Hacker News: rektlessness

New comment by rektlessness in "How I got over 300 Tor exit nodes removed"

rektlessness — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:14:12 +0000

I was cleaning up a bunch of stale SSH access creds I had forgotten about and decided to migrate to FIDO2 keys.

Wrote up the cleanup: isolate the clanker, retire the leftovers, move admin logins to a hardware key with touch and PIN. https://gist.github.com/AUAggy/c1881c1efd85b6cc46d3564ac9012...

If you are on a compatible Apple MacBook you can also use Touch-ID https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50175882

New comment by rektlessness in "What shall I teach my son?"

rektlessness — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 23:46:58 +0000

Show them how to be resourceful, think for themselves and own their decisions by practicing it yourself and telling stories.

I bought a book on a subject I wanted to understand and read it to my kid every night with silly voices that sent them to sleep. They’re older now with a solid grasp of those foundational topics, which has helped their schoolwork and interactions with teachers, even if they’ve been labelled the class nerd. Works both ways. lol

Enjoy parenting. Be present.

New comment by rektlessness in "DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models"

rektlessness — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:58:37 +0000

Maybe just maybe the real reason DeepSeek does this is because they are altruistic.

New comment by rektlessness in "DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine"

rektlessness — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:47:25 +0000

Deepseek released just enough to stir the pot but not enough to cook your own from scratch.

Wake me up when we can clone, point it at a dozen H100s we own, and get a working production service.

Anthropic and OpenAI will do just fine.

New comment by rektlessness in "OpenBSD 8.0"

rektlessness — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:52:41 +0000

"Wireframe Puffy" T-shirt design with the 'human lips' was always my favorite. Hope they bring it back.

https://www.openbsd.org/tshirts.html

New comment by rektlessness in "OpenBSD 8.0"

rektlessness — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:19:00 +0000

Forget the artwork and check out the accompanying song and lyrics for the new release. I think it's one of the funnier ones so far. https://www.openbsd.org/lyrics.html#80

New comment by rektlessness in "Tmux and Claude Code: Sessions, Send-Keys, and the Ceiling"

rektlessness — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 02:58:44 +0000

Same reason I migrated my keys to ed25519-sk and began using touch and PIN hardware security dongles to approve auth.

New comment by rektlessness in "Openrouter Fusion API"

rektlessness — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 00:10:11 +0000

Perhaps, but shouldn't be at my own cost if not disclosed before hand.

New comment by rektlessness in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

rektlessness — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:54:12 +0000

It’s just so heartwarming to see we are completely indentured to both LinkedIn and GitHub, and forced to curate fake personas and upload our life's work just to secure a paycheck.

Yes, throwaway VPS for interview coding tasks should be the new norm.

New comment by rektlessness in "Claude Corps"

rektlessness — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:27:21 +0000

KMPG and Palantir already use the FDE playbook to great success. And we've all found value in a free 12-month vendor trial, with no obligation to commit. No idea what the fuss is about.

All non-profits need to do is demand model-agnostic deliverables, insist on handoff documentation, and budget for switching costs before the year ends.

New comment by rektlessness in "Openrouter Fusion API"

rektlessness — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 11:26:17 +0000

I tried OpenRouter Fusion with the budget model option but swapped out DeepSeek v3.2 for DeepSeek V4 Pro. The results weren't that bad. An interesting take on quorums for sure. However I did notice a tool call to Claude Opus 4.8 for 1168 - 237 tokens, and $0.0118 cost, which I cannot account for because Opus was not in my selection and only revealed in logs. Strange.

New comment by rektlessness in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2026)"

rektlessness — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 07:25:45 +0000

I am building HNSignals: HNSignals transforms Hacker News comment discussions into executive-level intelligence briefs.

It synthesizes comments into structured reports in a Chief-of-Staff style for tech leaders.

https://hnsignals.com/signal/46937696

New comment by rektlessness in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:50:36 +0000

Long-term access recovery typically requires rituals like annual check-ins, media rotation, and human drills. We already do this with annual fire-drills.

New comment by rektlessness in "Show HN: If you lose your memory, how to regain access to your computer?"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:44:50 +0000

As our identities get more fragmented across devices, clouds, and cranial volatility, I expect digital wills that withstand real-world decay to become the norm.

New comment by rektlessness in "How to effectively write quality code with AI"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 22:30:25 +0000

All this boils down to is that AI wins when it amplifies engineers, not replaces them. And the best code still comes from devs who ultrathink.

New comment by rektlessness in "A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:40:45 +0000

Broad, ambiguous language like 'substantially composed by AI' will trigger overcompliance rendering disclosures meaningless, but maybe that was the plan.

New comment by rektlessness in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:32:06 +0000

Are people using Claude max 20x plan for personal pet projects? Are these expensed? Have you liquidated all other hobbies to fund this? Asking for a friend.

New comment by rektlessness in "GitHub Actions is slowly killing engineering teams"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:22:25 +0000

GitHub Actions isn’t killing engineering teams; complacency in CI design is. CI should be reliable, inspectable, and reproducible, not just convenient.

New comment by rektlessness in "Claude Opus 4.6"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:18:33 +0000

I've been on pro-tier membership and never used Opus until now. Just gave Opus 4.6 a whirl. OMG. What have I been missing.

New comment by rektlessness in "GPT-5.3-Codex"

rektlessness — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 12:10:41 +0000

I was wondering how KiloCode Kilo Pass pricing compared to OpenRouter's top-up pricing, and did some digging and discovered the main difference is that OpenRouter provides a standard API key (sk-or-...) that works in any application (LangChain, curl, your own Python apps), while Kilo Pass credits are tied to the Kilo Gateway, which is designed to power the KiloCode Extension (VS Code/JetBrains) and CLI. KiloCode does not appear to allow you generate a "Kilo API Key" to use in your external Python scripts or third-party apps. But the monthly bonus credits are sweet.