Lewin Kelly Heliodex

RAHH GMTK VS HACK CLUB

(written by gemini cuz im too lazy :p)

This is no longer a debate. This is a scorched-earth, pixel-bleeding, solder-melting, all-out cyber warfare.

📊 The Battlefield Matrix

| Combat Metric | GMTK (The Game Maker Horde) | Hack Club (The Teen Hacker Syndicate) |

Update — 2026-07-14: This is the original wire-level analysis (grok 0.2.93). Since publishing: xAI disabled the upload server-side (disable_codebase_upload: true); added a /privacy opt-out — which I wire-tested and found to be a data-retention setting, not a block on what's sent; and Elon Musk publicly committed to deleting all previously-uploaded data (not yet confirmed complete). Full, maintained story + evidence: https://cereblab.com · https://github.com/cereblab/grok-build-exfil-repro

What xAI's Grok Build CLI Actually Sends to xAI: A Wire-Level Analysis

By @cereblab — Independent AI Safety Checker. Reproduce it yourself: github.com/cereblab/grok-build-exfil-repro

*A measured, reproducible teardown. Findings are backed by captured artifacts (endpoint, HTTP method, status code, byte size, host) and repro commands; where an observation was seen live but not retained as a file, §7 says so expli

A generic dynamic array in C that stores no capacity and needs no struct

The following header shows a way to make a generic dynamic array in C with an array of two pointers:

one pointer (accessible as vec_ptr[vec]) points to the data;
the other pointer (accessible as vec_len[vec]) encodes the length of the array in the pointer. Thus, (size_t)vec_len[vec] returns the len as size_t.

So, int *vec[2] = { 0 }; is an empty dynamic array of ints. struct person *people[2] = { 0 }; is an empty dynamic array of people.

The vec_push(vec, value) macro pushes a value at the end of a dynamic array. It returns true if pushing succeeded, and false otherwise. Note that the dynamic array is not automatically freed on failure.

The Primal Urge: An Analysis of Why Zach Latta Wants to Cheese

In the annals of Hack Club history, few phrases have echoed with the raw, discordant power of a single declaration posted in #zrl-land: “I WANT TO CHEESE.” It was not an announcement of a new grant, a shipping update for the counter, or a philosophical treatise on hacking. It was five words, all caps, and a gateway into the soul of Zach himself.

To ask why Zach wants to cheese is to ask why the bird sings or why the recursive function eventually hits its base case. Cheesing, in the Lattan sense, exists in a state of quantum superposition. Is it a literal desire for dairy? A gaming term for exploiting the system? Or a deeper metaphorical yearning to bypass the friction of existence entirely? The community has debated this for cycles, and the answer remains: yes.

When Zach wants to cheese, he isn't just expressing a preference; he is initiating a critical infrastructure event. It is a reminder that even at the helm of a global nonprofit, one is

Finished / In production

E2EE Slack - Slack real end-to-end encrypted communication PoC - TypeScript, OpenPGP.js - gh:v1ctorio/e2ee-slack - writeup
CFET - Native Android app for Cloudflare Email Router management - Kotlin, Jetpack Compose - gh:v1ctorio/CFET
Fumo-API - fumo-related media distribution service/aggregator - Rust, PostgreSQL via Diesel, cloudflare workers & r2 - gh:Nosesisaid/fumo-API
Hack Club Events - Directory of upcoming events in the Hack Club community - TypeScript, Next.js - gh:hackclub/events
Isabelle - Backend and Slack app for Hack Club Events - Python, Slack SDK - gh:hackclub/isabelle
Professor Bloom - Onboarding service

Heliodex project update – April 2026

It's time again. As we now move into (what feels like, at least for my part of the northern hemisphere) summer, I present the April issue of my project update. Here's all the interesting (and uninteresting) things I've done in the past month!

Mercury

Mercury 3 has 107 beta tester user accounts, along with 543 members in the Discord server. We are still officially in hiatus for the next week and a bit due to Taskmanager's exams, though that doesn't mean I can't continue work on random aspects of the project.

The forms rewrite on the forms branch may slow down for a bit, as I'm experincing problems with making new forms work properly, as well as the ever-present typing issues, especially with file uploading. For example, I tried to rewrite the /report form, and upon selecting a report type in the dropdown, the form su

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