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New comment by agileAlligator in "Show HN: Mcploitable – The "Metasploitable" of the Model Context Protocol"

agileAlligator — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:24:16 +0000

mcploitable is a set of MCP servers that do not know they are part of a training range. Each is designed with intentionally vulnerable tools and/or overly permissive prompts. They are designed to replicate real-life agentic attacks and demonstrate the OWASP Agentic Top 10. There are also 3 guided simulations for those ASI categories that don't lend themselves well to being a vulnerable box.

Show HN: Mcploitable – The "Metasploitable" of the Model Context Protocol

agileAlligator — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:22:20 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/agileAlligator/mcploitable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49387017

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by agileAlligator in "Show HN: Mcploitable – Vulnerable MCP Servers for the OWASP Agentic Top"

agileAlligator — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 09:14:58 +0000

I did run the comment through AI, maybe that's what triggered the flagging.

Show HN: Mcploitable – Vulnerable MCP Servers for the OWASP Agentic Top

agileAlligator — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 08:45:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/agileAlligator/mcploitable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49094874

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by agileAlligator in "3D framework for the web, built on Svelte and Three.js"

agileAlligator — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:04:31 +0000

That's way cool man. I love the aesthetic.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Google made me ruin a perfectly good website (2023)"

agileAlligator — Sun, 28 Apr 2024 08:58:43 +0000

I honestly don't think it's possible to have a QA team large enough to handle the gajillions of websites that come up and disappear every day. They just have to come up with better and better metrics until they find one that approximates the human experience the best.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Anthropic: Prompt Library"

agileAlligator — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 17:55:45 +0000

> you'd simply disable WASD controls until the word is typed successfully.

Which it doesn't do, but would very simply be rectified by a follow up prompt asking it to do that

New comment by agileAlligator in "Show HN: MonsterWriter – Write a thesis, post, or organize notes"

agileAlligator — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 13:54:03 +0000

This project comes three months too late for me sadly... I'll still check it out though

New comment by agileAlligator in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

agileAlligator — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 06:00:56 +0000

Exactly how I learned to touch type; only it was Discord not IRC. The more things change, the more they remain the same.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Facebook bans ads for Votes for Women boardgame, claims "sensitive social issue""

agileAlligator — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 14:57:35 +0000

He means that welfare beneficiaries and women vote in way that is against his image of what a capitalist democracy should be.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Facebook bans ads for Votes for Women boardgame, claims "sensitive social issue""

agileAlligator — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 10:40:57 +0000

Yes, that is what he said. Welfare beneficiaries and women are two groups libertarians find are tough constituencies to appeal to, and both of these groups have increased in size since 1920.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Book list for streetfighting computer scientists (2022)"

agileAlligator — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 06:17:47 +0000

> eventually only read vol 2 because I was interested in (pseudo) random number at that time

Your comment comes at the perfect time, I am looking at learning about random number functions and tests of randomness myself. Do you have any other resources about these topics?

New comment by agileAlligator in "Conway's Game of Life is omniperiodic"

agileAlligator — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 02:15:00 +0000

I envy today's generation and their free access to high quality maths resources haha

New comment by agileAlligator in "Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API"

agileAlligator — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 18:22:04 +0000

I completely forgot I had that active haha

New comment by agileAlligator in "Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API"

agileAlligator — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:30:20 +0000

If I read the post correctly, they are making changes to the API, not the website itself, right?

You will still be able to visit the website and download the subtitles you want. You just won't be able to make use of the API without paying for it.

Edit: Nvm they are going to insert ads everywhere

New comment by agileAlligator in "Nature retracts controversial superconductivity paper by embattled physicist"

agileAlligator — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 04:52:30 +0000

I'm having a hard time believing those papers weren't written by humans after a cursory glance

New comment by agileAlligator in "Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI"

agileAlligator — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 14:51:11 +0000

Steps 1 and 2 are more reliant on human-to-human communication if you are developing an application to be used by some end user and not something that just ingests data and processes it. It takes skill to translate non-technical speak into a clear goal and specifications required to achieve that goal, to probe the third party and ask specific questions to tease out their expectations of the application. That, LLMs can't do yet. I have no doubt that they'll get better at that in the near future though.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Copying Angry Birds with nothing but AI"

agileAlligator — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 02:58:41 +0000

The workflow has shifted a step up:

1. Define problem

2. Generate specifications <-

3. Write the code

Knowing how to do step 3 will get less and less important everyday.

New comment by agileAlligator in "Nota is a language for writing documents, like academic papers and blog posts"

agileAlligator — Fri, 20 Oct 2023 05:35:11 +0000

Reminiscent of Gwern's website[0] (click on any one of the articles to see what I am talking about). Was that an inspiration in creating this?

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/index

New comment by agileAlligator in "Nomnoml"

agileAlligator — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 13:10:28 +0000

I'm saying it should be a mix of the two. The output should be interactive and change the code on interaction.