Hacker News: eugenekolo

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.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode"

eugenekolo — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 18:24:05 +0000

It's possible they changed it from "thisisunsafe" to the b64 version to avoid automatic scanners finding "unsafe" keyword usage.

New comment by eugenekolo in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

eugenekolo — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:21:47 +0000

Confused by his portrayal of Massena, NY. I don't live there and have never driven through, but looking on Google Maps it doesn't seem that bad or depressing as the author (and I guess commentators) make it out to be.

It has a Walmart, Home Depot, BJs (similar to Costco), a main street with several businesses. A walkable grid with sidewalks in that main town area....

Feels like reaching that this place is so desolate and depressing.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison"

eugenekolo — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 15:16:01 +0000

It's definitely an attempt to compare models, and Gemini clearly won in the tests. But, I don't think the tests are particularly good or showcasing. It's generally an easy problem to ask AI to give you greenfields JS code for common tasks, and Leetcode's been done 1000 times on Github and stackoverflow, so the solutions are all right there.

I'd like to see tests that are more complicated for AI things like refactoring an existing codebase, writing a program to auto play God of War for you, improving the response time of a keyboard driver and so on.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row"

eugenekolo — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 21:21:27 +0000

They heavily compete on "privacy" and "security", so I wouldn't expect them to. Additionally, once you start rolling with one government, every one wants you to do something for them while offering you no additional money for the work and weakening of your project.

Remote Code Execution in Marvel Rivals Game

eugenekolo — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 18:02:42 +0000

Article URL: https://shalzuth.com/Blog/IFoundAGameExploit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42920962

Points: 185

# Comments: 129

New comment by eugenekolo in "0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms"

eugenekolo — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 15:46:01 +0000

Can probably achieve the same level of deanonymization by just monitoring what times the user communicates most often. Or send them enough links that they'll click on.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)"

eugenekolo — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 15:41:00 +0000

This was actually a really cool analysis. Fun to see how these things can be broken down so cleanly into graphs.

New comment by eugenekolo in "Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post"

eugenekolo — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 17:43:03 +0000

What does the model say about this post?