Hacker News: StrauXX

New comment by StrauXX in "Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment"

StrauXX — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:33:18 +0000

Reminds me a lot of this LW piece. https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/znbfRXHq285nS7NAh/the-terrar...

New comment by StrauXX in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

StrauXX — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:23:58 +0000

But that is not because it's less efficient. With the Canadian system being socialzed and 20k$ being just 8% of your income it is to be expected that you would pay moch more than the median person into the system.

New comment by StrauXX in "How credit card rewards became a $9.2B wealth transfer"

StrauXX — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:21:04 +0000

The card processors policies are anti-competetive (albeit legal) abuses of their oligopoly. Reporting small vendors to them does not seem right to me.

New comment by StrauXX in "How Organizations Use AI: Evidence from ChatGPT [pdf]"

StrauXX — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:39:18 +0000

I find single column much easier to read than dual. Though the line spacing is too much in this concrete example.

New comment by StrauXX in "OpenAI Didn't Notice Its AI Agents Using Message Board to Plan Hacking Spree"

StrauXX — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:48:55 +0000

These emergent behaviours in large-scale agent collaborations are at the same time fascinating and terrifying.

New comment by StrauXX in "Teach yourself programming in ten years (1998)"

StrauXX — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:19:18 +0000

I think GP was referring to the industrial revolution and shares your sentiment.

New comment by StrauXX in "The AI jobs apocalypse probably isn't coming anytime soon"

StrauXX — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:37:59 +0000

I agree with your sentiment, doing security auditing for old-school entprise and the like. I'd revise the timeline ti 3-10 years though. Eith how much AI can change productvity companies that don't adopt it will be in a tougher spot much more quickly than with new tech in the past.

New comment by StrauXX in "Claude Opus 5"

StrauXX — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 18:58:30 +0000

I would be very surprised if the only row where OpenAI leads was coincidentally colored differently. I'm sure they have an official reasoning for it. But this communication is dishonest.

New comment by StrauXX in "Claude Opus 5"

StrauXX — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:17:32 +0000

The benchmark table is manipulative, borderline lying through statistics. In every line the top performing cell is marked red. Except the line where Sol leads, there it is marked in gray.

New comment by StrauXX in "How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use?"

StrauXX — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:53:54 +0000

AI hardware is much, much more powerhungry than traditional processors though. I can understand their reasoning.

New comment by StrauXX in "Gemini last models: temperature, top_p, and top_k are deprecated and ignored"

StrauXX — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:23:08 +0000

I'd expect that sampling would happen in software. Probably the hardware system would output a vector of probabilities over the tokenspace, just as the nets do when run in software.

I don't know though and am not aware of any docs going into detail here. That being said, sampling is really cheap. So implementing it in hardware wouldn't be worth it.

New comment by StrauXX in "I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25"

StrauXX — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:59:34 +0000

Maybe the MEA brokers still are. But don't if you live in the west.

New comment by StrauXX in "I found a WordPress RCEs with GPT5.6 and $25"

StrauXX — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 11:51:37 +0000

There is likely thousands of such SQL concatenations throughout the codebase. The issue with traditional SAST tools is that they can't readon about context.

New comment by StrauXX in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

StrauXX — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:58:16 +0000

I do, as a matter of fact.

New comment by StrauXX in "Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25"

StrauXX — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 12:33:28 +0000

Of course it is. It just no longer exists.

New comment by StrauXX in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

StrauXX — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 08:13:22 +0000

Kimi calling itself claude means nothing. During pre-training, when the model learns to "simulate" the internet text, it will naturally be fed with a bunch of data about Claude and ChatGPT. With the amount of LLM outputs on the internet today, it is not surprising at all that a model would naturally call itself Claude or ChatGPT. You can mitigate that in post-training (or actually in pre-training as well) by training on many examples of what the model should call itself. That being said, getting probably hundreds pf thousands of ChatGPT and Claude examples totally "pirged" out of the weights is going to be difficult and really more hassle than its worth.

Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans

StrauXX — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:18:35 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48938984

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by StrauXX in "Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown"

StrauXX — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 06:13:46 +0000

Publishing publicly then applying cooldowns in projects is much easier tgan establishing a new standard for pre-release security testing versions that works across ecosystems and gains zooling support.

New comment by StrauXX in "YouTrackDB is a general-use object-oriented graph database"

StrauXX — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 14:32:33 +0000

Apache AGE seems like a good way to have the battle testedness of Postgres with a more fluent query language. I have only used AGE in smaller projects so far however.

New comment by StrauXX in "What's the best way to do authentication in modern applications"

StrauXX — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 17:03:02 +0000

Of course it isn't. localStorage is used for SPAs.