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tkp-415

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About tkp-415

web dev / infosec person

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    Comment #47429189

    Process substitution is a new concept to me. Definitely adding that method to the toolbox. It'd be nice to see exactly what the bugbot shell script contained. Perhaps it is what mo…

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    Comment #47094232

    My first use case of an LLM for security research was feeding Gemini Semgrep scan results of an open source repo. It definitely was a great way to get the LLM to start looking at s…

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    Comment #47088771

    Can anyone point me in the direction of getting a model to run locally and efficiently inside something like a Docker container on a system with not so strong computing power (aka …

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    Show HN: ShopLurker - An ecommerce aggregator

    Released this a few years ago with my partner. It scrapes the inventory of multiple skateboard shops and lets users search the combined results. Figured Hacker News might appreciat…

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    Comment #47027257

    This is neat. What VPS service do you use? I am trying to replace my tendency to spin up small EC2 instances just to deploy a simple web app.

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    Show HN: Finding similarities in magazine covers (updated)

    About a month ago I shared a web app that let you compare magazine covers using image hashes. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46518106 Samin100 suggested giving CLIP and DinoV…

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    Comment #46812402

    Ahh, that seems much simpler. Dump the request / response directly. Now I'm wondering if I can use Gemini to patch Gemini.

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    Comment #46802191

    Curious to see how you can get Gemini fully intercepted. I've been intercepting its HTTP requests by running it inside a docker container with: -e HTTP_PROXY= http://127.0.0.1:8080…

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    Comment #46520142

    Hashes generated using https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/ , then a hamming distance is calculated with SQL. Unfortunately I don't currently have a repo that can be forked.

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    Comment #46520107

    The confusion is understandable as the comparison is basic and uses image hashes ( https://pypi.org/project/ImageHash/ ), which are pretty surface level and don't always provide re…

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    Show HN: Finding similarities in New Yorker covers

    Originally learned about image hashing and similarity comparison for product image searches. Decided to apply it to magazine covers. Thrasher covers: https://shoplurker.com/labs/th…