Hacker News: papascrubs

New comment by papascrubs in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

papascrubs — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:39:55 +0000

Makes sense. Privacy is my only real hang up with DeepSeek. Both of the big SOTA providers have become extremely filtered. Things that I could do one version ago are now getting refusals. Anthropic is almost unusable. ChatGPT is slightly better. Even with a "cyber exception" in place and a vetted account. They are going to force me to take my business elsewhere.

New comment by papascrubs in "MAI-Code-1-Flash"

papascrubs — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:11:56 +0000

Are you purchasing directly from DeepSeek? Any concerns as far as privacy or data protection?

New comment by papascrubs in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

papascrubs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:55:24 +0000

I get mine from bulksupplements. Gummies and many gym focused powders are extremely overpriced. Buying in bulk you should be able to get it for ~$.15 a day at 5g.

New comment by papascrubs in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

papascrubs — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:21:55 +0000

It is definitely more than the standard dose. I was already taking 5g for weightlifting purposes. After some of the studies suggesting mental benefits I titrated my dose up to 30g (the high end of the studies). Just added an additional 5g per week until I hit 30. I add it in powder form to my daily protein shake-- usually in the morning. While it could be a placebo, I personally feel there's a noticeable difference. I buy in bulk so it ends up being less than $.90 a day to dose at this level. It's an extremely cheap supplement.

New comment by papascrubs in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

papascrubs — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:32:08 +0000

Long term studies haven't shown any harm. I've taken 30g a day for well over a year now for both the physical performance and the cognitive benefits. I had brain fog following a bad COVID infection which this has helped with. My family also has a history of Alzheimer's and dementia (both sides), I figure it can't hurt.

The only side effects I've encountered have been mild GI discomfort, and that only rarely (mostly when restarting after a vacation etc-- I drop the routine when I travel). Roughly similar to having a morning coffee at its worst.

I've found I get much thirstier when on this high of a dose. If you're not already a big water drinker I'd definitely invest in a nice insulated bottle to drag around.

New comment by papascrubs in "Show HN: I Dedicated 4 Years to Mastering Offline Password Cracking"

papascrubs — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:41:56 +0000

Uh, what?

I'd say that this is a bit relevant to the entire field of cyber security and a good chunk of development roles. If you're not concerned about how password hashing (which is a key component of understanding cracking) works as developer-- I'm not sure what to say. While not all of the in-depth research is probably needed. It's definitely relevant to many technical fields. I work in offensive security and we use tools like this daily in our industry. And no we are not cyber criminals.

New comment by papascrubs in "Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200"

papascrubs — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:10:08 +0000

Elon lost his lawsuit with openAI and knows xAI isn't on the same trajectory. Might as well try to win the bet and flip off Sam by supporting the best competition. Also they are getting a head start on AI as a commodity. I'm sure there's plenty of money to be made for those that can leverage their capital to essentially rent capacity right now. If he's not making enough off of grok, might as well cover their expenses.

New comment by papascrubs in "Scorched Earth 2000 – Web"

papascrubs — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:35:51 +0000

Playing Omega (roguelike) on ATARI ST, there were food shops that you could buy stacks of fried lizard bites if I remember correctly? Anyways, I found out that if you bought the max amount 99999999, it would actually give you money. Baby's first buffer overflow. The only issue is that it would also put that amount in your inventory, so you were basically too slow to move and had to drop each stack so my towns were littered with stacks of lizard bites. I'm not sure where the bug was introduced and I never found it in the PC versions later on when I looked.

New comment by papascrubs in "Dirty Frag: Universal Linux LPE"

papascrubs — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:43:42 +0000

Or a follow up prompt: "find similar classes of bugs". Once the actual case has been layed out finding like bugs isn't too hard. I hear you on the creativity bit. Like any tool, AI can put blinders on. Using it to augment without it fully taking over your workflow is tough.

New comment by papascrubs in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

papascrubs — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:05:40 +0000

firewalld supports docker and handles all of its routing/changes. I've standardized on using it in my environment.

New comment by papascrubs in "Running Faster to Go Nowhere: The AI Adoption Trap"

papascrubs — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:58:19 +0000

Clearwing – open-source Alternative to Anthropic Glasswing project

papascrubs — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:27:41 +0000

Article URL: https://xcancel.com/QuixiAI/status/2044952124568527298

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47809020

Points: 3

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New comment by papascrubs in "LittleSnitch for Linux"

papascrubs — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:58:15 +0000

Two of the three components of LittleSnitch for Linux are open source. The eBPF (kernel portion) and UI are fully open source.

New comment by papascrubs in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

papascrubs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 21:43:31 +0000

I like to call it the "gray" market because the substances themselves are gray, not because of their source. My weed dealer doesn't sell GLPs (yet, but I can see that coming). I haven't seen anyone arrested for having GLPs yet either-- although I have seen plenty of US based vendors have to close up shop due to legal pressure.

I do that believe that risk can be (mostly) mitigated, mainly by sticking with longstanding vendors and by trying to minimize risk with the actual substances (researching proper dosing protocol, batch testing, not assuming dosing, starting out on lower dosing with new kits etc). There is definitely risk associated, that said I'm often dabbling in non-FDA approved substances, so regardless I have zero recourse if something happens.

Are there any testing/safety protocols that you follow?

New comment by papascrubs in "Semaglutide improves knee osteoarthritis independant of weight loss"

papascrubs — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:00:25 +0000

Depending on your appetite for risk, there's always the gray market. It's also a lot cheaper depending on what your insurance covers. I think I picked up a year's supply of semaglutide for under $200. I've been on some form of GLP for the last 2 years and for me there have been several tangible benefits related to ADHD.

https://gray.guide is a good starting point.

New comment by papascrubs in "I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today"

papascrubs — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 23:03:58 +0000

I'm sure some of these ransomware groups probably offer health insurance and 401k matching.

New comment by papascrubs in "LoRA Without Regret"

papascrubs — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 01:43:59 +0000

Not just me then. It's always the first thing that springs to mind.

New comment by papascrubs in "Charlie Kirk killed at event in Utah"

papascrubs — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 02:30:03 +0000

And yet when the two Minnesota politicians were assassinated, that subreddit was full of its own blend of insensitive comments. Complete drivel all around.

New comment by papascrubs in "The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years"

papascrubs — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 02:44:06 +0000

I follow what you're saying, but many folks on this planet have far less opportunities than such a trip might provide. Guaranteed food, housing, access to cutting edge healthcare, a likely united community. I'm assuming these ships would be fairly big. It would definitely be different but-- would it be as bad as we think?

New comment by papascrubs in "My Own DNS Server at Home – Part 1: IPv4"

papascrubs — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 01:52:46 +0000

Sure!

Technitium is a full fledged authoritative recursive DNS resolver with adblock, whereas pihole is more focused solely on the adblock experience. Technitium supports full zone management, DNSSEC, and all DNS record types. Pihole is limited to a handful of types and can't do custom zones and the management is somewhat clunky IMO. Technitium has full DNS logging, statistics, conditional forwarding, and a full rest API for management.

I think Pihole is a great project, but Technitium caters better to power users and people that want/need more complex control over their internal DNS infrastructure (while still remaining relatively simple from a management perspective).

Simply put, Pihole is adblock with some DNS sprinkled in, Technitium is a DNS server first with adblock support. I don't think you can go wrong either way, but if you're going to need more advanced DNS capabilities at home, roll Technitium to save yourself a migration down the line.