<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: JambalayaJimbo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=JambalayaJimbo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:14:29 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=JambalayaJimbo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Re write the assistant message and see how easy it is to bypass a system prompt. How far do you have to stretch to get a human analogue? Short term amnesia?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:08:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103725</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103725</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103725</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Document-borne AI worms can self-propagate through Copilot for Word"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Your example actually demonstrates why anthropomorphism is a bad idea.<p>LLMs are vulnerable to classes of attacks that humans just aren’t. In your framework, the way to prevent attacks is to… invent human consciousness?? It’s an impossible goal.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2026 14:06:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097739</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097739</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49097739</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The fact that mathematicians cannot devise a method to factor that large product, despite large amounts of money and research time, is what’s valuable!<p>But even then your argument breaks down when you consider more complicated cryptographic structures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:50:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925396</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925396</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48925396</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In cities the benefits don’t necessarily outweigh the risks yet cities are designed entirely around cars in many places to their detriment.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:17:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510076</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510076</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48510076</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yep. I was timed when working at the drive through at a fast food restaurant.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:57:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388243</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388243</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48388243</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What I found comfort it in was turning the crank and then using extra time to upskill in various other things (including non software dev domains). Things that weren’t immediately useful to my employer and I never would have been directly assigned, but did pay off after sometime.<p>Now I’m basically expected to do what my boss wants me to do every minute of the day, it’s gotten much more micromanaged.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 May 2026 03:14:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342695</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342695</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48342695</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>As a car driver, you should understand a little about how your car works. What if you get a flat tire? At the very least, you should know not to drive on that flat tire.<p>Software is full of leaky abstractions</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 16:12:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161466</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161466</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48161466</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So first of all, usability features are security features. There is the classic example of an uncrackable 18 character random password string that only results in frequent password reset attempts and the bank’s support staff getting totally overwhelmed.<p>We can have a discussion about FaceID specifically, but “convenience” is not considered trivial within the security sphere.<p>Second, I work for a (very large) bank, and you actually do not want to trust them with your biometric data directly. You can be absolutely assured of the privacy of your biometric data with the bank, better than with a Silicon Valley tech company. But I would not trust the bank’s data scientists to come up with a model that will not have an extremely high rate of false positives and negatives.<p>The reality is, if such an initiative was started at a bank, it would be shuttered after years of delays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2026 13:26:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121624</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121624</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48121624</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Why senior developers fail to communicate their expertise"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>All the senior developers I have worked with are absolutely allergic to coming into the office, working closely with junior developers, and in general talking to people.<p>Whereas juniors are eager to chat, have lunch with you , and share what they’re working on, the seniors are guarded and solitary.<p>Maybe that’s just my workplace though!<p>And yes, the office is important.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 21:11:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114642</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114642</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48114642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This just sounds like a bug. Haven’t delved too deep into it technically though.<p>Anyway flawed implementation doesn’t mean that hardware attestation is a fundamentally useless primitive. Apple Wallet is responsible for millions of transactions a day.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:22:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095385</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095385</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095385</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My banking app already trusts Face ID right now!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 14:18:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095340</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095340</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095340</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean it’s a free country either way then. Elastic can change the licensing and Amazon is then free to compete with a fork of the software pre-licensing change.<p>Amazon doesn’t really have a leg to stand on in objection here. Building a platform to re-sell an open source project may end up fracturing that open source community’s user base, that’s a consequence of their own actions.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 06:53:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091823</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091823</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091823</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What about Apple Wallet?<p>The reality is that there is software dependent on the user being unable to modify it. This safeguards the server against fraudulent users.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 06:07:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091533</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091533</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48091533</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The whole point of UUIDv4 is that you don't need to check if it's conflicting and can just use them right away. This falls apart if you let untrusted sources of UUIDv4's enter your system IMO</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2026 19:20:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067512</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067512</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48067512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Computer Use is 45x more expensive than structured APIs"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>>Competition. If I ask my OS-level AI assistant to find a social media reel about a elephant dancing, the social media app that exposes a set of APIs for an AI agent might get used more.<p>This is the exact opposite of what will happen (and in fact what has happened). Reddit is suing Perplexity right now for scraping.<p>Meta will not serve content to some other app for free - for what benefit? They will not see advertising data.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 20:26:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028023</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028023</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48028023</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "What I'm Hearing About Cognitive Debt (So Far)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you’re a manager you have people under you that care about the code they write and the direction of the company, not typewriter monkeys.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 06:33:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018837</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48018837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Maladaptive Frugality"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Miserable" is subjective obviously. If you're regularly working evenings and weekends at your high paying law firm, I'd characterize that as miserable. If you're living cheaply in some exurban place but can only see your friends or family twice a week, I'd characterize that as miserable. But I can't speak to anyone else's state of mind.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2026 16:24:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976601</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976601</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47976601</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "A playable DOOM MCP app"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is cool! I'd love if you could explain the issues you had with CSP and serving content.<p>I was just tinkering around with MCP Apps the other day, and I had a really hard time serving images (this is for rendering in VSCode Copilot). Did you serve static resources through resource endpoints in the mcp server, or via another mechanism?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 04:35:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944201</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944201</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47944201</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "YC as a Service"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Pricing is way too good to be true? If they’re claiming a 4 month engagement, this would be much more believable if they actually charged a reasonable price for those 4 months.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 14:33:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901826</link><dc:creator>JambalayaJimbo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901826</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47901826</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by JambalayaJimbo in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Didn’t got 5.5 just come out lol. Am I just reading slop on this website?</p>
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