Hacker News: dr_pardee

New comment by dr_pardee in "I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day"

dr_pardee — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:35:17 +0000

Was at the beach today and came back to more comments than I anticipated or can respond to! Thanks to those that actually read my story.

I was a little bummed about the detour into how I used AI in writing this blog post so I decided to add an addendum to address it: https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/#how-this-pos...

In short, I get the anger, but let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

My intent in creating this blog was to share my tablet story and to get people talking about

- How companies control devices that you purchased and should own

- Today, US frontier models won’t allow users to even discuss exploits

- GLM-5.3 was more capable than Kimi K3 or GLM-5.2 in my experience

- You can be a prompt kiddie and accomplish things if you don’t accept LLM limitations

If I hadn't used GLM-5.3 to get this out, it would have never made it anywhere.

New comment by dr_pardee in "I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day"

dr_pardee — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:24:18 +0000

Author here. Quick context: the tablet is a 2021 Fire HD 10 that ran my Home Assistant dashboard and kept powering itself off: the logs showed Amazon's own software issuing the shutdowns, and the only permanent fix was root, which has never existed publicly for this model. Anthropic's and OpenAI's cyber safeguards wouldn't touch the project. Moonshot's Kimi K3 found an unpatched 2022 Mali CVE (CVE-2022-38181: fixed upstream in 2022, patched by Amazon in 2024, but my firmware never got it), GLM-5.2 caught two fatal bugs in the exploit, and GLM-5.3 finished it in a day. The full technical write-up with every offset and dead end is HANDOFF.md in the repo. Happy to answer questions: especially about the model-steering side, which was most of my actual contribution.

I spent $266 and four AI models to own my tablet. GLM-5.3 finished it in a day

dr_pardee — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:23:09 +0000

Article URL: https://ericpardee.github.io/fire-hd-ownership/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49409073

Points: 706

# Comments: 293

Connect Dropbox to Claude

dr_pardee — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:42:02 +0000

Article URL: https://help.dropbox.com/integrations/connect-dropbox-to-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48668583

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by dr_pardee in "LiteAI – OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google LLMs at a discount"

dr_pardee — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:01:14 +0000

Tell that to CDW, they hit $21B in revenue and have been at it for 41 years https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDW

New comment by dr_pardee in "Firefox Forcing LLM Features"

dr_pardee — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 19:35:47 +0000

https://www.waterfox.net/

New comment by dr_pardee in "My Impressions of the MacBook Pro M4"

dr_pardee — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 19:33:50 +0000

> I still don’t like macOS and would prefer to run Linux on this laptop. But Asahi Linux still needs some work before it’s usable for me (I need external display output, and M4 support). This doesn’t bother me too much, though, as I don’t use this computer for serious work.

“I don’t use this computer for serious work.” Dropped $3K on MBP to play around with. Definitely should have gotten MBA

New comment by dr_pardee in "Show HN: Gh-Admin.com AI for GitHub Administration"

dr_pardee — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:17:18 +0000

Is this intended for GitHub Enterprise Cloud or GitHub Enterprise Managed Users(EMU)

New comment by dr_pardee in "Port of Los Angeles says shipping volume will plummet 35% next week"

dr_pardee — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 14:29:12 +0000

Knowing someone who imports from China, there are ways around tariffs

https://harris-sliwoski.com/chinalawblog/the-guide-for-legal...

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/07/nx-s1-5318785/tariff-dodging-...

Shady ways as well https://www.voanews.com/a/as-us-tariffs-expand-chinese-firms...

New comment by dr_pardee in "NYC Subway Station Layouts"

dr_pardee — Sun, 10 Nov 2024 14:26:20 +0000

Hold on the image, “Open in New Tab”, zoom in

Nike to Release Air Force 1 Low '404'

dr_pardee — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:30:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.complex.com/sneakers/a/victor-deng/nike-air-force-1-low-404-dotswoosh-release-date

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39985740

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by dr_pardee in "Bard is now Gemini, and we’re rolling out a mobile app and Gemini Advanced"

dr_pardee — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:24:03 +0000

Gentlemen, please give a warm welcome to this next performer, put your dollars in and give it up for Gemini!

New comment by dr_pardee in "Tell HN: Russia has started blocking OpenVPN/WireGuard connections"

dr_pardee — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 14:24:46 +0000

Ten years ago, I was working for a US post-production company that produced a one-off game show in China. We used OpenVPN to monitor our servers, but it was being blocked. I ended up setting up a new OpenVPN server using obfsproxy, and it worked. It might be worth trying in your situation: https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/TrafficObfuscatio...

New comment by dr_pardee in "When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think"

dr_pardee — Thu, 11 May 2023 11:46:07 +0000

You are likely not prompting correctly. https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-eng...

GPT-4 Passed the Bar Exam, so I think there's something to it https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4389233

New comment by dr_pardee in "It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business"

dr_pardee — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:22:42 +0000

From the article https://www.unite.ai/deepfaked-voice-enabled-35-million-bank...

"Though users at the Audio Fakes Discord and the DeepFaceLab Discord are intensely interested in combining the two technologies into a single video+voice live deepfake architecture, no such product has publicly emerged as yet."

New comment by dr_pardee in "It sounds like science fiction but it’s not: AI can destroy your business"

dr_pardee — Sun, 09 Apr 2023 13:00:27 +0000

While I am aware that it is possible to use software to clone someone's voice, I am uncertain if it is currently feasible to utilize the cloned voice in real-time situations.

I am curious if these scammers are pre-recording conversations and playing them back in real-time or if they are actually able to speak using the cloned voice technology.

New comment by dr_pardee in "‘Reverse Engineering’ Hacker News into an API"

dr_pardee — Sun, 26 Jun 2022 04:20:17 +0000

Search hackd in iOS app store

New comment by dr_pardee in "Shortcut OCR to Clipboard Anywhere macOS"

dr_pardee — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:50:54 +0000

Create a macOS Shortcut that will allow you to screenshot a portion of your screen, and then the text from that image will be extracted and placed into the clipboard

Shortcut OCR to Clipboard Anywhere macOS

dr_pardee — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 03:50:54 +0000

Article URL: https://macmost.com/macos-shortcuts-capture-text-from-your-screen.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31720862

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by dr_pardee in "How does the Gmail unsubscribe button work? (2020)"

dr_pardee — Mon, 30 May 2022 13:27:03 +0000

The thing about the unsubscribe button that I've found, if you use an alias, hackernews@example.com but your 'real' email is mike@example.com (catch-all email), Gmail unsubscribe will submit the 'real' email, mike@example.com, which doesn't work and can back fire by giving spammers your 'real' email.