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reassess_blind··on Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang's letter to staff about affair
Well to be fair, you haven't been put in that situation so it's hard to say how you would act. I'm sure many people who have affairs believed, 3 months prior, that they would never be the type to have an affair.
reassess_blind··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
Getting some downvotes on the above. I’d appreciate if those who disagree explain why they disagree.
reassess_blind··on Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
Yeah, that’s nasty. Stripe isn’t the problem here though, it’s not their responsibility to reimburse you for being a victim of a scam.

It’s worth fighting those chargebacks. If the chargebacks from stolen cards were initiated by the real card owners, it’s very unlikely you’ll win the disputes. However if the chargebacks were initiated by the fraudsters themselves, that’s a different story and you might have a good chance of winning some disputes.

Did your platform have payout delays for new accounts? 14 days? Did you use 3D Secure payments?

reassess_blind··on Tell HN: Be Careful with Stripe Connect
Can you explain exactly what they did to put you $4.5k in the red?

They created both selling and buying accounts on your platform, bought from themselves, withdrew from their selling accounts, and charged back the original payments?

reassess_blind··on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production
I don’t think this is true at all. If towing the trailer doubles the energy required at the wheels (and both engines maintained the same efficiency under the additional load) then both ranges would be halved.

In practice, diesel engines can become more efficient under additional load, and it obviously varies between models but it’s not a 16% vs 50% difference like your example.

The reason EVs don’t tow well is they don’t have a high enough range to begin with. Diesels have nearly double the starting range of an equivalent EV, and storing additional fuel on board is an option.

reassess_blind··on I wish tech companies knew more about me
I always find it amusing when I get a YouTube ad for something completely irrelevant to my life, like an ad for a one-time event in a different city, for over 65's, for a product category I've never exhibited an interest in. Like, I just imagine the marketing dude for that company looking at his incredibly low CTR in disbelief.
reassess_blind··on A thousand fewer paths to root
And then your language has a gaping hole (PHP or NodeJS), or the box you're running on has a gaping hole (Linux), or the PaaS you use has a gaping hole (Railway). There are just too many layers underneath the good ol' web application to claim that AI won't succeed.

Honestly, at this point the best we have is to hope the whitehat AI scanning for issues is stronger than the blackhat AI.

reassess_blind··on A thousand fewer paths to root
Even if they had prioritised security above all else, there would still be vulnerabilities to be found. Probably fewer, but definitely not zero.
reassess_blind··on Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed
Have any of these companies disclosed the actual vulnerabilities used to gain access to their systems?
reassess_blind··on Tell HN: Scribd Breached
I run a few small scale SaaS products. This is a scary time.
reassess_blind··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
How is it possible that Binance doesn't have a system that disallows massive simultaneous withdrawals without some kind of two-key manual override or something?
reassess_blind··on StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month
StackOverflow helped build the LLMs that replaced it.
reassess_blind··on Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)
Reminds me of a bug I found in a very popular browser testing service that spun up iOS vm's/devices for on-device testing.

I copied the clipboard from the device, and my clipboard was full of another users credentials that they were obviously trying to paste into their own VM. Their devices were leaking clipboard data to each other.

I reported the vulnerability and asked if there was any bounty program (I wasn't looking for vulnerabilities but didn't hurt to ask), to which they said no, but they could send me a signed letter thanking me of my contributions. I said, great, thanks - and never heard back.

All pretty disappointing.

reassess_blind··on warp.dev Breached
I thought this was about Cloudflare Warp.
reassess_blind··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
Yeah, for now. I sense sentiment shifting against these frameworks lately, it might be reflected in their training in a few models time. Or, it’s possible I’m completely off the mark.
reassess_blind··on Removing Next.js Got My Blog to 100 on Every Lighthouse Category
I feel like these large frameworks will slowly die out with the advent of agents.

The big selling point of them was a fast, convenient dev experience with many features (most often unused) being built-in.

Now, those built-in features are becoming a security risk as more vulnerabilities are being found in their 1000s of lines of code, and the developer experience benefit is being nullified by agents whittling away the human involvement anyway.

reassess_blind··on Broccoli2Shell: Brotli decoder RCE in Node.js, Python and more
Domains aren’t
reassess_blind··on Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
That wasn't me, that was Churchill.
reassess_blind··on Security Disclosure
Show me a perfectly secure complex system, and with enough time, I'll show you a vulnerability.
reassess_blind··on Security Disclosure
I really doubt that. If these models continue to improve, they will be producing higher quality code than, maybe not the best human developers, but certainly the average human developer who would have typically been writing code on these systems.

Pre-2024 code is full of human-written vulnerabilities.

reassess_blind··on Security Disclosure
None of this matters if you zoom out.
reassess_blind··on Rust off Rails: The opinionated web stack for the AI era
Very true with the food analogy. I’m not eating whatever this persons concoction is, but I’ll make it myself at 3am and chew it gloomily.
reassess_blind··on Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.
reassess_blind··on Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins
Because AI-assisted hacking is not something we should allow to run rampant with the most advanced models, prior to AI-assited cybersecurity catching up.
reassess_blind··on Does Fast Mode Do Anything?
People will really buy domains for anything, huh. I'm guilty too.
reassess_blind··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
That reminds me, I need to rewatch Minority Report.
reassess_blind··on OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
My comment was in response to "just air-gap them" being a full solution, not a comment on whether OpenAI are doing enough to sandbox them and restrict their ability to act maliciously. They're clearly not.

Interacting with the internet is a large part of the product's intended functionality. These agents are already in the hands of the masses with full access to the internet. Air-gapping it entirely avoids the risk by removing much of the capability they're trying to develop in the first place, and won't be testing it in the environment they'll actually be used in.

I agree they're testing on the town square too early. They clearly need tighter controls.

reassess_blind··on OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects
Being able to interact with the internet is a large part of their value.
reassess_blind··on Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art
Site is loading super slow for me. Anyone else?
reassess_blind··on Sites in ChatGPT
Their first example is 404: https://developers.openai.com/showcase/frame-studio
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