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New comment by russfink in "LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents"

russfink — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:48:51 +0000

All good points. Related to your observation about patents, well, I guess we'll have to make patent descriptions even more inscrutable. ;-)

New comment by russfink in "LayerFS: The filesystem for AI coding agents"

russfink — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:34:00 +0000

Would you mind ELI5’ing the similarities? I’m seeing only high level concepts that sound the same.

New comment by russfink in "Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds"

russfink — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 14:22:14 +0000

> One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4.

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/random_number.png

New comment by russfink in "AI is a tool and using it well takes skill"

russfink — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:08:57 +0000

Be sure to read the type checking article linked at the bottom of the web page. TLDR: type checking languages help humans, not so much AI.

New comment by russfink in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

russfink — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:50:32 +0000

If you outsource your thinking to a server that can detect your IP address, and decide to render decision “b” instead of decision “a” to your query, that’s a risk. (Or detect by the type of query, past history of your use, etc.). Panopticlick should be having a field day with all this.

New comment by russfink in "U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk"

russfink — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 01:46:56 +0000

They manage the nuclear wessels.

New comment by russfink in "Dutch governments builds alternative for Microsoft based on NixOS"

russfink — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 09:53:12 +0000

Hopefully the config is a little more descriptive than their README.md

China reaches 5-minute EV charging

russfink — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsminimalist.com/articles/chinese-automakers-race-ahead-with-5-minute-ev-fast-charging-b0ce90ad

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49837054

Points: 24

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New comment by russfink in "I don't want the details"

russfink — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:19:20 +0000

Best article I’ve read this month. The SVP expressed unqualified trust in the team. Asking the team for the next steps emphasizes this trust.

New comment by russfink in "Fixing the Portobello Police Station Clock"

russfink — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 18:12:44 +0000

Does it work on a gear and pinion principle or an AC synchronous motor?

New comment by russfink in "LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI features"

russfink — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 14:54:38 +0000

This. I don’t want it to have AI features, but often find myself asking some other AI, “how do I change the paper size from A4 to US Letter,” etc.

New comment by russfink in "Spark: Sparklines in your shell"

russfink — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:18:15 +0000

The web archive link, made available since the featured page has been hugged to death, has been hugged to death.

New comment by russfink in "Claude Session URL appended to commit messages and PR descriptions by default"

russfink — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 13:14:45 +0000

Instead of accepting the default “commit then push,” try “draft a commit message and let me review and revise it first.”

New comment by russfink in "Show HN: USBHawk – Unlock your PC with ordinary USB Flash drives"

russfink — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 14:57:49 +0000

The relying party is also the prover.

New comment by russfink in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

russfink — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 03:17:33 +0000

It “thinks out loud” to populate its token space. Asking it to shortcut risks truncating that process.

New comment by russfink in "A controversial Alzheimer's surgery is said to reverse symptoms"

russfink — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:22:23 +0000

Flowers for Algernon

New comment by russfink in "Anthropic to start embedding invisible watermarks"

russfink — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:10:13 +0000

Does anyone have a link to the method? Does it need Unicode or is it ASCII spacing? Word frequency bias? Can a human inadvertently trigger a detector for it?

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.