Hacker News: duck2

New comment by duck2 in "Post-mortem of Shai-Hulud attack on November 24th, 2025"

duck2 — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 23:10:41 +0000

It's a bit funny the vuln was introduced by someone with the username "haacked"

New comment by duck2 in "Claude 4"

duck2 — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:13:17 +0000

This guy just told me on the Cursor window:

> Looking at the system prompt, I can see I'm "powered by claude-4-sonnet-thinking" so I should clarify that I'm Claude 3.5 Sonnet, not Claude 4.

New comment by duck2 in "Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes"

duck2 — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:40:58 +0000

That's exactly why I stopped using Svelte. Claude is much more sensible when generating React. Looks like a bleak future where only the most popular library survives.

New comment by duck2 in "400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure"

duck2 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 07:19:33 +0000

it probably didn't work right away and two hours was spent on troubleshooting

New comment by duck2 in "AI killed the tech interview. Now what?"

duck2 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:38:39 +0000

That's not a typical leetcode problem though. Most companies ask things like "solve this slightly modified knapsack problem" which takes 5 minutes if you know the solution and 50 minutes if you don't.

New comment by duck2 in "How web bloat impacts users with slow devices"

duck2 — Sun, 17 Mar 2024 01:06:06 +0000

It's not like websites are GPU bound

New comment by duck2 in "Advice to a novice programmer"

duck2 — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 18:34:55 +0000

I found VSCode's remote plugins to be a really good option when the code lives on a shared remote machine over a slow connection. vim+scp is an extra step on each change, vim over ssh is just awkward, and sshfs isn't the most reliable piece of software.

New comment by duck2 in "Verilog to Routing"

duck2 — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:46:03 +0000

This kind of stuff requires access to the complete architectural parameters of the device, so adding support for even a single device family is a huge reverse-engineering^W documentation effort.

See f4pga.readthedocs.io which consolidates pretty much everyone's efforts into a distribution, but supports only 4 device families: iCE40 and ECP5 from Lattice, some 7-series devices from Xilinx and EOS-S3 from QuickLogic.

For internal testing, VPR has "Stratix IV-like" and most recently "Stratix 10-like" architecture files but these don't try to "document" the whole thing, they just want a close enough approximation to a modern device to evaluate the tool better.

New comment by duck2 in "Web-based cryptography is snake oil"

duck2 — Sun, 25 Jun 2023 10:13:53 +0000

Nothing old silicon and analog peripherals can't solve.

New comment by duck2 in "The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades"

duck2 — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 14:46:01 +0000

I found a previous HN submission about them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20766283

New comment by duck2 in "The price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades"

duck2 — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 00:55:04 +0000

Maybe stuff like Upmem (many small CPUs embedded into memory) can take off then?

New comment by duck2 in "The chip shortage could lead to an era of hardware innovation"

duck2 — Sun, 16 May 2021 16:14:19 +0000

Exchanges are perfectly usable from Turkey.

What is banned is 1) paying for stuff with cryptocurrency and 2) sending money to exchanges via "digital wallets", you have to use bank transactions.

Looks like they are paving the ground to trace and tax crypto investments.

So yeah, this supports your point anyway.

New comment by duck2 in "We Fix: A DIY Manifesto (2014)"

duck2 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 18:20:25 +0000

Most sane right-to-repair advocates don't oppose microscopic parts or glued batteries. They oppose deliberate measures against repair, such as:

- Parts which are produced by a third party who signed a contract with the manufacturer to not sell the part to other people. So you cannot find whatever $2 power management unit in your phone's main board even if you are willing to use complex equipment to replace it.

- Parts which "marry" their devices and refuse to work when you plug them into another device.

This kind of behavior actively fights against you repairing the device. I find it unacceptable.

New comment by duck2 in "I asked GPT-3 for the question to “42”"

duck2 — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:46:03 +0000

If this future happens, people might "fall back" to their native languages for internet writing. I'm already thinking about this: if I wrote something which could potentially get me in legal trouble, like a reverse engineering post, I would probably write it in my native language. Kind of similar to torrent trackers in Russian or obscure phone mod forums in Portuguese.

New comment by duck2 in "PicoRio Linux RISC-V SBC is an open-source alternative to Raspberry Pi board"

duck2 — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 01:36:27 +0000

It's just an open instruction set architecture. You can implement an open or closed source CPU on top of it.

New comment by duck2 in "Drug cartel assassinates its enemies with bomb-toting drones"

duck2 — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 01:44:51 +0000

Drones are easy to jam. The communication link and GPS are most obvious targets.

New comment by duck2 in "Mystery of interstellar visitor 'Oumuamua gets trickier"

duck2 — Sat, 22 Aug 2020 15:11:00 +0000

Still interesting what would be used to polish a gold plated beryllium mirror. For instance, looks like they clean it by spraying CO2 snow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide_cleaning

New comment by duck2 in "Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B"

duck2 — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 20:25:26 +0000

"Building" for the latest process and large volumes is another story, but as far as I can see, large scale logic design is something not _that_ far away from software. Large scale, open source, and performant software designs exist in the wild. (see Linux, llvm, ...)

Why wouldn't we get a logic netlist which could perform reasonably well when placed on silicon by people who know what they are doing? (Yeah, lots of handwave.) I'm asking this out of curiosity. Not an expert in the field by any means.

New comment by duck2 in "All Your Passwords Are Belong to FPGA"

duck2 — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:21:40 +0000

The boards have 4x Spartan 6 LX150, the same part in Pano Logic G2.

New comment by duck2 in "Ghoti"

duck2 — Sat, 20 Jun 2020 21:39:44 +0000

Another effect is that the sound variety in the language was reduced. The new alphabet has "n" for both "ŋ" and "n" sounds. Now, in year 2020, no one spells out ŋ. See "taŋrı", "seniŋ", etc.