Hacker News: rowbin

Attack Techniques: Fake Captive Portals

rowbin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 20:59:03 +0000

Article URL: https://textslashplain.com/2026/08/03/attack-techniques-fake-captive-portals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49225863

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rowbin in "Show HN: textlog – A quiet, text-only microblogging platform, open-source, no JS"

rowbin — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:48 +0000

What do you mean with "became bad"? It started out with a 140 characters limit in 2006 and kept that for more than 10 years. So its the other way around: it became worse, when the character limit increased. Though I don't think its due to the character limit either way.

New comment by rowbin in "I Built a Blog and Forgot to Write"

rowbin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 02:02:09 +0000

I always did this on all my projects. Until I switched my approach and forced myself to do it the other way around: do the thing first and improve the workflow late. Better to do something annoying one time too often before improving the workflow, than to only improve the workflow and not do the thing.

I'm still a little worried that I'll stop posting on my blog soon, but it's actually been going better than expected. Rooting for Ben to keep posting.

LLMs won't break symmetric crypto

rowbin — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 01:39:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bfswa.blog/p/llms-wont-break-symmetric-crypto

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49191365

Points: 76

# Comments: 101

GraalVM Hello World Down to 6.5MB

rowbin — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 21:34:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GraalVM-Community-25.1.3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49116120

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Bugcrowd's "Request a Response" can expire without a response

rowbin — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:57:58 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.leonbecker.de/bugcrowd-request-a-response-can-expire-without-a-response/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49084933

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rowbin in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

rowbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:44:19 +0000

Anti-AI mentality claims another victim

New comment by rowbin in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

rowbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:40:41 +0000

Maybe have a seasoned mathematician check if the counterexample is really bogus before saying people fell for ai psychosis.

New comment by rowbin in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

rowbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:28:47 +0000

as can be seen in this comment section

New comment by rowbin in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

rowbin — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:14:46 +0000

Maybe, maybe not. The "proofs" may not have helped at all with finding a counterexample. Either way, it doesn't matter. A counterexample was found, no one found one before even though clearly a lot of people have tried who also had access to the prior "proofs".

The mask that compiles to nothing: how HotSpots JIT learned to reason about bits

rowbin — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 22:33:08 +0000

Article URL: https://questdb.com/blog/jvm-jit-known-bits/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48798566

Points: 78

# Comments: 8

New comment by rowbin in "I Still Live in the Terminal"

rowbin — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 23:19:17 +0000

Absolutely!

New comment by rowbin in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"

rowbin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:28:16 +0000

Works

New comment by rowbin in "Trump says he no longer views Anthropic as a threat after G7 meeting"

rowbin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 21:19:09 +0000

Hopefully fable 5 will be back soon. I had so much more fun on vibeSH with it. Its remarkable how much better it was at hallucinating a coherent shell than Opus 4.8. It was especially good with the ansi escape codes to get the colors right.

New comment by rowbin in "Show HN: StartupWiki – A Free Alternative to Crunchbase"

rowbin — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 20:15:23 +0000

I get "JSON.parse: unexpected character at line 1 column 1 of the JSON data"

Oracle's OpenJDK Bans Generative AI Contributions, Oracle's GraalVM Allows Them

rowbin — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:12:45 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/news/2026/06/oracle-genai-policies/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48567765

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rowbin in "Show HN: VibeSH – Fully Hallucinated Terminal Shell"

rowbin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:51:41 +0000

Author here. Happy to answer questions.

One clarification: vibeSH does not run commands or inspect your machine. The model only sees the terminal transcript, and the transcript is the fake machine's state.

Show HN: VibeSH – Fully Hallucinated Terminal Shell

rowbin — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:07:15 +0000

Article URL: https://codeberg.org/beleon/vibeSH

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48555558

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

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

rowbin — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 08:36:16 +0000

Clickable link: https://stelae.eu

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

rowbin — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:29:55 +0000

Thanks, ditto!