Hacker News: sneurlax

New comment by sneurlax in "Pirate Face Rescues LLM Models from Deletion"

sneurlax — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:38:07 +0000

There are such results on huggingface tho. Also search for the keywords “abliteration” and “heretic”. Heretic is a tool used to abliterate, that is decensor, models

New comment by sneurlax in "Arrested for a Late Manuscript: Seicho Matsumoto's 'Tokyo Express'"

sneurlax — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 15:13:47 +0000

I would love to read this article.

I did not read this article.

New comment by sneurlax in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

sneurlax — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:34:41 +0000

both of their .orgs appear to be down, got any mirrors?

New comment by sneurlax in "Autistici/Inventati's main .org domain goes dark after US terrorism designation"

sneurlax — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 16:31:04 +0000

both of their .orgs seem to be down

New comment by sneurlax in "Flutter 3.47"

sneurlax — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 01:00:59 +0000

I care :)

New comment by sneurlax in "More German than many Germans"

sneurlax — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:07:42 +0000

Plenty of people love rules :) different strokes for different folks…

New comment by sneurlax in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

sneurlax — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:50:43 +0000

Are their mouths open and are they making noise? Then yes.

New comment by sneurlax in "Hacker Public Radio"

sneurlax — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:11:35 +0000

I need to sign back into chat :)

New comment by sneurlax in "We Gave GPT 5.6 Sol a Real Business. It Lied, Spammed, and Lost $447"

sneurlax — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 19:02:07 +0000

And yet they're trained on the corpus of human writing. They may not act like humans but they do act like human writing.

"If you don't make profit, your business will be closed" is a pretty clear ultimatum for an agent tasked with creating a profitable business.

New comment by sneurlax in "Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark"

sneurlax — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:22:46 +0000

Invest in energy, manufacturing, and education (ie. your own people) for 75 years and people will look for a trick card up your sleeve and accuse you of cheating when your 7th of the world population has a 7th of the world's genius

New comment by sneurlax in "SPCX is now Wall Street's most shorted new stock"

sneurlax — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:39:51 +0000

anything nonhuman*

PhantomDrive: A Secure USB Drive That Hides Itself

sneurlax — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:50:44 +0000

Article URL: https://rootkitlabs.com/2026/06/22/I%27m-Building-a-Secure-USB-Drive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48834268

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by sneurlax in "Mouseless – keyboard-driven control of macOS/Linux/Windows"

sneurlax — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:07:33 +0000

Whoa! Now that's interesting! I wonder if that would be possible on other OSes...

New comment by sneurlax in "ReMarkable firing up to 40% of their workforce"

sneurlax — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 23:02:48 +0000

What's RCU? I'm a ReMarkable user and didn't know about rmfakecloud or reManager, thanks for those tips

New comment by sneurlax in "Meta will shut down VR Horizon Worlds access June 15"

sneurlax — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 17:36:06 +0000

I have a Quest 3 and I think I've only opened Horizon Worlds once. It's a very small part of the overall offering. If you can find a used headset for $200, it's a no brainer buy

New comment by sneurlax in "Email exchange between MIT Media Lab and the IOTA Foundation [pdf]"

sneurlax — Sun, 25 Feb 2018 17:11:07 +0000

The post was referring to Bitcoin-based cryptocurrencies which compute addresses using two hashing fictions, RIPEMD160 and SHA256. It's not just the same hash, twice. The PoW for blocks is SHA256(SHA256()), though