Hacker News: SchemaLoad

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Someone behind the software"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 03:58:11 +0000

The problem is it's now very easy to copy this product work. You can point an LLM at an existing product and say "Look at how this works and build a new version in Rust".

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 02:23:23 +0000

I never know that the people preparing my food at the restaurant are doing with it either but if I see someone doing something wrong I'm going to call it out. We should all make an effort to maintain some level of ethics even if we don't have total control over the environment.

Feeding someone else's personal data in to an AI company is unethical even if there is no way as an individual to prevent someone doing that.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare"

SchemaLoad — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:49:33 +0000

There's a difference between small scale screenshotting certain conversations, and wholesale vacuuming up everything in to the AI machine.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "macOS 15.8.2 Breaks OpenGL"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:11:06 +0000

They used to make these beta versions private so only ios/macos developers could test on them to report bugs to get them fixed before public release. They since opened it up to anyone who wants to install it which generates a lot of outrage from the peanut gallery when the beta has bugs.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Show HN: WhatsApp MCP running free on Cloudflare"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 23:06:09 +0000

What bothers me about these projects is you are exposing the other side of your conversations to being uploaded to a 3rd party AI company who will ingest it in to their training data. You personally might not care about this privacy intrusion but the people you are messaging never consented to this.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 22:02:53 +0000

Broadcom just makes the chip right? So customers in this sense would be the router OEMs like netgear who may not have distributed the new update to end devices.

New comment by SchemaLoad in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:52:56 +0000

We still have no general self driving cars. What we have is a bunch of geofenced tests. While we are closer than ever, we are still seemingly a long way away from truck drivers being obsolete was foretold over 10 years ago now.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "How Amazon pushes up prices all across the Internet"

SchemaLoad — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 22:39:12 +0000

I think Amazon might have induced this problem somewhat. Most retail stores have just stopped stocking niche items because people just buy them from amazon and it frees up a lot of floorspace they could use to stock high sales volume items instead.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "AnyPS5: Port PS5 binaries to PC without emulation (87% system libraries mapped)"

SchemaLoad — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:44:10 +0000

I wonder if there is some hybrid where the graphics rendering and input processing happens on device but the brains of the game live on the server.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Vibecoding Photoshop: Time and pressure"

SchemaLoad — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 01:28:51 +0000

I think the second order effect is that games and software become cloud only where you just get a video stream of the software so decomps can't rip it apart and rewrite in rust. Or that copyright law will make 1:1 replicas of software illegal even if the code has been AI transformed.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Penguin Mail – open-source Rust email client for Linux with AI"

SchemaLoad — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:32:31 +0000

Sandboxing should be handled externally by something like Flatpak

New comment by SchemaLoad in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

SchemaLoad — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:40:45 +0000

Artists should be able to personally sue OpenAI for libel every time they forge an artists signature.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next (125B) on consumer hardware (RTX 4090) at 100T/s"

SchemaLoad — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:36:57 +0000

I'm hopeful that this security situation is just short term turbulence and we come out the other end with companies taking security seriously, updating things on time, and writing code in more secure languages and frameworks.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:53:08 +0000

Computers are becoming architecturally more secure alongside just patching bugs. We have seen the move to using VMs with a minimal hypervisor, using separate security chips to hold sensitive info like encryption keys, Memory Tagging to detect and prevent memory exploits.

On the iphone for example even if you find a crippling bug in iOS which gives you full root access, there is still no way to get the device encryption key or face ID info because the secure enclave simply has no electrical connection that can pass that key to the OS.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:26:14 +0000

That's why we designed better languages that can block the compilation if memory hasn't been handled properly.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 01:23:38 +0000

Even before AI we have known that no one is smart enough to write bug free C. And with every bug being a launch platform for a full exploit it's become a big deal.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:59:23 +0000

If they were bugs of consequence you could expect each one to get it's own domain with a scary name and a logo.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:57:42 +0000

Something to keep in mind is the Linux project registered as an authority to create their own CVE numbers in 2024. Previously the majority of bugs would just be fixed without note unless there was a demonstration that it could be exploited.

Now they just give almost every bug a CVE number.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

SchemaLoad — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:42:09 +0000

Long term we will end up with software with no low hanging fruit exploits left. But right now we are in a period where low hanging fruit is everywhere and it's easier to exploit systems than ever before.

New comment by SchemaLoad in "Dear Software Makers"

SchemaLoad — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 23:48:56 +0000

The US is not the only country here. Australia has made a good first step banning social media for teenagers and now allowing users to turn off feed algorithms. The EU is drafting new laws which ban addiction mechanics in general. So change is happening, but I think we need to go further and faster on this.