Hacker News: trollbridge

New comment by trollbridge in "16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory"

trollbridge — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:45:38 +0000

Yes, although (like some flash technology) read cycles are slower than write cycles, and it takes longer to read a 0 bit and than 1 bit (or vice versa).

New comment by trollbridge in "16-bit fully functional DIY magnetic core memory"

trollbridge — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:45:04 +0000

You don't say.

New comment by trollbridge in "Codex Desktop continuously generates Crashpad pending dumps"

trollbridge — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:02:58 +0000

You can use systemd-oomd to force OOM killing without having to completely disable swap. It's quite handy for this especially since you can tell it to aim its OOM heavy artillery at only certain tasks (i.e. only processes that are descendants of claude-cli.)

New comment by trollbridge in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

trollbridge — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:02:35 +0000

Because people cut and pasted them in.

New comment by trollbridge in "OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked"

trollbridge — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 20:00:14 +0000

Then next time do a less clickbait-y title: OpenCode had a leak of API keys for their service that is similar to OpenRouter; this does not affect most users.

New comment by trollbridge in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

trollbridge — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 23:42:09 +0000

How do you use the Linux kernel?

New comment by trollbridge in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

trollbridge — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:07:57 +0000

The current hope is to eventually upstream the “fork” (Gravity) into the Linux kernel. The Asahi project can continue to run in parallel.

The Linux kernel extensively uses AI now; most lkml submissions have an Assisted-by: LLM tag.

New comment by trollbridge in "Libreboot 26.10 "Ominous Olive" released with UEFI, Chromebook support"

trollbridge — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:05:49 +0000

Likewise, it if claims something is “vibe coded” when it clearly is not (such as U-Boot).

Agentic AI has allowed 86Box to make massive strides forward. This includes a substantial contribution to emulate the Intel Inboard 386 that was created by someone who describes himself as a non-programmer. The community is now bigger and stronger, although we’ve had some aches and pains with slop AI generated PRs.

The same goes for Gravity Linux which is booting in my M4 Macs with working GPU and most other peripherals. What used to take years now takes weeks, so we can do much more thorough testing and ultimately have a better end product.

New comment by trollbridge in "Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs"

trollbridge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:19:12 +0000

To be fair, you never needed LLMs to be able to do all that.

New comment by trollbridge in "Running Windows desktop tests from Linux with disposable VMs"

trollbridge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:43:40 +0000

Not to dismiss this, but when I was working on a problem on Windows recently my LLM (6.1 Sol / oh-my-pi) ended up doing the same thing, although it used Qemu and snapshots to accomplish that.

Eventually it got to a point it could iterate very quickly and was really only constrained by total system RAM which meant a dozen at most copies could be running simultaneously.

New comment by trollbridge in "Who Is Planting Backdoors in Ledger Crypto Wallets?"

trollbridge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:30:40 +0000

Hence why governments have generally ended up issuing and securing currency.

New comment by trollbridge in "Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p"

trollbridge — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:26:01 +0000

This is likely to earn a permanent ban from Anthropic, though (which predictably no way to appeal it)

New comment by trollbridge in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

trollbridge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:18:03 +0000

In which case it can just vibe out the entire app for me exactly the way I want it.

New comment by trollbridge in "I Found a $90k Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Google"

trollbridge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:43:25 +0000

Pickle is so hard to get write that on my org we forbid ever accepting untrusted pickle input. We basically treat it like it’s an eval.

New comment by trollbridge in "Show HN: Atticus – Hold-to-talk voice assistant for macOS that runs on Claude -p"

trollbridge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:40:53 +0000

I don’t want to be a jerk, but I’m wondering how you managed to access Claude considering the terms of service prohibit someone under 18 signing up and also prohibit account sharing.

(I bring this up because I think these are bad terms. People under 18 should be allowed to learn how to code and use agents.)

New comment by trollbridge in "Muse Wonder"

trollbridge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:26:52 +0000

That’s fairly privacy trashing. I guess it means you need to use an entirely different account for Muse

New comment by trollbridge in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

trollbridge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:23:52 +0000

It’s RAM unless you have swap enabled.

New comment by trollbridge in "Janas: Run LLMs larger than RAM by streaming experts from SSD"

trollbridge — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:20:35 +0000

Sure, it’ll just be absurdly slow.

Maybe next you can run an LLM off of some old MFM drives

New comment by trollbridge in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

trollbridge — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 15:02:01 +0000

Yes, well, a typical client has a free tier of ChatGPT and just voice-to-text’s questions into that.

New comment by trollbridge in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

trollbridge — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:04:25 +0000

Probably not, as projects like this have a tendency to die off once the initial excitement wears off and it becomes hard to find contributors who want to work on an all LLM generated codebase.