Hacker News: pizzalife

New comment by pizzalife in "Talkie: a 13B vintage language model from 1930"

pizzalife — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:07:58 +0000

This is cool. Is it possible to easily install with ollama?

New comment by pizzalife in "The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime"

pizzalife — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 19:28:51 +0000

Well, judging by this thread, it doesn’t seem like it.

New comment by pizzalife in "The 'untouchable hacker god' behind Finland's biggest crime"

pizzalife — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 18:47:31 +0000

It’s really not a good idea to be posting about your case when it hasn’t even been resolved yet.

New comment by pizzalife in "Stop Doom Scrolling, Start Doom Coding: Build via the terminal from your phone"

pizzalife — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 04:49:02 +0000

I did this on my Nokia phone over GPRS in 2005, my program of choice was irssi. We did have a Markov chain bot though.

New comment by pizzalife in "Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates"

pizzalife — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:06:08 +0000

  See the AT&T/iPad data leak, where AT&T were leaking private information on the internet with no security checks at all. Someone found it, told the press, who in turn told AT&T, but the FBI still investigated it as a "crime", raided their home, charged them with "conspiracy to access a computer without authorization." AT&T go no punishment at all.

I think you are missing some nuance here. They found a vulnerability where they could just increment an "id" and get access to another user's information. They then went ahead and scraped as much as they could. Also this person (iProphet / weev / Andrew Auernheimer) is awful and certainly not a victim. AT&T did not leak the information, Andrew did!

Should they have had better security? Yes. Was the vulnerability extremely basic? Yes. Doesn't change much, a vulnerability was used to dump a bunch of private data.

New comment by pizzalife in "“Boobs check” – Technique to verify if sites behind CDN are hosted in Iran"

pizzalife — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:34:15 +0000

It’s in a private Ip range so unless you’re inside Iran you’re fine.

New comment by pizzalife in "Auraphone: A simple app to collect people's info at events"

pizzalife — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 20:43:57 +0000

Why would you want to give out your contact info to people you didn’t engage with?

The business card is more than just an exchange of phone numbers.

New comment by pizzalife in "Why do some radio towers blink?"

pizzalife — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 16:08:17 +0000

I'm not asking for anything. Just commenting that transcripts of videos make for bad blog posts. I'm not interested in watching the video.

New comment by pizzalife in "Why do some radio towers blink?"

pizzalife — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 21:40:50 +0000

Yes, reading transcripts is a terrible way of ingesting information in my opinion.

New comment by pizzalife in "Why do some radio towers blink?"

pizzalife — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:22:48 +0000

This blog post has a really verbose format.

TLDR; White lights are used during the daytime, red lights at night (less annoying), towers under 200 feet don't need blinking lights.

New comment by pizzalife in "Duke Nukem: Zero Hour N64 ROM Reverse-Engineering Project Hits 100%"

pizzalife — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:40:14 +0000

I use the following IDA pro MCP plugin for this: https://github.com/mrexodia/ida-pro-mcp

New comment by pizzalife in "Offline card payments should be possible no later than 1 July 2026"

pizzalife — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 22:22:16 +0000

>Is this motivated by a need to prepare for war?

In short, yes.

>The possibility to pay by card when the internet is not working – ‘so-called offline payments’ – is an area that ‘the Riksbank believes needs to be improved considerably, particularly in light of the geopolitical unease in the world,’ according to the announcement

https://www.riksbank.se/en-gb/press-and-published/notices-an...

New comment by pizzalife in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

pizzalife — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:15:21 +0000

Indeed, this article makes them look bad. Seems completely tone deaf to release this as a puff piece about the product.

New comment by pizzalife in "Interview with Geoffrey Hinton"

pizzalife — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:44:35 +0000

“Show some respect?”

Do these historical accolades give him a blank check to be wrong in the present?

New comment by pizzalife in "Flunking my Anthropic interview again"

pizzalife — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:18:54 +0000

I also got rejected by Anthropic, and now I’m working at an amazing startup instead. Anthropic’s hiring process is dumb, you shouldn’t take it personally.

New comment by pizzalife in "I hacked Monster Energy"

pizzalife — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 17:53:18 +0000

There is a market for capabilities, i.e zerodays in widely used software. It has value, sometimes in the millions.

No one will buy some shitty XSS on a public website.

New comment by pizzalife in "I Hacked McDonald's (Security Contact Was Harder to Find Than Secret Recipe)"

pizzalife — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 16:54:27 +0000

This guy could easily get indicted under CFAA. This isn’t how you conduct “white hat” security research lmao. If they don’t have a clearly outlined bug bounty program, you are in a pickle. Especially with using legitimate employee credentials.

New comment by pizzalife in "'70 MPH e-bikes' prompt one US state to change its laws"

pizzalife — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:59:45 +0000

The 20kg bike would accelerate roughly twice as quickly as the 40kg bike. Accelerating super quickly is not safe.

New comment by pizzalife in "'70 MPH e-bikes' prompt one US state to change its laws"

pizzalife — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 17:26:52 +0000

> If a 20kg motorcycle can do 4kW why is that a concern?

Because it would go too fast.

New comment by pizzalife in "Crush: Glamourous AI coding agent for your favourite terminal"

pizzalife — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:55:42 +0000

Beautiful terminal interface, well done. For people using Crush, how do you feel it compares to Claude Code or Cursor?