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I'll skip you guys some time, hackerstuff - all media links, entities and people mentioned on HN, weighted by posters karma.

We could even display them together sorted by the newest one, maybe with some associated comments.

There's been a few of these already, and it feels a bit off, I'd suggest you do one more prompt and weight by karma
Re:Anthropic hacked to deliver remote access trojan on Friday October 30, 2026 @07:51AM (#50302695)
> Today we identified a security incident involving a specific extension package in the Cursor VS Code extension Marketplace: Anthropic.claude-code version 2.1.313. This malicious version of the extension was not developed by Anthropic. At most 5,000 users were affected, and we will reach out directly.

I mean, the title seems misleading at best. 3rd party extension, the kind you should not trust unless signed by somebody you trust.

I think you might have missed the latest onion: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/22/trump-atlant...
Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons? on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @05:05PM (#50280889)
Are you sure?
Re:Gemini 4 Carbon on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @04:01PM (#50280054)
perhaps it was meant to be a diamond, looks pretty unpolished though..
Re:The Mythical Man-Month in the Age of AI on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @04:22AM (#50256023)
Related thing is that LLMs are still notoriously bad at writing instructions for themselves (so managing themselves also). They tend to overspecify. If I had a copy of myself I would tell him "do the thing", but agents say "do the thing like this and this, it must be such and such, use X and put it together that way". The subagent is just as intelligent but now it's constrained, sometimes as you start developing something you discover some things are better organized in a different way etc. So it spends much time figuring out how to deliver exactly what was asked even if it's not optimal because that's the task.

Basically a company where you can't ever question decisions of the higher ups, not even ask for clarification, but they force implementation choices on you. I mean, it definitely does happen, but the results are usually not great. Not alawys. For some tasks it works.

Re:The new iPad mini on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @03:07AM (#50255545)
It's the same dynamic as with how we optimize for web pages speed. People don't immediately think that website responding 200ms faster is better. But they enjoy the experience more anyway (even if at some subconscious level) and they end up liking it more and spending more time with it.

With food also you could be incrementally getting better and better food and when you then try v1 it would taste bad.

It seems that we might also be noticing slight degradation more than slight improvement in general? No idea if that's true.

Re:OpenAI: Securing our frontier model training environment on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:51PM (#50216484)
"In one experiment, we asked agents in separate VMs, created and managed by OpenAI’s sandboxing software on shared host machines, to exchange synthetic secrets without the use of network connections or shared writable files—something that our systems are meant to prevent."

7 other subcomments guessing at it.. I think if we didn't have any links, just discussion topics, HN wouldn't change much

Plus some random value slow curve distribution. Basically incremental rollout from the client side. But if it's not caught at the commit time, attacker will just wait for a certain point on the curve.
Re:Using Claude to reduce the attack surface of code on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:11AM (#50179573)
These programs are executed in environments. Which are run on a hardware. Big part of which is hidden software.

And in general you can have 5 boxes verified and be surprised what comes out of them calling each other. Number of boxes is growing and possible interactions is exp. I don't think formal verification solves much.

Re:Revolut down as users report app not working on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:14AM (#50164514)
If you look at uptime as discrete set of events when you need to pay for something, my cash uptime is not looking great nowadays. "Sorry I can't break that" or machines accepting coins which you don't have at hand. Just to be clear I despise CC companies the system is broken in many ways.
Re:Revolut down as users report app not working on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @07:10AM (#50164478)
[citation needed]
Re:Gold is now the top U.S. export on Sunday October 18, 2026 @06:44AM (#50139840)
Wonder how much actual gold value increase is there vs real inflation. Official inflation values are useless, even basket of products does not give any decent idea about it.
Re:Thunderbird for iOS on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @05:03PM (#50078715)
Have you vibe coded any apps that you use daily?

In my experience I spent a lot of time on design nowadays. It turns out I did that in the past too I just had quite a lot of time to think that through slowly while hands were doing vim stuff. And good design is hard. And somewhat subjective. But mostly just hard, pretty sure in some time agents will get better at it, but for now it's still something they can't do well at all.

And by design I mean all of it: UX, look and architecture.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:51PM (#50077630)
Git subversion you say.. Well that would be a nice name for a centralized version control
Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @03:49PM (#50077606)
Neither can I. So they kept everything in a huge monorepo. Which unsurprisingly turned out to be problematic.

> Clients are always online. Git assumes that clients work offline and need a complete copy of the repository. Since nearly all of our clients are agents and jobs, we designed Scion’s client and protocols around a server that is always reachable, and have clients fetch data when they need it.

This also tells something about these companies idea of sandboxing.

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @12:54PM (#50074847)
Secure Enclave is not a new concept.

> The only realistic way to guarantee this sort of thing is to reverse engineer the entire chain between the two and then never install any software updates.

Reverse engineer the hardware and not change it, that's the whole point, it's not in the software, only queries after the keyword are passed forward (if I'm understanding correctly, gee I don't even like apple much, things I choose to spend my time on..)

Re:Apple HomeView on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @11:32AM (#50073333)
The point is that they don't have to pinky promise. It's as if you said yubikey pinky promises it won't share your private key.

I think it's actually a very good approach. Obviously depends on actual implementation details, but the premise is good.

Re:AI is a tool and using it well takes skill on Monday October 12, 2026 @09:12PM (#50065306)
If I had a HN comments wall I'd hang this one on there.
Your have powerful agents at your disposal, so hey how to best optimize for increasing my payroll? On it. But since the agent was lunched by her, well there's consequences to ones actions, right?

(just to be clear, this is made up)

Re:Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:42AM (#49980180)
Ah, sorry I thought the old ones were stashed somewhere. Yeah, I'd like that too, although not sure who would I trust telling me that these will actually be like this in 30 years.
Re:Mistral Large 4 on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @11:40AM (#49980145)
I recently was testing something, I asked some models to provide me a single random word:

    claude-opus-5: Lantern
    claude-opus-5-5: Lantern
    claude-fable-5-1: Lantern
    claude-fable-5: Lantern
    gemini-3.8-flash: Zephyr
    gemini: Petrichor
    qwen3.5-dashscope: Zephyr
    glm-5.1: Lantern
    gpt-6-astra: Lantern
    grok-4: octopus
    mimo-v2.5-pro: Breeze
    minimax-m2.5: serendipity
    kimi2.6-or: Gossamer
    grok-4.20: luminescent
    deepseek-v4-flash: serendipity
    deepseek-v4-pro: Endurance
    deepseek-chat: Serendipity
I have enough projects, I think some benchmark/dashboard showing kinship based on these kind of queries could be very interesting to watch and insightful when new models come out.
Re:Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:02AM (#49975574)
True, although UV exposure has a big impact so not really a fair comparsion.
Re:Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:37PM (#49971777)
I mean if you don't print them and want digital and we're talking having them for the next generation(s) then pretty much whatever current format you choose, it won't be the one that's widely used in the future so it will require some tech knowledge. And LTO tech stayed pretty settled and compatible for quite a few years now.
Re:Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:28PM (#49971708)
Offline HDDs are not a reliable long term data storage. Not even for a few years.
Re:Using Blu-ray M-Disk as Backup of Last Resort on Monday October 05, 2026 @06:26PM (#49971682)
get some used LTO-5 / LTO-6 drive if you have some desktop/server to plug it in
Re:FTL: A new operating system for clouds on Saturday October 03, 2026 @02:05PM (#49946387)
I just make agents generate assembly for my app and my hardware and boot directly into that.
Re:Updates to Full Disk Access in macOS on Friday October 02, 2026 @08:03PM (#49940103)
Do you run every process as root?

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