Hacker News: grommz

New comment by grommz in "OpenBSD 8.0"

grommz — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:12:33 +0000

>Switched ssh(1) from supercop ed25519 to libsodium

Lol. Casually switching crypto implementation somewhere in the footnotes.

New comment by grommz in "Flatpak – An Insecurity Nightmare"

grommz — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:40:31 +0000

Now your app comes with embedded vulnerabilities and no sandbox.

New comment by grommz in "Vibe coded browser ports of Halo, The Simpsons: Hit And Run, GTA work well"

grommz — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:53:59 +0000

Actually a great way to safely try old games that you've never played before.

https://ported2browser.com/

New comment by grommz in "Pixel 11 doesn't yet meet the GrapheneOS security standards and may be skipped"

grommz — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:03:19 +0000

It's all about that sweet backdoor. With Google and Samsung the NSA can just waltz in and out of your phone no matter which OS is running. But if some Chinese OEM decides that Unisoc chip & baseband would be the best choice for your GrapheneOS device the NSA will be quite unhappy.

New comment by grommz in "Armada: Encrypted, Open-Source, Discord Alternative (Built on Nostr)"

grommz — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 10:59:07 +0000

Very nice. You should consider rotating the label of a community periodically, not just triggered by rekey events. Makes it impossible or at least very hard for relay operators to delete the entire community by label.

New comment by grommz in "Meta Blocks President Lula's Facebook Page, Campaign Ads 2 Weeks from Election"

grommz — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:45:16 +0000

> nothing good usually comes out of governments censoring internet

wrong. Blocking Facebook in China because they didn't follow domestic laws was the best thing that happened to the Chinese internet. It enabled the growth of domestic platforms like WeChat, Weibo and Tiktok.

New comment by grommz in "Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion"

grommz — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:35:39 +0000

If I search for 'uncensored' there are no torrents available. Uncensored models should be top priority, especially now that Nvidia owns HuggingFace and will enshittify the platform in accordance with upcoming US laws.

New comment by grommz in "Arbitrary code execution in QubesOS via copy-to-VM error reporting backchannel"

grommz — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:18:34 +0000

The founder Joanna Rutkowska left QubesOS in 2018. All the code involved in this bug was committed by her successor Marek Marczykowski-Górecki.

Joanna seems to be a genuine good guy, she once wrote a paper titled "Intel x86 considered harmful". That's why Huawei and the Chinese government aren't even trying any more to make western CPU architectures secure, it's a hopeless cause.

New comment by grommz in "Microduck"

grommz — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:24:38 +0000

Made in China with a 500% markup. No thanks, I will wait for the Chinese version for less than $100.

New comment by grommz in "Malicious Rust crate Arrayref runs a build-time payload"

grommz — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 15:56:14 +0000

HarmonyOS is a capability based OS. I don't know why anyone in China is still using Rust. The biggest social engineering hack was for the Rust team to convince developers that it is a safe language.

New comment by grommz in "Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub"

grommz — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:23:41 +0000

Has anyone tried Tencent CNB? It offers generous free quotas.

https://cnb.build

New comment by grommz in "DeepSeek Harness developer preview"

grommz — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 15:06:28 +0000

The paper mentions agent harness self improvement as one of the use cases. I don't know what's the advantage vs. iterating over a monolithic harness.

New comment by grommz in "US Military's cyber command unit grapples with cluster of deaths by suicide"

grommz — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:34:26 +0000

Once you know about the NSA backdoors you become a walking security risk. Forget about that vacation in beautiful China, you will be held on a short leash for life.

New comment by grommz in "My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page"

grommz — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 13:11:53 +0000

The US Department of War IP adresses baked into the firmware is the bigger story here. Note to self: never buy a Korean security product.

New comment by grommz in "Qwen 3.8"

grommz — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:13:13 +0000

It's your job to vote for a government that gives you cheap or free AI. Europe is building AI gigafactories so that small businesses can have access to cheap AI. At least that's the plan.

New comment by grommz in "Ask HN: Do you say please and thank you to your LLMs?"

grommz — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:17:26 +0000

No, but cursing helps. I often call it a woke moron. The Chinese models then try to be extra precise and factual.

New comment by grommz in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

grommz — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:05:03 +0000

Imagine you're a mid sized company and you can host this model locally. Suddenly there are zero reasons to pay a single red cent to the bloodsucking American AI cartel.

New comment by grommz in "Briar is in maintenance mode"

grommz — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 15:21:26 +0000

CIA funding dried up. Briar had already started development when Starlink wasn't even a concept. Nowadays every CIA goat herder has their own Starlink terminal.

New comment by grommz in "Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list"

grommz — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:37:02 +0000

Nobody says Jinping Xi or Zedong Mao.

New comment by grommz in "Iran Hatched Fresh Plot to Kill Trump, Israel Told U.S."

grommz — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:46:31 +0000

*Israel Hatched Fresh Plot the Kill Trump.

Fixed it for you.