Hacker News: sabas123

New comment by sabas123 in "Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'"

sabas123 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:30:34 +0000

> It's an entirely new class of vulnerability, as far as I can tell.

It is know as voltage glitching. If you're interested our research group applies to Intel CPUs. https://download.vusec.net/papers/microspark_uasc26.pdf

New comment by sabas123 in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

sabas123 — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:24:44 +0000

What is the point of having this if code generation is not functional yet? That is the entire point of this app.

New comment by sabas123 in "Ghidra by NSA"

sabas123 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:12:30 +0000

Without providing any proof that either this or SELinux is backdoored.

New comment by sabas123 in "AI doesn’t reduce work, it intensifies it"

sabas123 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:36:38 +0000

> No, we get applications so hideously inefficient that your $3000 developer machine feels like it it's running a Pentium II with 256 MB of RAM.

> We get software that's as slow as it was 30 years ago, for no reason other than our own arrogance and apathy.

I feel like I read this exact same take on this site for the past 15 years.

New comment by sabas123 in "Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft?"

sabas123 — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:57:58 +0000

The problem is that we already can provide an alternative, but we don't switch to them. Which might be even worse.

New comment by sabas123 in "Mistral raises 1.7B€, partners with ASML"

sabas123 — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:53:48 +0000

Exception

New comment by sabas123 in "Amazon has mostly sat out the AI talent war"

sabas123 — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 13:03:29 +0000

Is it really such a pivot when they invested a lot in AI already?

They bought DeepMind in 2014 and always showed of a ton of AI research.

New comment by sabas123 in "Do Things That Don't Scale (2013)"

sabas123 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 17:04:48 +0000

If I list you 10x many cases which failed, would you switch your opinion then?

New comment by sabas123 in "Secure boot certificate rollover is real but probably won't hurt you"

sabas123 — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 08:35:46 +0000

You make it sound like security is a binary thing, which is not true.

New comment by sabas123 in "Never write your own date parsing library"

sabas123 — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 11:43:10 +0000

> We don't want a world where only three old bearded guys can write a compiler or a physic engine.

Don't write your own OS does not mean do not contribute to something like the linux kernel.

New comment by sabas123 in "The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection"

sabas123 — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:41:10 +0000

I asked ChatGPT, gemini and both answered 3, with various levels of explainations. Was this a long time ago by any chance?

New comment by sabas123 in "BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)"

sabas123 — Fri, 16 May 2025 07:32:08 +0000

Which is not necessarily a good thing.

New comment by sabas123 in "Why Bell Labs Worked"

sabas123 — Mon, 12 May 2025 08:41:26 +0000

> Today we have a huge oversupply of scientists, however there's too many of them to allow judging for potential, and many are not actually capable of dramatic impact.

Realistically speaking it's also much harder to achieve the same level of impact back then as most, not just low-hanging, fruits have been plucked.

New comment by sabas123 in "Dijkstra On the foolishness of "natural language programming""

sabas123 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 17:21:06 +0000

As somebody that occasionally studies pure math books those can be very, very light on regular English.

New comment by sabas123 in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

sabas123 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:59:35 +0000

If you make an LLM which design goal is to state "I do not know" any answer that is not directly in its training set, then all of the above statements don't hold.

New comment by sabas123 in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

sabas123 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:52:39 +0000

Being a "University Professor" means jack shit unless precisely in their (sub)-field. The authors are experts in biology, and evolution of information representation/communication, and about misinformation.

I'll gladly defer to their expert opinion on those topics, but IMO to use such an authoritative voice when they are not experts in actual AI systems. Judging the massive progress in the field of AI, how can anyone even remotely state what these systems inherently are, when they are still so new and ever-evolving?

New comment by sabas123 in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

sabas123 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 00:30:11 +0000

> currently designing a course to hopefully arm medical students with the required basic knowledge they need to navigate the changing world of medicine in light of the ML and LLM advances

Could you share what you think would be some key basic points what they should learn? Personally I see this landscape changing so insanely much that I don't even know what to prepare for.

New comment by sabas123 in "Compiling Java into native binaries with Graal and Mill"

sabas123 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 10:42:24 +0000

IIRC there base kit like garbage collector and runtime are all the same between community and enterprise. The biggest feature that comes to mind that is behind the enterprise-only wall (or at least used to be) is Profile Guided optimization.

New comment by sabas123 in "New speculative attacks on Apple CPUs"

sabas123 — Tue, 28 Jan 2025 23:10:04 +0000

Keep in mind that getting meltdown to work might be very difficult depending on your setup. I wouldn't have been able to at least when starting out my teacher didn't provide us with targetable hardware.

A spectre (particularly RSB-based ones) are nice to start out with imo.

New comment by sabas123 in "Why it's hard to trust software, but you mostly have to anyway"

sabas123 — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 15:30:39 +0000

> Today's most advanced projects are able to compile pretty much arbitrary rust code into provable RISC-V programs

Provable does not imply secure.