Hacker News: jasinjames

New comment by jasinjames in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

jasinjames — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 23:12:37 +0000

The F-35 uses firewire [0].

[0]https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20060009084/downloads/20...

New comment by jasinjames in "Guilty Displeasures"

jasinjames — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 04:40:59 +0000

Good news: video games are still fucking awesome. Since it costs nothing to make one, weird and smart and cool people from all across the world are trying the craziest stuff. It's true they're purchasable through steam, mostly. But there's spectacularly creative stuff at low or no cost. For example, skimming my steam right now I see:

- Tales From Off Peak City (surrealist walking simulator with a film camera mechanic; 9.99$)

- Baba is You (sokoban puzzler; 14.99$)

- Straftat (brutalist/surrealist competitive shooter set to jungle music focusing on randomized community-map style alternative fps gamemodes; free)

- Untitled Goose Game (light puzzle coop set to dynamically scored classical piano music; 8.99$)

- Norco (prescient pre-gen-ai pixel art VN about AI, faith, and the environment; 5.24$)

- Brazillian Drug Dealer 3: I opened a Portal To Hell In The Favela Trying To Revive Mit Aia I Need to Close It (it's quake; 3.75$)

New comment by jasinjames in "My iPhone 16 Pro Max produces garbage output when running MLX LLMs"

jasinjames — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:02:47 +0000

Huh. I never knew "champing" was the proper spelling [0]

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/memmos/2016/06/09/605796769/che...

New comment by jasinjames in "List animals until failure"

jasinjames — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:43:56 +0000

This is actually one of many techniques used to identify dementia symptoms. Hopefully 85 is enough to pass.

New comment by jasinjames in "Feds order Washington power plant to keep burning coal"

jasinjames — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:12:35 +0000

Unfortunately the gov cannot decide who ultimately pays for the tax, just who ends up needing to put it on their balance sheet. If residential consumers demand is inelastic, relative to the commercial customers, then they will pay the tax. I have zero insight into whether domestic or commercial customers have higher demand elasticity, but it's worth being aware of this general principle [0].

[0]https://mru.org/courses/principles-economics-microeconomics/...

New comment by jasinjames in "Help us raise $200k to free JavaScript from Oracle"

jasinjames — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:35:02 +0000

> If there are leftover funds, we’ll donate them to the OpenJS to continue defending civil liberties in the digital space. None of the funds will go to Deno

New comment by jasinjames in "New DNA Map of the Pistachio Could Create Better Varieties"

jasinjames — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 17:21:53 +0000

wait, what fungus? I am allergic "to" exactly those two nuts but can't find mention of this online.

New comment by jasinjames in "Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base"

jasinjames — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:20:19 +0000

I agree. An AI agent doesn't replace an engineer, it works on behalf of an engineer. The engineer who let this thing loose is, transitively, the software engineer that deleted the prod db.

New comment by jasinjames in "AtomicOS – A security-first OS with real crypto and deterministic language"

jasinjames — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 02:05:21 +0000

From “test_everything.c”:

// ============== TEST 6: ¿Claude AI militar?==============

int test_military_ai() { printf("\n[TEST] Claude AI Militar\n");

    // Check if military AI exists
    if (access("kernel/claude_military_grade.c", F_OK) == 0) {
        printf(" Archivo existe\n");
        
        // Check if it's real crypto or fake
        FILE* f = popen("grep -c 'XOR' kernel/claude_military_grade.c", "r");
        char buffer[128];
        fgets(buffer, sizeof(buffer), f);
        pclose(f);
        
        if (atoi(buffer) > 0) {
            printf(" Crypto FALSO (solo XOR)\n");
            return 0;
        } else {
            printf("? Crypto no verificable\n");
            return 0;
        }
    } else {
        printf(" NO EXISTE\n");
        return 0;
    }

}

New whole-program analysis just dropped (it's grep).

New comment by jasinjames in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jasinjames — Tue, 06 May 2025 23:26:03 +0000

Can someone explain the ip address in the hackerone profile[0]? I can't tell if 139.224.130.174 is a reference to something real or just hallucinated by the LLM to look "cool". Wikipedia says that this /8 is controlled by "MIX"[1] but my google-fu is failing me atm.

[0] https://hackerone.com/evilginx?type=user [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_addre...

A Visit to the Abandoned Dye-2 Site (2003)

jasinjames — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 03:59:33 +0000

Article URL: https://lswilson.dewlineadventures.com/dye2visitjul03/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43650394

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by jasinjames in "My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?"

jasinjames — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:08:30 +0000

I second this. Great for movie parties and sporting events. I got a reasonable quality one as surplus from a high-school IT department on fb marketplace.

New comment by jasinjames in "My TV started playing a video in full screen by itself. What happened?"

jasinjames — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 03:01:26 +0000

If you have a "smart" TV you'd like to avoid connecting to the internet for reasons like this, you can try disconnecting the wireless module entirely. I had a Sony Bravia TV I didn't trust, and after popping off the back I disconnected the wireless module's ribbon cable. The android-TV OS handled it gracefully, and now I don't have to worry about it attempting to smuggle data through any other WLANs in my apartment building.

New comment by jasinjames in "An epic treatise on error models for systems programming languages"

jasinjames — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 11:28:04 +0000

Probably Java/Clojure

New comment by jasinjames in "Surgery implants tooth material in eye as scaffolding for lens"

jasinjames — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:41:02 +0000

I think this is an evolution thing but not in that way. I believe when our diets changed due to agriculture the foods we ate got softer and our mouths subsequently changed [1]

[1]https://www.pittwire.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/cur...

New comment by jasinjames in "Copyright reform is necessary for national security"

jasinjames — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 00:38:50 +0000

Not sure if this influences your thinking at all, but whatever duration copyright applies for starts once it was made, whether it was published or not.

> Copyright in a work created on or after January 1, 1978, subsists from its creation ... [1]

And "creation" basically means "written down" [2]. IANAL.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/302 [2] https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fixed_in_a_tangible_medium_o...

New comment by jasinjames in "I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled"

jasinjames — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 23:18:14 +0000

I think you're thinking of this case [1] from Missouri where a reporter notified the state that teacher SSNs were exposed, and the Governor went ballistic. Luckily, it seems like the local law enforcement set the record straight.

[1] https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-crime-educati...

New comment by jasinjames in "Documenting an 1115 ft radio tower climb"

jasinjames — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:46:05 +0000

How would someone get into this work?

New comment by jasinjames in "Show HN: A simple web game to help learn chords and basic progressions"

jasinjames — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:30:22 +0000

No need for any ML models here, you can "just" do an FFT on a conventional signal and pick out the peaks

New comment by jasinjames in "Sora is here"

jasinjames — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 00:34:12 +0000

I agree. Also, tangentially related: I use a black and white filter on my phone, and it is way harder to distinguish fake and real media without the color channels to help. I couldn't immediately find anything in the subway clip which gave it away.