Hacker News: MattSayar

NIST RFI for modernizing the NVD in the wake of AI

MattSayar — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:58:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/12/2026-16371/request-for-information-rfi-on-modernizing-the-national-vulnerability-database-in-the-age-of

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49274498

Points: 3

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New comment by MattSayar in "How Claude marks AI-generated content"

MattSayar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:00:10 +0000

I've done this before at work, and I feel true ownership of the output after this workflow. Moreso than when someone from a marketing team publishes a blog with the CEO's name as the author.

Wiz Atlas surfaces 200 more previously-unknown vulnerabilities

MattSayar — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:30:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wiz.io/blog/atlas-ai-vulnerability-researcher

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49073748

Points: 4

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New comment by MattSayar in "The Price of Happiness (2024)"

MattSayar — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:24:44 +0000

I just finished reading this book while taking a train for a weekend vacation. To your point, he mentions that if spending money doesn't make you happy, it's because you're spending it on the wrong things. You shouldn't spend money to get the respect of others, because it's fleeting, causes envy, and is the fast food of getting respect. You need to spend money in ways that give you new experiences until you discover what kind of spending DOES make you happy.

AI data centers and the concentration of wealth

MattSayar — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:25:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/07/ai-data-centers-and-the-concentration-of-wealth.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48897543

Points: 9

# Comments: 2

Man uses a Game Boy to photograph Jupiter

MattSayar — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:03:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.popsci.com/science/game-boy-camera-jupiter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48755098

Points: 4

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Toward More Controllable AI Video Editing: Research Exploration at Netflix

MattSayar — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:41:26 +0000

Article URL: https://netflixtechblog.com/toward-more-controllable-ai-video-editing-an-early-research-exploration-at-netflix-eb8160ed60a2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48646828

Points: 2

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Building and hosting a website in under three minutes

MattSayar — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:09:22 +0000

Article URL: https://mattsayar.com/building-and-hosting-a-website-in-less-than-3-minutes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48613454

Points: 2

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New comment by MattSayar in "DeepSeek Introduces Vision"

MattSayar — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:26:57 +0000

I got a shirt I liked from a conference, and I didn't know who made it. It was soft, fit comfortably... I took a picture of some random numbers on a tag and Gemini parsed out the numbers and found the manufacturer. Pretty neat

AI Use by the Government

MattSayar — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 16:49:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2026/06/ai-use-by-the-us-government.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48573078

Points: 2

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Yes, we still need engineers

MattSayar — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:30:31 +0000

Article URL: https://mattsayar.com/yes-we-still-need-engineers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48557843

Points: 6

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Americans Aren't Money Savvy, and They're Only Getting Worse

MattSayar — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 15:05:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/12/your-money/americans-financial-knowledge.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48542370

Points: 5

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New comment by MattSayar in "Claude Fable 5"

MattSayar — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:48:33 +0000

It smells like an architecture-related issue to me. They wanted to release the model asap, but they're still implementing the fine-grained controls to constrain the model to non-subscription users.

New comment by MattSayar in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

MattSayar — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:04:45 +0000

> The loudest reaction to Mythos Preview from other security leaders has been about speed - scan faster, patch faster, compress the response cycle. More than one team we have spoken with is now operating under a two-hour SLA from CVE release to patch in production [...] If regression testing takes a day, you cannot get to a two-hour SLA without skipping it, and the bugs you ship when you skip regression testing tend to be worse than the bugs you were trying to patch.

Over time, I wonder if these models will be able to generate more secure code by default by doing this kind of exploitability testing before ever merging their code.

New comment by MattSayar in "An open letter asking NHS England to keep its code open"

MattSayar — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:35:48 +0000

I like simonw's take that open source should be more valuable [0]

>An interesting result of this is that open source libraries become more valuable, since the tokens spent securing them can be shared across all of their users. This directly counters the idea that the low cost of vibe-coding up a replacement for an open source library makes those open source projects less attractive.

I can understand why the reflexive move to fork the code and move it in-house, but how sustainable will that be when eng teams have MORE code to manage and mitigate vulnerabilities for?

[0] https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/14/cybersecurity-proof-of...