Hacker News: jfarina

New comment by jfarina in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

jfarina — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:24:02 +0000

It's awkwardly phrased and doesn't really say what it intends to (though, the meaning is obvious after reading it a second or third time).

As for it being imprecise, it doesn't talk about any specific software that has any compatibility issues. It dismisses the topic out of hand.

New comment by jfarina in "I designed and printed a custom nose guard to help my dog with DLE"

jfarina — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 19:08:22 +0000

WHile this is cool, I can't imagine that this provides a universal fit. It seems like they did a lot to tailor it to their dog.

New comment by jfarina in "Ozempic does not slow Alzheimer's, study finds"

jfarina — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 17:34:04 +0000

Maybe because poor diet has been linked to alzheimers?

New comment by jfarina in "Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s"

jfarina — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 16:01:08 +0000

More complicated than when? You used to have kids because you needed more hands to work the farm and a good number of them died young.

New comment by jfarina in "Claude Skills"

jfarina — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 18:12:05 +0000

Why are you asking them to cite something for that statement? Are you questioning whether it's the foundation for intelligence or whether LLMS understand goals and consequences?

New comment by jfarina in "Show HN: AI Code Detector – detect AI-generated code with 95% accuracy"

jfarina — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 18:41:06 +0000

That's not relevant to the comment you replied to.

New comment by jfarina in "Fastvlm: Efficient vision encoding for vision language models"

jfarina — Tue, 13 May 2025 02:27:14 +0000

What strategy is that?

New comment by jfarina in "I Fought the IRS for Over $12K and won"

jfarina — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 14:13:13 +0000

They're abolished as long as you can afford the lawyers to fight an underfunded government agency indefinitely.

New comment by jfarina in "How University Students Use Claude"

jfarina — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:18:52 +0000

If they can perform well without reviewing the material, that's a problem with either the performance measure or the material.

And not watching lectures is not the same as not reviewing the material. I generally prefer textbooks and working through proofs or practice problems by hand. If I listen to someone describe something technical I zone out too quickly. The only exception seems to be if I'm able to work ahead enough that the lecture feels like review. Then I'm able to engage.

New comment by jfarina in "Coffea stenophylla: A forgotten bean that could save coffee from extinction"

jfarina — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:26:49 +0000

Can you rebrand a species? Drinking vomitoria sounds less than appetizing.

New comment by jfarina in "xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B"

jfarina — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 00:28:24 +0000

Is that what a corporate lawyer would say?

New comment by jfarina in "An early look at cryptographic watermarks for AI-generated content"

jfarina — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 17:33:32 +0000

I disagree that attackers aren't sophisticated enough to use modified tools. There are entire work campuses dedicated to committing fraud. There's also state sponsored subterfuge. There's no reason to think that bad actors are intrinsically unsophisticated.

New comment by jfarina in "Why DeepSeek had to be open source"

jfarina — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:14:29 +0000

They outlined the methodology. They didn't publish their code or the training set.

New comment by jfarina in "Boeing workers vote to strike"

jfarina — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 13:24:31 +0000

Boeing. It's literally the post.

New comment by jfarina in "LibreCUDA – Launch CUDA code on Nvidia GPUs without the proprietary runtime"

jfarina — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 16:07:59 +0000

It does if you work in data science/machine learning.

New comment by jfarina in "Reversing for dummies – x86 assembly and C code (Beginner/ADHD friendly)"

jfarina — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 15:28:53 +0000

IDK. I think sometimes people lean into the idiosyncrasies of their own ADHD. I have ADHD, but I get sucked into writing code because it lets me focus in a way that dishes and laundry do not.

New comment by jfarina in "Woman wins 12-year legal battle against Google"

jfarina — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 13:36:20 +0000

I don't know about that. Even with a company like Google, 12 years is a long time. What if the responsible attorney retired? I've never worked in a legal setting, but I could imagine that causing their work being reevaluated for cost effectiveness.

New comment by jfarina in "Gorilla: Large Language Model connected with massive APIs"

jfarina — Thu, 25 May 2023 17:47:05 +0000

It sounds like it can expedite the interpretation of the APIs documentation.

New comment by jfarina in "PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law"

jfarina — Tue, 02 May 2023 13:47:06 +0000

Calling the internet private and anonymous is wishful thinking. Data is constantly owned, bought and sold.

New comment by jfarina in "Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit"

jfarina — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:11:02 +0000

Vacation payouts shouldn't be relevant. They are earned while working, so they are compensation from the period when you worked.

Unless, of course, you are trying to collect during a period that is scheduled as a vacation? That could create problems.