Hacker News: smithcoin

New comment by smithcoin in "When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work"

smithcoin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:37:43 +0000

Have you found a write up you’d recommend on how the threat actors actually exploited the vulnerabilities?

New comment by smithcoin in "When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work"

smithcoin — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 08:36:14 +0000

I think what is the author is getting at is that if you are cavalier in your commit messages when the stakes are low, chances are you aren’t taking writing code that handles money seriously. Made me think of some merges I could have taken more seriously.

New comment by smithcoin in "Golang proposal: container/: generic collection types"

smithcoin — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:51:35 +0000

You’d have a better chance of getting your PR accepted into https://github.com/Vinovest/sqlx

Ask HN: What's the most secure way to run a local model?

smithcoin — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:41:05 +0000

Given the recent “attention” in the space - what are your preferred tools and techniques for running models such as K2.7 in a secure manner.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49018124

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by smithcoin in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

smithcoin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:35:28 +0000

SalC1 made a great video about how this was accomplished: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDyze1YlOrI

New comment by smithcoin in "The largest available Minecraft world, totalling 15 TB"

smithcoin — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 18:34:05 +0000

It was made on 2b2t, the seed is well known: -4172144997902289642. FitMC makes a video where he shows what the original spawn looked like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksS00MCQPog

New comment by smithcoin in "Ten Years of Franz"

smithcoin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 06:35:06 +0000

I used Franz and then went it went freemium I used ferdi for a while. I like using Zen browser and it’s based on Firefox

New comment by smithcoin in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

smithcoin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:07:59 +0000

Another comment reminded me that there is a similar one called You Should Have Left.

New comment by smithcoin in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

smithcoin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:06:03 +0000

The faster you read House of Leaves the better the meta-experience.

New comment by smithcoin in "'Backrooms' Stuns with $81M Debut"

smithcoin — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 03:03:45 +0000

I swear I used to see shorts or reels with a Kevin Bacon version of the House of Leaves story

New comment by smithcoin in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

smithcoin — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:32:06 +0000

Good luck! You might not find anything out tomorrow, but it still might work in the long run.

New comment by smithcoin in "Leave Me Behind"

smithcoin — Mon, 25 May 2026 17:16:45 +0000

> how a tool that allows you to be 100 times more productive

Because we don’t agree on this premise

New comment by smithcoin in "Our AI started a cafe in Stockholm"

smithcoin — Tue, 05 May 2026 22:04:29 +0000

Do you think we’ll get it before or after Tesla FSD?

New comment by smithcoin in "Boats crash/break and can kill their passengers when falling certain distances"

smithcoin — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:01:51 +0000

Matt Parker from Stand-up Maths analyzed the "Minecraft boat-drop mystery," in this interesting video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ei58gGM9Z8k

Fake Ledger app on Apple App Store linked to $9.5M crypto theft

smithcoin — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:23:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theblock.co/post/397388/fake-ledger-app-apple-app-store-crypto-theft-bitcoin-tron-solana-zachxbt

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47769305

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by smithcoin in "RubyGems Fracture Incident Report"

smithcoin — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:56:00 +0000

I read the article but I’m out of the loop enough to not understand Shopify and 37signals piece in this can you clarify? Is there another place I can be pointed to with that background information?

New comment by smithcoin in "How A Spartan Revolutionized Baseball"

smithcoin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:45:51 +0000

When the Cubs signed Aroldis Chapman I went to the first game where he came out of the bullpen and I will never forget the entire crowd looking at the scoreboard and reacting every time he hit 100 miles an hour. Now every team has somebody that hits 100. It blows my mind people can throw a baseball faster than I drive on the interstate.

New comment by smithcoin in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

smithcoin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:43:44 +0000

When I was younger I remember a point of demarcation for me was learning the 4chan adage “trolls trolling trolls”, and approaching all internet interactions with skepticism. While I have been sure that Reddit for a while has succumbed to being “dead internet”. This thread is another moment for me- I can no longer recognize who is a bot, and who has honest intentions.

New comment by smithcoin in "I Built an Open-World Engine for the N64 [video]"

smithcoin — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 15:04:26 +0000

VRAM goes vroom vroom.

I emailed him the video from OP and he mentioned they’ve done some collaboration. I’m assuming there’s a retro programming discord that I’m not worthy of.

New comment by smithcoin in "People inside Microsoft are fighting to drop mandatory Microsoft Account"

smithcoin — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 16:21:48 +0000

I posted something similar the other day, but at this point it is too little too late. Using windows feels like actively submitting to a hostile user experience.

I look back fondly to the time I had using my Dell XPS when WSL first came out, they had me hooked. I've been using MacBook Pro for about a decade now and I can't even fathom going back to windows. Every time I open the start menu I feel personally attacked.

I used to obsess over reading xda developer forums and playing around with my android phone. I would laugh at the "sheeple" using apple products for not being customizable and giving away their freedom.

At this point in my life "it just works" is good enough and no longer a point of ironic derision.