Hacker News: russfink

New comment by russfink in "Claude.md, except it's meaningful and it works"

russfink — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:20:05 +0000

Fable burned my limits and therefore unused it only once. What is your experience with it vs Opus 5, and Opus 4.6?

New comment by russfink in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

russfink — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:03:32 +0000

Very good question. One thing the article mentions is the vast number of attempts and threads of execution was in the tens of thousands, many of them that didn't succeed, with only one or so that did succeed, whereas a sophisticated human attack team might manage one in that timeframe. It looked like a script kiddie blitz. Noise outshone the signal. Launch a thousand drones with the hopes that one gets through. That sort of thing.

New comment by russfink in "Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Timeline of the July 2026 Incident"

russfink — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 20:10:17 +0000

We should be thankful that the model didn't believe the answers lived in the Pentagon, on SIPRNET, the IDF, etc.

Possible invasive species superspreader event near Strait of Hormuz

russfink — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:13:19 +0000

Article URL: https://abcnews.com/International/scientists-warn-invasive-species-superspreader-event-due-stalling/story?id=135051186

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053603

Points: 36

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New comment by russfink in "Best and Worst Habits for Your Liver"

russfink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:46:24 +0000

Mediterranean diet - tough to do in the age of cyclosporiasis.

New comment by russfink in "LLM Usage in Debian: Three Proposals"

russfink — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 22:43:43 +0000

What comprises “assistance?” Getting Claude Code to find bugs, suggest a fix, but a human actually editing the source files and testing the result - is that assistance? Perhaps this policy is as it says: a guiding principle that the community is expected to follow.

New comment by russfink in "My USB Drive Has a Hidden Encrypted Vault"

russfink — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 21:06:42 +0000

Could use an Opal or Pyrite drive connected to a USB caddy and sedutil-cli to manage it.

New comment by russfink in "Reviving a 15-year-old netbook with Arch Linux"

russfink — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 04:32:30 +0000

The article just sort of stops. Was the ram upgrade helpful? How was the mouse - was it choppy like in Windows XP as discussed at the top of the article? (And whatever happened to twm, possibly the lightest window manager around?)

New comment by russfink in "C programmers commit fresh crimes against readability"

russfink — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:36:03 +0000

TL;DR: the one entry implemented a subleq machine. Google it - it’s a One Instruction Set Computer (OISC). This made me smile. But it also raised a question: when were OISC’s first conceived? Would Apollo and computers of that era have benefitted from this insight?

New comment by russfink in "Lost and Found"

russfink — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:29:09 +0000

Go ahead and cut a notch out of my expertise card, but in all my years playing with UNIX, I’ve never used that directory.

New comment by russfink in "We need an accounting system for cognitive debt"

russfink — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:16:05 +0000

Interesting - but at what point could “n version programming” step in? I speak of using alternative models as verifiers.

New comment by russfink in "Show HN: Classify mechanical faults using Contrastive Language-Audio Pretraining"

russfink — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:07:40 +0000

Backyard (fault) tree mechanic FTW!

New comment by russfink in "Maybe you should learn something"

russfink — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:03:01 +0000

I’m attempting to learn to use a slide rule. It’s quite a history lesson - we take for granted the large precision we get on calculators. But the learning is taking repeated visits, about 30 minutes at a time. I’m slowly getting it.

New comment by russfink in "[dead]"

russfink — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:00:49 +0000

It must have been the Mule, something even Hari Seldon could not foresee.

New comment by russfink in "Apple increases MacBook and iPad prices by 20%"

russfink — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 16:31:02 +0000

Until recently, it was always cheaper to forego software architecture optimizations and rely on faster hardware, but now with AI I think this changes that calculus.

New comment by russfink in "KDE Plasma 6.7 Released"

russfink — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 04:37:13 +0000

Same. Hit some bug, tried different distro. Soon after adopted a “live off the land” philosophy, adapting to whatever desktop was default on the chosen distro.

New comment by russfink in "Copper transport drug restores memory and clears toxic Alzheimer's proteins"

russfink — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 22:17:39 +0000

I’m kinda new to this - so what you’re saying is the mouse model induces beta-amyliods directly, rather than finding ways to give mice Alzheimer’s, whereas the human tests are for humans that have Alzheimer’s? Meaning we aren’t doing any tests of simply stimulating BA growth in humans?

New comment by russfink in "πFS"

russfink — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:48:20 +0000

Unless, in turn, you locate the index itself in pi at a much smaller index. And so on...

Find k candidate indices for your data, then locate each of them. If the smallest one is a significantly smaller index space, repeat.

AI that improves itself indefinitely

russfink — Fri, 15 May 2026 07:02:44 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/14/what-happens-when-ai-starts-building-itself/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48145410

Points: 3

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New comment by russfink in "US Government releases first batch of UAP documents and videos"

russfink — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:58:18 +0000

In the same vein - the Roswell Museum and Research Center - the library portion is underrepresented in its ads. It is a library about the size of an elementary / middle school library filled with supposed accounts and testimony, academic-style papers and reports. One could spend days admiring this collection. (I’m not shilling for it, just pointing out the best part is not the latex cadavers in the other room.).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_UFO_Museum_and_R...