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New comment by halifaxbeard in "Grok's Traffic Is Mostly Driven by Adult Content"

halifaxbeard — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 21:00:20 +0000

https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investig...

Non consensual adult content, at that.

Truly makes me wonder if xAI/Cursor will honour the spirit of enterprise agreements around data retention.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Germany news: Childfree adults to pay more for elder care"

halifaxbeard — Tue, 26 May 2026 16:26:05 +0000

Do children that are the product of sexual assault count?

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

halifaxbeard — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:30:46 +0000

This is really poor form given that Anthropic is going around getting all kinds of public goodwill for finding CVEs in other people’s products.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Bun v1.3.14"

halifaxbeard — Thu, 14 May 2026 15:23:53 +0000

> Fixed: HTTP request smuggling attack vector

> Fixed: missing bounds check in maliciously-crafted Blob deserialization

> Fixed: integer overflow in IPC advanced serialization mode with malicious input

Where are the CVEs, Jarred?

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

halifaxbeard — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:58:10 +0000

Any plans to issue a CVE for this HTTP request smuggling attack vector fixed in the latest bun release?

https://github.com/oven-sh/bun/issues/29732

New comment by halifaxbeard in "DDR4 Sdram – Initialization, Training and Calibration"

halifaxbeard — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 11:19:22 +0000

Wow, I was spoiled building firmware for my ARM boards then (building, not developing).

Marvell has a source available DDR driver that actually takes care of training on a few of their platforms! https://github.com/MarvellEmbeddedProcessors/mv-ddr-marvell

New comment by halifaxbeard in "6-Day and IP Address Certificates Are Generally Available"

halifaxbeard — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 19:37:43 +0000

> 8 lets me refresh weekly and have a fixed day of the week to check whether there was some API 429 timeout

There’s your answer.

6 days means on a long enough enough timeframe the load will end up evenly distributed across a week.

8 days would result in things getting hammered on specific days of the week.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

halifaxbeard — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:31:02 +0000

At this point I’m not convinced that Gemini 3 Pro was post-trained on data Google had permission to use, going by the myriad of issues on the Gemini CLI tracker around Google AI/Google One/Google Cloud/Google Workspaces.

https://github.com/google-gemini/gemini-cli/issues/12121

It is far too easy to accidentally end up under the wrong privacy agreement, to the point of where some workplaces are banning use of the Gemini CLI!

New comment by halifaxbeard in "A race condition in Aurora RDS"

halifaxbeard — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:49:44 +0000

I think OP is wrong in their hypothesis based on the logs they share and the root cause AWS support provided them.

I think the promotion fails to happen and then an external watchdog notices that it didn’t, and kills everything ASAP as it’s a cluster state mismatch.

The message about the storage subsystem going away is after the other Postgres process was kill -9’d.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

halifaxbeard — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 20:12:31 +0000

How would you propose we address the therapist shortage then?

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Intercellular communication in the brain through a dendritic nanotubular network"

halifaxbeard — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 23:43:57 +0000

If the universe is closed and knowable, free will can't exist. Fortunately, Heisenberg left the door open.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Building a DOOM-like multiplayer shooter in pure SQL"

halifaxbeard — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:08:56 +0000

unironically, this is such an elegant way to express ray marching

https://github.com/cedardb/DOOMQL/blob/f14b5ef9ef0b23045376b...

New comment by halifaxbeard in "F-35 pilot held 50-minute airborne conference call with engineers before crash"

halifaxbeard — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 17:34:42 +0000

The hygroscopic nature of hydraulic fluid is there for the same reason it is in car brake fluid-

it's better to evenly distribute water throughout the fluid, than to have it accumulate in a low point

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Why was Apache Kafka created?"

halifaxbeard — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 14:23:33 +0000

the log stays on kafka for replay until your per log retention settings delete it

New comment by halifaxbeard in "Ollama's new app"

halifaxbeard — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 12:05:08 +0000

This makes me really wonder about the relationship between Open WebUI & Ollama

Open WebUI's Gamble: "Your BSD code is ours unless you say no"

halifaxbeard — Wed, 07 May 2025 11:37:06 +0000

tl;dr - story old as time- OSS project experiences white-boxing, then moves away from an OSI license.

* pre v0.6.6 the project was BSD-3 licensed * v0.6.6 was released under BSD-3 + branding requirements * no CLA was required for contributions prior to the switch * they didn't obtain consent from all contributors prior to the switch

The author is taking the opt-out approach to the licensing change - https://docs.openwebui.com/license/

> If you contributed code pre-v0.6.6 and now wish to have it removed (i.e., you do not consent to the updated project structure or licensing), we will promptly honor your request and excise it from subsequent releases. Just contact us and reference the relevant code.

Is it just me, or does this not pass the smell test?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43914391

Points: 3

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New comment by halifaxbeard in "An intro to DeepSeek's distributed file system"

halifaxbeard — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 11:14:47 +0000

OFS was a drop in replacement for EFS and tbh it's insanely good value for the problem space.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "The Llama 4 herd"

halifaxbeard — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 13:02:49 +0000

I think it's disingenuous to suggest they're putting themselves at a disadvantage with an RTX 3090, especially in a comparison to an inferior product that isn't even shipping yet.

RTX 3090: 24GB RAM, 936.2GB/s bandwidth

Tenstorrent p150a: 32GB RAM, 512GB/s bandwidth

an extra 8GB of ram isn't worth nearly halving memory bandwidth.

New comment by halifaxbeard in "The Night Watch (2013) [pdf]"

halifaxbeard — Wed, 12 Mar 2025 21:49:02 +0000

At the beginning of my career, I merely found it funny.

Now I find it relatable.

(don't install a signal handler in Python for SIGSEGV, especially if it's being triggered by C you're calling)

New comment by halifaxbeard in "The OBS Project is threatening Fedora Linux with legal action"

halifaxbeard — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 01:22:13 +0000

more surprising is there's no way for them to delete it from the flatpak registry

https://pagure.io/releng/issue/12586#comment-955583