<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: marak830</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=marak830</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:14:11 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=marak830" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Show HN: OpenTIE and OpenXWA, Modern Ports of Tie Fighter and X-Wing Alliance"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I recently setup an emulator, passed it through the TV and had blue tooth controllers hooked up, so I could show my son Donkey Kong Country - we ended up finishing 1 and 2 (with my wife joining in), he loved the older game.  Trying to get him into older PC games now.  So yeah, it is possible to get them into it (just dragging him away from minecraft is hard haha).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:42:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475570</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475570</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49475570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Aphantasia Beginner's Guide"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have Aphantasia, as well as excellent map reading skills and spatial awareness.  BUT I'm pretty sure that spatial awareness is something I developed when cheffing (needing to know where things were rapidly) and map reading I attribute to video games (specifically doom originally haha).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 06:02:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474871</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49474871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Show HN: My Claude quota ran out in 10 minutes, so I made a tool to find out why"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A) Oh nice! that's cool<p>B) Warning everyone, it slowly eats tokens - If you're like me and on the pro plan, perhaps not a good idea to have its (albeit slow) drain on the tokens.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473593</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49473593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "An Engineer's Old Cooking Trick Is Going Viral, Divides the Internet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(former chef here) - I've been writing my personal recipes like this for 20+ years.  Mostly because I can grok the steps from memory so I can skip that part (other times I just write the spec step between the curly bracers).<p>Not the neatest, but my 'Dad's cookbook' isn't really read by anyone except myself when asking the family what they want me to prep on the weekend for the week.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:23:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355367</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355367</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49355367</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Illinois just passed a law that puts Linux on the hook for age verification"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I would argue the reason is so people can make arguments like yours.<p>Step 1: get easily passed, simple looking laws passed to 'protect the children'
Step 2: 'oh look at all these people bypassing the law. It's so simple for a child to watch porn with this.'
Step 3: increase the requirements bit by bit on the verification<p>By letting something simple pass, they can claim it's not thst bad, and anyone who argues against it is being hyperbolic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:52:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250300</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250300</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49250300</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Tinfoil hat, are they and anthropic doing this deliberately to increase the chance of the US govt licking down foreign models(well attempting, we all know how badly that will work).<p>Or they just are truly that incompetent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:51:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220001</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220001</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49220001</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I was doing something similar where I saved user input/model output in a multi-depth node style storage system (each depth having more precise details) with the focus on the model having accurate user fed information.  I was mostly focused on retrieval of accurate / useful information based on user query (injecting the database node as additional, high confidence information)<p>Once this(Zero-mem) passes it's peer review, I may have to see if my system can handle something similar instead/in addition.<p>I'm quite excited to see growth in these different ways of eliminating token's.<p>Long winded aside, @langs, have you published your work on this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:35:29 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179705</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179705</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49179705</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Decades-old fish sauce at abandoned factory in Canada finally being removed"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"The value on the market [was] about three million dollars, but they would not let us sell it. And for that reason, we just [left] it there.”"<p>I think that's the point OP is pointing out, for better or worse (for what it's worth I believe "He suggests that a prior conflict with the CFIA over product labeling motivated them to close the factory before the inspection began" may be correct).<p>A company <i>should</i> have plans for cleaning up their product before just walking away and leaving other people to clean up their mess.<p>Maybe it's rather naive of me, but that's what I believe.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:48:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164722</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164722</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164722</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm oh so seriously tempted to switch at least for a month or two.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 09:11:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153174</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153174</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49153174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Show HN: Gander, an Android file viewer that asks for no permissions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Christ that's depressing.<p>I'm assuming that all works even with application sandboxing (1) or am I mis-reading how that is applied to applications.<p>Man I need to move my movement to GrapheneOS up to be sooner.<p>(1) <a href="https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox" rel="nofollow">https://source.android.com/docs/security/app-sandbox</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2026 08:14:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120388</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49120388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "LegacyHive: Windows user profile service arbitrary hive load elevation of priv"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>NightCrawler released another window's vuln.<p>From what I can understand of it:<p>* Read the target user's NTUSER.DAT hive into memory as a backup.<p>* Open the hive offline using the Offline Registry (offreg) API.<p>* Modify HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\Local AppData to point at \\.\GlobalRoot\BaseNamedObjects\Restricted.<p>* Save the modified hive and replace the original NTUSER.DAT.<p>* Copy the user's UsrClass.dat into the temporary working directory.<p>* Acquire a batch oplock on the copied UsrClass.dat to synchronize execution with profile loading.<p>* Start a suspended process using CreateProcessWithLogonW(..., LOGON_WITH_PROFILE, ...), triggering the User Profile Service to load the profile.<p>* Wait for the oplock to break when Windows attempts to access UsrClass.dat<p><a href="https://blog.projectnightcrawler.dev/posts/2026-07-14-legacyhive-public-disclosure/" rel="nofollow">https://blog.projectnightcrawler.dev/posts/2026-07-14-legacy...</a><p>update: formatting :s</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://github.com/MSNightmare/LegacyHive">https://github.com/MSNightmare/LegacyHive</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917041">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917041</a></p>
<p>Points: 3</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:36:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://github.com/MSNightmare/LegacyHive</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917041</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48917041</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh cool thanks for the link.  I look forward to reading through it.  (I've noped out of discord after their ID demands though, never using them again.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:04:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888913</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48888913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Ask HN: What was the last task where only a frontier model could do it?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you did a write up of that I would be very interested. I assume a lot of others would be as well.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:21:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866618</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866618</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48866618</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Good read thanks.<p>Also interesting to see who coined the term prompt injection.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:37:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828784</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828784</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You know what?  I had honestly forgotten about that xD.  /thread</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:03:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828558</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828558</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48828558</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Who thought having a LLM with access to private information, with public access to ask it questions, would ever be a secure process?<p>Look I like interacting with these tools as much as the next guy, but I'm certainly not going to trust them with access to information and then allow anyone to send them prompts.<p>Edit/further thoughts:  So (assumable as they said this is disclosed with github's knowledge) this has been patched.  But how many different word combinations will it take to find another way to have this occur?</p>
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<p>I don't think they will be jumping anywhere TBH.<p>(young-un with the 28.8k starter here, so I just need some stretching to keep up with you old fellas :P)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 01:07:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741271</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741271</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48741271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Windows 11 users are tired of MS account requirements creeping into everything"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yeah, their performance has gone in the toilet.  Recently we needed an old system setup just for group meetings in the office.  I installed 11 on it - it <i>struggled</i>, gave up, threw a linux install on for giggles and it's buttery smooth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:43:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581633</link><dc:creator>marak830</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581633</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48581633</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by marak830 in "Local Qwen isn't a worse Opus, it's a different tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GLM 5.2 came out today and the early reports have been quite good.  Very difficult to run except on prosumer hardware, but small business could quite easily (or something like open router).</p>
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