Hacker News: jllyhill

Tracking in Claude, ChatGPT and Gemini Chatbots

jllyhill — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 15:33:28 +0000

Article URL: https://infosec.exchange/@k3ym0/116161635202253362

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47767011

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

FobCam '25 – All my MFA tokens on one page

jllyhill — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:29:12 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/04/fobcam-25-all-my-mfa-tokens-on-one-page/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47751691

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"

jllyhill — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:09:21 +0000

I wouldn't recommend trying if you don't like it already. In order for the twist to have any impact the game needs to pretend to be something else and the developer have chosen it to be a visual novel with 0 substance. It would be cute anime girls yapping about nothing in the most non interesting way possible for a couple of hours before anything worth your attention happens. I'm somewhat of an anime slice of life trash enjoyer and even I couldn't force myself to watch a full let's play of this part (even with commentary adding something to latch to) and had to skip a half of it to get to the twist faster. Doesn't worth it.

What "Parse, don't validate" means in Python? (2025)

jllyhill — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:13:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bitecode.dev/p/what-parse-dont-validate-means-in

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47624305

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Flash-MoE: Running a 397B Parameter Model on a Laptop"

jllyhill — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:17:13 +0000

To be honest, I'm getting tired of a "laptop" in every one of these clickbait titles turning out to be $3000 Macbook. Sure, it's impressive to achieve this degree of the LLM compression, but I really don't like that the title implies local LLM becomes a viable for an average person with the actual hardware being out of reach for 99%.

The Winmail.dat Syndrome (2013)

jllyhill — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:19:14 +0000

Article URL: https://ploum.net/winmail-dat-syndrome/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411649

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Making

jllyhill — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:05:47 +0000

Article URL: https://beej.us/blog/data/ai-making/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381166

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Betrayed by My Own Blog"

jllyhill — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:29:48 +0000

Found this link in a discussion under another submission [1] and I think it deserves a post of its own.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340359

Betrayed by My Own Blog

jllyhill — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:29:48 +0000

Article URL: https://ossama.is/writing/betrayed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47364201

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

Everything Was Rational and Nothing Vibed

jllyhill — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:49:39 +0000

Article URL: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/everything-was-rational-and-nothing-67d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47338808

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "You Just Reveived"

jllyhill — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 11:20:17 +0000

Back in 2017-8 I've got a four consequent top ups of an equivalent of $50 each (so a total of $200) from an unknown source. After that I've got a call from a resident cell number saying I've got a $200 fine for watching porn that I laughed off and hung up. I thought it was a scam to make me pay the "fine" with the money I've just got and then call the operator, tell them they "mistakenly" paid for the wrong number (four times for $50, lol) and get the money back. So I sat there and waited for the money to be recalled... but it never happened.

My theory is that it was exactly then I was changing operators while keeping my number, so the scammers tried complaining to the wrong one and failed. Not that I had any objections for the 2 years of free calls and data this got me but this still is a bit of mystery to me.

New comment by jllyhill in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

jllyhill — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 07:06:59 +0000

> The disappearance of these kinds of interactions from day-to-day life – in pubs, restaurants, shops, queues, on public transport – is striking.

> We are losing a basic human skill. The ability to speak to others and understand them is being compromised.

I fail to see how these two ideas are connected. How is my ability to speak and listen to the people I care about—my parrnts, my friends, my spouse and kids—hindered by my unwillingness to talk to a complete stranger in a supermarket line? I don't hate or hold any ill feelings towards them, it's just that I'm more comfortable being to myself and I have only so much capacity to talk and too many people in the city I live in. I would understand if the article was focused on the reluctancy to bond with people in more or less stable groups (at work or at school) but I don't buy the "strangers" argument.

New comment by jllyhill in "/e/OS is a complete, fully “deGoogled” mobile ecosystem"

jllyhill — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:48:53 +0000

And, to counter the arguments that "the site tells you that you need WebUSB support": you get to the https://e.foundation/installer/ when you click "Check device compatibility" on the main page. Personally, I'd expect either a check that works in any browser or a simple compatible device list. Why would I need a special browser just to check if I can use this OS?

This is especially strange considering they have the list of supported devices in their docs https://doc.e.foundation/devices

So I think the issue is that the button on the main page is poorly named

New comment by jllyhill in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

jllyhill — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:08:22 +0000

Do you use single email address on your domain or multiple for different purposes? Or do you have one main address and throwaway aliases for the one-time registration purposes? I see that the Fastmail provides a single inbox that can handle multiple addresses and wonder how does it work.

New comment by jllyhill in "Study: emotional support from social media found to reduce anxiety"

jllyhill — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 18:41:57 +0000

Is this another part of this third?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46682534

New comment by jllyhill in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

jllyhill — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 14:48:04 +0000

Haven't had a need for a hardware calculator since the first year in the university, even though I got to the PhD in physics. The calculations are either too hard to do by hand (at work) or too trivial and few to require anything more complex than a basic Android or Windows calculator.

Digital Ecosystems and Lobbying

jllyhill — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 09:26:34 +0000

Article URL: https://imagico.de/blog/en/digital-ecosystems-and-lobbying/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46844791

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by jllyhill in "Giving university exams in the age of chatbots"

jllyhill — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 14:02:34 +0000

But "enough to not get fired" is not an answer to a question "why should I know anything?". To be honest, it's not clear if the rest of your post tries to answer the initial question of why you should know anything or the implied question of how much should I really know.

Python Packaging 外伝１: Oxidation and Radiation. The Rise of uv in 2025

jllyhill — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 09:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://zahlman.github.io/posts/oxidation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46586140

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by jllyhill in "Show HN: Gaming Couch – a local multiplayer party game platform for 8 players"

jllyhill — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 12:53:24 +0000

Please don't use LLM-translation for the site. I can only speak for the Russian version, but it is very crude. Maybe it's just me but I'd much rather skip something that so poorly attempts to cater to me, instead of sticking to English or doing the translation properly.