Hacker News: forkerenok

New comment by forkerenok in "Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one"

forkerenok — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:08:35 +0000

OMG, is this the reason why every other installer would get stuck at 99% forever? :D

New comment by forkerenok in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

forkerenok — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:26:02 +0000

We're discussing the quality of screening here, not the act/necessity of screening itself.

New comment by forkerenok in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

forkerenok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:02:22 +0000

Wow, this is an interesting one! Thanks for the reference.

New comment by forkerenok in "I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced"

forkerenok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:58:05 +0000

> At first, my aunt wasn't buying that any AI was involved. [...] There was a long pause. "I was like 90% sure," she said, hesitating. "But that sounded more artificial."

There is a thing about many people. I don't remember the phenomenon's name, if it has one, but it goes like this:

Given enough time to reconsider options, people will be endlessly flip-flopping between them grabbing onto various features over and over in a loop.

New comment by forkerenok in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

forkerenok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:49:27 +0000

Meta is like one giant cancer that grew a few small tumors of benign[1] nature, like some of their efforts in open source and open research (React, Llama, etc.).

[1]: I could be wrong thinking those are benign.

New comment by forkerenok in "Why I forked httpx"

forkerenok — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:43:59 +0000

What's the drama around starlette? (Can't find anything)

New comment by forkerenok in "Show HN: Swarm – Program a colony of 200 ants using a custom assembly language"

forkerenok — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 11:48:58 +0000

It's assembly for people who can code good.. and can do other things good too.

New comment by forkerenok in "Motorola GrapheneOS devices will be bootloader unlockable/relockable"

forkerenok — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 07:12:35 +0000

Why? Multiple times in the last 8 or so years I've considered both Nokia (HMD) and Motorola. Looking at reviews and specs I decided every time in favor of Motorola, despite liking the design of Nokia's more, and didn't regret it.

New comment by forkerenok in "Pebble Production: February Update"

forkerenok — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:08:05 +0000

I wouldn't put in the same league as pebble, but it definitely ticks the boxes:

https://banglejs.com/

Battery life is real.

New comment by forkerenok in "Influencers and OnlyFans models are dominating U.S. O-1 visa requests"

forkerenok — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 17:19:21 +0000

I can easily see how 3 of the 4 categories mentioned here could fit.

New comment by forkerenok in "Evanston orders Flock to remove reinstalled cameras"

forkerenok — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 08:15:47 +0000

> This decision came after Illinois Secretary of State [...] discovered that Flock had allowed U.S. Customs and Border Protection to access Illinois cameras in a “pilot program” against state law, and after the RoundTable reported in June that out-of-state law enforcement agencies were able to search Flock’s data for assistance in immigration cases.

This illustrates the textbook argument for why mass surveillance is bad: these tools can quickly end up in the wrong hands.

Play silly games, win silly prizes.

New comment by forkerenok in "Learning lessons from the loss of the Norwegian frigate Helge Ingstad"

forkerenok — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 07:38:02 +0000

> There was a reliance on visual cues for too long and ironically the accident would probably have never happened if the visibility had been poor.

Ironic indeed.

The incident reconstruction video a bit further down the article is well done:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXUf6B2wLtw

New comment by forkerenok in "LunarEngine: An open source, Roblox-compatible game engine"

forkerenok — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 19:22:58 +0000

"Popular kids game Roblox faces pressure over allegations of child predators on its platform":

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.msnbc.com/msnbc/amp/shows/t...

I read your comment carefully to see whether you've taken the GP's joke further, but alas :)

New comment by forkerenok in "Critical Cache Poisoning Vulnerability in Dnsmasq"

forkerenok — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 13:56:48 +0000

I thought they have accidentally "responsibly disclosed" the vulnerability directly into a public mailing list, but the attached pdf is dated >3 months ago.

So assume it's a bit of an inaccurate phrasing.

EDIT: nope, the email itself seeks disclosure coordination etc. So yeah, oops.

New comment by forkerenok in "Sign in with Google in Chrome"

forkerenok — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 09:57:26 +0000

> the number of new sign ups went up 8x overnight.

What's the number if you adjust for quality of signups? E.g. how many people convert and how many people stay on and convert later.

New comment by forkerenok in "At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto"

forkerenok — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 12:35:20 +0000

> The findings exposes a troubling asymmetry: at 0.1% vulnerability rates, attackers achieve an on-chain scanning profitability at a $6000 exploit value, while defenders require $60000, raising fundamental questions about whether AI agents inevitably favor exploitation over defense.

Seems not that good of thing on the balance :)

New comment by forkerenok in "Launch HN: Issen (YC F24) – Personal AI language tutor"

forkerenok — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 20:00:12 +0000

I see some rough edges typical to LLM-powered products, but this is still a fantastic tool!

I think it needs push-to-talk mode, because it's picking up every surrounding noise.

New comment by forkerenok in "Claude Code does our releases now"

forkerenok — Mon, 26 May 2025 06:52:24 +0000

The sibling comment from M4v3R covered this well.

New comment by forkerenok in "Data Compression Nerds Hate This One Trick [video]"

forkerenok — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 10:16:33 +0000

This is the website of the presented project for those who prefer text:

https://qoiformat.org/

An interesting and somewhat inspiring bit of trivia from the video: the creator barely understands modern image compression techniques (from their own words), but this hasn't stopped them from coming up with that impressive result.

New comment by forkerenok in "Mathematical Foundations of Reinforcement Learning"

forkerenok — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:17:27 +0000

Would you mind explicitly indicating whether you have reviewed the submitted materials? And if so, why is it inferior to the material you linked?

Not trying to catch you, genuine interest.