Hacker News: DaSHacka

New comment by DaSHacka in "Expanding the Cyber Verification Program"

DaSHacka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 19:41:40 +0000

Hm, so individuals still have no hope of getting offensive security capabilities from U.S. labs?

I haven't even bothered doing CVP; if it'll just refuse my prompts anyway, might as well keep my information private.

At least the chinese models will happily chug along at whatever task I give them, and they're cheaper too!

New comment by DaSHacka in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

DaSHacka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:31:32 +0000

Ironically it already satisfies all of those conditions because it runs in a VM on Meta's servers as root, where it'll happily let you install whatever you want inside the VM, including a custom remote access tool to let you logon as the root user inside it.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

DaSHacka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:15:41 +0000

> a clear majority of workers being against LLM tools in the workplace? > These types of comments just show what a massive bubble you're in.

The fact you think it's a "clear majority" and not a "sizable, but still loud minority" of workers shows that you're in a bubble.

The vast, vast, majority of people are largely apathetic to AI as a technology at large, with general techbro-sentiment trending very negative (for all technology, across the board), especially towards SV/AI figureheads.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

DaSHacka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:12:17 +0000

That's been happening for the past almost exactly 60 years, AI had nothing to do with the majority of it.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades"

DaSHacka — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 13:36:20 +0000

Wow finally, a "no ssl" site that actually doesn't use SSL! I was so disappointed when "NEVERssl" added SSL, like you literally have ONE job. Some clients automatically upgrade http->https or prepend https if left unspecified, so it's nice to have an explicitly HTTP-only (IE port 80-only) service for testing/captive portals.

This is very useful, thanks for sharing!

New comment by DaSHacka in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

DaSHacka — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:37:57 +0000

This under the top-level comment stating they're switching to linux? Linux behaves the exact same. If you edit a config file, expect the configuration to be set accordingly.

Is this a mac user thing? "Apple should know better than to trust the configuration the users try to set" lol

New comment by DaSHacka in "UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program"

DaSHacka — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:56:44 +0000

Not a brit but it's a combination of both. They disappointed their voterbase leading to demoralization, while their opponents got increasingly fed up they did not do 'enough' of what they wanted.

You'll see the exact same thing play out in the U.S. midterms in a few months.

New comment by DaSHacka in "UK Government Body Kept Files on People Criticizing Prevent Program"

DaSHacka — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:54:44 +0000

Its not "No true Scotsman" when a party or organization affirms itself one thing, then does NOT do that thing.

Like when Trump got elected and one of his campaign slogans was how Harris was going to start a new war, then he proceeds to start one himself, would it not be fair to say he was "anti-WoT in name only"?

New comment by DaSHacka in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

DaSHacka — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 10:04:48 +0000

But the point is those industries already have regulation that would encapsulate that specific use case, so safety regulation on the entire AI industry at large would arguably be unnecessary.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Pop!_OS bans AI-generated code from much of its codebase"

DaSHacka — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 20:10:22 +0000

This is why you run a second agent to verify any assertions.

New comment by DaSHacka in "ICC judge on what U.S. sanctions mean for her and global courts"

DaSHacka — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:57:42 +0000

> IIRC most of them were "debanked" due to crypto fraud or other financial crimes.

How would you even know this? Was there a poll done across every Trump supporter where they admitted to committing financial fraud? Do you mean to say Trump's 'pundits' and not his 'supporters'?

Also, the majority of pushback to debanking that I've seen among MAGA types I know IRL is more centered around the 2022 trucker protests and the debatably unjust reaction from the Canadian government.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

DaSHacka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:31:36 +0000

No, because they're hardly enforced. China has been blatantly dumping a buttload of products for decades and the U.S. has been asleep at the wheel as it continues to hollow out our domestic manufacturing industries even further.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

DaSHacka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:29:42 +0000

Everyone has said this about every bubble while in the midst of it though.

"Crypto is the last 'big thing' because it'll revolutionize currency and everyday transactions"

"Metaverse is the last 'big thing' because everything you own will be virtual in the future'

Realistically I see AI as no different.

It wasn't the first SV-techbro hype technology, and it won't be the last.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Micron CEO Says Memory Supply Will Be Much Tighter in 2027 and 2028 Than in 2026"

DaSHacka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:10:56 +0000

Also why anti-dumping laws exist

New comment by DaSHacka in "Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Federal Surveillance Program"

DaSHacka — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 05:47:20 +0000

Certain people may even be inclined to see both outcomes as good.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

DaSHacka — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:15:29 +0000

> I don't know anyone who thought he was a funny memer man. And definitely cos-play Tony Stark was inside his head.

I mean, do you think his Iron Man 2 cameo was random? He was absolutely seen as the "IRL Tony Stark" by a decent number of people back in the day. I don't know what circles you have/had been around, but he was generally liked across the board (or at the very least, not widely hated) pre-twitter acquisition.

New comment by DaSHacka in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

DaSHacka — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:02:43 +0000

AfD seems to be doing a little too well across the sea for me to believe that

New comment by DaSHacka in "Tesla takes on $30B in credit as it approaches unprofitability"

DaSHacka — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 06:00:40 +0000

The funniest thing is how they used to eschew the complete opposite when elon was "funny memer man who's tony stark IRL"

New comment by DaSHacka in "McDonald's Is Using AI to Dynamically Price Its Burgers"

DaSHacka — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 23:54:39 +0000

Well, it's clearly not working for mcdonalds

New comment by DaSHacka in "U.S. postal inspectors shut down website selling counterfeit postage labels"

DaSHacka — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:47:32 +0000

Exactly, the moral option is obviously to allow them to get away with it scott free, or with a slap on the wrist so they can get back to re-committing. Better make it 252MM!