Hacker News: eugenekolo

New comment by eugenekolo in "RSA-896"

eugenekolo — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:22:35 +0000

"I work at Anthropic and used idle GPUs running known algorithm to factor a number. I used Claude btw"

New comment by eugenekolo in "PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand""

eugenekolo — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:06:25 +0000

Hobby groups projects like this are less fun for a lot of people who used to enjoy interacting with smart people. It's definitely become a game of just spam claude for answers with zero understanding or care for how anything actually works. That's fine to get things done and fine for a lot of side projects, but it definitely ruins the joy that people have in understanding systems and working with intellectuals.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

eugenekolo — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 13:04:18 +0000

Marketing

New comment by eugenekolo in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

eugenekolo — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 14:24:22 +0000

Surprised only 1/3 tbh.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Hetzner Price Adjustment"

eugenekolo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:23:00 +0000

It really is an absolute massive jump. Have no clue what's going on in the back to warrant a 3x increase... 25-50%, sure.. but 3x is wild.

New comment by eugenekolo in "ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline"

eugenekolo — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:05:34 +0000

WOuldn't proof of that be some grounds for breach of fiduciary duty?

New comment by eugenekolo in "SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities"

eugenekolo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 18:32:47 +0000

Without SWE-Bench though, how will AI models properly game their results to show ~5-10% gain each iteration?

Once a benchmark is known and there's billion of dollars on the line, obviously every company will game them.

New comment by eugenekolo in "I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore"

eugenekolo — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:07:12 +0000

Generally I agree with the sentiment, for one major reason: debugability/dev loops.

Inevitably you're going to end up having to debug that each of those steps is correct, for that you'll find it a lot easier to break it out.. and the next person who has to do it will as well.

I do think the example is somewhat loaded though, rename "result" to "top5ActiveUserNames" would do a lot there.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom"

eugenekolo — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 18:35:53 +0000

..again?

New comment by eugenekolo in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

eugenekolo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:55:10 +0000

I'm not sure Bitcoin won.. it just continues being a ponzi scheme that you can make money in.

You can also accept that certain things and be happy in life either way. Don't need to chase get rich schemes. Some are more privileged than others in being able to do this.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

eugenekolo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:28:33 +0000

No, because Lockdown Mode disabled JIT which is a part of this exploit chain.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

eugenekolo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:48:32 +0000

Unrelated bug as far as I can tell.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

eugenekolo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:47:59 +0000

I suspect you'll see one with this or Coruna soon enough.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild"

eugenekolo — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 15:42:32 +0000

It's actually a fascinating find by Lookout, iVerify, and Google. This is a multi million dollar exploit chain sold to various buyers.

Complete full chain 1-click exploit from Safari to complete device take over exfiltrating personal data, passwords, and crypto wallets.

https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/darkswor...

https://iverify.io/blog/darksword-ios-exploit-kit-explained

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...

New comment by eugenekolo in "Warn about PyPy being unmaintained"

eugenekolo — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 17:17:33 +0000

Donated. Thank you and everyone else on the PyPy team.

I use PyPy regularly on an app of mine, and very often when I need to do some compute heavy load. Typically over 5x faster than CPython. It makes some stuff that takes impossibly long with CPython (nobody wants to wait 5 minutes...), to returning a response in a few seconds.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability"

eugenekolo — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 14:24:33 +0000

But is it running ShellExecute on URIs?

New comment by eugenekolo in "Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium"

eugenekolo — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:29:43 +0000

June 5, 2025

New comment by eugenekolo in "John Carmack on mutable variables"

eugenekolo — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 16:39:43 +0000

I disagree you'd find "obvious" non-generic names easily. After all, "naming" is one of the hardest things in computer science.

New comment by eugenekolo in "I dumped Google for Kagi"

eugenekolo — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 16:25:26 +0000

I think paying for search is becoming more acceptable when you look at the amount of people paying $20/mo for their AI subs, which to many people are just search engines.

There will always be users who refuse (not going to convince my parents ever), but for many power users, or semi-power users, it's becoming more acceptable to just pay the $20/mo and get a better product.

New comment by eugenekolo in "2D to 3D model and 3D print it"

eugenekolo — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 20:16:21 +0000

So you can detect if it's AI slop quickly.. but they might be catching on to this.