kul_ | 5 days ago | on: How I write software with LLMs
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kul_ | 9 months ago | on: Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
Assuming an ext-IP (60k ports) can easily represent 100 household if we statically assign ports. Given CGNAT with dynamic port allocation this can easily go up to 5x? That's wildly inaccurate given the core problem is to "target" a small set of users which is based on this geo info. Not sure how well this elephant sits in a room full of engineers solving this specific targeting problem.
kul_ | 9 months ago | on: Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
Not sure about US, but Indian ISPs are doing this already to conserve IP space given huge userbase. In theory it would work similar to how a NAT gateway works for outbound communication. Skan + geo would be hard nut to crack in India.
kul_ | 9 months ago | on: Websites are tracking you via browser fingerprinting
> A lot of the big ad networks right now instead rely heavily on geo-data
How does this work in today's age where ISPs normally will have at least one level of NATing with ipv4. And given ipv6 with prefix delegation is still far away this should continue to be very imprecise?
kul_ | 1 year ago | on: Imhex: A hex editor for reverse engineers
Reminds of the old days, when reverse engineering game binaries were a thing. Finding hex strings, no-op'ing if conditions, adding jmp instructions. Many heroes forgotten with time as more and more of software onboarded the cloud offerings. I wonder how much of it is still relevant and in what fields?
kul_ | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: How are account balances updated in a real bank?
I cannot tell if this is a serious comment.
kul_ | 2 years ago | on: Does DNA have the equivalent of IF-statements, WHILE loops, or function calls?
I misread this for some reason and I am now interested to know if DNS can be made to work dynamically this way instead of being just preconfigured static records?
kul_ | 2 years ago | on: PostgreSQL Lock Conflicts
This is excellent, kudos to the author. I wonder if pg exposes enough control to develop a tool along with this information which help analyze locks and their effect on queries on a live server.
kul_ | 3 years ago | on: Egg whites can be transformed into a material capable of filtering microplastics
But then, how will you separate salt from microplastics?
kul_ | 5 years ago | on: HR is not your friend, and other things I think you should know
Cynical but sadly true.
kul_ | 5 years ago | on: Oxford University breakthrough on global COVID-19 vaccine
Moderna vaccine also seems to have similar storage requirements with a high price tag. BioNTech otoh has impractical storage requirements for the third world. AstraZenca's price and storage combiation may open possibilities for distributing this globally.
kul_ | 5 years ago | on: Investigating TLS Blocking in India
Isnt' SNI based on the 'Host' header?! This is a news for me that SNI is not encrypted in TLS. Its a problem with the protocol not the ISPs then.
kul_ | 6 years ago | on: Researchers Step Up Efforts to Develop a 'Universal' Flu Vaccine
Scientists already have a precise knowledge of what the human body is made of, is it possible to develop a shot which basically annhilates anything in the body which is not supposed to be there? I mean instead of developing a vaccine which kills xyz vareity of microbes it will destroy everything which is not in human genetics.
kul_ | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla re-enables TLS 1.0 and 1.1 because of Coronavirus (and Google)
Why do you have to do it alone? Cant you ask for another colleague to help you out on this?
kul_ | 8 years ago | on: Learning Clojure Made Easy
Learning clojure is relatively easy, the hard part would be to get paid for writing it.
kul_ | 8 years ago | on: Helping a Million Developers Exit Vim
Did you also show her Sex.
kul_ | 8 years ago | on: WannaCry – New Variants Detected
Is there analysis on what encryption algorithm was being used? And how the payment confirmation switch works on the malware.
Is it possible instead of patching the OS, to release a patch which patches the malware binary to no-op the payment switch?
kul_ | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What is the biggest untapped opportunity for startups?
QM/MM for fighting antibiotic resistant bacteria.
http://www.zmescience.com/medicine/computer-simulation-antib...
kul_ | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are your favorite algorithms?
I have never seen anything more elegant than Disjoint Set Datastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjoint-set_data_structure
kul_ | 9 years ago | on: 15 years trying to make everyone separate HTML, JavaScript, CSS – and then
I am not sure if you had chance to play with JAXB, it maps xml very cleanly to java objects. I mean you can have the whole darn thing define inheritance and it would generate the corresponding relation in Objects too.
IMO It just needs to be given some consideration before rejecting as old bloated piece of crap.
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When it comes to coding however, the place where you really need help is the place where you get stuck and that for most people would be the intersection of domain and tech. LLMs need a LOT of baby sitting to be somewhat useful here. If I have to prompt a LLM for hours just to get the correct code, why would I even use it when the tangible output is just carefully thought out few 100 lines of code!