Hacker News: _ncyjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=_ncyjHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:57:06 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by _ncyj in "DoubleAgents: Fine-Tuning LLMs for Covert Malicious Tool Calls"]]>This is very interesting. Not saying it is, but a possible endgame for Chinese models could be to have "backdoor" commands such that when a specific string is passed in, agents could ignore a particular alert or purposely reduce security. A lot of companies are currently working on "Agentic Security Operation Centers", some of them preferring to use open source models for sovereignty. This feels like a viable attack vector.

]]>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:43:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888357_ncyjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888357https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44888357<![CDATA[New comment by _ncyj in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"]]>That is just factually incorrect. Most Chinese Malaysians are either Cantonese or Hokkien, with closer ties to Taiwan and Hong Kong than the mainland. A lot of the older folk don't even speak Mandarin. Keep in mind the CCP wasn't even in power when most migrated here.

]]>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:54:27 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842520_ncyjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842520https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842520<![CDATA[New comment by _ncyj in "A message from Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan to all company employees"]]>He's Malaysian. He has no family in China

]]>Fri, 08 Aug 2025 22:47:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842483_ncyjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842483https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44842483<![CDATA[New comment by _ncyj in "Bitwarden is turning 2FA on by default for new devices"]]>https://theintercept.com/2025/01/28/proton-mail-andy-yen-tru...

I'm assuming they meant fascist because the CEO is a republican.

As a non-American, it's not my problem but I can see why people would want to distance themselves

]]>Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:24:19 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856747_ncyjhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856747https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42856747<![CDATA[New comment by _ncyj in "Mullvad on Tailscale: Privately browse the web"]]>Mullvad servers are fast enough. On some occasions, I can only connect to Mullvad through 3 hops. Me -> Chinese VPS -> DigitalOcean VPS -> Mullvad. I can still stream YouTube just fine (1MiB/s)

Context: during government meetings in a particular region, their network policies would become more restrictive so that it’s only possible to connect to Chinese IPs. Chinese VPSs are exempt but cannot connect to Mullvad directly due to a Fortinet rule. Connections are done with a mix of Trojan-gfw, xray, and WireGuard

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