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  > the fundraising was already outlined at an investor day last week

  > “This seems to be exactly what they previewed,” said Rob Oliver, senior research analyst at Baird. “So I’m not sure why the market is freaking about it.”
Nothing burger?
Now imagine if they hired from other geographies.

I'm sure in several US-based companies, non-US workers AI spending is already beyond their own cash comp.

Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:15PM (#50342063)
This could set us on a path to weights becoming thew new compilation target.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen on Monday November 02, 2026 @02:04PM (#50341896)
Wow, in a way it's like CRISPR for ML models!
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:35PM (#50341408)
well air gapped
Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @01:33PM (#50341369)
Some people here say they have seen their TVs connecting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25275753

I have seen open wifi reachable from places i've lived on. Spotty and intermittent connection but there. Apartment buildings with businesses on the 1st floor are also common now, those businesses may have open wifi, etc.

Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:52AM (#50339697)
- neighbor's open wifi - open hotspot - public city wifi close by
Sarcasm?

You’re saying they just deployed an open model so no security concerns for this at the moment, yes?

Re:Tell HN: ChatGPT and Codex usage will be combined on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:57PM (#50321776)
It was weird that all their new UI widgets to explain things didn’t apply to the Work tab.
Re:TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8 on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:56PM (#50321770)
That heat map this month
So their weights are just floating up there?

I suppose it’s beyond hard anyone would hijack their satellite but still. Wonder if they put any physical security on it anyway.

Re:Linode Security Incident on Saturday October 31, 2026 @10:50AM (#50316703)
I really hope you’re right!

And even patching the ‘small’ cves will take us for a spin as it already has. Then there can be specific low hanging fruits that chained together make a splash.

Re:We Took over ChatGPT Accounts on Saturday October 31, 2026 @09:47AM (#50316169)
Appreciate the incremental write up building up the scope of the poc.

I like the chain of regular old school things used to achieve it like post message, JSONP, iframe, Img tags.

Re:Linode Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:56PM (#50311176)
/incidents would do
Re:Linode Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:55PM (#50311170)
It feels like we hit an inflection point in the last week or so. Kind of a large tidal wave to crash on the coast, but likely not the tsunami yet. I hope.

If you are running services and don't yet have an easy way to react to these things with swift process defined, I hope you don't like to sleep.

Re:Linode Security Incident on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:30PM (#50310967)
Yeah its unclear. Sounds like they are just now patching it and treating it as an incident which is probably the right thing to do.
It would make sense that they'd be considered high risk borrowers.

But that won't stop them from issuing bonds or more convertible notes as they have and the market may or may not bite.

It does add pressure to their IPO proceedings being as high as possible as their funding mechanism tho. But reduces pressure on them if shares crash a bit after that, still high risk borrowers.

Re:Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:03PM (#50307811)
Doubt 98% people care, but for those that want to understand I don't think their main index has a good signal anymore.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:00PM (#50307767)
Those sound good, but say in this case you had the compromised extension which had its own ssh key to an IP that wasn't yours. I'm not sure how you easily prevent that connection without preventing the ones you need through sandboxing. Maybe a firewall/very specific network filtering in allowlist?
Re:Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:14PM (#50306995)
I suppose it's just the best ROI on using a complex attack vector or spending one or more zero days. But other types of targets may wreak havoc for bystanders that become collateral damage, idk trying to get specific private info on a target may expose data on millions, or anything increasing scope as to hide the real target, etc.
Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:10PM (#50306926)
How do you sandbox this usecase?

Say you need an agent to do ssh to a set of servers on a regular basis so you kind of allow ssh. Can you configure just a set of IPs it may reach? Do you require some user interaction for ssh approvals?

Re:Official Claude Code extension compromise on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:03PM (#50306825)
It lines up and fits so well that it'd scare me more they wouldn't be related than if they were. At least we'd know the vector.
Re:Artificial Analysis v5 and the benchmarker's dilemma on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:29PM (#50306287)
I believe we should treat AA results as just a data point and not the overarching 'authority' they may intend to be.

If we had access to neutral raw benchkmark data in a useful way to compare apples to apples, then we could each define our own 'index' to get the slice of perspective we find useful.

Trying to define or compare 'intelligence' through a single index will always be off.

Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:38AM (#50305469)
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Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:35AM (#50305419)
It’s true that they have their own attack surface but it’s not necessarily just open to the world.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @11:33AM (#50305384)
Not necessarily. defense in depth can help. At least forces an attacker to have to chain exploits, which although not impossible it makes it harder. Having root on a system doesn’t necessarily give you access to things that require touchid/yubikey/presence.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:27PM (#50297094)
implying the keys were the hacker's ?
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:26PM (#50297086)
that one was over (years?) time, wouldn't call that a heist really
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Thursday October 29, 2026 @05:59PM (#50296745)
If true I think we're looking at the biggest heist in history.

Current largest was ~1B

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