Hacker News: drum55

New comment by drum55 in "Leaking Secrets from Air-Gap Computers by Spelling Radio Signals from RAM (2024)"

drum55 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 06:13:27 +0000

Collocation.

New comment by drum55 in "Zinc creep in cable spelter sockets brought down the Arecibo telescope in 2020"

drum55 — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 01:51:01 +0000

Where the cables were there’s nothing focused, just wires, it was outside of the dish.

New comment by drum55 in "Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line"

drum55 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:14:41 +0000

There was a prototype macbook pro on ebay from 20 years ago with a 3G modem in it, the retail MBP from the time even has the space for a SIM card near the battery door. Presumably they decided against it for a good reason.

https://www.macrumors.com/2011/08/14/photos-of-a-prototype-m...

New comment by drum55 in "Show HN: A USB-C LTE modem that gives my computer a phone line"

drum55 — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:29:05 +0000

The PCB looks super weird, what is going on here?

https://files.catbox.moe/nijoin.png

https://files.catbox.moe/suazr4.png

They sort of look sensible until you look closer and then the whole board is fever dream autorouting.

New comment by drum55 in "CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation"

drum55 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:59:04 +0000

https://go.dev/doc/go1.24

> ListenConfig now uses MPTCP by default on systems where it is supported (currently on Linux only).

This seems to imply basically any golang server built since February 2025 is going to be at least attempting to use it.

New comment by drum55 in "CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation"

drum55 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:58:35 +0000

This is a good portion just slop, another 9000 word article that could have been a couple of paragraphs. More text doesn't mean better.

New comment by drum55 in "Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance"

drum55 — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 21:56:00 +0000

You don’t even have to do that, have deposits go to offline keys directly, that way there’s only ever cold > hot wallet movement and a big deposit can’t cause your hot wallet to be too risky.

New comment by drum55 in "Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update"

drum55 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 23:08:52 +0000

NAT are not firewalls.

New comment by drum55 in "Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update"

drum55 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:10:38 +0000

No amount of claude can handle the key thing that Tailscale fixes about wireguard, all of the connection to connection logic is handled be it direct, via all sorts of weird hole punching or via relays. Wireguard itself is horrible to do this with, half the time you're just looking at `wg status` wondering why the packet counter isn't incrementing today. It can never achieve the magic that is a direct connection between plane wifi and a host that's behind NAT on the ground.

New comment by drum55 in "Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update"

drum55 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:03:43 +0000

10,000 words of claudish, it's not worth reading.

New comment by drum55 in "'I Felt Blind Panic.' They Opened Their New $2k iPhone Duo–and It Broke"

drum55 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:52:03 +0000

It mostly shows that people are spending well outside their means.

New comment by drum55 in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

drum55 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 16:11:06 +0000

In the system info they’re referred to as M1 Pro 10 Core or whatever, much easier than Xeon 2950 E3 v3 in the scheme of things.

  Chip: Apple M5
  Total Number of Cores: 10 (4 Super and 6 Efficiency)

Same amount of information, just formatted differently ultimately.

New comment by drum55 in "New 14‑inch MacBook Pro with M6"

drum55 — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:30:17 +0000

They’re binned, not every piece of silicon will work perfectly so they’re selling the ones that did as higher SKUs and the ones with minor flaws become the lower core counts.

New comment by drum55 in "A Printer Printing onto Paper"

drum55 — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 23:09:35 +0000

There's been controllers for all sorts of common cartridges for a long time, a lot of low end UV printers all use a specific Epson cartridge that they run their own plumbing and electronics for. The end result of the device looks almost hand made a lot of the time, it's an XY plotter with a gigantic expensive print head on the end. https://www.amazon.com/mew/dp/B0FF93HB2W https://www.ebay.com/itm/397039456738

New comment by drum55 in "Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities"

drum55 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:38:28 +0000

If you were in college this would be a 40 page essay, or about the same length as thesis in some cases, to communicate a list of potential software vulnerabilities in an overly verbose, pompous voice. It's just slop, it could have been a couple of paragraphs of text at most.

New comment by drum55 in "Cerebras Deploys Trillion-Parameter AI Models"

drum55 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:32:44 +0000

For a fairly weak comparison, modern Bitcoin mining chips are around 13J/TH, so around 0.32TH per token, or 320 billion double-sha256 mining operations per token served by this system. Peanuts are also about 4200 Joules, or almost exactly 1000 tokens per nut assuming you could efficiently turn it into electricity to run this chip. Just as a frame of reference, I don't think this actually serves to make any point.

New comment by drum55 in "Dream-1"

drum55 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:31:32 +0000

I didn’t say it was fake, I said nobody cared enough about what they were making to write a paragraph saying why. Being excited about your product, what if can do and why you made it is very different to promoting “make a blog post about this in a boring corporate style” and going to lunch.

New comment by drum55 in "Dream-1"

drum55 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:30:54 +0000

A back of the napkin post means at least one person had interest in its authorship to put down their drink and write something, the LLM made blog posts are a show that zero people had interest in its authorship enough to put down some words.

New comment by drum55 in "Tailworm – Tailscale Vulnerabilities"

drum55 — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:25:11 +0000

This is just slop, even if any of the issues raised here are real or not, no human bothered to want to contribute to its authorship. The linked website is something like 10,000 words that by and large convey nothing useful to the reader. HN is going to need a flag for these articles so nobody wastes and time under the illusion that there’s anything worth reading.

New comment by drum55 in "Dream-1"

drum55 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 19:17:48 +0000

It's weird to spend all this time making a product and then just throw up something you had a LLM regurgitate. Any amount of human written content here would have been better, even if scribbled on the back of a napkin to show that the product had anybody care about it. A blog post, post-LLMs, can exist entirely in a vacuum away from anybody believing in it.