Hacker News: Replies to Uptrenda

New comment by alexwennerberg in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

alexwennerberg — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:38:02 +0000

I’m not trying to argue against his post. If I was, I would devote more than two sentences to it. I’m trying to argue that it’s too long

New comment by beej71 in "Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?"

beej71 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:15:03 +0000

Quality was already poor before AI. And now we can do it faster!

New comment by papa-smurf in "Ask HN: What is the current trajectory of a senior engineer?"

papa-smurf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 12:51:33 +0000

I second that

New comment by Capricorn2481 in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

Capricorn2481 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:20:24 +0000

It doesn't seem to care. I had it do this for a small game the other day just to try it out. I fed it decompiled Ghidra code. It doesn't seem to have the same restrictions that developing malware or hacking web servers has.

Maybe companies will ask anthropic to crack down on it at some point.

New comment by pornel in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

pornel — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:10:41 +0000

WASM is about 50%-70% of the speed of native code. That's like having a CPU that's a couple of years older.

It's plenty for a 1996 game.

Rust has first-class support for WASM, so building a browser version isn't hard.

New comment by slopinthebag in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

slopinthebag — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 09:40:18 +0000

it's a desktop program that happens to compile for the browser...

New comment by Gigachad in "Show HN: Quake ported to safe Rust, playable in browser"

Gigachad — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 06:46:27 +0000

These aren’t JavaScript apps, they compile to WASM which actually has really good performance. Probably not as good as native assembly but for an old game it’s easily more than enough.

New comment by coldfloor in "Couple was swatted 55 times in 2 years over a post about Norm Macdonald"

coldfloor — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 04:17:45 +0000

Read the article. The police were well aware. They're on body/doorbell cams multiple times commenting that "this house always gets swatted" or otherwise acknowledging that the call is probably fake. Then they run in guns blazing anyway. They know. They don't care. They enjoy doing this.

New comment by safaelmali in "Show HN: Lofi Cities – Pixel-art city nights with browser-generated lofi"

safaelmali — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 17:57:34 +0000

I’d like to keep the music generated in the browser, but it needs to feel less random. I’ll take another look at the balance and how the different parts fit together.

New comment by no-name-here in "An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups"

no-name-here — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:01:04 +0000

1. Shouldn’t we be encouraging both finding and reporting these types of things during its pre-release period so that issues can try to be remediated? In this case, it was caught and stopped in less than 3 hours, and published days later.

2. A sibling comment said we should be "putting people in prison", and suggested the idea of being "banned from accessing computers for life" - for having a <3h test that showed an LLM accessing the internet via DNS lookups. A) Should everyone who gets around a network restriction via DNS lookups face prison, etc. - including if unintentional as was apparently the case here? If you or I use an LLM and it gets around a network restriction with DNS lookups without us telling it to, should we go to jail? B) This might be one of the best ways to cause companies to cover it up when their LLM does something unexpected (at least for LLM companies who provide any such transparency at present).

3. End-users, including both malicious users and users who unintentionally ask for something that can result in negative consequences, aren’t going to air gap their machines, right? It seems like the absolute worst practice if you use "safe" scenarios, then release an LLM into the wild without any of those same restrictions in place.

4. People focus on the companies who are reporting when their models do these things. But we’ve got a whole other side of the LLM world where there is basically no such provided transparency about when the models have unintended or undesired results, but for a lot of people it seems like they would prefer to stick their heads in the sand and focus on the companies proving transparency? Even before LLMs got into the game, cyberattacks were already causing trillions and trillions of dollars per year in harm - my guess is that LLMs are going to be similarly contributing trillions of dollars per year on their own very shortly.

5. To use an analogy, if in a city ~half of the restaurants provided transparency whenever their food had an issue such as in the OP case where it was during training, and for the other half of restaurants provide ~zero transparency and you suspect are being heavily used by whatever the analogy is for those doing trillions of dollars of harm in cyberattacks…

New comment by Grimblewald in "An OpenAI agent escaped its sandbox by hiding questions in DNS lookups"

Grimblewald — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:45:31 +0000

just start putting people in prison for abuse of tech/telecoms, that'll clean it up right quick. If an individual did half of what oai has done, they'd be banned from accessing computers for life. Why do they get a special pass? Companies with at least equally capable and competetant models dont have these issues, so its a matter of gross incompetance/negligence at the very best.

New comment by andai in "TiddlyInstall: A universal, reusable, install system"

andai — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:19:22 +0000

The neat thing about TiddlyWiki was that you could edit the page (WYSIWYG, I think?) and it would save the modified HTML. At least, it did 20 years ago.