Hacker News: xrisk

New comment by xrisk in "Launch HN: machine0 (YC S26) – Persistent CPU and GPU VMs from the CLI"

xrisk — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 17:55:49 +0000

This seems like something that could exist as free software and can be easily vibecoded in the form of a pile of scripts. Thanks for the idea!

New comment by xrisk in "Launch HN: Bullet (YC S26) – A Faster Coding Agent"

xrisk — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:01:35 +0000

Truly built on vibes.

New comment by xrisk in "Docker Sandboxes – Disposable, isolated sandboxes for AI agents"

xrisk — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:18:03 +0000

pyenv has been standard tooling for far longer than uv. depending on package manager supplied Python packages only makes sense if you’re running rhel or Debian or something and your application is packaged/deployed/the maintenance path uses dnf/apt. Otherwise you should always use a venv and use an out of package manager update mechanism. Like, in a broader sense, vendoring dependencies only makes sense if you’re shipping an application, not on a dev box.

New comment by xrisk in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

xrisk — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 07:56:30 +0000

Might be an indication that your task unit is too unstructured or your code base is a mess.

Is your actual code doing something complex or is this incidental complexity?

Relying on the model’s “intelligence” to patch over these issues hasn’t proven to be a reliable strategy for me. Of course, this might not apply to you, just my 2 paisa.

New comment by xrisk in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

xrisk — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:27:40 +0000

tfa: "Results were adjusted for age, sex, ethnicity, and sociodemographic, lifestyle, and health factors"

New comment by xrisk in "CursorBench 3.1"

xrisk — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:18:34 +0000

Would like to see wall times. I feel that’s the part that annoys me most, my tasks aren’t particularly challenging I want them done fast

New comment by xrisk in "OpenAI mulls slashing prices as it competes with Anthropic for users"

xrisk — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:50:19 +0000

What models?

New comment by xrisk in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

xrisk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:53:51 +0000

Could you point me towards some resource that would help me understand what you wrote? Genuinely curious about how this stuff works

New comment by xrisk in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

xrisk — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:51:39 +0000

Assuming that the prediction market is perfectly priced right? How accurate is that assumption, or are you counting that as an “inefficiency”?

New comment by xrisk in "AI Perfected Chess. Humans Made It Unpredictable Again"

xrisk — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:26:37 +0000

Stockfish uses neural nets for its evaluation function, I don’t see how it’s unfair to call it “AI”.

New comment by xrisk in "AI World Clocks"

xrisk — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:49:22 +0000

Maybe explainable via the fact that these tests are part of the LLM training set?

New comment by xrisk in "Ask HN: Does anyone have scans of these missing PC Plus issues (1991–1993)?"

xrisk — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:09:16 +0000

Only books published by American publishers yeah?

New comment by xrisk in "Apple M5 chip"

xrisk — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 17:59:42 +0000

hmm there are apps produced by your script that claim to be fixed according to https://avarayr.github.io/shamelectron/ (Signal, Discord, Notion, etc). And I checked that those apps are updated. Which one’s correct?

New comment by xrisk in "Self-hosting email in 2025 is easy actually (apart from M365)"

xrisk — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 10:28:54 +0000

Did switching your deliverer to SES have any effect on how clients like Gmail “tagged” your email? (Promotional category or something IIRC)

New comment by xrisk in "Open Social"

xrisk — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:57:10 +0000

If your pds refuses to serve you your CAR file I don’t think you can do anything about it, can you?

New comment by xrisk in "A recent chess controversy"

xrisk — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 21:51:19 +0000

That’s a cool result, thanks for the link!

New comment by xrisk in "Zed's Pricing Has Changed: LLM Usage Is Now Token-Based"

xrisk — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 19:26:38 +0000

While I don’t know if the claim is true, you’ve linked a post from 2012…

New comment by xrisk in "Apple: SSH and FileVault"

xrisk — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 23:03:21 +0000

Yeah I was looking at that page. Found this btw: https://github.com/darkrain42/tailscale-initramfs

New comment by xrisk in "Apple: SSH and FileVault"

xrisk — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:56:01 +0000

This is not the same thing is it? Arch Wiki mentions something about having to install a separate ssh server into initramfs to support ssh’ing into fully encrypted systems.

systemd-cryptenroll seems to be about storing encryption keys into the TPM so that they can be decrypted automatically at boot (?)

Apologies if I misunderstood something.

New comment by xrisk in "Apple: SSH and FileVault"

xrisk — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 21:48:05 +0000

This is such a hilarious failure mode. I would never have imagined something like this to a problem.

In the case of SSH though, I assume retrying after a second or so would be enough. You probably have some sort of retry mechanism to deal with network failures anyway.