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Just seem it was a question of time.
The fact pypi reacted so quickly and quarantined the package in like 30 minutes after the report is pretty great!
Not a security researcher, but this is IMHO obviously positive that the other side of the arms race is also getting stronger, and I would argue it's stronger than on the bad guys' side, due to the best being somewhat responsible and adding guardrails.

I like the presentation <3.

Re:Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @10:28AM (#47517825)
I am from futuresearch and went through this with Callum (the OG). We did a small analysis here: https://futuresearch.ai/blog/litellm-hack-were-you-one-of-th... of the packages and also build this mini tool to analyze the likelihood of you getting pwned through this: https://futuresearch.ai/tools/litellm-checker/
yeah, updated in the post
So, is there a way of somehow cleaning up those docker containers, e.g. when uv version is not available?
Re:Inline MCP results are the new prompt bloat on Wednesday March 11, 2026 @11:02AM (#47336539)
I believe cloudflare tries to work around that with Code Mode, right? https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode/ (but the OP is still useful for when classic MCP is needed)
I see the value in making it simple for the user, but here I feel it's a bit too much. Would probably prefer two.
Re:I put my whole life into a single database on Tuesday March 10, 2026 @09:22AM (#47322930)
I too learned this the hard way. I still haven't figured out why this is the case - like, is the inherent incidental irreducible complexity of human life too high, so it dominates majority of our actions?
Re:Good software knows when to stop on Thursday March 05, 2026 @12:40PM (#47264701)
I dislike spotify but weirdly enough I can never point out exactly what's so frustrating about it...
Weirdly, CC still adds stupid comments to guide its next steps despite having that instruction in CLAUDE.md AFAIK.
Maybe like that the humans would not properly review the more complicated ones too? I don't think it's a big danger to be clear.
Some of the rules are impossible to code generally enough, right? Like, "no defensive coding" - I can't imagine what kind of AST shenaningas you would have to do without basically banning `if`.
I mean, have you tried to ask it not to do those checks? It's similar to the OP about no defensive coding. In general, CC works better when you can tell it WHAT TO DO as opposed what NOT to do, but sometimes there is no way around it. What kind of checks it's adding? Like asserting that columns exist and stuff?
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