Hacker News: progval

New comment by progval in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

progval — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:36:22 +0000

1 and 2: I rarely need to do that. When I do, then move or hardlink to a dir with shared read access

3: There is no reason for both my main user account and a dev account to share a credential. Main account either has the login or an API key, and dev account has its own API key with minimal permissions.

New comment by progval in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

progval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:20:16 +0000

Successful sudo from a cgroup still makes you root on the machine. What you want for this is user namespaces, not (just) cgroups.

New comment by progval in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

progval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:42:54 +0000

I meant for CLI tasks. Just "adduser" and "sudo -u bash".

New comment by progval in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

progval — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 07:25:41 +0000

Most programmers and power users install large dependency trees with npm/pip/bundler/... on the same user account as their main browser on a regular basis. Even on Linux where it's easy to create new user accounts. This isn't much different.

Replicant.space: An API-first space exploration game

progval — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:46:41 +0000

Article URL: https://replicant.space/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48904751

Points: 2

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New comment by progval in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

progval — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:35:38 +0000

Depending on where you live, your employer may be legally required to accommodate your disabilities. Here in France, HR are usually dutiful about it.

New comment by progval in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

progval — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:11:00 +0000

It's because the page you posted contains this incorrect tag:

New comment by progval in "EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why"

progval — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:25:04 +0000

There is a third-party API now: https://doc.fnar.net/ , which collects data through a browser extension that scraps the traffic. This kind of extension is blessed by the devs as long as it does not automate actions.

New comment by progval in "GPT‑Live"

progval — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 18:16:36 +0000

They most definitely did not solve real time translation yet. The French in the video is barely understandable, both the translation and the pronunciation are the quality of an American who hasn't used French since high-school.

New comment by progval in "LineageOS Statistics"

progval — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:15:40 +0000

I can't find information about this except in a Reddit thread. Is it documented somewhere?

New comment by progval in "The bottleneck might be the air in the room"

progval — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:44:49 +0000

I don't think power use is the issue. I have this cheap CO2 sensor: https://www.domadoo.fr/en/devices/5882-heiman-zigbee-air-qua... which draws 0.5W. This includes thermometer and humidity sensor, Zigbee transmission, and acting as a Zigbee router, but it gives us an upper bound. It also measures continuously (picks up someone breathing on it within 10s), which is overkill. A phone could measure CO2 levels once every 10 minutes which would average under 0.01W, so that would work.

However, this assumes the sensor would fit in a smartphone, which is not a given. And these things need air flow. And they also wouldn't work while the phone is in a bag or a pocket.

New comment by progval in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

progval — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:56:01 +0000

They probably meant 74000m², not 74km².

New comment by progval in "Oomwoo, an open-source robot vacuum you build yourself"

progval — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 06:52:26 +0000

But it's not even a first draft. There are only pictures and markdown files.

New comment by progval in ".self: A new top-level domain designed to support self-hosting"

progval — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:48:41 +0000

A Mastodon instance used it: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodo...

New comment by progval in "Choosing a Public DNS Resolver"

progval — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:19:45 +0000

What does it mean for a DNS resolver to be "integrated with CDNs"? And why does that affect streaming speed negatively?

New comment by progval in "Companies rein in AI usage as costs strain budgets"

progval — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 21:34:09 +0000

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/google-engineer-c...

it was before ChatGPT

New comment by progval in "Why stdx is not on crates.io"

progval — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:04:17 +0000

There is some recent progress on https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/issues/326

New comment by progval in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

progval — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:37:08 +0000

It also means Diffusion in the context of images and videos.

New comment by progval in "Leaving Mozilla"

progval — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:59:34 +0000

> The IRCv3 WG was convened near the end of 2016, so 9 or so.

SASL support in IRC predates IRCv3.

New comment by progval in "Leaving Mozilla"

progval — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 12:56:19 +0000

> Replacing the server-to-server protocol sounds a lot like it's not really IRC protocol any more

There hasn't been a standard server-to-server protocol in like three decades. Even RFC 2813 only specifies one of the protocols in use at the time (IRCnet's). Each implementation has its own (some of them forked from the original)

> The chathistory link says "This specification may change at any time and we do not recommend implementing it in a production environment."

True. Ratification of the final spec is stuck on some details, unfortunately.