Hacker News: loneboat

New comment by loneboat in "OpenAI’s accidental attack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened"

loneboat — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 05:43:01 +0000

I think you were reading "... is science fiction" the wrong way out of two possible interpretations. I don't think "it's science fiction" meant "it's made up". I think it meant "it sounds like something you'd read in science fiction (except this time it's something that actually happened)".

New comment by loneboat in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

loneboat — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 01:42:20 +0000

iirc it's even invisible to veracrypt until it has your correct password in hand. The hidden volume headers are indistinguishable from random bytes (which Veracrypt fills the volume with on creation).

New comment by loneboat in "Eight of the Nation's Top Last Names Stayed the Same Since 1790"

loneboat — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:31:44 +0000

"Eight of the top..." seems useless to know though.

"Eight of the top ten" is very different from "eight of the top thousand".

New comment by loneboat in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

loneboat — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:48:31 +0000

Same. If the whole point is "people should be left alone to do what they want" then fine, but that should also include my right to think, "eh yeah, that's a bit weird".

And quite frankly, I think many people in the furry community enjoy being thought weird - for many it's sort of the point.

New comment by loneboat in "The future of Flipper Zero development"

loneboat — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:44:49 +0000

That matches my experience (also not a furry). But there's also a whole additional layer of offsec being (by definition) "doing things you're not supposed to be allowed to do", which has obvious parallels with people who enjoy breaking social norms. I think some people just get a rush from the "transgressive" nature of both circles.

New comment by loneboat in "Humiliating IIS servers for fun and jail time"

loneboat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:28:07 +0000

... those who argue against adding it heard at some point "security through obscurity is not security" and never dug deeper.

Ironically, that makes them the exact type of person who would be successfully deterred by a layer of obscurity.

New comment by loneboat in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

loneboat — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:07:00 +0000

Aah my mistake. I had missed that ML had separate trigger behavior from cybersecurity/etc... Thanks.

New comment by loneboat in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

loneboat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:37:26 +0000

I've seen this claim a few times, but when I triggered the guardrails in Claude Code, it clearly notified me that it had switched to a different model ("something something for security purposes...").

Are you using Fable in Claude Code or in the browser?

New comment by loneboat in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

loneboat — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:52:44 +0000

Round your "~15%" up to 20%, and you've just discovered the Pareto Princlple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle, aka "The 80/20 rule".

New comment by loneboat in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

loneboat — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:26:11 +0000

That's super interesting! What sort of feedback? Anatomical feedback ("Uhh, that's not where arms go...") or drawing (like tips on shading etc...)?

New comment by loneboat in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

loneboat — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:31:56 +0000

Yeah, it was quite clear once I started reading the article. It just threw me for a loop as I read the title - Usually if I hear of grades "soaring" that's a _good_ thing.

New comment by loneboat in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

loneboat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 13:01:47 +0000

Imagine an elementary school teacher told you that many of her students had failing grades, so she had implemented a new reading curriculum.

If she told you that afterwards the failing grades had "soared", it could easily be read either way:

- The (previously failing) grades had increased, so the program must be working very well.

- The percent of grades that count as failing had increased, so the program must actually be terrible.

New comment by loneboat in "Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes"

loneboat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 02:46:14 +0000

What a terribly ambiguous title. "Failing grades soar after xyz" makes it sound like xyz has helped what were previously terrible, failing grades become good ones.

New comment by loneboat in "Cheese Paper: a text editor specifically designed for writing"

loneboat — Sun, 31 May 2026 03:14:20 +0000

Is this deliberately borrowing from Herman Melvile's "Bartleby the Scrivener"? If so it might be worth mentioning, rather than just referring to it as "my short story", since it's a nearly identical retelling of it.

New comment by loneboat in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

loneboat — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:34:57 +0000

Gotta bump that encryption up - rot26 is twice as secure.

New comment by loneboat in "Show HN: I built a new word game, Wordtrak"

loneboat — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:07:31 +0000

My phone's browser picked a heckuva place for the line break in the second sentence:

  My mom has been regularly beating me 
  at Scrabble since I could spell.

New comment by loneboat in "Grok 4.3"

loneboat — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:58:32 +0000

The hitler Grok? What? I genuinely don't understand what you're trying to say in this comment.

New comment by loneboat in "Generating a color spectrum for an image"

loneboat — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 02:37:16 +0000

I really like the idea of iteration 7, but I feel like it would work a lot better with some minimum height on the y axis. Letting it peter out to zero loses the "spectrum-ness" of it, and it just looks like various random color blobs. Maybe could have a fixed minimum height, and somehow use saturation to distinguish "truly zero here" from "really low amount here".

New comment by loneboat in "Ohio prison inmates 'built computers and hid them in ceiling' (2017)"

loneboat — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:51:01 +0000

Maybe you're passing the sentence incorrectly. Could be, "They found software about making drugs/explosives, pornography about making drugs/explosives, and articles about making drugs/explosives".

New comment by loneboat in "Show HN: Oberon System 3 runs natively on Raspberry Pi 3 (with ready SD card)"

loneboat — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 12:11:07 +0000

Pasting a Wikipedia link or saying "just ask an LLM" only helps out the one instance of someone not knowing. I did the same thing as the OP you're replying to. They're right - a brief summary in the readme would be a near zero-effort permanent fix to people who stumble on your project and dont know what Oberon is.