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Re:Chained PHP2Shell Exploit Roots 25 Servers, Including US Government...
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @11:34AM (#50290741)
He has already IT experience then. Surely he learned something out of it. Securely using apps. Discretely handling deals, etc.
Anyway from their webpage: > We work directly with heads of state, ministries, national cyber authorities, and the senior officials responsible for executing national strategy.
So I presume he has and provides contacts. Just the usual one hand washes the other. Nothing nefarious I'm sure.
Re:Why Is This Fingerprinting Script Creating Bioweapons?
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:08AM (#50289317)
Matryoshka you say?
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5
on Thursday October 08, 2026 @02:36AM (#50002465)
Are you saying even these recent pelican pictures are not good? Vector graphics aren't meant to be photorealistic I don't think. For what they are they seem pretty good already to me. You can easily describe what is in the picture.
Re:Claude Haiku 5.5
on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @06:54PM (#49999868)
thinking_effort: max
Reasoning trace: This is the classic pelican-on-bicycle SVG test.
Opus 5.5 had similar response on max: This is a classic test request
https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=ht...
I think your test is already embedded into the models. You should search for new frontier tests to subject the models to. Maybe they should now try to unify the standard model and general relativity in physics. I'm pretty sure this is nowhere to be found in any training data nor shared in any chat between a scientist and a LLM ;)
Re:Former German spy chief arrested for attempted treason
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:48PM (#49983887)
Azerbaijan is a former soviet republic. So them playing role of a proxy for Russia or stealing secrets to sell to Russians makes sense to me.
Re:Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel
on Friday October 02, 2026 @04:14AM (#49931077)
Maybe we should use legion as a collective noun for vulnerabilities. Like murder of crows or school of fish. Would signal the urgency no matter the actual number or impact...
Re:LibreOffice breaks download records after declaring it has no AI fe...
on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @11:29AM (#49611785)
Maybe it's just a secret cabal of rogue agents downloading LibreOffice for no particualr reason whatsoever? I mean there is a precedent already: those fellas hijacked some poor wiki.
Re:A CVE Dispute
on Monday August 31, 2026 @10:59AM (#49510602)
In many (most?) companies it also takes nontrivial amount of time to patch potentially affected systems. In my company half IT department got recently an email that we need to urgently patch all Windows servers because of some critical CVE. I checked it. The description was maybe 3 lines and it said this affected domain controllers only. I raised this with security team and they said that in this case we don't need to patch everything. Now if we had to do this, it would force us to spend nontrivial time on unplanned patching. That this in itself disorganizes our operations can not be ignored. So comparatively me doing some legwork and checking the CVE was trivial effort and saved a lot of busywork for the department as a whole. That time we got lucky.
Re:Bug Blindness
on Sunday August 30, 2026 @07:37AM (#49497796)
Later on he gives an example of Blackboard software that was very disliked. So I don't see what was unique in his perspective either. To me this article is not very focused and feels mostly like rambling. The core idea that we get accustomed to bugs/quality in software we use is sound. Just the article needs streamlining or better a complete rewrite.
Re:If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast
on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:09AM (#49374139)
Sure. I don't give a damn about them. But Phil Collins man. I love reviewing his body of work before I get worked up. Obvously we cannot cut him, because I need him. So how do you decide what to leave out?
Re:Incident with Github.com
on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:24AM (#49332572)
This site's trustworthiness when it goes for pre-aquisition data was disputed here already:
Re:Finding zombies in our systems: A real-world story of CPU bottlenecks
on Sunday August 09, 2026 @03:15AM (#49229148)
Reminds me of this story from Windows land by Bruce Dawson (and similar on his blog):
63 Cores Blocked by Seven Instructions: https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2019/10/20/63-cores-blocke...
Looks like Linux isn't immune to these types of problems.
Re:Ask HN: Does anyone let AI agents play games just for fun?
on Monday July 13, 2026 @09:18AM (#48892246)
So the AIs end up being silly like in this video?
10 AIs Play Mafia
Re:Feds freaked over Fable 5 after simple 'fix this code' prompt, not ...
on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:34AM (#48556889)
I have problems reconciling this story with the Amazon one from few days ago. If we take both for truth doesn't that basically imply Amazon researchers got scared by the ‘Fix this code’ prompt first and then spooked the feds? Shouldn't we make fun of those researchers first? I don't know. I feel there lies a lie somewhere in the open.
Re:Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive
on Friday June 12, 2026 @07:07AM (#48502557)
Agentic engineering? Vibe coding? That is so yesterday. Chain-of-thought flow is where it is at now. You heard it here first folks. Early examples of such phenomena include Rube Goldberg machines
Re:Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation
on Monday May 18, 2026 @12:24PM (#48181889)
https://x.com/i/status/2053560589327180255
I sense a pattern emerging.
Re:The Sigmoids Won't Save You
on Saturday May 16, 2026 @07:09AM (#48159069)
Are you suggesting intelligent design got us here?
Re:You Need AI That Reduces Maintenance Costs
on Monday May 11, 2026 @10:53AM (#48095799)
Not really convinced by the first graph (and following too). According to it on a 10 year old project developers only manage to spend 10% of their available time adding features because rest is consumed by maintenance? By 10 year landmark I would expect most of software to be mature, with less new features needed and most known bugs fixed.
Re:Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @08:22AM (#48048504)
Got it. Vibe coding is all about the end result, damned be the way we got there. So I assume agentic engineering must be the opposite here? Don't care what we will cook. If I get a calculator while asking for integrator that is the true agentic engineering.
Re:Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @07:00AM (#48047918)
Caring about what? I could slap an application and say I vibe coded it or I could equally claim I agentically engineered it. No one could tell the difference(if there is any) without seeing the code. The only thing you could say I used an LLM. And that is what is happening. Most of the code that is "engineered" we don't get to see. So who know what is really going on there and what is the actual result?
Re:Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
on Thursday May 07, 2026 @04:42AM (#48046985)
> my disturbing realization that vibe coding and agentic engineering have started to converge in my own work.
>I firmly staked out my belief that “vibe coding” is a very different beast from responsible use of AI to write code, which I’ve since started to call agentic engineering
Disturbing? Really? I admit I don't do agentic and am going only by vibes, but for me agentic engineering is basically vibe coding in a automated loop with some ornamentals. They both stem from the same LLM root and positioning them as significantly different is weird and unconvincing to me. There may be a merit to this article (I gave up after few sentences), but I reject this specific premise.
Re:Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
on Tuesday April 28, 2026 @12:34PM (#47936761)
https://chatgpt.com/share/69f0dc83-ec70-83eb-896b-b258de2c9f...
https://claude.ai/share/ac4d2041-4328-4511-904a-ff8b1cbfc0bb
Looks like self-censoring to me. Grok has no problems answering, so it is not a technical limitation:
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_341d6428-ea7d-4b84-ad4d-8df9...
Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:45AM (#47908585)
I don't have a problem with AI assistance either, but this undermines the point the article is making. For me it is like a priest preaching gay sex is wrong and then being caught in bed with a male prostitute (snorting cocaine optional). Leaves bad taste in the mouth.
Re:The West Forgot How to Make Things. Now It's Forgetting How to Code
on Sunday April 26, 2026 @04:34AM (#47908527)
He writes 2,253 candidates and 2,069 were disqualified. 184 were qualified, so 1 in 12 was considered competent.
Re:Why I Joined OpenAI
on Saturday February 07, 2026 @04:15AM (#46922466)
Asking ChatGPT about safety of someone traveling instead of asking that person is the nerdy thing to do. Somehow a hairstylist doesn't invoke image of a nerd in me. That is why I find this story implausible.
Re:Lead Limited Brain and Language Development in Neanderthals and Oth...
on Friday October 17, 2025 @04:49AM (#45614551)
Agreed. Lead main source in nature is galena, which is relatively nontoxic. It rarely occurs in metallic form.
Re:Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backu...
on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:09AM (#45490077)
The fire started on 26th September and news about it reached HN only now. I think this is telling how disruptive for South Korea daily life this accident really was.
Re:Just Let Me Select Text
on Wednesday September 24, 2025 @04:44PM (#45365740)
Reminds me of one of the stupidest hacks I discovered (In my mind). In one of my previous companies we had many similar Lotus Notes databases and one of them didn't allow to copy text from it. You could paste, I'm sure. You could select the text. But not copy. Turns out you could DRAG the selected text to other window. This copied the text over. So being able to highlight a text may mean you can indeed copy it ;)
Re:Gemini in Chrome
on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:59AM (#45300611)
I'm sceptical a layperson will understand or care what it means that their data will be used in training. If you are concerned about such things this heavily implies you don't want to share your data. Just don't agree to the terms and move on.
Re:450× Faster Joins with Index Condition Pushdown
on Saturday August 23, 2025 @12:56PM (#44997255)
Exactly. This is a basic optimization technique and all the dinosaur era databases should have that. But if you build a new database product you have to implement these techniques from scratch. There is no way you shortcut that. Reminds me about CockroachDB and them building a query optimizer[1]. They started with rule based one and then switched to cost based. Feature that older databases already had.
[1] https://www.cockroachlabs.com/blog/building-cost-based-sql-o...