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New comment by nalllar in "Signed, Sealed, Stolen: How We Patched Critical Vulnerabilities Under Fire [video]"

nalllar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 23:27:08 +0000

For context before playing the video, this talk from FOSDEM 2026 is about patching security issues under active exploitation in the continuwuity matrix homeserver implementation and was published by Jade who is one of continuwuity's maintainers.

Slides: https://fosdem.org/2026/events/attachments/ETMLM8-signed_sea...

ROCm 7.1.1: you can (not) build

nalllar — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 15:54:19 +0000

Article URL: https://lunnova.dev/articles/rocm-711-you-can-not-build/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47124020

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nalllar in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

nalllar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:59:25 +0000

It almost certainly is AI generated. It reads like it is, pangram thinks it is, https://www.pangram.com/history/02bead1c-c36e-461b-8fa7-8699... and pangram's unlikely to give false positives https://www.pangram.com/blog/third-party-pangram-evals

New comment by nalllar in "AI generated posts about AI failures (keep showing up on HN)"

nalllar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:14:58 +0000

I keep running into posts about AI written by AI via friends who found them on HN. HN commenters seem unaware.

Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049088

The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46962996

The singularity will occur on a tuesday received thousands of votes. It wasn't bad but I'd have preferred less AI fluff around the fun modelling.

Why's this so prevalent here?

AI generated posts about AI failures (keep showing up on HN)

nalllar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:14:58 +0000

Article URL: https://lunnova.dev/articles/ai-bashing-ai-slop/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47050861

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nalllar in "Semantic ablation: Why AI writing is generic and boring"

nalllar — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:05:29 +0000

The article itself reads as an AI generated output, complete with classic Not Just X … Y hallmarks from forever ago, 100% on pangram's low false positive detector. I'm not sure if it's some experiment on their readerbase or what. pangram result: https://www.pangram.com/history/02bead1c-c36e-461b-8fa7-8699...

So many AI generated AI bashing articles lately. I wrote a post complaining about running into these, and asking people who've sent me these AI articles multiple of them came from HN. https://lunnova.dev/articles/ai-bashing-ai-slop/

New comment by nalllar in "Ask HN: Are you afraid of AI making you unemployable within the next few years?"

nalllar — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:09:52 +0000

Somewhat.

New comment by nalllar in "HipKittens: Fast and furious AMD kernels"

nalllar — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 17:28:06 +0000

Spending >10 minutes doing template instantiation for a single kernel for a single ISA is impressive!

`device_grouped_conv2d_fwd_xdl_ngchw_gkcyx_ngkhw_f16_instance`, what are you doing to our poor friend clang?

New comment by nalllar in "Learning from failure to tackle hard problems"

nalllar — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 19:53:53 +0000

qqxufo's recent posts read like a large langle mangle to me

New comment by nalllar in "We all dodged a bullet"

nalllar — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:06:55 +0000

> 1. NEVER EVER login from an email link. EVER. There are enough legit and phishing emails asking you to do this that it's basically impossible to tell one from the other. The only way to win is to not try.

Sites choosing to replace password login with initiating the login process and then clicking a "magic link" in your email client is awful for developing good habits here, or for giving good general advice. :c

New comment by nalllar in "Measuring the impact of AI on experienced open-source developer productivity"

nalllar — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 20:14:43 +0000

If you interact with internet comments and discussions as an amorphous blob of people you'll see a constant trickle of the view that models now are useful, and before were useless.

If you pay attention to who says it, you'll find that people have different personal thresholds for finding llms useful, not that any given person like steveklabnik above keeps flip-flopping on their view.

This is a variant on the goomba fallacy: https://englishinprogress.net/gen-z-slang/goomba-fallacy-exp...

Pattern-wishcast: enum pattern types in 2025 rust

nalllar — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 04:53:26 +0000

Article URL: https://lunnova.dev/articles/pattern-wishcast/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44506437

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nalllar in "ROCm Device Support Wishlist"

nalllar — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 23:45:03 +0000

Thanks for all your work on this.

New comment by nalllar in "ROCm Device Support Wishlist"

nalllar — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:59:13 +0000

I had the impression Debian applied patches that widen arch support from what upstream officially supports, including for the MI50/MI60.

https://salsa.debian.org/rocm-team/rocm-hipamd/-/raw/d6d2014... (one patch of many)

New comment by nalllar in "Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable"

nalllar — Sun, 19 Jan 2025 18:50:42 +0000

xena said "forward confirming reverse" twice which means rdns and then resolving that forward to confirm it matches.

New comment by nalllar in "[dead]"

nalllar — Wed, 08 Jan 2025 14:14:20 +0000

"brand safety" is far removed from what they care about and would likely exist without that sphere's input given corporate trust & safety teams' history.

It has certainly negatively polarized people against any form of safety near AI.

New comment by nalllar in "Making a rickroll laser: A parametric speaker"

nalllar — Sat, 14 Sep 2024 16:01:55 +0000

Is this dangerous in terms of hearing damage due to the perceived low sound level alongside inaudible louder ultrasound?

New comment by nalllar in "A leadership crisis in the Nix community"

nalllar — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:21:43 +0000

People want them not to be advertised at official Nix events, not to bar them from using it. That wauld be impossible due to licensing so isn't on the table.

Would you require the FSF to accept a sponsorship from anyone and to advertise them in return?

New comment by nalllar in "Autoconf makes me think we stopped evolving too soon"

nalllar — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 01:47:15 +0000

conan makes it very hard to build a project offline and with a fixed set of inputs, it makes things worse in important ways if you care about reproducibility.

New comment by nalllar in "FOSDEM 2024: PineTime Talk"

nalllar — Fri, 23 Feb 2024 07:25:04 +0000

I really like my pinetime. It has way better battery life than android wearos watches - 2 weeks! - and does the few things I actually need, showing the time, alarms and notifications.