Hacker News: hassleblad23

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

hassleblad23 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 18:57:20 +0000

Adding to this, Google's models can only be used with GCP while OpenAI's models can be used with Azure, Anthropic's models can be used with AWD Bedrock, in addition to their own platforms.

I'd love to see the Gemini models being available by other providers :) or if they just build a simple prepaid wallet like OpenAI and Anthropic.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "How to build silos and decrease collaboration on purpose"

hassleblad23 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:18:36 +0000

That makes coasting easy for everyone.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Show HN: LevelUp for Hacker News – HN app with AI article summaries"

hassleblad23 — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:42:11 +0000

Trying the iOS version and it looks pretty good so far. Good job! Maybe add an option to export the bookmarked posts?

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs"

hassleblad23 — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 12:46:45 +0000

I don't think the Enigma machine example applies here.

The nazi communications were decrypted by a highly centralized and secrative group, making it very difficult for the Nazis to figure out how they were doing it.

But in this case any vulnerability in the ransomware will have to be exploited by many of the affected people to decrypt their files, which means wide distribution, which means that a leak to the ransomware developers will happen sooner than later. If there is no wide distribution of the vulnerability, the ransomware developers win anyway.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs"

hassleblad23 — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 08:05:53 +0000

You have to read my comment in context of the immediate parent which I replied to, not the OP.

The immediate parent comment says that if the vulnerability is publicly declared, attackers can easily patch it.

Paraphrasing my response: not publicly declaring the vulnerability is security by obscurity.. which does not work.

Don't attack a strawman.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs"

hassleblad23 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:58:45 +0000

I wonder at what point would the antivirus kick in. It doesn't require reading /dev/urandom for too long.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Decrypting encrypted files from Akira ransomware using a bunch of GPUs"

hassleblad23 — Sat, 15 Mar 2025 16:53:03 +0000

This is a game of cat and mouse, like it has always been. Cannot rely on security by obscurity.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Show HN: Created a gallery from cool website designs I hoarded over the years"

hassleblad23 — Thu, 13 Mar 2025 12:09:35 +0000

Thats a great collection. Thanks for sharing.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology"

hassleblad23 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 19:18:15 +0000

Strobelight is open source as well.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Age and cognitive skills: Use it or lose it"

hassleblad23 — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:06:28 +0000

This is a reason public college should be free.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Can LLMs accurately evaluate their own confidence?"

hassleblad23 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 20:29:21 +0000

I have noticed that asking an LLM to output a confidence score and the reason for assigning the confidence score, works really well. These are tangential to the actual task, but still improve the quality.

I wouldn't depend on the numerical value of the confidence score itself though. There is no way for the LLM to caliberate its confidence score wrt. multiple invocations on different data. I have found this metric to be mostly useless.

It works fine as a proxy to induce some thinking though.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "The inspection paradox is everywhere (2015)"

hassleblad23 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 18:57:21 +0000

Wow. This is such a fascinating insight. Obvious in hindsight but never occurred to me.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Show HN: Appstat – Process Monitor for Windows"

hassleblad23 — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:28:52 +0000

This looks pretty cool. Thanks for sharing!

New comment by hassleblad23 in "An ode to TypeScript enums"

hassleblad23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:41:03 +0000

Its a shame because I like the enum way of declaration a lot more.

`const Foo = { Bar: 'bar' } as const` - this just feels a bit weird.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code"

hassleblad23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:21:00 +0000

At least Pycharm is good at it.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Zapier says someone broke into its code repositories and may have customer data"

hassleblad23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 11:14:39 +0000

Cant comment on rest of your points, but as someone who has worked on Zapier-like 3rd party integrations a lot, it is much harder than it appears.

New comment by hassleblad23 in "Drone captures narwhals using their tusks to explore, forage and play"

hassleblad23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 09:25:55 +0000

Great post. Thanks for sharing!

The Humane AI Pin Has Been Brought Back to Life

hassleblad23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-humane-ai-pin-has-already-been-brought-back-to-life/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43227747

Points: 2

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New comment by hassleblad23 in "How Flash games shaped the video game industry (2020)"

hassleblad23 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 05:30:54 +0000

I have lots of fond memories of playing these mini flash games as a kid :)

New comment by hassleblad23 in "3,200% CPU Utilization"

hassleblad23 — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 21:45:35 +0000

Wrapping these 2 statements in a transaction will not solve this particular issue unless the transactions are run sequentially.