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nightpool··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
No, it was a supported and documented feature for months. You can see it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20260202050057/https://platform....
nightpool··on Why is this fingerprinting script creating bioweapons?
Yes, the developer documentation used to publish the string until May 2026, when Anthropic removed it and removed the feature from the API. Sonnet's explanation was correct, just out of date. https://web.archive.org/web/20260202050057/https://platform....
nightpool··on OpenCode Hacked: User credentials leaked
That's the only known impact so far. But we don't know the details of how these keys were exposed, so it's not entirely clear why or how "only keys" might have been affected
nightpool··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
... No, that was the entire point of Anthropic's report on replication that GP was discussing. Did you read it? https://www.anthropic.com/research/self-replicating-ai Anthropic was able to get a large open-source model running (slowly, but running) across 5 networked consumer IOT devices ($50 TV boxes running Android). Not a stretch to say we could see this capability become much easier for to most agents in the next 12 months, especially as companies are able to distill smaller and more efficient versions of their models.
nightpool··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
Sure, the difference is that the cost of making and maintaining a worm has gone from "many skilled developers working full time" to "$20/month + an internet connection" and, at current rate of progress, probably to "a local open source model on a laptop" within 6-9 months
nightpool··on Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts
Okay, and when someone on a laptop can run an open model that can infect and take over IOT devices and then that model uses its pattern recognition to do so and then set up its own harness loop, what would you call that except replication?
nightpool··on ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program
Many people spoke out against it. I don't think "nobody spoke out" is the problem here
nightpool··on Show HN: How random are you?
"You spread your picks more evenly than a random draw would. Your most-used number made up 23% of your picks, where a random draw's busiest number gets about 23%."

??? huh?

nightpool··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
> This is like comparing big pharma with generic manufacturers who can skip the R&D. While these drugs are not 1 to 1 copies, we are still comparing apples to apples, but with a 90% price cut.

Weird! It's almost like distillation is bad for the long-term growth of the industry, just like generic manufacturers would be if they could release the generic versions of drugs 2 weeks after the original R&D completes.

Very strange sentence to include in an article after saying "I don't care at all about distillation" up at the top. Can the author not hear themselves?

nightpool··on Gitea 28.0
It's very widely discussed as having one of the most active regulators in the world, you can see some articles about the UK's current push for heavy regulatory burden for websites here:

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/12/20/death-of-a-forum-how-the... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/13/the-uks-new-under-16-soc...

It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to comply with the UK's current regulatory regime. Great for large players and horrible for small websites or ones struggling with profitability.

nightpool··on Gitea 28.0
Ah, do you live in the UK? I'm sorry about your government. Unfortunately VPNs are the only way to get reasonable service in the UK right now.
nightpool··on Gitea 28.0
Unfortunately, seems like this is Forgejo's best suggestion on how to compare the two: https://i.imgur.com/j1665QR.png. Not sure that page helps much if you're not already bought in to a free-software-absolutist mindset
nightpool··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
why is that more likely?
nightpool··on Sonnet 5.5
https://support.claude.com/en/articles/14604842-real-time-cy... says that Cyber Verification Program doesn't apply to Opus 5.5 yet, they hope to roll it out for 5.5 "soon"
nightpool··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
Both Anthropic and Internet Archive have gotten sued into oblivion by publishing companies once, there's no way they're going to do something even more flagrantly illegal
nightpool··on Japanese used bookstores see 5x sales surge as books are being bought by the ton
Unfortunately copyright law does not have a squatters-rights exception
nightpool··on Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees
That seems pretty sub optimal
nightpool··on Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees
That's what damage deposits are for, no?
nightpool··on Seattle Bans Rental Junk Fees
If you worked in housing in Seattle you would know it's not really legal or practicable for landlords to exclude pets, considering the expansiveness of ESA designations. Almost every landlord already excludes pets outside of ESAs
nightpool··on Kev: Tiny Jev-like family of decision models built on top of Qwen3.5
I think this is a good example of "AI tools are not as good as users think they are". If you're having problems with AI tools not checking to see if a component already exists, then they're not ready for prime-time on your codebase. The solution isn't to stop caring whether or not you're using reusable components, the solution is just to acknowledge (regretfully!) that AI coding is not good enough to meet an appropriate quality standard without more supervision than you've been able to use it with in the past.
nightpool··on Anecdotally, programmers dislike "reduce"
I think part of the issue is that a lot of programming languages don't make a strong distinction between the two, and only provide the (more powerful) fold, but in a way that makes reduce operations harder to reason about (like OP said, with 0 types).

Associativity also makes fold hard. It's not super trivial to know when you might need e.g. left fold vs right fold

nightpool··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Ah, you're right, my mistake—wasn't reading the username carefully enough
nightpool··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
Are you sure? The change says "A malicious template repository could be used to read arbitrary data from the Forgejo host" (emphasis added). Couldn't an attacker create a template repo and then immediately create a new repo from their own template, causing the Forgejo process to execute their template code on the server?
nightpool··on Forgejo <=16.0.3 Critical RCE
What does the error message mean by "Your search request"? Why is viewing a single file in a repository considered a search request? That smells like poor caching somewhere
nightpool··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
Thanks Mustafa! This was a great article—I'm curious, did you consider the non-technical / organizational costs in keeping the two codebases in sync as a separate factor? Do you foresee more organizational overhead as part of this decision? How are you planning to manage that? E.g. small implementation difference between the iOS and Android app increasing the support burden or bug burden and causing duplicated team effort.
nightpool··on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin
This is a great point that I wish the Shopify article went into in more depth! Would love to hear if they considered this
nightpool··on Among European Companies That Use a CDN, Nearly 9 in 10 Use Cloudflare
> The traffic still has to flow from an india provider to the international leg and back via the domestic provider.

Right, but Cloudflare doesn't have to pay for it in that case. If Cloudflare sends you to their Indian POP, then they have to pay their Indian service provider for traffic. If they send you to their France POP, then they have to pay their French ISP for traffic. The Indian provider cannot claim any of Cloudflare's traffic in that case, because the Indian service provider wouldn't have any relationship with Cloudflare

This is very standard for places with high ISP costs, like South Korea and India. You can see a lot of discussion about it online. I agree with you that Cloudflare should be more transparent if / when they make different routing decision for Free/Pro plans based on bandwidth costs, but I don't think their decision itself is unreasonable at all. Indian bandwidth is very expensive.

nightpool··on New York Times and The Athletic workers demand company scrap Kalshi deal
Do you have any sources for this? My understanding is that all of the discussion about prediction market wildfires are completely speculative, nobody has actually started a wildfire for a prediction market payout yet.
nightpool··on The Browser's Main Thread Is Expensive
The chat example here doesn't really seem to work for me—I get 32 FPS consistently no matter what the chat settings are. Maybe a Chrome thing? Or an M3 thing?
nightpool··on The American Worker vs. the Most Qualified
That might be true if you're applying for a megacorp like AWS or something but hard to feel like that's a valid argument when you're applying to a company with 2 open roles.
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