Hacker News: hk__2

New comment by hk__2 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

hk__2 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:52:39 +0000

> This means if you have hints off (via HOMEBREW_NO_ENV_HINTS) then I suspect you can start getting this behavior without warning which is a bummer.

I read this as "This means if you close your eyes you don’t see things, which is a bummer."

New comment by hk__2 in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

hk__2 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:49:59 +0000

Hi Mike, I’m @bfontaine on GitHub (I helped maintain Homebrew in ~2014-2016). I’m always impressed at your longevity as a maintainer; it’s been like what, 16+ years you’ve been maintaining Homebrew and you’re still here, still shipping new features! Thank you for everything!

New comment by hk__2 in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

hk__2 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:53:36 +0000

Only if you publish something.

New comment by hk__2 in "GPT-2: Too Dangerous To Release (2019)"

hk__2 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:29:08 +0000

> The president of the United States tweeted an AI generated image of himself as Jesus Christ descending from the sky and saving a sick person. I feel like that is a good example.

I feel like this is the worst example, actually, because here it’s 100% clear to anyone that it’s AI-generated content. The danger is more about AI-generated fake images/videos disguised as real content.

New comment by hk__2 in "1-Bit Bonsai Image 4B Image Generation for Local Devices"

hk__2 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:16:02 +0000

> doesn't it blow your mind that there exists a 1 Gigabyte file/program that can generate any image you can think of just from a rough description of it?

I can make this into a 5-lines Python program. I’m not saying the images will match the description, but that isn’t part of your spec ;)

New comment by hk__2 in "Claude Opus 4.8"

hk__2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:48:44 +0000

This is not any simpler

New comment by hk__2 in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

hk__2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:44:26 +0000

You’re just splitting your dotfiles into a public and a private part. That’s useful if you want to publish the public part on GitHub, but not everyone wants to do this, and the issue of storing secrets in plain text files remain.

New comment by hk__2 in "Italians and Dutch share the same gestural instinct for teaching"

hk__2 — Fri, 29 May 2026 09:39:43 +0000

Italians have a gesture for this as well, and it speaks for itself: nobody says "mmmm" while doing it.

New comment by hk__2 in "The map that keeps Burning Man honest"

hk__2 — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:29:29 +0000

Isn’t it strange to mesure this in surface rather than volume?

New comment by hk__2 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

hk__2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:22:08 +0000

Thanks, but those are only ~150 random words; that’s not enough to be important.

New comment by hk__2 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

hk__2 — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:17:28 +0000

I gave an example about something easy to verify, but things become harder about niche things where it’s not easy to just search on Google to check.

New comment by hk__2 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

hk__2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:15:27 +0000

It does matter, because it can affect your whole life. If tomorrow I learn that apples cause cancer and eating plastic is good for my stomach I’ll change my habits and quickly have some issues ;)

> There are no universal truths anyways

Of course there are.

New comment by hk__2 in "Copy Fail"

hk__2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:57:14 +0000

The problem is not the passwordless sudo but running untrusted programs on your computer under your user. They don’t need sudo to steal your SSH keys or inject malicious code in your .bashrc.

New comment by hk__2 in "Mozilla's Opposition to Chrome's Prompt API"

hk__2 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:01:52 +0000

Both, actually. It did make some parts of the Internet better, and some other worse.

New comment by hk__2 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

hk__2 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:23:57 +0000

You’ll feel like you learned something without realizing it’s totally wrong.

New comment by hk__2 in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

hk__2 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:22:23 +0000

Arabic?

New comment by hk__2 in "Men who stare at walls"

hk__2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:57:55 +0000

This is what I do when trying to sleep, and often wonder what’s the difference with meditation.

New comment by hk__2 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

hk__2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:15:14 +0000

You usually register a copy of your signature when you get an ID card or a bank account, so no it’s no like an X; you’d have to actually sign like the person you’re trying to impersonate.

New comment by hk__2 in "French government agency confirms breach as hacker offers to sell data"

hk__2 — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:25:34 +0000

> the data stolen in the breach could include full names, dates and places of birth, mailing and email addresses, and phone numbers on an undisclosed number of citizens

Nothing really new here sadly, this information about me have leaked half a dozen of times in the past 2-3 years or so. These things will never change if the only penalty the company/agency gets is "send a message to your users saying you are sorry and that it won’t happen again".

New comment by hk__2 in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

hk__2 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:19:20 +0000

Europe here. We have a friend who always gets lost and for that we call him "Apple Maps".