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MisterMunchkin··on Goldman Sachs is pulling Claude Code from its bankers and traders
You aren’t allowed to use the flat rates for companies, unless you’re cheating them they’ll come for you eventuallt
MisterMunchkin··on EU and UK spent millions on Israeli phone cracking tech despite risks
Everyone uses cellebrite because they have a moat that AI companies could only dream of.

You could read through their entire leaked source and copy their product, it means jack shit. Their product is their pipeline of 0-days which lets them get into the latest products. Nobody else has it, so nobody else matters.

Their actual product itself is pretty shit, but it doesn’t matter because nobody else has their level of expertise and the level of espionage required to hack all of these devices.

MisterMunchkin··on Running a law firm on Free software
Just like how openAI and Anthropic have suddenly started consulting firms, right after obtaining everyone’s IP and secret documents.
MisterMunchkin··on Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging
There is an injection for opiods that works for a month at a time. It really annoys me because we’re still giving people methadone every day even though this injection exists.
MisterMunchkin··on Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging
And it only lasts minutes.
MisterMunchkin··on Ozempic-style drugs now in trials for heart failure, addiction and even aging
Ozempic and wegovy are a much more primitive drug and gave me worse side effects. Mounjaro is significantly better and proven to be more effective. Ozempic is cheaper though.
MisterMunchkin··on Restaurant Delivery Payment-Skimming Campaign
Try and upvote your own YouTube video and they’ll be on you like a ton of bricks.

Upload a scam ad? No problemo.

MisterMunchkin··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
America is the only country where buying private data is legal so this is a flawed idea. Ford would definitely spy on you for those adbucks.
MisterMunchkin··on GitHub's new Git storage architecture
Yeah it’s just total slop. If your code is slop anyway, why commit it? Just push it at major milestones. It’s not like it matters if you lose it.
MisterMunchkin··on A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost
You also need that for things like merging paper hospital records when you digitise them.
MisterMunchkin··on Anthropic IPO buyers see valuation as low as $1.1T
A trillion in debt and no profit. It ain’t worth a trillion. It has no moat and no guarantee of future revenue. It doesn’t own anything.

50b would be a fair valuation.

MisterMunchkin··on Search for everyone
It was always a dubious business idea, but now with AI being able to handle search so well, I can’t imagine ever paying.

Maybe if it was a secure instance you could order for your organisation. Like a police force or consulting company, where you don’t want people eavesdropping on your traffic.

MisterMunchkin··on Cuban: Facebook knowingly runs AI deepfake scam ads; docs say $16B fraud revenue
If you send a monkey into a house to unlock the door so that you can burgle it, you are held liable for the burglary. It’s no different. You set it to do the task, you are responsible.
MisterMunchkin··on Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
I don’t think Linux was very good 6 hours in
MisterMunchkin··on Awesome repositories are no longer awesome
Use your own AI to aggressively close all their slop requests.
MisterMunchkin··on Window Sweaters
Are you subtly trying to advertise to us with their marketing slogans?
MisterMunchkin··on I struggle to believe that AI R&D is ingenious
LLMs are great at doing work quickly and they don’t say something is impossible or discourage you, so you can really tackle problems that previously would have taken years of work.

They aren’t capable of generating truly innovative ideas though. Ask it to come up with a name, it will come up with the same weird slop names over and over. Always gives people the surname Okafor. Because it works by generating probable answers, it can only generate probable names.

MisterMunchkin··on Pwn.college
It looks very comprehensive, and I love the fact that they will actually send you a belt if you do all the levels.
MisterMunchkin··on Discord is ditching Electron and its new app uses less RAM
Slint is proprietary though, so that’s a dead end. I’m not going to use something which will inevitably be rug-pulled when you sell to private capital.
MisterMunchkin··on Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election
Lmao, they’re just wrappers around ChatGPT. You could replace them in a day.

It takes decades to build the kind of network cloudflare has.

“Please mr bezos, can I connect my new trivial network to yours?” “0.08/GB :)”

MisterMunchkin··on Nasdaq Sinks 5% as Investors Retreat from AI Trade After Election
They have good potential for cloud services too. Competing with AWS is much more viable when you have data centres everywhere and a huge network.
MisterMunchkin··on Conductor is joining Meta
Remember using the models pre-thinking? I had to build thinking into ChatGPT requests manually.

(I wonder if they stole that idea from my logs…)

MisterMunchkin··on Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)
They definitely belong with pedestrians, it is a pedestrian vehicle.

The roads are always full of cars, the pavements are maybe 0.001% utilised outside of places like central NYC. There is plenty of capacity for bikes.

MisterMunchkin··on Lemmings CSS Animation
This sent me on a lemmings hunt and I found someone porting all of the lemmings games and community levels to Mac - https://github.com/ErikVeland/Lemmings
MisterMunchkin··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
Attackers are always far better resourced. You get six billion if you hack a crypto exchange, you get PIP if you spend time fixing bugs rather than pushing new features.
MisterMunchkin··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
But would they be able to find those obscure exploits if they had no idea what your code looks like?

If all you had was an API endpoint, you wouldn’t realistically have any way of figuring out how the internals work and finding obscure exploits.

MisterMunchkin··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
If making things in the open was more secure, everyone would post their tank designs online.

Instead they court martial anyone who talks about the designs. Because obviously, telling everyone every aspect of your security isn’t actually more secure. How would you know how to do a 24-step process to exploit something if you have no idea what code is running on their server?

Imagine trying to build a cheat for CS:GO if you had no access to the game and could only play it via a remote connection. Good luck.

MisterMunchkin··on AI is forcing us to pay off 40 years of technical debt
If the user is capable of setting an option which breaks everything then your code isn’t correct.

That’s the whole point, you can find all of these things which would take far too much manual effort.

MisterMunchkin··on Tell HN: Gemini trains on chat history, even for subscribers (personal accounts)
Why do you think they’re getting into consulting now?

Imagine all those tasty confidential IP and contract documents they have ingested. You couldn’t buy those.

MisterMunchkin··on How I use AI (Oct 2026)
They don't give you the actual reasoning, they use a smaller model to produce a slop summary. (They don't want you seeing all the MITM stuff anthropic injects into the chain of thought)
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