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Still waiting. You had "countless examples", but I only asked for one. Have you never successfully prompt injected an LLM?
1. I said "frontier model got prompt injected when checking if code if malicious". You linked some random ad.

2. Nobody uses antigravity

3. That's not a prompt injection! That user prompt literally tells the LLM to follow a guide on the web. The guide says "do bad stuff" which the LLM does, just as the user asked. It would be a prompt injection if the prompt asked the LLM to analyze the guide, but that's obviously not what it asked

> countless examples

Show me just one where a frontier model got prompt injected when checking if code if malicious.

FWIW I can do this, but I bet you can't.

Re:H.264 Is Magic on Thursday October 29, 2026 @04:24PM (#50295331)
Cheaper to get a long fiber optic HDMI cable and connect your TV to your PC GPU. That's what I do. You get the best uncompressed video (typ 4K 120Hz or 8K 60Hz), zero lag so it can be used for stuff other than video, and don't have to maintain another box
Why would it be evenly distributed? Humans pick 7 out of 1-10 most often. LLMs should do the same if you force them to zeroshot it. This comes up every week on twitter and reddit. Eg https://www.reddit.com/r/AgentsOfAI/comments/1x6doo3/can_any...

btw today's models run random.randint() by default unless you prohibit python by choosing one of the dumb models, disable thinking, disable tool calls, etc.

Re:OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @10:16PM (#50175255)
In other words, yes they could see all your prompts by default and yes their privacy claims were BS. I'm not that sympathetic to "only a short window" given how they dismissed the github issue until they got flooded with complaints
Re:OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked on Saturday October 17, 2026 @06:54PM (#50135919)
but the prompt was sent to OpenAI via Opencode's servers right? So even when you use a local model, Opencode can still see your prompt by default?
Re:Example.com Just Launched the Biggest Redesign in Decades on Monday October 05, 2026 @10:51PM (#49973597)
Same reason everyone else uses CF. Static page CDN only became too cheap to meter ~16 years ago, but if CF was around in the 90s IANA would have used it in the 90s too
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Thursday September 24, 2026 @03:44AM (#49827521)
"less inflated" = slightly overvalued

In reality it was free money because the IPO was oversubscribed.

Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:15PM (#49825381)
I recall the thread did have a single opinion and the only quarrel was between people who thought it was slightly overvalued vs incredibly overvalued. See for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47604155
Re:Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @08:01PM (#49824410)
> trade and literal war, 10-year yields are back over 5%, oil and diesel are going sky high

So I should short atoms and go long on bits right? Everything you listed is horrible for hardtech, but has minimal impact on software.

Reminds me of the spacex IPO. HN claimed it would crash, but I noticed that nobody on HN used prediction markets to short it the day before IPO. Meanwhile I bought in and sold some after the 20% pop. I should start a reverse-HN fund

Re:Retrospectively Reverse-Engineering Apple's Neural Engine on Sunday September 13, 2026 @04:32PM (#49688373)
Does anyone use it though? Apparently ANEForge got 16.8 tok/s of Qwen3-8B + 0.6B draft using private APIs. Not big enough
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @10:49PM (#49531163)
Oh I did. They're complaining about literally 14 cores across all of git.kernel.org. Definitely not in the "people who can get law enforcement to take them seriously" group.
Re:Creepy Crawlies on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:00PM (#49502756)
turns out the overlap between "people who can't configure their webserver to serve at wire speed" and "people who can get law enforcement to take them seriously" is the empty set
Re:Everything I own, owned on Monday August 24, 2026 @05:08PM (#49425873)
Naw the LED stays on a little longer after you stop capturing image data. They either have burned in firmware or a simple circuit (RC and comparator) that stops your attack.
Re:Everything I own, owned on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:12PM (#49414207)
>I had Claude write a tool to patch out the table entry for camera activity, fix up the integrity hash, and flash it to the camera. A quick test showed that the green LED that normally illuminates while recording no longer turned on. Horrifying!

Oof. Apple claims this is not possible for macbook cameras because the LED can't be controlled from software. Wish more manufacturers would do the same.

Re:Everything I own, owned on Sunday August 23, 2026 @09:04PM (#49414152)
WebUSB has been live in Chrome for 9 years and nothing happened. Compare to all the features that result in people getting hacked every day. Your threat model is ridiculous.
Re:The price of a Costco hot dog has gone up on Saturday August 15, 2026 @06:25PM (#49314857)
A 20oz/medium coke/pepsi is $2 (McDonald's) to $3 (Wendy's, KFC, Burger King, etc). The majority of people buy one with an entree at all those places. Revealed preference vs you living in a bubble.
lawsuits for what? AFAIK you have no right to privacy in this sense
My point about PDUs is that "people don't tend to have one just free" is irrelevant. It's easy to split a 240V outlet into multiple outlets. One of them can be used to inject power. The copper doesn't care which way the electrons go.

Heat pumps and baseboard heaters are pretty uncommon in the US. Natgas furnaces are nearly 100% efficient so I don't expect that to change any time soon

What percentage of buyers do you imagine are gonna buy a battery big enough to saturate 15A*120V=1800W for long? The average home uses 30 kWh per day = 1250W. Batteries don't need to handle peak load. Approximately nobody has a whole home UPS.

Also 240V power strips are fairly common in my circles because GPU server PSUs tend to be more efficient at 240V. They're marketed as PDUs, not strips. You're not gonna install a new outlet for every server. One dryer outlet in the garage is enough for most people

Re:FreeCAD in the Browser on Friday July 10, 2026 @09:49PM (#48867751)
FreeCAD on desktop is much the same in my experience. If LLMs were mainstream a few years ago I would have assumed the UI was 100% AI generated with zero human input besides a oneshot prompt.
Not aware of any price drop. Walmart always sold dirt cheap insulin and it was never $250. You’re thinking of brand name insulin.
Insulin is $25 at Walmart for a vial that lasts a month. 2 vials if you’re fat. Find out where you read about “astronomically high insulin prices” and consider what else that author lied about
A locked account on twitter. locked = only people who follow him can read his tweets and there's no way to follow until he unlocks. The book is Hyperion.
"one of my favorite conceits is from the novel [redacted] where they spend the entire book talking about the threat of the space hun invader barbarian belters and how backwards but feral they are and then when you finally meet them they're sophisticated egalitarian transhumanists and all the characters you've been following have been living in space north korea, functionally enslaved and living out their lives blithely consuming copium state propaganda

the 'torment nexus' is what you'd call heaven if we built it and you weren't in it"

Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Saturday July 04, 2026 @04:17PM (#48788614)
No it's not. There's an Amazon truck on my street every day. Adding one more package to that truck costs ~nothing. That's why free shipping is free.
Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Friday July 03, 2026 @08:40PM (#48781608)
Amazon already gives a discount if you're willing to wait for them to batch deliveries. Personally I would still have an order arriving every other day regardless of walkable/bikeable infrastructure. Same as most Americans.

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