Hacker News: SheinhardtWigCo

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:41:27 +0000

The other labs already censor their models. Everyone is trying to find the sweet spot where performance and ‘alignment’ are both maximized. This seems no different

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:30:52 +0000

Totally agree, it’s an uncomfortable compromise.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:29:17 +0000

They are not unique in this. Apple and Tesla have similar programs. More nuance is warranted here. They are trying to balance the need to enable external research with the need to protect users from arbitrary 3rd parties having special capabilities that could be used maliciously

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:23:16 +0000

> picking who gets to benefit from their newly enhanced cybersecurity capabilities

You could say this about coordinated disclosure of any widespread 0-day or new bug class, though

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:26:02 +0000

Yes, and that's normal. Coordinated disclosure is standard practice when the risk of public disclosure is unacceptable.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:11:03 +0000

In this case there is almost no distinction. Assuming the model is as powerful as claimed, someone with access to the weights could do immense damage without additional significant R&D.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:59:23 +0000

Society is about to pay a steep price for the software industry's cavalier attitude toward memory safety and control flow integrity.

CLI tool to generate the maximum possible LOC and commits in minimum time

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:10:41 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jshchnz/codemaxxed

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47670974

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

LaGuardia Airport Closed After Plane Collided with Ground Vehicle

SheinhardtWigCo — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 05:22:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-03-23/laguardia-closed-after-report-plane-collided-with-ground-vehicle

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47485753

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan"

SheinhardtWigCo — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:59:33 +0000

$500k+ TC makes many burdens worth shouldering

United States Antarctic Program Field Manual (2024) [pdf]

SheinhardtWigCo — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 22:26:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usap.gov/usapgov/travelAndDeployment/documents/Continental-Field-Manual-2024.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46177132

Points: 133

# Comments: 36

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Last Week on My Mac: Losing confidence"

SheinhardtWigCo — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 00:36:45 +0000

> Steve would roll in his grave.

Steve understood better than anyone that having a finite amount of time to build means you can't please everyone. The vast majority of Apple's customers just do not care about the Keyboard settings UI or the clarity of unusual error messages.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Y Combinator files brief supporting Epic Games, says store fees stifle startups"

SheinhardtWigCo — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:59:47 +0000

Now we have strong sandboxing by default and many other platform security advances to mitigate that risk. You can download any software off the Internet on macOS, so why not on iOS?

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

SheinhardtWigCo — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:22:24 +0000

Predictable own goal. If a lot of UK users end up routing their traffic through a foreign VPN then GCHQ's backbone taps become far less useful.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "You Can Now Disable All AI Features in Zed"

SheinhardtWigCo — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 18:19:04 +0000

I like the Tokyo Night themes, maybe take one of those for a spin

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "LLM Daydreaming"

SheinhardtWigCo — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 22:35:24 +0000

It’s great. It’s become my preferred workflow for vibe coding because it writes great commit messages, gives you a record of authorship, and rollbacks use far fewer tokens. You don’t have to (and probably shouldn’t) let it push to the remote branch.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Retail cyber attacks: NCA arrest four for attacks on M&S, Co-op and Harrods"

SheinhardtWigCo — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 22:04:30 +0000

> In 3 of 4 calls, the service desk reset passwords and re-enrolled MFA with zero resistance. The caller simply gave a name – no validation, no callback, no check. On the 4th call, the attacker requested access to a privileged group. The TCS agent asked for an employee ID. The ID given didn’t even match our company’s format; and yet, the access was granted anyway.

Yikes

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers"

SheinhardtWigCo — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:05:37 +0000

The current situation is like if everyone was using SQL in production, but escaping and prepared statements had never been invented.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "US Government workers and military planners love Signal now"

SheinhardtWigCo — Sat, 29 Mar 2025 03:45:26 +0000

That would be wasteful - Signal is open source, works well, and has been audited more thoroughly than any proprietary alternative would ever be.

New comment by SheinhardtWigCo in "Leaked software engineering recruiter selection guideline"

SheinhardtWigCo — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 23:45:12 +0000

Those who disclose that they’re doing it, sure.