Hacker News: skupig

New comment by skupig in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

skupig — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:09:02 +0000

The article glosses over this, but it looks like the next variable in the struct is conveniently the first parameter to the function, so you can run arbitrary code with system() or whatever. But, yeah, you would need some other exploit to defeat ASLR.

New comment by skupig in "Twenty One Zero-Days in FFmpeg"

skupig — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:03:24 +0000

You would also need some sort of ASLR leak to make this exploitable

New comment by skupig in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"

skupig — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:34:25 +0000

I'm not really sure what your point is. That was just the most recent paper linked on that repo, which is a convenient list of some relevant papers. There are probably a lot more recent studies, but it does convincingly show that models are still absorbing bias in a way that can affect prediction.

New comment by skupig in "The LLM warnings Google fired Timnit Gebru over have all come true"

skupig — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 17:05:27 +0000

There has been plenty of research that shows LLMs encode social biases. It seems pretty obvious even before looking at the research that training on the whole internet will end up encoding widely-held social biases and stereotypes.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.07111

https://github.com/angl1n/social-bias-llm-vlm

New comment by skupig in "Training our own AI models"

skupig — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:46:29 +0000

It's not OK, but it's a fact.

New comment by skupig in "Launch HN: Chert (YC P26) – Twilio for iMessage"

skupig — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:53:05 +0000

That "opt-in" is going to be a vaguely-worded auto-filled checkbox and the "consent" will be stretched far beyond what any user thinks they're agreeing to.

New comment by skupig in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

skupig — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:50:29 +0000

That doesn't make any sense. The US enjoys its position of economic power because it has the reputation and wealth to attract skilled people and keep them here.

New comment by skupig in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

skupig — Sat, 23 May 2026 23:34:06 +0000

You can automatically be a citizen through descent of most countries in Europe and Asia, and everywhere in North America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_sanguinis#Jus_sanguinis_st...

New comment by skupig in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

skupig — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:22:28 +0000

I don't think that's necessarily true, I think companies are lazy and highly invasive anticheat is an easy win they can license from a 3rd party. Algorithmic security, server-side heuristics, and human review can get you far. I have very, very rarely seen a blatant cheater in Overwatch (maybe 3 times in 10 years?), for example, and yet it's been playable via WINE for almost its entire lifetime.

New comment by skupig in "Colored Shadow Penumbra"

skupig — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:57:10 +0000

I think the effect the author is talking about is definitely caused by atmospheric scattering, but the painted effects are different. Those are more likely inspired by overexposure, aberration, HDR, etc. Makoto Shinkai specifically is a filmmaker and often emulates camera effects like lens flare.

New comment by skupig in "AI slop is killing online communities"

skupig — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:22:19 +0000

People are definitely trying to make HN bots because I have seen several get flagged. No idea to what end though.

New comment by skupig in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

skupig — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:22:16 +0000

Ever heard of Dota 2? PUBG? Team Fortress 2?

New comment by skupig in "Roblox devs now need a subscription to share their games freely"

skupig — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:04:36 +0000

This is totally unrelated so I have to assume that you didn't realize your post looks like it has a random Nazi dog whistle in it, if you were wondering what that other person's comment means.

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

New comment by skupig in "Native Instant Space Switching on macOS"

skupig — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 04:13:38 +0000

You can use yabai without any of the tiling functionality (set the default mode to "float"), I have actually been using it with BTT to fix this exact problem. Thanks for letting me know that a fix has been added directly to BTT though!

New comment by skupig in "Afroman found not liable in defamation case"

skupig — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:19:53 +0000

This was downvoted so I'm not sure people realize that no, literally, the police have no obligation to help you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maksim_Gelman_stabbing_spree#L...

New comment by skupig in "Show HN: Beats, a web-based drum machine"

skupig — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 07:32:25 +0000

The share button doesn't show up on Firefox for some reason?

Fun stuff! It would be nice to be able to make longer patterns. Maybe by having triggers that play randomly or every nth loop, like a lot of drum machines do.

https://beats.lasagna.pizza/?name=hakkernuse&bpm=141&i0=K100...

Star Gauge: The 4th century Chinese poem that can be read in every direction

skupig — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 21:24:03 +0000

Article URL: https://cameronsbradley.substack.com/p/su-huis-epic-palindrome-star-gauge

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46294701

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by skupig in "I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface"

skupig — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 15:00:20 +0000

Yeah, I had the same experience. I had an embedded project where I would need to use C libraries, and it seemed like a great excuse to try Zig, but it spat out a ton of esoteric errors I couldn't be bothered to figure out and I went back to Nim.

New comment by skupig in "Dusk OS"

skupig — Tue, 13 May 2025 20:32:01 +0000

The USB host code is in fs/drv/usb: https://git.sr.ht/~vdupras/duskos/tree/master/item/fs/drv/us...

Not that I can read any of it... Forth looks unlike any other language I've ever seen o_O

New comment by skupig in "[dead]"

skupig — Tue, 06 May 2025 10:52:08 +0000

Every single one of these sections sounds like it should take 3x as long