Hacker News: neurostimulant

New comment by neurostimulant in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

neurostimulant — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:32:39 +0000

I wonder if you could ask Opus 4.7 to port LineageOS for your phone. The LLM must’ve had plenty of training data from the gazillion LineageOS ports for other devices, so perhaps it might actually work (or brick your device).

New comment by neurostimulant in "Motorola phones have started hijacking the Amazon app to insert affiliate codes"

neurostimulant — Tue, 26 May 2026 21:24:22 +0000

> Xiaomi has been ironically the pioneer in this field, but their phones are inaccessible in the USA assuming you’re USA based

Xiaomi has virtually stopped allowing users to unlock their bootloaders. They only allow 2000 device unlocks per day, which resets every day at 00:00 Beijing time. You can set an alarm and press the unlock button exactly at 00:00 Beijing time, only to get frozen out due to the thundering herd effect and fail to secure an unlock quota. Then, when you try again at 00:01, you just get the dreaded "quota limit reached, try again tomorrow" message.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Darkbloom – Private inference on idle Macs"

neurostimulant — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 05:51:13 +0000

Isn't high memory pressure will result in high memory paging which will wear down the internal ssd?

New comment by neurostimulant in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

neurostimulant — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:52:15 +0000

Maybe we should go back to kitchen-sink frameworks so most functionality you need is covered by the fat framework. I'm still using django and it keeps my python project's dependency relatively low :)

New comment by neurostimulant in "Gemma 4 on iPhone"

neurostimulant — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:54:50 +0000

I'm able to sweet talk the gemma-4-e2b-it model in an iphone 15 to solve a hcaptcha screenshot. This small model is surprisingly very capable!

New comment by neurostimulant in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

neurostimulant — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:19:12 +0000

> I wish this mission took greater risks

It's already risky enough: https://idlewords.com/2026/03/artemis_ii_is_not_safe_to_fly....

New comment by neurostimulant in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

neurostimulant — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:42:25 +0000

Well, at least that confirms they weren't lying when they said all recent updates to claude code were made by claude. You certainly won't do this stuff if you were writing the code yourself.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Claude Code Unpacked : A visual guide"

neurostimulant — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:49:27 +0000

Just check the leaked code yourself. Two biggest areas seem to be the `utils` module, which is a kitchen sink that covers a lot of functionality from sandboxing, git support, sessions, etc, and `components` module, which contains the react ui. You could certainly build a cli agent with much smaller codebase, with leaner ui code without react, but probably not with this truckload of functionality.

New comment by neurostimulant in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

neurostimulant — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:19:28 +0000

I think that only happens when you use an old browser without native sha256 support (so it fallback to pure js implementation of sha256).

New comment by neurostimulant in "The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine"

neurostimulant — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:13:53 +0000

> The IPs of these bots here actually do not come from datacenters or VPNs most of the time; the overwhelming majority come from residential and mobile networks. Asian and Indonesian countries are where nearly all of them reside.

It's really awful as an indonesian, my indonesian isp regularly got blocked by HN as well :(

New comment by neurostimulant in "New Apple Silicon M4 and M5 HiDPI Limitation on 4K External Displays"

neurostimulant — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:46:55 +0000

Maybe they shouldn't get rid of subpixel antialiasing. At least this problem wouldn't be as painful if we still have that feature.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Nvidia PersonaPlex 7B on Apple Silicon: Full-Duplex Speech-to-Speech in Swift"

neurostimulant — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 15:51:24 +0000

But isn't it normal for people who work on AI stuff to use LLMs for everything? They are very enthusiastic about AI so naturally they'll use it on everything they can.

New comment by neurostimulant in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

neurostimulant — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 16:50:04 +0000

The processor is still fast enough, the ram is too small for modern web apps.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Hugging Face Skills"

neurostimulant — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:20:00 +0000

Skills are only loaded when you need them, so you’ll probably use fewer tokens overall compared to MCP servers or including them manually in your main AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md file, which are always loaded in the system prompt.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Doom has been ported to an earbud"

neurostimulant — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:54:04 +0000

> Earbuds don't have displays, so the only way to transfer data to/from them is either via bluetooth, or the UART contact pads. Bluetooth is pretty slow, you'd be lucky to get a consistent 1mbps connection, UART is easily the better option.

Does this means you can run a doom instance on each bud? Is it viable to make a distributed app to use the computing power of both buds at once?

New comment by neurostimulant in "Never-before-seen Linux malware is "more advanced than typical""

neurostimulant — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 21:18:37 +0000

How long until antivirus vendors start flagging zig binaries as malware (like they did to golang binaries a while ago)?

New comment by neurostimulant in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

neurostimulant — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 22:47:33 +0000

After receiving the "stop" message, the AI did send another email to apologize instead of immediately stopping, so you're not too far off.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI"

neurostimulant — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 18:15:50 +0000

Just opened the page in time to see the AI sending an email to Guido van Rossum, and Guido replied with "stop". Wild.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted"

neurostimulant — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 10:36:06 +0000

My og chromecast frequently crash (I suspect due to running out of ram when casting contents) so I ended up replacing it with the chromecast ultra. The og chromecast is still usable if you can tolerate the crashing, but I imagine it's going to get worse as developers keep updating their cast players (basically a webpage that plays video) with new features that consume more and more ram.

New comment by neurostimulant in "Self-hosting my photos with Immich"

neurostimulant — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:33:27 +0000

Forgot to add immich_postgres which uses ~222 MB of ram. If you already has a postgres running somewhere, you might be able to reuse it as long as its version >= 14 with pgvector installed.