Hacker News: grommz

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.

New comment by grommz in "Decentralized, encrypted (E2EE), censorship-resistant messenger"

grommz — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:54:41 +0000

What is the difference between this and VeilidChat?