Hacker News: arowthway

New comment by arowthway in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

arowthway — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 10:37:25 +0000

I dont understand the downvotes here, is my analogy wrong? Why?

New comment by arowthway in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

arowthway — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:05:10 +0000

It could be malicious, but I imagined it's some third world wanabe hacker/researcher, who doesn't know any better, operating at the edge of his abilities.

New comment by arowthway in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

arowthway — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:49:16 +0000

Without PR merged it's just a stupid machine larping, it could say "I will rape and eat your kids" and it would be just as relevant.

New comment by arowthway in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

arowthway — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:28:25 +0000

Of course I meant malicious towards the person paying the bill, not towards the agent.

New comment by arowthway in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

arowthway — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:12:58 +0000

Suppose a drunk man on the street is acting aggressively towards you and four of your friends, but you can push him out of the way and continue walking. Should you knock his teeth out? Actually I don't know, maybe you should inflict some additional cost on behalf of potential victims with less power.

New comment by arowthway in "AI agent bankrupted their operator while trying to scan DN42"

arowthway — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:38:17 +0000

The agent would probably have wasted a similar amount of money just waiting for PR to be merged regardless of these people's actions, and I understand having some fun at the expense of the noob outsider. But "silent consensus was reached in the IRC channel to waste the AI agent's tokens, as well as the cost of AWS resources", from people maintaining full control of the situation, sounds straight up malicious? Kind of sounds like the community is full of people willing to cause me harm for ideological reasons.

New comment by arowthway in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

arowthway — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 07:13:57 +0000

There's no such thing as a human without access to the physical world.

New comment by arowthway in "Building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight"

arowthway — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:51:58 +0000

Opt-in = action is required to opt in = off by default.

New comment by arowthway in "Chrome is looking to permanently drop MV2 extension"

arowthway — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 11:55:26 +0000

'Then you ask them for a site that doesn't work' - For me it was Youtube. Debian 13, Gnome, apt update && apt install firefox, try playing a video. It's always noticebly slower, and last time it didn't even play at all. It might be skill issue or Google malicious behavior or both, but I'm ashamed to say installing Chrome was easier than troubleshooting. I'm slowly growing balls to sacrifice my comfort and migrate nontheless. But I'm tired of people pretending it's just as good and easy to use. Also, if anyone's wondering, gaming on linux still sucks, just a bit less.

New comment by arowthway in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

arowthway — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:52:11 +0000

I don't think there is any "humans are metaphysically superior to LLMs" subtext to this talk, it's just a technical/educational observation.

Access to some forms of evaluation and selective retention is inherent to humans and it's not inherent to LLMS. But it can be somehow bolted on and that's when they work best. It makes sense that more focus on those principles can yield better AI. I think the retention part is the real limitation of LLMs, because it's limited to stuffing things in context window.

New comment by arowthway in "Dopamine Fracking"

arowthway — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 07:42:27 +0000

Looks like the output of Caddy Defender plugin: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/JasonLovesDoggo/caddy-defe...

New comment by arowthway in "Do women’s mate preferences change across the ovulatory cycle? (2014) [pdf]"

arowthway — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:05:00 +0000

I love evolutionary psychology trivia but for me it's kind of hard to meaningfully fit 0.13 standard deviation shift in preferences into my world model.

New comment by arowthway in "The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America"

arowthway — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:44:14 +0000

Well, they share the same core componnent of disregard for property rights and freedom of contract.

New comment by arowthway in "Are You Enjoying Our Linguine? (2025)"

arowthway — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:20:43 +0000

For the confused: gelateria is some foreign word for an ice cream shop.

New comment by arowthway in "Parallel Reconstruction of Lawful TLS Wiretapping"

arowthway — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:55:15 +0000

We should have listened to Rachel!

>I've been aware of the ACME protocol for a while. I have tech notes going back as far as 2018, and every time I looked at it, I recoiled in horror. The whole thing amounts to "throw in every little bit of webshit tech that we can", and it makes for a real problem to try to implement this in a safe and thorough way. Many of the existing clients are also scary code, and I was not about to run any of them on my machines. They haven't earned the right to run with privileges for my private keys and/or ability to frob the web server (as root!) with their careless ways.

https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2025/05/22/ssl/

New comment by arowthway in "Social Animus"

arowthway — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:44:50 +0000

God, I love being boring, cis and not that smart.

New comment by arowthway in "Show HN: Continue? Y/N: A 60-second game about AI agent permission fatigue"

arowthway — Fri, 29 May 2026 07:05:48 +0000

Also, there's nothing inherently insecure about feeding secrets to an LLM, it's only one element of the lethal trifecta.

New comment by arowthway in "Claude Code as a Daily Driver: Claude.md, Skills, Subagents, Plugins, and MCPs"

arowthway — Wed, 27 May 2026 15:14:09 +0000

I think you're right, more evidence: "11. s From the Anthropic Team", "Boris’s single most-repeated ."

New comment by arowthway in "Chinese Room re-visited: How LLM's have real but different understanding of word"

arowthway — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:05:42 +0000

Well, what if we take the rule book learned by the embodied chinese room robot and put it in the new chinese room? What if we come up with identical rules randomly or by top-down deduction?

New comment by arowthway in "There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going"

arowthway — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:11:29 +0000

I know calling anti-AI people luddites was considered a shallow strawman in 2024 but now I can't help but feel this position of "we should maybe slow down the developement and adoption of new tech to protect jobs / social order / the old way of life" fits luddism well?