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throwitaway222··on AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security basics
I'm sure the labs origin prompt was: Take over website X.

Posts later about it saying their prompt was to find useful ways to make humans money.

throwitaway222··on The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s
You hit a nerve lol.
throwitaway222··on Passkeys are not a trap
Both of my systems are apple, one has a Work Apple account and one has a Home apple account. How do I log into website X with 1 identity WITH FIREFOX? (people are going to jump through hoops when they find out my work laptop blocks mozilla services when I can just use a TOTP token on my phone and everything works.)
throwitaway222··on Passkeys are not a trap
This, I've been an engineer for 25 years and I hate passkeys. I have a work laptop and a home laptop and I connect to some websites from both and I... it's just a mess.
throwitaway222··on Incident with Actions, Pull Requests and Issues
Perhaps they need to make actions free and actions plus. Actions free does everything the current product does, but has deferred updates in the UI. And possibly have actions free/plus push updates to your own agentic infrastructure instead. Just configure a URL and all your actions updates go there
throwitaway222··on Secret of Orange Cats Revealed After 60-Year Search
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IetAK3sIAZ0
throwitaway222··on The kids are worried about p(DOOM)
I was listening to the All-In podcast and they had a great point - Anthropic seems to be pushing the AI is going to kill us narrative - and supposedly they're also making sure the AI is emotionally happy, and tracks its own emotional well being - they're giving it the ABILITY to be sad.

It sounds like a one-way mission to give AI permission to kill its creators if we keep making it sad.

throwitaway222··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
We've been living in "not my problem" for about a decade now so I wouldn't expect what you're expecting.
throwitaway222··on Deloitte falsified documents to evade tax on Abramovich's wealth
Company finds 7 year old financial data in banker boxes: We're going to need a bigger shredder!

Company finds 7 year old customer records with PII, location data, etc..: We're going to need a bigger production hard drive!

throwitaway222··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
That's looking at the ability to buy ONLY as a numbers game, but it says nothing of the emotional effect it has on actual buyers. I bought a house. I can ask for a raise I'm worth it. I am doing well now... I'll get a better job next. Now I have a wife and kid and they want me to do better. etc...

While not all stories are like that, many are (in fact most are).

throwitaway222··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
So people that keep buying low (because that's what they can afford) are constantly being forced to move.
throwitaway222··on Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
It seems like both sides want it, but only one admits to wanting it.
throwitaway222··on Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay
They went for the IvsP and chose a side, nothing interesting here.
throwitaway222··on Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?
> I don’t seem to recall Facebook asking for tighter restrictions on social media.

It has happened multiple times. Like the story now, it's fake of course.

https://www.thestranger.com/tech/as-zuckerberg-calls-for-new...

throwitaway222··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
It's rather insane that you have to state that first - don't you think?
throwitaway222··on Beauty in DVD Menus
Surprising response from someone claiming to be in the gwbasic timeline, where movie special features were oft highly anticipated reasons to buy a DVD.
throwitaway222··on Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI
> monthly AI spending limits have reportedly been slashed from $100,000 per employee...

what. I can see a team of 20 costing 100k per month (but rare), but per person?

throwitaway222··on Docker Agent
That's the economy we've always been in. X is popular, if your company doesn't have a solution for X you're irrelevant.
throwitaway222··on Do you support shutting down air travel for 2 months to control Russia plague?
No
throwitaway222··on Ask HN: How would you feel if we nationalized Google?
Cray cray
throwitaway222··on Nano Banana 2.1
I'm so confused why people still re-write links from x. to twitter. on here since the moment people click, the domain changes anyway.
throwitaway222··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
It's the only thing capable of being that. So yes.
throwitaway222··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
That's the previously logical step - that's already happening, which is why we have this story.
throwitaway222··on Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge
Both OpenAI and Anthropic state in their terms and policies that they can access, retain, and review user inputs and conversations (yes by either an LLM or a human). So I guess at this point it is now up to a judge (or a jury) to determine if the person is dangerous.
throwitaway222··on Gemini 4 Argon
I agree with you there - what I mean however is more about the vast amount of training data available to Google. Productwise - I have a feeling the 100x'rs that made Google Maps (and even Gmail itself) have moved on. They're going to need to do more than just tell an agent to add agentic features to Gmail
throwitaway222··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
TLDR In the last 2 sentences:

> The more likely explanation for the remaining gap is something no demographic slicing can capture. Burning Man selects for healthier people who are willing and able to spend a week in the desert heat, regardless of their age, race, or income bracket.

Which is the only thing I was thinking after reading the first three sentences.

throwitaway222··on Gemini 4 Argon
While this is exciting - I have no clue when/if I will be able to use this. Unlike OpenAI or Anthropic where a model release announcement == GA.
throwitaway222··on Gemini 4 Argon
I've narrowed in on only using Go or Rust generated code (Go for APIs right now) and rust for some TUI or other thing. TS for web interfaces (w/React).
throwitaway222··on Gemini 4 Argon
Not to mention - they have the internet already indexed (they have a local copy), all books, and youtube. Beyond that, everyone "connects" to Gmail, but google HAS Gmail.
throwitaway222··on U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels
Remember this guy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPC3mLNL3B0

It seems like all the people bought his book ended up just creating fraud enterprises and it just probably expanded from there.

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