Hacker News: mahmoudimus

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Show HN: Needle: We Distilled Gemini Tool Calling into a 26M Model"

mahmoudimus — Wed, 13 May 2026 03:08:19 +0000

works for me:

input: i need to contact my boss i will be late. output: [{"name":"send_email","arguments":{"to":"boss@company.com","subject":"Running late","body":"I will be late for the meeting."}}]

it did have the send_email tool on the left hand side though

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Binary obfuscation used in AAA Games"

mahmoudimus — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 04:51:58 +0000

oh fascinating. i just finished reverse engineering Aegis and now working on their newest Eidolon. pretty cool technology.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:48:44 +0000

Seconding Mullvad. I am paranoid and I think they're trustworthy

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents"

mahmoudimus — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 23:31:57 +0000

I see the vision here. I think this is extremely needed.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Claude’s C Compiler vs. GCC"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:49:44 +0000

I think you're referring to this one: https://github.com/jhjourdan/C11parser

Show HN: A header-only C++20 compile-time assembler for x86/x64 instructions

mahmoudimus — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:30:40 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/mahmoudimus/static_asm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46797566

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Native vs. emulation: World of Warcraft game performance on Snapdragon X Elite"

mahmoudimus — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 05:15:29 +0000

Windows ARM builds are available on their CDN.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Building the mouse Logitech won't make"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 17:02:15 +0000

Are the switches bad? I recently replaced the switches on my mouse as I had the dreaded double click problem and it was unusable. Then they stopped responding. So I just did something similar to the OP, desoldered and soldered new switches and the mouse was as good as new.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Fully homomorphic encryption and the dawn of a private internet"

mahmoudimus — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 05:08:14 +0000

there is, it's called governments. however this technology is so slow that using it in mission critical systems (think communication / coordinates during warfare) that it is not feasible IMO.

the parent post is right, confidential compute is really what we've got.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Clarifying our pricing"

mahmoudimus — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:49:41 +0000

Cursor does. It tells you how many tokens right above the chat box in the upper right hand corner.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Clarifying our pricing"

mahmoudimus — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 22:47:35 +0000

Who is better for that tab completion?

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Codex CLI is going native"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:41:32 +0000

I think most package systems are going to start, if not already, facing real supply chain attacks. The node ecosystem, from an attacker's lens, had quite a heavy leaning ratio of non-security conscious users which makes a better breeding ground for exploitation.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Codex CLI is going native"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:36:27 +0000

I have largely avoided the entire typescript / JavaScript ecosystem specifically because I don't want to deal with node or its ecosystem. It's just so confusing with yarn, npm, npx, then the build systems gulp, grunt, webpack, etc etc - felt very overwhelming.

Yes, if I spent more time learning these things, it would become simple but that seemed like a massive waste of time.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Learning C3"

mahmoudimus — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:21:10 +0000

I hate on Tiobe as well but it is a good benchmark for world wide adoption commercially.

Breaking the Sorting Barrier for Directed Single-Source Shortest Paths

mahmoudimus — Thu, 29 May 2025 03:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17033

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44122902

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

New comment by mahmoudimus in "ReactOS, an Open Source Take on Windows"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:38:49 +0000

I disagree. It's an important project. It's not about Windows per se, but it's amazing to have a source available implementation of Windows internals. There are some really interesting use cases for it that are pretty important.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "AI Meets WinDBG"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:37:23 +0000

Ghidra is actually a suite of reverse engineering toolkits, including, but not limited to a disassembler, a decompiler and a debugger interface that interfaces with many debuggers, among other neat things.

A disassembler takes compiled binaries and displays the assembly code the machine executes.

A decompiler translates the disassembled code back to pseudocode (e.g. disassembly -> C).

A debugger lets you step through the disassembly. Windbg is a debugger which is pretty powerful, but has the downside of a pretty unintuitive syntax (but I'm biased coming from gdb/llvm debuggers).

Both the MCP servers can probably be used together, but they both do different things. A neat experiment would be to see if they're aware of each other and can utilize each other to "vibe reverse"

New comment by mahmoudimus in "23andMe Files for Bankruptcy, as CEO Anne Wojcicki Resigns"

mahmoudimus — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:37:48 +0000

Hims is one.

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?"

mahmoudimus — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 21:55:47 +0000

I started fresh from Rails 8, so maybe that's why I didn't deal w/ that migration problem. I'm sorry it was stressful :(

New comment by mahmoudimus in "Ask HN: Would you still choose Ruby on Rails for a startup in 2025?"

mahmoudimus — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 20:19:46 +0000

Shifting to solid queue, backed by your rdbms, is more boring than using redis. Successfully deploying an app without anything but a database server is pretty powerful. Everything just works. I would say that's pretty boring :)