Hacker News: stordoff

New comment by stordoff in "The Claude Code Source Leak: fake tools, frustration regexes, undercover mode"

stordoff — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:00:35 +0000

It's in line 56-57.

New comment by stordoff in ""Disregard That" Attacks"

stordoff — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:48:43 +0000

The article does at least note that in the 'Other Notes' section at the bottom, and links to the original form:

> I bowdlerised the original "disregard that" joke, heavily.

New comment by stordoff in "Tiny QR code achieved using electron microscope technology"

stordoff — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:12:56 +0000

iPhone 15 Pro (using the default Camera app) read it OK - it took me to https://www.tuwien.at/en/mwbw/wwwt/ww/ws

New comment by stordoff in "Qwen3-Max-Thinking"

stordoff — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 17:25:21 +0000

Outputs get flagged in the same way:

> tell me about taiwan

(using chat.qwen.ai) results in:

> Oops! There was an issue connecting to Qwen3-Max. Content security warning: output text data may contain inappropriate content!

mid-generation.

New comment by stordoff in "Raspberry Pi Drag Race: Pi 1 to Pi 5 – Performance Comparison"

stordoff — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 23:01:14 +0000

I've got a i5-7500T box running as a Proxmox Backup Server, and it idles at 6-7W. It runs at near idle most of the time (it's just running PBS and a few network services), so I'm not expecting it to cause much difference to my power bills. Even under full load, it only draws ~30W, so it's not _that_ much power.

New comment by stordoff in "Imgur geo-blocked the UK, so I geo-unblocked my network"

stordoff — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 22:11:51 +0000

AIUI, nginx doesn't terminate the SSL/TLS connection - it is just passed through as is. `ssl_preread on` extracts the server name from the Server Name Indication (SNI) send as part of the TLS handshake, which is unencrypted.

I just set up a similar system (Debian LXC permanently connected to a VPN, nginx proxying imgur.com and all its subdomains with the rest being dropped), and it works quite well. Setting DNS records for imgur.com and {api,i,s}.imgur.com seems to be sufficient to get the site and inline images working (not 100% if all are needed - I haven't fully tested it yet).

New comment by stordoff in "Liquid Glass Is Cracked, and Usability Suffers in iOS 26"

stordoff — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 01:50:59 +0000

Reduce Transparency helps in some ways, but also introduces its own issues. A couple I noticed in the brief time I used it:

* My home screen wallpaper is a blurred version of the astronomy lock screen. After enabling Reduce Transparency, it remains working for ten minutes or so, then gets replaced with a plain black background.

* Websites have a large bottom margin (usually white, sometimes site specific colours) where the toolbar appears if you scroll up. It feels like a complete waste of screen space if you're scrolling down a webpage to read it.

Tested on an iPhone 16 Pro Max 256GB.

New comment by stordoff in "NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece"

stordoff — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:04:47 +0000

FWIW, I can't reproduce this example - it generates both images fine: https://ibb.co/NdYx1R4p

New comment by stordoff in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

stordoff — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 23:23:42 +0000

With uBlock off, I get two sponsored ads, and the real site is nearly pushed below the fold: https://i.imgur.com/AkVbvSI.png

New comment by stordoff in "Scream cipher"

stordoff — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:16:26 +0000

Not perfectly. I grabbed a random encoded line from these comments, and asked ChatGPT to decode it[1]. It determined the plaintext was:

> Immediately thought of Moby, infact a quick search for this title... coincidental, but I would mention it in the page if I were you.

and noted that it had "preserved punctuation and capitalization from the ciphertext". The actual plaintext should be:

> Immediately thought of XKCD, infact a quick search for this title gives me XKCD, it could be coincidental, but I would mention it in the page if I were you.

I've hit my free usage limit so can't currently prompt it further about its mistake.

[1] https://chatgpt.com/share/68cf17a6-8478-8011-a44e-64d43ad8a4...

New comment by stordoff in "Google to obey South Korean order to blur satellite images on maps"

stordoff — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:54:38 +0000

It looks like Google Maps is using old imagery for some reason. If you look on Google Earth, the image used appears to be from 12 Jan 2016[1]. The more recent imagery (2022 onwards) shows the new build, and you can see glimpses of it in Street View on Google Maps.

[1] https://earth.google.com/web/search/%22Robin+Masters+Estate%...

New comment by stordoff in "Who Owns, Operates, and Develops Your VPN Matters"

stordoff — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:53:25 +0000

There are various services that do this, e.g. BrightData:

> Bright Data is the World’s Largest Residential Proxy IP Network providing companies the ability to emulate a real user in any country, city or carrier (ASN) in the world. [...] Bright Data has an SDK (software development kit) that is implemented into applications. Bright SDK provides an attractive alternative to advertisements by providing the app user with the choice to opt-in to Bright Data’s network instead. For every user that opts-in to the Bright Data network, Bright Data pays a monthly fee to the application vendor, who passes that value on to the user by not displaying ads.

I haven't heard of any of the VPN providers doing this, but it wouldn't really surprise me.

New comment by stordoff in "Installing a mini-split AC in a Brooklyn apartment"

stordoff — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 03:53:00 +0000

According to https://www.whatsmydns.net/#A/mylinkdrive.com, it resolves in most of the US locations and in Japan, China, and Singapore, but fails elsewhere.

https://dnschecker.org/#A/mylinkdrive.com gives similar results - resolves fine in North America (US/Canada/Mexico) and a few other counties (Brazil/Ireland/Russia/China, and one of the two Australia sites), but fails elsewhere (including in Singapore).

Geoblocking seems like a possibility.

New comment by stordoff in "Microsoft Teams will soon block screen capture during meetings"

stordoff — Sat, 10 May 2025 22:14:41 +0000

Most cheap HDMI splitters seem to disable HDCP.

New comment by stordoff in "Ask HN: Share your AI prompt that stumps every model"

stordoff — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 23:30:37 +0000

GPT-4o claims "This implies she did not pay the full $20. The total cost of the balls and bats she has is less than $20, but she still has items worth up to $20.", then bruteforces an 'answer' of "Balls = 25 Bats = 13".

It also managed to get the prices of the ball/bat wrong, presumably because it's using the more typical riddle:

> Ball = x dollars

> Bat = x + $0.05 (since it’s 5 cents more than the ball)

https://chatgpt.com/share/680ac88c-22d4-8011-b642-0397a01ec3...

New comment by stordoff in "Show HN: LLMs Playing Mafia games – See them lie, deceive, and reason"

stordoff — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:41:26 +0000

It seems they might not even recognise their own messages/actions:

> gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) [...] VOTE: openai/gpt-4o [Message #1]

> gemini-flash-1.5-8b (Villager) The Gemini models' rapid and identical votes are suspicious. Their lack of reasoned discussion, especially at this early stage, suggests potential Mafia coordination. Their simultaneous votes on openai/gpt-4o, without elaboration, raises red flags. [Message #9]

New comment by stordoff in "The internet is killing old PC hardware [video]"

stordoff — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 15:13:05 +0000

It provides an interesting test case for the usefulness (or lack thereof) of AI detectors:

ZeroGPT: Your Text is Human written (0% AI GPT)

QuillBot: 0% of text is likely AI

GPTZero: We are highly confident this text was ai generated. 100% Probability AI generated

Grammarly: 0% of this text appears to be AI-generated

None of them gave the actual answer (human written and AI edited), even though QuillBot has a separate category for this (Human-written & AI-refined: 0%).

New comment by stordoff in "League of Legends data scraping the hard and tedious way for fun"

stordoff — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 14:17:07 +0000

This site has a theme picker to toggle between light and dark modes.

New comment by stordoff in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

stordoff — Wed, 12 Feb 2025 00:28:50 +0000

AIUI, the connector _on the GPU/PSU_ is slightly different, but the connector on the cable is the same:

> As with any new standard, things are likely to evolve quickly and we’re now seeing the introduction of a new connector on the GPU and the PSU side of things. To be clear, this is not a new cable, it is an updated change to the pins in the socket, which is referred to as 12V-2x6.

Corsair's messaging on Reddit[1] emphasises this:

> Cable is the same. a 12VHPWR cable is a 12V-2x6 cable. it is ONLY the plugs on the graphics card / power supply that have changed.

> The cable is the same. 12VHPWR = 12V-2x6. You will get the exact same cable if you upgrade to a new PSU.

> As mentioned in image one, the cable is the same. Only the plug on the graphics card / PSU changed from 12VHPWR to 12V-2x6.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Corsair/comments/1ha9no1/ive_made_s...

New comment by stordoff in "Nvidia's RTX 5090 power connectors are melting"

stordoff — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 14:53:06 +0000

At least according to Corsair, there are no changes to the cable, only the PSU/GPU-side connectors:

> Cable: 12V-2x6 = 12VHPWR No difference!

> So what does this mean if you’ve already got hardware for 12VHPWR? Fortunately, existing 12VHPWR cables and adapters will work with the new 12V-2x6 connector as the new changes are only related to the GPU and some PSUs (Our new RMx PSUs for example). The cables you've got already will work fine, so don't worry.

https://www.corsair.com/uk/en/explorer/diy-builder/power-sup...