Hacker News: papascrubs

New comment by papascrubs in "REA Reverse – Engineer Anything"

papascrubs — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:04:52 +0000

I have CVP with the new program (including mythos access) and still get constant denials for silly situations. Most recently I fed a URL to my agent from a security blog and asked if to add it to my obsidian vault with appropriate tags-- cyber flagged. You're not missing much. OpenAI and/or most Chinese models are much more lax in their restrictions.

New comment by papascrubs in "Firefox 157"

papascrubs — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:24:23 +0000

Waterfox is Firefox with a good chunk of the kruft removed

https://www.waterfox.com/

New comment by papascrubs in "FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents"

papascrubs — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:15:19 +0000

Yeah but did they account for capitalism when creating those rules?

New comment by papascrubs in "Steam Frame starts at $1059"

papascrubs — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 22:25:49 +0000

Anecdotal, but on the last few flights that I've taken. I was told that you can use them, but you can't charge them on the flight. This was inside the US, American Airlines, and United. I can't speak to the other airlines.

New comment by papascrubs in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

papascrubs — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:28:23 +0000

I understand you take. And I definitely agree that we could use a lot better ux tools than we have right now. Maybe one of these prototypes will lead to that though. I'll look at it more as creative engineering. Not everything is meant to be distributed or consumed. But that doesn't mean that it's not worthwhile to try and prototype different flows and options. I have seen hundreds of harnesses, I've only used a couple-- but they've inspired me to build something that fits me better and works for me. If somebody comes out with something that helps unify the UX experience and provides better building blocks for me to work with, I'll definitely switch to that and rebuild my experience on top of that. But for now this is what we have. Admittedly this reflects my level of experience and my expertise too. I don't have a lot of experience working with building UX frameworks, so I adapt what I can.

New comment by papascrubs in "qm"

papascrubs — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:25:20 +0000

That's an option right? When I say roll your own-- it could be extending another platform. There's definitely different levels. Customization is in reach regardless of where you want to start and stop your stack.

New comment by papascrubs in "qm – Multiplayer agent harness for work"

papascrubs — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:56:26 +0000

It is fascinating and I love to see it. Ultimately though, why not build your own? I think that in part is what we're beginning to see-- highly customized and personalized software. I take most of these as inspiration these days and just build my own. Nothing you can't hammer out with a few good Claude sessions.

New comment by papascrubs in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

papascrubs — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:44:04 +0000

I've got some RDRAM-- still waiting for the RAMBUS revolution, any day now

New comment by papascrubs in "OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router"

papascrubs — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 02:14:22 +0000

I virtualize mine with proxmox and pass the necessary NICs through to the VM. Snapshots make rollbacks a breeze. You can also run HA pairs if you want to do updates without downtime.

New comment by papascrubs in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

papascrubs — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:01:44 +0000

I don't work for a nation state, but I work for a large financial that requires adversarial testing and it's absolutely increased the ability to operate and attack these environments. The floor is definitely easier to reach at a minimum. Vulns and 0days are far easier to exploit, time to exploitation from the release of vulns is nearing zero, largely aided by LLM reverse engineering -- why wouldn't this apply to nation state level adversaries?

New comment by papascrubs in "Anthropic's new Fable model has been jailbroken"

papascrubs — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:24:31 +0000

https://xcancel.com/elder_plinius/status/2064776322979676227

New comment by papascrubs in "Running Claude Code Offline on an M3 Pro with Qwen3.6"

papascrubs — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:58:05 +0000

Doing anything special to handle the syncing of .claude? Kind of a pain point for me jumping between Windows/Linux and having to deal with path differences.

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.