Hacker News: pamcake

New comment by pamcake in "Seattle Shield, an intelligence-sharing network operated by the Seattle police"

pamcake — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:16:57 +0000

Are those things you are personally struggling with (if you are considering quitting open source contribitions wholesale: don't let this make you) or is this a showcase of rationalization?

New comment by pamcake in "Vivaldi 8.0"

pamcake — Thu, 21 May 2026 19:05:49 +0000

You can test this locally yourself with mitmproxy, opensnitch, or whatever.

You can try building the (supposedly) open-source apps you use from source.

Everyone opining here should MitM themselves every now and then. If not for your own security then maybe to make sure you're not participating in psyop when opining online and resharing hearsay or old truisms.

New comment by pamcake in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

pamcake — Thu, 21 May 2026 02:28:09 +0000

> Obviously playing Kasparov on the board requires more planning ability than managing a McDonald's

Not obvious and in fact I think the opposite is way more likely. Chess is well-defined and self-contained in a way that managing a restaurant with fleshy customers never will be.

New comment by pamcake in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

pamcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:27:10 +0000

At what point did/does it start feeling naive to trust the integrity and output of Github Actions on general? Does it feel unlikely that an attacker would be able to get a foothold in that infrastructure?

New comment by pamcake in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

pamcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:17:30 +0000

I really hope this pushes users (here: devs and maintainers) to decrease their reliance on Microsoft and especially stop outsourcing security to them.

Migrate off vscode already.

New comment by pamcake in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

pamcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:54:56 +0000

What of it?

You are not responding to the debunking of your "Value doesn't have anything to do with utility" claim.

The only relevant thing I can see here is that yes, the volume is too low to provide any sense of untracability for the scenario discussed. It might for paying your VPN subscription.

New comment by pamcake in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

pamcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:40:21 +0000

Guess: 30B MOA with 3B active

New comment by pamcake in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

pamcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:21:57 +0000

In this case it does. You can't funnel huge amounts through a coin with usually small volume and market cap and expect any sense of anonymity or privacy. The delta makes it obvious. It would probably be visible via movements on markets too.

For smaller amounts this is not a problem for the same coin and network.

Your volume might support $10k but not $10m.

New comment by pamcake in "Invisible_playwright: Stealth Firefox that passes every bot detection test"

pamcake — Wed, 20 May 2026 00:07:54 +0000

docs: https://github.com/feder-cr/invisible-firefox/blob/12b3a6d44...

New comment by pamcake in "The last six months in LLMs in five minutes"

pamcake — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:47:20 +0000

> I put together these annotated slides from my five minute lightning talk at PyCon US 2026

Is there a video or audio of this talk?

New comment by pamcake in "You gave me a u32. I gave you root. (io_uring ZCRX freelist LPE)"

pamcake — Sat, 09 May 2026 00:02:53 +0000

This kind of post really shouldn't require client-side js — from third-party domain — to read...

static markdown version: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ze3tar/ze3tar.github.io/9d...

New comment by pamcake in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

pamcake — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:41:50 +0000

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/04/30/mozilla-push...

Remember AMP?

New comment by pamcake in "Chrome removes claim of On-device Al not sending data to Google Servers"

pamcake — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:39:38 +0000

I don't understand this choice at all. What do you base your trust on here?

New comment by pamcake in "Linux Kernel 6.12.86 and 6.18.27 released"

pamcake — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:26:25 +0000

> I'm announcing the release of the 6.12.86 kernel.

> All users of the 6.12 kernel series must upgrade.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1071571/

Linux Kernel 6.12.86 and 6.18.27 released

pamcake — Thu, 07 May 2026 10:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.linuxcompatible.org/story/linux-kernel-61286-and-61827-released/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48047684

Points: 3

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New comment by pamcake in "The Boring Internet"

pamcake — Wed, 06 May 2026 09:30:04 +0000

Alternative readable rendering: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

New comment by pamcake in "They Called It LISP For A Reason (2005)"

pamcake — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:41:15 +0000

Another good introduction, full-nonsense: http://landoflisp.com/

New comment by pamcake in "Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent"

pamcake — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:59:42 +0000

Konform Browser

Mullvad Browser

Tor Browser for those occasions

New comment by pamcake in "Security through obscurity is not bad"

pamcake — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:41:34 +0000

Obscurity isn't security but it can support security. Until it doesn't.

New comment by pamcake in "A desktop made for one"

pamcake — Mon, 04 May 2026 08:38:58 +0000

I think I agree. But at the same time we have strength in numbers and people will find something close to what they want and fork off that.

So I think the same thesis holds for audiences of 10-100 and 100-1000.

A cambrian explosion of software.