Hacker News: webXL

New comment by webXL in "AISLE Discovers 38 CVEs in OpenEMR Healthcare Software"

webXL — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:02:24 +0000

Yes. Isn't this something code review catches? :)

New comment by webXL in "Elevated errors on Claude.ai, API, Claude Code"

webXL — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:42:39 +0000

> time to break out Pro C# textbook

- downdetector comment

New comment by webXL in "US national level OS-level age verification bill proposed"

webXL — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:33:50 +0000

F this BS. I will never send a single dime or packet to any company or politician that supports this. I will tell everyone I know to boycott their service or products.

The latest absurd power grab in the guise of protecting the children.

The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist

webXL — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 14:00:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ai-doc-or-how-i-became-an-apocaloptimist

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47779066

Points: 1

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New comment by webXL in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

webXL — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:39:37 +0000

I think they used a dummy model or else they would have linked to it. Just google '1-bit 100b model' and you'll only see references to this project without any download links.

New comment by webXL in "Microsoft BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

webXL — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:34:17 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll ask the issue creator if they've considered that. Would be nice if the maintainer would handle that (sigh) and link to the actual models used for testing (double sigh).

New comment by webXL in "BitNet: 100B Param 1-Bit model for local CPUs"

webXL — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 14:16:51 +0000

It comes from (intentionally?) misleading docs: https://github.com/microsoft/BitNet/issues/391

(only suggesting that it's intentional because it's been there so long)

New comment by webXL in "NRC issues first commercial reactor construction approval in 10 years [pdf]"

webXL — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:27:31 +0000

Wow, that's A lot. Even though there's diminishing returns with more workers, they'd probably build them faster if they weren't scaling out so much concurrently, right?

Seems like we could match a 7 year clip at a much smaller scale. We'll be forced to at some point, but we need to overhaul the regulatory mess and fix the grid first. Hopefully that happens long before battalions of Chinese drones and droids take over the world.

New comment by webXL in "Google Workspace CLI"

webXL — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 02:57:17 +0000

gog too, which my openclaw agent always stubbornly wants to use instead of delegating to a subagent + custom calendar/imap proxy server I built.

https://github.com/steipete/gogcli

New comment by webXL in "MacBook Pro with M5 Pro and M5 Max"

webXL — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 06:33:36 +0000

I have it running in a macos VM using lume & BlueBubbles on a throwaway iCloud account. A lot of hoops to jump through, though

https://cua.ai/docs/lume https://docs.openclaw.ai/channels/bluebubbles

New comment by webXL in "Trump's global tariffs struck down by US Supreme Court"

webXL — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 21:47:29 +0000

In October, I bought a $250 product from a Canadian company + about $30 shipping & taxes and thought I was good. A few weeks later, FedEx sends me an $92 bill for the duty that they had to pay. I just ignored it since I was never given that notice up front. If they really wanted it, they could have had the vendor contact me. But at least they're not getting that bit of profit now.

New comment by webXL in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

webXL — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:42:16 +0000

Even if it is, it's not hard to automate PR submissions, comments and blog posts, for some ulterior purpose. Combine that with the recent advances in inference quality and speed, and probable copy-cat behavior, any panic from this theater could lead to heavy-handed crackdown by the state.

New comment by webXL in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

webXL — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:34:33 +0000

lol "What the fuck are guardrails?" Grok!

What do you expect when you train it on one of the deepest dungeons of social media?

New comment by webXL in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

webXL — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:27:34 +0000

The journalist was almost certainly using an LLM, and a cheap one at that. The quote reads as if the model was instructed to build a quote solely using its context window.

Lying is deliberately deceiving, but yeah, to a reader, who in a effect is a trusting customer who pays with part of their attention diverted to advertising support, broadcasting a hallucination is essentially the same thing.

New comment by webXL in "An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened"

webXL — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:18:31 +0000

Agreed and that's why there's an incentive to DDoS it and degrade the quality. Are there any p2p backup solutions?

New comment by webXL in "CSS-Doodle"

webXL — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 20:05:48 +0000

Man, CSS looks absolutely nothing like it did when I started out. lol

New comment by webXL in "Bitchat – A decentralized messaging app that works over Bluetooth mesh networks"

webXL — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 14:59:24 +0000

eCash would be better, but someone needs to be connected to the mint.

New comment by webXL in "Ross Ulbricht granted a full pardon"

webXL — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 00:54:06 +0000

Guilty of what exactly? Facilitating drug dealing? Something we both know is going to occur whether the nanny state permits it or not. Ross made it safer for those involved, and even those not involved. Inner cities are war zones because drug deals must be done in person. He deserves a full pardon.

New comment by webXL in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

webXL — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 15:39:46 +0000

Traditional banking is governed by men with guns who depend on votes (for appearances). They always have recourse and motivation to intervene with private transactions. Not so much the case with bitcoin, which is extralegal for the most part and doesn't depend on them.

New comment by webXL in "Willow, Our Quantum Chip"

webXL — Tue, 10 Dec 2024 01:56:19 +0000

A very interesting philosophical and moral can of worms you just opened there. Bitcoin is governed by the protocol, so if the protocol permits anyone who can sign a valid transaction involving a given UTXO to another address, then it technically isn't a "crime". Morally I'm not sure I'd be able to sleep well at night if I unilaterally took what I didn't exchange value for.

As for the forgotten key case, I think the only way to prove you had the key at some point would need to involve the sender vouching for you and cryptographically proving they were the sender.