Hacker News: harveyrook

New comment by harveyrook in "Matrix Orthogonalization Improves Memory in Recurrent Models"

harveyrook — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 12:46:21 +0000

Now I’m wondering what is the eigenspace of an LLM? If I take a set of LLM’s with the same number of parameters, then what are the eigenvectors? Do they have different personalities?

New comment by harveyrook in "Decoding the 90s: Cryptography in Early Software Development (2023)"

harveyrook — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 14:53:16 +0000

RC4 was as much of a political statement as a technical spec. At the time, governments were banning cyphers for various reasons. RC4 was simple enough that you could memorize it to get around any prohibitions.

New comment by harveyrook in "Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose"

harveyrook — Tue, 07 May 2024 14:34:01 +0000

Doesn't this blow up the attack surface area to any isp and to any place that offers free wifi? With this attack, I can't assume that it's safe to bring my laptop to a coffee shop and enable the VPN.