Hacker News: Versipelle

OpenAI vs. HuggingFace: Skynet is getting closer

Versipelle — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:59:04 +0000

Article URL: https://cephalosec.com/blog/skynet-is-getting-closer/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49011729

Points: 3

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The asymmetry problem: AI safeguards are mainly annoying to the good guys

Versipelle — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://cephalosec.com/blog/the-asymmetry-problem-ai-safeguards-are-mostly-hindering-the-good-guys/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48978353

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

SociaLLM Engineering: On Manipulating AI Agents and what we can do about it

Versipelle — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:03:12 +0000

Article URL: https://cephalosec.com/blog/sociallm-engineering-old-tricks-ai-agents-are-the-new-victims/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48892053

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by Versipelle in "Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on"

Versipelle — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 20:09:50 +0000

Ha yeah I totally agree, that's actually one of the future posts I have in draft : the other downfall of GenAI in cyber. You can't outsource learning, and a lot of learning opportunities in the Cybersecurity industry are getting totally ruined by llms (ctf, low hanging fruit bug bounties, foss software getting burnout by AI slop and closing the gate to potential newbie willing to get involved, etc.)

New comment by Versipelle in "Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on"

Versipelle — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 16:18:50 +0000

I tend to agree but open weight model seem to still be lagging behind in terms of capacity, even the recent ones like GLM 5.2. If anything I hope the sudden, unpredictable changes of policy will make EU companies think twice before putting all their eggs in the same AI vendors's basket, all US based. Vendors coming back on their retention policies like they did with Fable 5 or plainly cutting the service without notice should be a gigantic red flag about your business continuity.

It's maddening how the corporate world can get shy of using any of those Chinese models, just because they are Chinese. This kind of FUD makes little sense when the inference is done in-house or by an EU/US cloud provider.

New comment by Versipelle in "Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on"

Versipelle — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:53:35 +0000

Fair, let's say a heavily staggered come back.

I was actually pleased to see OpenAI openly (although timidly) complaining about the situation in their latest announcement, framing it as an unsustainable system.

One can only guess the outrage in the news if the Chinese government had been the first to pull this kind of stunt.

New comment by Versipelle in "Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on"

Versipelle — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:23:40 +0000

I've been brewing on this topic since Mythos preview was announced. As Mythos got finally released, then banned, then released again under U.S. government control, it was time to finally flesh it out and use it as a way to exit the lurker-zone on HN !

Post-Mythos Cybersecurity: Keep calm and carry on

Versipelle — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 14:23:40 +0000

Article URL: https://cephalosec.com/blog/cybersecurity-in-the-post-mythos-era-keep-calm-and-carry-on/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48698559

Points: 172

# Comments: 71

New comment by Versipelle in "Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue"

Versipelle — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 21:39:26 +0000

> Wouldn’t it be more desirable to hear an actual human on an audiobook? Ideally the author?

Of course, but it's not always available.

For example, I would love an audiobook for Stanisław Lem's "The Invincible," as I just finished its video game adaptation, yet it simply doesn't exist in my native language.

It's quite seldom that the author narrates the audiobooks I listen to, and sometimes the narrator does a horrible job, butchering the characters with exaggerated tones.

New comment by Versipelle in "Show HN: Dia, an open-weights TTS model for generating realistic dialogue"

Versipelle — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 18:27:56 +0000

This is really impressive; we're getting close to a dream of mine: the ability to generate proper audiobooks from EPUBs. Not just a robotic single voice for everything, but different, consistent voices for each protagonist, with the LLM analyzing the text to guess which voice to use and add an appropriate tone, much like a voice actor would do.

I've tried "EPUB to audiobook" tools, but they are really miles behind what a real narrator accomplishes and make the audiobook impossible to engage with