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hirako2000

2,345 karma · joined May 24, 2017

Code and concepts fiddler. Occasionally completes something cool.

More ideas than time to pursue them.

Often Feels smart and dumb simultaneously.

https://mtassoumt.uk

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hirako2000··on Firecracker VM Escape: PwnEscape Part 2
And should jail/SE.
hirako2000··on Changes to UK visa and settlement rules (2026)
Soon enough 30y?

I fail to understand the rational behind tightening already strict immigration policies. To end up with the most desperate to stay foreigners ?

hirako2000··on Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash
Carbon is to Aragon what Fable is to Mythos.
hirako2000··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
No, rather a particular environment with monkey patched libraries, alias for various versions of compliers, and dozens of env variables that happen to work or not work well with the desired config.
hirako2000··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
They don't have to respond. It gives employers an even stronger signal they should be kept right?
hirako2000··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
I also did that, for a team deploying smart contract on chain from local.

It took a couple months to get the pipeline out of their laptop.

Worth it, yes, as we found interesting things in there which explained why they were so reluctant to deploy upgrades.

hirako2000··on Show HN: Subvocal – Talk to your computer without making noise
Sensorimotor debility is a thing. This gadget surely won't help with it.
hirako2000··on Show HN: Wikihack – HackerTube, but for Wikipedia articles mentioned on HN
ArXivHack coming soon.
hirako2000··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Facebook recently got a fine bigger than that.

Binance is the largest custodian/exchange out there.

hirako2000··on Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
Stablecoins are more like a bridge for fiat. So that it's only partially decentralized not all that terrible.
hirako2000··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
You may have even more luck if your input gets injected into a prompt that gets executed by an agent having internet access.

Re security, there are many pdf viewers, so the rewrites exist, and some of them do not have the js execution engine and all that jazz that opens up all sorts of potential exploits.

hirako2000··on Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness
Fair points. But harness at this point makes more difference than using the best model.
hirako2000··on America has lost 200k of jobs in media, film and the arts. How much is AI?
AI is the perfect scapegoat.

Barclays laying off thousands in the UK obviously puts the decision on AI productivity gain.

hirako2000··on Five Qwen3.8-27B models match Fable 5 Using GVS5H Harness
Also why not comparing harnessed Qwen to harnessed other LLMs.
hirako2000··on Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone
Network effect. Most documents are PDF. You would need at least backward compatibility, which would mean opening doors to the existing problem.
hirako2000··on Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed
That's would allow distillation . They are impacting legit users' experience and it doesn't even prevent abuse.
hirako2000··on LLMs are making formal software verification feasible at a much larger scale
Getting tiring to read everyday in hackernews about shovels sellers telling us their shovels are so good at finding gold.
hirako2000··on Airbnb bans making guests do dishes and take out the trash
There seems to be the same by symmetrical issue going on as well. where guests who lie without proof can leave a retaliatory review when not getting a refund. For problems that never existed of course.

It happens to host with hundreds of spectacular reviews.

That's why Airbnb likes to get proofs.

hirako2000··on Security Disclosure
What if they do. Sec analyst terminated for being on holiday posting on a forum being on vacation without laptop, not cancelling his trip ?
hirako2000··on Starcraft: Ashfall
Too busy making the new StarCraft.
hirako2000··on Harness2 by Google Research – Recursive Agent Harnessing
That YouTube got great content, is that it has a quasi monopoly on video streaming.

Also the reason the noise ratio is high with junk, and now shorts.

hirako2000··on Someone behind the software
We may not wait 70 years to demand craftsmanship this time.
hirako2000··on Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
I got your insight as you intended, and I agree that good enough models able to run on commodity hardware will hurt Nvidia.

We aren't far from that point.

hirako2000··on Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio
It seems Apple figured they could sell more Mac Studios on the basis of frontier local AI models, profit to be made while users haven't figured out the math yet.
hirako2000··on Character.ai Files for Bankruptcy
They aren't under yet.

Keeping jobs up after filing for chapter 11 seems irresponsible though.

hirako2000··on CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades
The Nazi state started by funding a certain police, granting it quasi immunity on the pretext of protecting the nation.

It may not turn into totalitarian, but if walks like a duck, sound like a duck, it's wise to wonder as it may very well be some poultry.

hirako2000··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
I remember the laptop renewal also was 3 years. Which would have been fine if they didn't have that policy to issue Dell Latitude, end of the barrel hardware Dell itself couldn't sell.

One day I figured nobody forces me to work for such company.

hirako2000··on Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy
So many job openings for a company going under.

https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/character/

hirako2000··on Show HN: Use your OpenAI subscription to create audiobooks
This trend to sell subscription with a price for "credits".

For a wrapper around costly LLM providers.

For a result one could get with voicebox for free.

hirako2000··on Muse Wonder
$20 per M token make a pelican hard digest.
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