Hacker News: xenophonf

New comment by xenophonf in "Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau"

xenophonf — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:20:19 +0000

This is a gift to reactionary gerrymandering and voting restriction efforts, along with things like yesterday's FBI raid of an Ohio voting rights organization.

https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2026-06-12/ohi...

Representative Joyce Beatty is from Ohio and was instrumental in stopping Trump from illegally renaming the Kennedy Center.

https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/06/kennedy-center-b...

New comment by xenophonf in "Show HN: Homebrew 6.0.0"

xenophonf — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:26:04 +0000

> quite annoying

It's also quite stable, which you'd think more people would prize given the recent and on-going supply chain attacks.

New comment by xenophonf in "PgDog is funded and coming to a database near you"

xenophonf — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:02:38 +0000

This commit looks... odd.

https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog/commit/36434f93f03dec1d7d4...

I want to have as much fun as the next developer, but that makes me worry, what with supply chain attacks in the news and all.

New comment by xenophonf in "Gemma 4 12B: A unified, encoder-free multimodal model"

xenophonf — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:06:13 +0000

It took me way too long to realize you were referring to r/localllama.

AI and the Psychology of Cognitive Surrender

xenophonf — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:37:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202606/ai-and-the-psychology-of-cognitive-surrender

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48382223

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

The Two Doors

xenophonf — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:54:01 +0000

Article URL: https://pilgrima.ge/p/the-two-doors

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48343137

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by xenophonf in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

xenophonf — Sat, 30 May 2026 02:46:05 +0000

> most people who work in tech do not make good instructors

Guilty as charged, despite my best attempts to the contrary. I wish I had time to go back to school for some kind of teaching degree. Is there something else I can do or read or watch or something to make me a better teacher? Knowledge transfer is probably the most important aspect of my job.

New comment by xenophonf in "Nitpicking the shell history scene in 'Tron: Legacy'"

xenophonf — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:34:43 +0000

Simon writes:

> To [switch users], /bin/login would need to be setuid, and it certainly isn’t on Linux... _Perhaps_ Solaris (or SolarOS) is different?

The login command is indeed setuid root on SunOS 4, to which the movie pays homage, as its documented behavior is "to [permanently] change from one userID to another". The su command explicitly means "temporarily switch to a new user ID".

Here are copies of the SunOS 4 manual pages, if you're curious:

http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/Sun/SunOS/4.0.2/man1/login...

http://www.typewritten.org/Manual/Sun/SunOS/4.0.2/man1/su.ht...

And here's a link to the relevant bits of the SunOS 4.1.3 source code:

https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/2e8a93c3946...

New comment by xenophonf in "Codex is now in the ChatGPT mobile app"

xenophonf — Fri, 15 May 2026 05:43:52 +0000

Can someone explain how the ChatGPT Codex Connector works in concert with GitHub access controls? I am not sure how to add it to my GitHub repositories, accounts, or organizations without potentially giving any OpenAI customer access.

New comment by xenophonf in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

xenophonf — Fri, 08 May 2026 16:37:19 +0000

I'm amused at how thoroughly Google adopted Microsoft's playbook. Chrome supplanted Internet Explorer by embracing the open web. But then Google immediately started on extensions, and now they're trying to extinguish the open web with nonsense like Cloud Fraud Defense. All very smoothly done. I mean, people are actually _asking_ for this junk. I'm impressed.

New comment by xenophonf in "PySimpleGUI 6"

xenophonf — Thu, 07 May 2026 18:14:51 +0000

I stopped using this when the dev did their rugpull and won't go back.

New comment by xenophonf in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"

xenophonf — Tue, 05 May 2026 14:55:46 +0000

Yes.

It's nice to get an easy question every once in a while.

New comment by xenophonf in "GitHub Actions is the weakest link"

xenophonf — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:35:36 +0000

"Require actions to be pinned to a full-length commit SHA" applies to composite actions, too. I had to replace pre-commit/action as a result.

New comment by xenophonf in "FSF trying to contact Google about spammer sending 10k+ mails from Gmail account"

xenophonf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 11:21:26 +0000

That "inadvertently" desperately needs scare quotes.

New comment by xenophonf in "Everything we like is a psyop?"

xenophonf — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 01:17:50 +0000

I only found out about them via word of mouth, but who knows. At least they're good stuff!

New comment by xenophonf in "Show HN: Apfel – The free AI already on your Mac"

xenophonf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:01:44 +0000

> [Qwen coder 0,5B] can output decent functions given the right context instructions

Can you share a working example?

New comment by xenophonf in "April 2026 TLDR Setup for Ollama and Gemma 4 26B on a Mac mini"

xenophonf — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:50:16 +0000

LM Studio isn't free/libre/open source software, which misses the point of using open weights and open source LLMs in the first place.

New comment by xenophonf in "Post-mortem of the EU Europa breach: A masterclass in IAM misconfiguration"

xenophonf — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 22:10:01 +0000

This looks like an LLM's hallucinations. I don't see any evidence supporting the conclusions made, and some of the conclusions are overblown, like that bit about DKIM keymat leaks being the "most dangerous". The whole thing is written in this breathless, overwrought style that seems to be favored by bots fed a strict diet of ad copy and marketing white papers—"not X. Y!" (That's a thin gruel and probably ought to be treated by our future AI overlords as child abuse.)

New comment by xenophonf in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

xenophonf — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:22:07 +0000

Where in the pnpm documentation does it say that it ignores scripts by default?

From https://pnpm.io/cli/install#--ignore-scripts:

> Default: *false*

New comment by xenophonf in "Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised"

xenophonf — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 00:26:58 +0000

PyPI enforces immutable releases.

https://pypi.org/help/#file-name-reuse

> PyPI does not allow for a filename to be reused, even once a project has been deleted and recreated...

> This ensures that a given distribution for a given release for a given project will always resolve to the same file, and cannot be surreptitiously changed one day by the projects maintainer or a malicious party (it can only be removed).