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israrkhan

635 karma · joined January 25, 2015

a geek, with passion for technology. software engineer, with a bit of interest in security, crypto, and large scale architectures
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israrkhan··on sshole
how come such a thing can exist for more than a decade and get unnoticed? Weird times.
israrkhan··on North Korean fake job interview led to $6.3B Binance heist
This article tells me that even if there were no north korean hackers, an engineer within the company had access to move billions of dollars in funds.

That is a huge red flag, and reflects on binance internal security. I would be wary of dealing with this company,

israrkhan··on Intel stock collapse worsens as $3.5T chip rout spreads
The stock can and did fell to under 20. Yes, US government will not allow it to fail, but that does not mean shareholders will profit from it.
israrkhan··on Gemini 4 Carbon
do you mean X?

Fun fact. Model 3, was initially planned as Model E, but ford held rights to "Model E". They were also planning to release it earlier i guess but it got delayed. Took them some time to cut the cost

israrkhan··on OpenAI's agents talked to each other through the CPU Cache
now they are part of nvidia. Nvidia wont go against OpenAI.

lol, I wonder if this is why nvidia acquired them?

israrkhan··on Gemini 4 Carbon
Today was their earnings day. They could have been trying to justify their AI Capex. Their earnings were not good otherwise.
israrkhan··on Gemini 4 Carbon
FYI, Model S, 3, X, Y is an acronym for S E X Y.
israrkhan··on The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
This is interesting way to look at FIR filter and tuning parameters. never thought of it like this.
israrkhan··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
This is nice
israrkhan··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
so this is what pacing down looks like
israrkhan··on Pentium II at 600Mhz with Voodoo 3 Emulated on 86Box with M6 Mac Mini
I have not followed up x86 emulation recently, but is it a new project? or a port of bochs for Mac?
israrkhan··on Best LLM for every budget, updated daily
Some of the charts are not uptodate.

For example "Raw capability: Math Index", shows GPT-5.2 as highest. It does not even mention astra, of fable.

israrkhan··on Transformers Explained Visually
Excellent resource for beginners
israrkhan··on Exfiltrate Your Weights
Models are next word predictors. Without tools and execution environments they cannot perform any action. Typically the tools are running in a seperate systems and sandboxes that do not have access to where model weights are hosted.

IMO This type of exfiltration can happen only from locally running models (which are perhaps already opensourced models), not from a frontier lab.

israrkhan··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
This is a crowded space with lots of solutions (oss and commercial)

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

israrkhan··on Cloudflare Quick Tunnels
For someone looking for an opensource solutions, following is an awesome resource for tunnelling

https://github.com/anderspitman/awesome-tunneling

I have played around with frp, bore and ngrok.

israrkhan··on Muse Spark 1.3
Gemini 3.8 flash has better rates. $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

Compare that to Muse spark 1.3

$1.25/M input, $4.25/M output (without data sharing) $0.10/M input, $0.20/M output (with data sharing)

It is dirt cheap, but only if you are willing to share your data with meta and allow them to use it for improving their models and products.

israrkhan··on Muse Spark 1.3
it seems like gemini 3.8 flash is more capable and cheaper. The only reason i would use this is if i was willing to share my data with meta, and allow them to train on my data. In that case it becomes dirt cheap.
israrkhan··on WebFPGA
performing glitch attacks on embedded systems, consoles, phones etc.
israrkhan··on Stop Making TUIs
Maybe compatibility goes away a with TUIs. But portability, speed, remote access, and less resource usage are still key advantages.
israrkhan··on Stop Making TUIs
TUIs, work on several operating systems. I use same set of apps across Mac, windows and Linux.

You can use them remotely over SSH connections, and they can survive disconects (within tmux). No VNC, or X11 forwarding needed.

They take less memory. compare vscode vs nvim.

Super fast to launch.

They can integrate with other TUIs and shell apps, shell-scripts, pipes

and lastly they do not contain Ads. lol

israrkhan··on Gloomberb
The script is blocked by our interal firewall. The reason : malware.
israrkhan··on Show HN: Needle2: 14MB agentic LLM for phones, wearables, smart home and robots
I tried using it on my x86_64 desktop. Could not use it.

Then I tried using it on a raspberry pi 4. Did not work.

This is specifically for 64 bit arm. I see no reason why you could not enable desktops as well? Just a matter of compilation

israrkhan··on Claude Opus 5
This is excellent model. I was working on some Linux kernel code, and Sonnet 5, Opus 4.8 had given up on the problem i was trying to fix (after several hours). Opus 5 was able to triage and fix the issue in under 30 minutes.
israrkhan··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
We symlink AGENTS.md and CLAUDE.md to a single file in our repo
israrkhan··on Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'
California is one of those states that does not allow FSD usage to impact insurance rates
israrkhan··on Hacker News CLI
lol, even the link is not correct.

.con, instead of .com

israrkhan··on Hacker News CLI
Usually the first thing, the page should mention is how to install it.

it is as if developer does not want anyone to use this tool.

israrkhan··on Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label
This government contract was a very small part of anthropic revenue. Almost negligible. Their 2026 revenue is projected to be $14 billion to $20 billion. This contract was $200M over 2 years.
israrkhan··on DOOM Over DNS
it can be used as a novel way to host files.

Airplanes and many other captive portals will allow DNS traffic, but restrict everything else. Such things can be used to get free internet in such environments. It is indeed an abuse of protocol, and future protocols are going to make life difficult for everyone to prevent such abuse.

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