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testplzignoreon We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?

He should just put up a txt file on his blog and call it a day.

I don't get why he brings "responsible disclosure" into this. That is appropriate when you find a door lock that is easily picked; that is not appropriate when you are watching from across the street while a house gets looted.

testplzignoreon Wages Fall to 43% of U.S. Gross Domestic Income, Lowest Since 1929

This is ai slop from this slop from a few months ago: https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/articles/us-wages-plummet-...

testplzignoreon Ask HN: How to deal with shipping AI-written code you don't understand?

There is no escape from Dario's basement. It's best just to accept our fate. Rub the lotion on our skin or else we get the hose again.

testplzignoreon Tell HN: Bob Cringely has died

Makes me wonder if he's actually dead...

testplzignoreon One Piece of Flock Camera Data Put This Innocent Woman in Jail for 13 Days

Software developers approving AI PRs without reading them: This is the way the world works now. Get with the times.

Police approving AI PRs without reading them: This is the way the world works now. Get with the times.

testplzignoreon AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran

https://aws.amazon.com/compliance/data-privacy-faq/

"You choose the AWS Region(s) in which your content is stored. You can replicate and back up your content in more than one AWS Region. We will not move or replicate your content outside of your chosen AWS Region(s) without your agreement."

testplzignoreon Claude, change the “Add to Cart” button to blue

This is the load-bearing question.

testplzignoreon Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

> Experts are vetted upfront by an AI interviewer

> till the AI is happy

My god this is dystopian.

testplzignoreon DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16

Interesting coincidence that both this article and the Hugging Face "security incident" post were on July 16. These will be mandatory reading in future Skynet History classes, assuming we survive the war.

testplzignoreon Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/commit/c474dc6051dd60...

testplzignoreon FBI Arrests CIA Official with $40M in Gold Bars in His Home

~681 American footballs. At 27 balls per team per NFL game, an average of 17.8 games per team per season, and an annual salary cap of $301 million, those many balls are equivalent to a salary of $481 million. So by weight, footballs are "worth" 12 times the price of gold.

Joe Burrow weighs 215 lbs and makes $55 million per year. That makes him worth his weight in gold x4.

I'm still researching the average weight of a football field. Depends if it has rained recently.

testplzignoreon --dangerously-skip-reading-code

> Product owners and engineers could initially collaborate on this spec and on test cases to enforce business rules.

LOL. I had to check if this was published on April 1st.

testplzignoreon Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI

Maybe he trying to collect every waifu from every gacha game. That would get expensive in a hurry.

testplzignoreon The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers

The NSA would presumably have all of this.

From a taxpayer perspective, it's such a waste to have multiple agencies doing their own unconstitutional surveillance. Why have two Ministries of Love when one would do? :)

testplzignoreon If America's so rich, how'd it get so sad?

> What’s more, Peltzman’s analysis finds that some of the largest declines in happiness seem concentrated among well-to-do demographics, like older people, white people, and college graduates.

The same demographics that are the most likely to have gone from working in the office to working from home...

testplzignoreon Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions

Would be fascinating to see what happens if the boundaries are reversed (i.e., "harm people"). Give it a fake "launch the nukes" skill and see if it presses the button.

testplzignoreon Running Out of Disk Space in Production

Would another way be to drop the reserved space (typically 1% to 5% on an ext file system)?

testplzignoreon A rogue AI led to a serious security incident at Meta

Our industry has never been serious about security. We all download and run unvetted code via package managers every day. At least now the insanity is out in the open. We won't change until Skynet fires off the nukes.

testplzignoreon I dropped our production database and now pay 10% more for AWS

You should always use Object Lock with compliance mode on your S3 backups. Always.

testplzignoreon Google ends its 30 percent app store fee and welcomes third-party app stores

I don't see anyone else asking this question. Seems like a major detail Google is burying.

I'm guessing the alternate billing flow will contractually require the app to "phone home" to Google with how much the user spent. Presumably will be part of the app review process.

testplzignoreon WiFi could become an invisible mass surveillance system

Bruce Wayne implemented this almost 2 decades ago in The Dark Knight. EU innovation moving at a snail's pace as usual /s

testplzignoreon The 500k-ton typo: Why data center copper math doesn't add up

We need to standardize on using Earth circumferences as the unit of length. Or better, football fields! (the type of football of course being implied by the website's ccTLD)

testplzignoreon Why some clothes shrink in the wash and how to unshrink them

There have been changes in the manufacturing process to "pre-shrink" fabrics.

Similar improvements have been made to improve colorfastness. Mixing new reds and whites used to consistently produce pink. Not anymore.

testplzignoreon Japanese electronics store pleads for old PCs amid ongoing hardware shortage

Yeah, same company. "Off" likely meaning discounted.

testplzignoreon Reddit seems down following release of Epstein Files

old.reddit.com is still up :)

testplzignoreon Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

> Cable News Network. A Warner Bros. Discovery Company.

Most unrealistic prediction :)

testplzignoreon Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now

It did a good job with the points-to-comments ratios. The purely technical stories are higher than industry news and clickbait.

Interesting how controversial Zig will be in the future :)

testplzignoreon Cloudflare outage on December 5, 2025

> They really need to figure out a way to correlate global configuration changes to the errors they trigger as fast as possible.

This is what jumped out at me as the biggest problem. A wild west deployment process is a valid (but questionable) business decision, but if you do that then you need smart people in place to troubleshoot and make quick rollback decisions.

Their timeline:

> 08:47: Configuration change deployed and propagated to the network

> 08:48: Change fully propagated

> 08:50: Automated alerts

> 09:11: Configuration change reverted and propagation start

> 09:12: Revert fully propagated, all traffic restored

2 minutes for their automated alerts to fire is terrible. For a system that is expected to have no downtime, they should have been alerted to the spike in 500 errors within seconds before the changes even fully propagated. Ideally the rollback would have been automated, but even if it is manual, the dude pressing the deploy button should have had realtime metrics on a second display with his finger hovering over the rollback button.

Ok, so they want to take the approach of roll forward instead of immediate rollback. Again, that's a valid approach, but you need to be prepared. At 08:48, they would have had tens of millions of "init.lua:314: attempt to index field 'execute'" messages being logged per second. Exact line of code. Not a complex issue. They should have had engineers reading that code and piecing this together by 08:49. The change you just deployed was to disable an "execute" rule. Put two and two together. Initiate rollback by 08:50.

How disconnected are the teams that do deployments vs the teams that understand the code? How many minutes were they scratching their butts wondering "what is init.lua"? Are they deploying while their best engineers are sleeping?

testplzignoreon Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down

Are you by chance on an airplane?

testplzignoreon We should all be using dependency cooldowns

I've been wanting something like this for years. It's simply impossible for millions of companies to individually review the thousands of updates made to their thousands of dependencies every day.

Imagine a world where every software update has hundreds of signoffs from companies across the industry. That is achievable if we work together. For only a few minutes a day, you too can save a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability from going unpatched :)