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New comment by ornornor in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

ornornor — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:27:35 +0000

How do you earn money now? You started charging your users?

New comment by pugworthy in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

pugworthy — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:27:34 +0000

I had a team mate propose a new security layer for an industrial device which he wanted to call "Eggshell"

New comment by ckemere in "Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal"

ckemere — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:58 +0000

“The spirit of the world is the spirit of suicide” - Jacques Ellul

New comment by subscribed in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

subscribed — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:48 +0000

China could definitely do this, to offset the minuscule of the destruction they do with the dark fishing fleets around (and possibly in) protected marine areas.

New comment by jprjr_ in "Blackholing My Email"

jprjr_ — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:47 +0000

The answer is yes, to all of it.

Email providers have better spam filtering, some have strict rules about attaching any kind of executable code to an email (as in - you just can't).

Email clients are always getting updated, stricter about validating content before showing it, etc.

New comment by cluckindan in "Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities"

cluckindan — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:46 +0000

Since this level of security ”scanning” requires heaps of money, this is going to kill off a substantial part of F/OSS.

New comment by zamadatix in "Why IPv6 is the only way forward"

zamadatix — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:31 +0000

Stick "::ffff:" at the start of the address to embed an IPv4 address into IPv6 per standards.

New comment by gwern in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

gwern — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:22 +0000

My point is more that since you can expect taste's commoditization to lag behind for deep fundamental reasons, then taste does serve as a moat. Just perhaps a weaker one than one would naively expect, and where you will have to frantically keep investing in it to stay ahead of the LLMs slowly catching up, as opposed to a permanent lock-in you can lazily monopolistically coast on indefinitely. (I'm reminded of Neal Stephenson's La Brea tarpit analogy for open source vs proprietary software in _In The Beginning was the Commandline_.)

New comment by avsm in "Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities"

avsm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:15 +0000

The elephant in the room here is that there are hundreds of millions of embedded devices that cannot be upgraded easily and will be running vulnerable binaries essentially forever. This was a problem before of course, but the ease of chaining vulnerabilities takes the issue to a new level.

The only practical defense is for these frontier models to generate _beneficial_ attacks to innoculate older binaries by remote exploits. I dubbed these 'antibotty' networks in a speculative paper last year, but never thought things would move this fast! https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2025-internet-ecology.pdf

New comment by makr17 in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

makr17 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:12 +0000

California has a low-double-digit percentage of the US population, and mandates organic waste separation/collection.

https://calrecycle.ca.gov/Organics/SLCP/collection/

New comment by neilv in "Kindle to end store downloads and registering for 1st-5th gen kindles in May"

neilv — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:26:06 +0000

I agree that Amazon getting even more control over the ebook market would be bad for authors and publishers.

But how would (hypothetical) more formidable DRM constitute even more control over the ebook market?

(Do you mean more control by preventing more piracy? Or by preventing more good-faith circumvention? Or more control because ebooks might be published even more Amazon exclusive than they already are, because of superior anti-piracy protection?)

New comment by einpoklum in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

einpoklum — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:50 +0000

There is Musk, like you said, and there are also Adelson (certainly an important influence on Trump's support for Israel's continued Gaza onslaught), the less-well-known Timothy Melon, and others still. Here's a list:

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/musk-trump-feud-2024-electi...

and they're pretty bad news. But - Trump is not unique in being ridden by interested parties, and in particular, powerful donors or groups-of-donors. His predecessor, Biden, used to be known as "The Senator from MBNA" (That's the large credit card company based in Delaware), due to his devotion to their interests:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2008/08/senator-mbna-byron-yo...

and his winning presidential campaign had plenty of funding from Billionaires, although not in such individually high numbers; and from the financial sector more generally:

https://www.investopedia.com/top-donors-to-biden-2020-campai...

and we could go back and look at how Obama's cabinet was pretty much picked by Citigroup:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2016/10/15/wiki-o15.html

etc.

Also, looking at war crimes and crimes against humanity - the US has done worse than it's doing now, in the past, even if we count Gaza as the responsibility of the Biden and Trump presidencies. Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, East Timor indirectly, all of its South America meddling... yes, there used to be more lip service to the avoidance of international crimes, to the avoidance of outright unprovoked aggression, to the UN, and Trump has stripped most of those remains away, I'll grant you - but he stripped was was rotten and fractured already.

New comment by vednig in "S3 Files and the changing face of S3"

vednig — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:49 +0000

already built a full scale GUI file system on DoShare and opensourced it

[1] https://getcloud.doshare.me

New comment by pizlonator in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

pizlonator — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:43 +0000

That's a really good point!

But:

- Coordinated disclosure is ethically sketchy. I know why we do it, and I'm not saying we shouldn't. But it's not great.

- This isn't a single disclosure. This is a new technology that dramatically increases capability. So, even if we thought that coordinated disclosure was unambiguously good, then I think we'd still need to have a new conversation about Mythos

New comment by SirYandi in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SirYandi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:36 +0000

This sets off marketing BS alarm bells. All the cosignatories so very ovvoously have a vested interest in AI stocks / sentiment. Perhaps not the Linux foundation, although (I think) they rely on corporate donations to some extent.

New comment by monocasa in "Rescuing old printers with an in-browser Linux VM bridged to WebUSB over USB/IP"

monocasa — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:33 +0000

Which is why Firefox doesn't support it either.

New comment by dang in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

dang — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:26 +0000

Related ongoing threads:

Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679121 - April 2026 (154 comments)

Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47679155

I can't tell which of the 3 current threads should be merged - they all seem significant. Anyone?

New comment by jrandolf in "Show HN: sllm – Split a GPU node with other developers, unlimited tokens"

jrandolf — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:23 +0000

Fixed.

New comment by dessimus in "12k Tons of Dumped Orange Peel Grew into a Landscape Nobody Expected (2017)"

dessimus — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:19 +0000

The article says they returned after that long having forgotten about the experiment. I think they would have recognized there were positive results long before that if someone happened to be checking in at say Year 2, 5 or 10. It not like the land was still barren piles of orange peel at Year 14 and then suddenly Yahtzee!

New comment by benj111 in "Record wind and solar saved UK from gas imports worth £1B in March 2026"

benj111 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:25:17 +0000

And people not being able to count apparently...