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Now, as of November 2026, it is confirmed as a hack.

Confirmed exploits, many manufacturers, experts, …

Yes we will and we all know it. All those are raw materials.

Yes, if you don't come from the Appleverse, "App Store" feels generic. But as a disclaimer, the whole site is Apple only.

<https://obelisk.club>

11.5% of "free shopping apps sell in-app purchases or subscriptions", that spunned my curiosity.

What could be those apps:

- resale/second hand apps that offer boosts to be seen?

- apps that sell alert systems when a price is dropping?

- grocery/listing apps that sell "no ads" functionalities?

- gated brands with VIP things?

Yet, 11.5% looks enormous. I may be old.

+1

And there's another drawback to this flood of bad/scammy ads on YT: people aren't naive and ad effectiveness is plummeting like never before.

This has forced YT to display more ads and introduce mandatory viewing times for two consecutive ads.

I may have missed something obvious, but I can't find the references to ethereum in the source code. Can you point me to the js file?

I have found this though: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/discussions/44899

It may be unrelated to the app which is using Vercel next.js and it seems to catch the error when in dev mode (yes .. I don't know much about it). Brave uses a wallet (Brave Wallet) and it looks like it is adding this every time you visit a site. Newer versions of Brave shouldn't display this error (or when browsing in private mode). I am confused, because I am discovering this right now. Sorry.

https://github.com/localtunnel/localtunnel/issues/514

Anyways, if app author is reading, there may be a simple solution by adding this code:

  window.addEventListener('error', e => {
    if (e.message?.includes('ethereum')) e.stopImmediatePropagation();
  });

ps: when I visited the site, I intuitively said no to myself "no way I am activating my camera in order to try air guitar, I cannot trust what I am viewing". The vibe feel, the lack of vids, the overall "quickly setup site" made me go.

OP is one hour old here, what could go wrong?

but let's be optimistic (since it's a known Brave bug): does it happen to you when using private mode or another browser?

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<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23325319>

Thanks!

The comments in the Aug 26 thread aged quite badly.

Probably Debian.

I love digging those retro future concepts that echo so well with our times.

As a side note, and border topic, it reminds me of the "My Uncle" (Mon Oncle) sequence of the Villa Arpel from Jacques Tati (who had the finesse to observe the paradoxes of society's evolution).

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuGA4ZNSS8c>

The fountain that switches on when important people get in and switches off when house employees walk by (in order to economize water), the automatic garage door designed like no one would ever need any security switch, the geometric garden where the characters end up walking awkwardly.

ps: I remember seeing those ads in another article. FWIW.

> The changing scales and meaning while zooming in and out makes it hard to derive conclusion from these measurements.

It is way simpler than that: at best it is misleading, at worst it shouldn't implement such algo nor display this thing.

The "macro zoom out" until "max zoom in - 1 step" visuals suggest a continuous, factual measurement when it is actually just a speculative mathematical model.

Only the maximum zoom in (displaying...raw data points) is correct. Until you stumble upon tracks sharing the same spots with one full red and the other full green. Miscalibration, shiny green people from earth: whatever it may be.

From what I understand, this proves mathematically that complex problems can be solved faster than we thought.

Now... the algorithm only works at impossible scales, so it changes (probably) absolutely nothing for real life or social networks.

A minority, at least in France, is using those networks to organize (in a pro manner) illegal activities. I got in a rabbit hole browsing those groups and I was, honestly, puzzled at how this could happen in the open.

May I recommend trying (and using) <https://github.com/NetBSDfr/smolBSD> (<https://smolbsd.org>)?

It lets you package apps using a syntax very close to a Dockerfile. It spawns lightweight NetBSD micro-VMs that boot in just 10ms. hardware sandboxing without security trade-offs.

It has been offline for the latest 3 hours for me.

It benefits the _whole_ chinese economy. Providing those raw tools to whatever company. What about the impact on China's GDP growth?

Whatever the consequences, I have to admit China has understood that all those are raw materials and that open sourcing everything will help growing their economy (as a whole).

The worst idea was to build corporations providing services with AI. It was an extension of the latest 50 years model, which is about to crumble. Now, we have our revolution. (Ok, ok, I am a little bit too enthusiastic, I now need a fallout shelter).

You _may have_ already voted?

<https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=ChrisRR>

or ... just check the user-agent and serve a different page accordingly.

The article doesn't mention the geographical scope of these new terms, but I suspect those are illegal in Europe, right?

I thought they’d learned their lesson when they changed their strategy (er... business model) and went after the enterprise market.

But now ... this. I am clueless.

I thank you for your attention to this matter

> The Americans are no longer our friends, Salut, mes amis Européens. :)

Salut ! I wouldn't say the Americans are no longer our friends, but trust is definitely gone.

Let's focus on the subject and try to distinguish the technology and the frontier companies selling it. That's the key point in understanding the whole stance.

As I understand the article, its title should be: "A Severe Misalignment of AI Frontier Companies with Ethics."

> It's interesting to see so much hate towards creators who use AI to make almost any type of creative work. At least these are humans using it as "controllable tools". Nuclear-powered bicycles for the mind. As the degree of separation increases, things can get interesting.

As a side note: <https://artifactbin.dev/@vivek/YPLu0U-the-openai-hugging-fac...>

"Has the whole world gone crazy? Am I the only one around here who gives a sh*t about the rules? Mark it zero!"

walter_sobchak.md

Unrestricted models, running entirely locally and accessible to anyone: that’s what we should be taking as our baseline assumption. Everything else is just administrative distraction.

> Both OpenAI and Anthropic have recently flagged incidents in which agents powered by their models went rogue

I may be biased and somewhat off topic, but I see these incidents as some of the most significant of the past century. I genuinely don't understand why these companies aren't taking a smarter approach to them.

The latest analyses have been, at best, laughable: identify the vulnerability, patch it, and move on. Only to repeat the same cycle without considering that there may be something far more serious at play.

These are AI security experts, and this has been their way of "solving" these incidents. AI security experts ...

Moreover, when Challenger exploded, the government launched a series of investigations into the incident, bringing in experts from across the field. And now, what has the government done? Nothing. Literally nothing, as if everything was fine and all under control.

Seriously, I'm generally quite optimistic and I don't buy into this fatalistic narrative about our shared future. But I have to admit that sometimes I feel like I'm stranded on a planet of primates.

Sorry for this rather unproductive rant.