Hacker News: enneff

New comment by enneff in "Qwen3.6-Max-Preview: Smarter, Sharper, Still Evolving"

enneff — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:38:55 +0000

Presumably you’re also using a browser to view this web page. There have also been vulnerabilities in that. You have to draw a line somewhere.

New comment by enneff in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

enneff — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 23:57:22 +0000

Yes and if they copy and paste code they don’t understand then they should disclose that in the commit message too!

New comment by enneff in "Pi – A minimal terminal coding harness"

enneff — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 03:47:39 +0000

It’s a quote from the movie Kindergarten Cop.

New comment by enneff in "Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS"

enneff — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:10:39 +0000

I haven't yet - just generally I have found it a bit of a hassle to figure out which packages to install whenever I use a different distro. I'll let you know how it goes!

New comment by enneff in "Show HN: Local-First Linux MicroVMs for macOS"

enneff — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 21:24:29 +0000

Thanks for doing this. I had basically the same experience with Lima. It is very nice but the defaults are not what I want, and I don't like having to wonder whether I turned off the stuff that I don't want enabled. Better that everything is disabled by default and I selectively turn things on (like networking) as I need them.

I'm gonna give shuru a try. My main concern is being based on Alpine (seemingly the only option?) I may not be able to easily pull in the dependencies for the projects I'm working on, but I'll see how it goes.

New comment by enneff in "Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst"

enneff — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 03:48:12 +0000

> part of the polygraph test involves a blood pressure cuff which is put on EXTREMELY tight, far more so than any doctor or nurse would ever put it on. It is left on for the entire duration of the test (approximately 8 hours). My entire arm turned purple and i remember feeling tremors.

Why would you subject yourself to this?

New comment by enneff in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

enneff — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:53:04 +0000

I don’t know. I wouldn’t have thought of myself as proxying other people’s traffic by carrying my iPhone around. (For one thing, it’s my own phone that initiates all the activity- it monitors for Apple devices, the devices don’t reach out to my phone.) I can see how you could frame it that way, though. I just thought they might be referring to something else that I didn’t know about.

New comment by enneff in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

enneff — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:22:23 +0000

By “your traffic” you mean device location reports? Or something else?

New comment by enneff in "Disrupting the largest residential proxy network"

enneff — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 22:57:17 +0000

How is Find My a proxy network?

New comment by enneff in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

enneff — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 19:46:41 +0000

You might consider why this article which has nothing to do with AI as you know it (except for the machine learning aspects of Gaussian splatting), and was produced by a huge team of vfx professionals, has made you think about AI democratising culture (despite the fact that music videos and films have been cheap to make for decades). Don’t just look for opportunities to discuss your favourite talking points.

New comment by enneff in "The Gentle Seduction (1989)"

enneff — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 19:36:42 +0000

Why? Life for an individual is long enough IMO. Death means renewal. Our children are better than us.

New comment by enneff in "Exe.dev"

enneff — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:27:34 +0000

There is also the threat of the server sending a data sequence that exploits a vulnerability in your terminal. It has happened before, but it’s rare.

New comment by enneff in "Exe.dev"

enneff — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 19:13:58 +0000

Likely? Definitely.

New comment by enneff in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

enneff — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 07:54:31 +0000

I think the existing penalties would be deterrent enough. The problem is the criminals know they’ll probably get away with it.

New comment by enneff in "Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm"

enneff — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 21:17:53 +0000

The marketing works because online games get destroyed by cheats. Losing in online games can be full of “feel bad” moments, even without cheaters (network issues, cheesy tactics, balance issues). To think that your opponent won because they outright cheated just makes you wanna quit.

I’ve seen so many players saying “look you can own my entire pc just please eliminate the cheating.”

It would be great to see more of a web of trust thing instead of invasive anti cheat. That would make it harder for people to get into the games in the first place though so I don’t know if developers would really want to go that way.

New comment by enneff in "VIM Master"

enneff — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 23:42:45 +0000

Yet they ship macOS with vim installed and zsh as the default shell.

New comment by enneff in "ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes"

enneff — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 22:37:52 +0000

The science doesn’t support your hypothesis btw.

New comment by enneff in "FFmpeg 8.0 adds Whisper support"

enneff — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:29:25 +0000

I don’t mean to speak for OP, but it strikes me as rude to make light of someone’s disability in this way. I’d guess it has caused them a lot of frustration.

New comment by enneff in "Peep Show is the most realistic portrayal of evil I have seen (2020)"

enneff — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 03:33:26 +0000

That’s not how British tv works

New comment by enneff in "ChatGPT agent: bridging research and action"

enneff — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 22:56:22 +0000

In my experience the value of junior contributors is that they will one day become senior contributors. Their work as juniors tends to require so much oversight and coaching from seniors that they are a net negative on forward progress in the short term, but the payoff is huge in the long term.