<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: killerstorm</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=killerstorm</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2026 02:14:53 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=killerstorm" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're confusing PR with marketing. Flaws they find aren't going to convince customers to buy the product. But they need to inform the public of what they doing as it's part of the mission.<p>I haven't seen media outlets picking up on "agentic misalignment".<p>The core of your claim is that it's not a legit research. But that's basically a conspiracy theory. We know for a fact that Anthropic employs some of the best people in the industry, including ones who are deeply concerned about safety. Their interpretability research is some of the best. So what's more likely:<p>* Research is fake and everyone is on it
 * It's a legit research even if not very interesting</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2026 08:09:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003319</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003319</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49003319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Headline? It was buried in a model card. They just honestly report not-quite-incident because it's quite close to the incident OpenAI had. Nothing wrong with it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:16:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999118</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999118</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48999118</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It boots into BASIC which makes it really easy to learn BASIC. It feels like a programmable computer even to kids who know nothing about programming, as the only way to get anywhere is to type a command. So it's very easy to start. You can also practice typing straight away, or do colorful 'ASCII art' (actually what people call 'ANSI art' - drawing using colorful text blocks).<p>OTOH with Windows 95 it's not really clear how to make a program or do something creative. So I'd argue C64 or similar might be a better choices that W95 PC for kids under 15 y.o.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:49:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946774</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946774</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946774</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "I Owe My Life to the Commodore 64"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep. My father build a ZX Spectrum clone for me somewhere around 1991. Few years later he also got Commodore 64 as a gift from German engineers he was working with.<p>I think both of these machines are really good for learning BASIC: much fewer distractions, you type commands and computer does something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:41:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946673</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946673</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48946673</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The part of brain which cares about efficiency and waste have "atrophied" decades ago in most devs. More likely they just never cared...<p>E.g.<p>> A 1.6GB Docker image for a Node app. Every code change rebuilds npm install from scratch. CI takes 8 minutes for a one-line fix.<p>> The team's proposal: add more CI runners.<p>Would it be surprising if that team makes a React app which does 10x more requests than necessary, has 10x more JS code than necessary, flickers, etc. People just don't care, and it has nothing to do with AI. "Engineering" is too big of a word for this kind of activity.<p>On the other hand, I think AI can amplify capabilities of those people who still care, and it's a good thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2026 08:18:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944645</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944645</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48944645</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The agent might install hostile software, e.g. a npm package. Unfortunately, very common problem nowadays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:11:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893930</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893930</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893930</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Codex uses bwrap sandbox which is purely cosmetic - out-of-box it sees your ssh keys and can send it to remote server. It prevents agent from deleting outside files by mistake, but does nothing against malicious activity</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:07:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893879</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893879</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893879</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Show HN: Clawk – Give coding agents a disposable Linux VM, not your laptop"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Privilege escalation (e.g. setuid), world-readable files might contain sensitive data, world-writeable files, unrestricted network access (including access to all locally running services)... If you have fully patched system without zero-days and it's configured in a perfect way, then, sure...<p>Container is quite like a "separate user" except you can explicitly define what it can access.<p>(Even if all your daemons have good auth, it's now quite common for _apps_ to open listening sockets without much auth...)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:04:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893831</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893831</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893831</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To serve a frontier model you need a lot more than one GPU... at least 8. But for better efficiency they batch multiple requests on one server. So it is sort of a coincidence that it ends up roughly in 1 consumer GPU range. A different architecture (e.g. linear attention / RNN) could end up with more peak power usage.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:30:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893327</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893327</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48893327</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Driving a car consumes 25+ more energy per hour than gaming. So urban planning which encourages people to drive likely results in an order of magnitude more waste than all home computer use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:29:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891689</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891689</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891689</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A continuously running agent might require 100-500W for inference, so comparable to gaming or a small space heater. Not obscene, but also not negligible.<p>If we assume 250W for a continuously running agent, Grok 4 training run estimate would be around 50 million session-days, so a half-million people might consume as much running agents continuously for 100 days.</p>
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<p>It might be kind of cool to implement just a basic loop and let the agent itself to implement memory and all other aspects on the fly, fully embracing self-modifying code.<p>But it's also extremely brittle and unstable. It's really the opposite of what people look in agents.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:36:06 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883375</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883375</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48883375</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Show HN: Getting GLM 5.2 running on my slow computer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>From what I understand, the warning is about swap-out during heavy memory use.<p>You don't need to be superstitious here: disk activity, including writes in particular, can be measured. E.g. `iostat` or `vmstat` on Linux.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2026 23:14:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853662</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853662</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48853662</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Apple to increase spend with Broadcom to produce billions more U.S. chips"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's much more specific. "Spend" would increase Broadcom's revenue. "Partners with" might be anything: investment, R&D assistance, whatever.<p>Both are public companies so they might be required to reveal these details</p>
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<p>That metric would give you a number of bytes which can be used for pages not backed by files, but it won't give you actual memory usage statistics:<p>It won't count executable pages and memory-mapped file use as "used" memory, so your system might display gigabytes "free" when it's starving, executables getting paused when code pages are paged-in from disk.<p>It's just less useful than what's displayed now. "Everyone is doing it wrong" is usually a signal that you're missing something.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:22:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783338</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783338</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48783338</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "AI saves about 3% of your hours, and almost none of it reaches the money"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That study is a weird kind of bullshit which pretends to not understand employer-employee relationship.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:21:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778140</link><dc:creator>killerstorm</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778140</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778140</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by killerstorm in "Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, potentially a key might be stored in TPM. But I don't think that's better</p>
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<p>Hmm, where does it get a key to decrypt memory on resume?<p>AFAIK it's practical only if you make use of TPM. And if you do, you're basically at mercy of TPM.</p>
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<p>People in the past could survive and procreate without modern medicine (basically without any medicine at all as doctors could do very little 200 years ago) with ~50% success rate. I'd suspect this rate is already lower now, and it might matter in multiple ways</p>
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<p><p><pre><code>   type ProfileSpec = Frond.NodeSpec<{
     readonly args: Frond.Args.None;
     readonly key: Frond.Key.Singleton;
     readonly deps: {
       readonly http: Frond.Dep<typeof HttpTransportNode>;
     };
    readonly result: Profile;
   }>;
</code></pre>
This begs to be its own DSL rather than TypeScript-type-meta-programming.</p>
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