activists, journalists, researchers with pretty knarly threat model - like for instance - some guardian stories and former researcher into torture - i'm also the person that wrote the bits of 'how to hold a crypto party' that made it a protocol without an organisation and made clear the threat model was anyone could be there, oops oops oops

Yes thanks for letting me know I hang my head in shame for missing that one or some how believing that one without much investigation, thankfully it was just my own personal use to contact like friend in the states where they aren't already on signal etc.

EVERYONE: DON'T TRUST TELEGRAM AS END TO END ENCRYPTED CHAT https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2024/08/25/telegram...

Anyway as they say "use it or lose it" yeah my assumptions here no longer valid or considered to have educated opinion if I got something that basic wrong.

New comment by derrida in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

derrida — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:29:02 +0000

The other LLMs probably don't have the training data in the first place.

New comment by derrida in "X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok"

derrida — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:07:11 +0000

I wouldn't equate the two.

There's someone who was being held responsible for what was in encrypted chats.

Then there's someone who published depictions of sexual abuse and minors.

Worlds apart.

New comment by derrida in "xAI joins SpaceX"

derrida — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 11:58:35 +0000

How does a radiator work in a vacuum?

New comment by derrida in "Two kinds of AI users are emerging"

derrida — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 01:59:51 +0000

Business as usual.

New comment by derrida in "9front OS"

derrida — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:46:15 +0000

They could use sex to sell.

"imagine everything is a file"

New comment by derrida in "9front OS"

derrida — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:25:55 +0000

OS is designed by Bell Labs, of Unix and C fame, but ok.

EDIT: I think some of the in-jokey, arty farty culture about it is because the rest of us didn't run with it, it's basically for hobby and personal use - so its culture now. But about any one I know who has used it enough to "grok" it kinda is like "wow if this won" because its kinda such a paradigmatically good thing whole kind of cottage industries of software may not even exist because the user would be able to write a pipe from a file that is a device to write to another one type thing.

New comment by derrida in "Claude Code daily benchmarks for degradation tracking"

derrida — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:56:17 +0000

Ah, the hell site, no click.

New comment by derrida in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

derrida — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:59:44 +0000

Wait, so they could say, write a linked list out, or bubble sort, but not understand what it was doing? like no mental model of memory, registers, or intuition for execution order, or even conceptual like a graph walk, or something? Like just "zero" on the conceptual front, but could reproduce data structures, some algorithm for accessing or traversing, and give rote O notation answers about how long execution takes ?

Just checking I have that right... is that what you meant?

I think that's what you were implying but it's just want to check I have that right? if so

... that ... is .... wow ...