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Re:Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone on Friday October 23, 2026 @01:59PM (#50212949)
Hi, if anyone has any data/reports related to rogue agents can they share it? I have 8 mirrored on a GitHub but I’d love to explore more. Link to mirror.

https://github.com/alexander-hanel/rogue-agents-data

Re:My Weird New Hobby: Wandering Around Tokyo on Google Maps on Thursday September 24, 2026 @05:30PM (#49836977)
Buy a plane ticket and go. I once walked 10 miles in Tokyo and never got bored.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @09:31PM (#49706616)
I have been exploring reverse engineering using LLMs and Ghidra. A particular interest is in trying to understand how complexity can affect the process. I’m still learning but it’s been a fun way to explore LLMs. Here are my results using opencode https://alexander-hanel.github.io/StressingLLMs/opencode.htm...
It was very feasible. The exploit to propagate via usb was CVE-2010-2568. Odds are you can still find details on it.
A single model was loaded at a time and each model was given a 90 minute timeout. This is how I’m running it (actually an older version because they deleted the repo and replaced it)

https://github.com/MiaAI-Lab/DeepSeek-v4-Flash-One-DGX-Spark

> Claude Max plan I already pay for, until its safeguards cut me off

I hate to say it but this is why security researchers are moving to Chinese models with no safeguards. I literally hit cyber safeguards in codex 5 minutes ago.

In my benchmark Deepseek-v4-flash did much better than Qwen 3.8 27B at reverse engineering.

https://alexander-hanel.github.io/StressingLLMs/

Re:Spaghettifying DRAM on Thursday August 13, 2026 @03:16PM (#49290652)
So nice to see Christopher Domas posting code again.
Re:Codex Resets on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:42AM (#48969145)
I just learned the hard way that codex removes resets once the weekly cycle starts.
Hi OP, I would be careful if you profit from this project in anyway. Nintendo is not a company that takes reverse engineering of their hardware or games lightly. You will probably hear from their lawyers next week :(
For anyone interested in this style of art, I’d recommend checking out Margaret Kilgallen’s work. She had similar ideas in San Francisco during the 90s.
Re:Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books? on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @03:57PM (#48561072)
Personally, I see the self-help industry dying because people are starting to realize that it’s just a network of individuals selling products, promoting each other’s products, and creating new avenues to sell more products. I refer to it as the “self-help mafia.” Tim Ferriss kind of created it.
Brace yourself, hybrid and return to office propaganda are coming.
Re:Mystery Microsoft bug leaker keeps the zero-days coming on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @10:20PM (#48130389)
So weird that GitHub requires a login to view their BlueHammer repo.

https://github.com/Nightmare-Eclipse/BlueHammer

Does anyone have a link to how the crack works? I would love to see something more technical.
Re: on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:07AM (#47516849)
Re:LLMs not = Security Products on Sunday March 01, 2026 @11:43AM (#47208276)
“!=“ is not a valid input for titles on HN.
Re:Switch to Claude without starting over on Sunday March 01, 2026 @08:54AM (#47206696)
The appeal for me is not having to constantly repeat instructions. Imagine having to repeat dietary restrictions every time you ask for a recipe.
Everyone should visit Córdoba, Spain once in their life.
Re:I Fixed Windows Native Development on Sunday February 15, 2026 @08:42AM (#47023593)
Another option is explore winget and chocolaty. Most build tools and compilers can be installed via the command line on windows. Ask your favorite LLM to create a powershell script to install them all.
Re:Ask HN: How do you use 5–10 minute gaps productively? on Sunday January 04, 2026 @11:38PM (#46495372)
Here are my go to: Play video games on my steam deck or PlayStation portal, slow kettlebell exercises, YouTube videos, read books I keep on my desk, browse projects on github that people I follow have starred, tidy my workspace, sit on the front porch or go for a walk.

Things I don’t do: browse slack, social networking or news.

Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @10:08PM (#46398713)
Murakami’s fiction novels are extremely different from “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running”. If you want to try another non-fiction book of his check-out “Underground : The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche”, I loved it. If you go the fiction route “Kafka on the Shore” and “A Wild Sheep Chase” are a good starting point. Avoid some of his longer works unless you enjoy his style.
Re:Ask HN: What did you read in 2025? on Friday December 26, 2025 @09:59PM (#46398660)
Here are the 29 books that I read but I probably read another 100 children books.

• How AI Works: From Sorcery to Science — Ronald T. Kneusel

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values — Robert M. Pirsig

• Martín & Meditations on the South Valley — Jimmy Santiago Baca

• Akira, Vol. 6 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 5 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 4 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Akira, Vol. 3 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Slaughterhouse-Five — Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

• Akira, Vol. 2 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Poems & Prayers — Matthew McConaughey

• Akira, Vol. 1 — Katsuhiro Otomo

• Time’s Arrow — Martin Amis

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter — Stephen Graham Jones

• Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly — Anthony Bourdain

• Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism — Sarah Wynn-Williams

• Dark Wire: The Incredible True Story of the Largest Sting Operation Ever — Joseph Cox

• Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates

• The Afterlife of Malcolm X: An Outcast Turned Icon’s Enduring Impact on America — Mark Whitaker

• Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction — Becky Kennedy // I would not recommend this book to anyone.

• Interior Chinatown — Charles Yu

• Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection — John Green

• Dark Matter — Blake Crouch

• Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things — Adam Grant

• Game Engine Black Book: Wolfenstein 3D — Fabien Sanglard

• Jurassic Park — Michael Crichton

• Killing Commendatore — Haruki Murakami

• James — Percival Everett

• Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre — Max Brooks

• Last Argument of Kings — Joe Abercrombie

That site had great layout.
Re:Algorithms for Optimization [pdf] on Sunday November 30, 2025 @09:34PM (#46102877)
For anyone else curious about Kochenderfer's books

https://mykel.kochenderfer.com/textbooks/

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