Hacker News: asciii

New comment by asciii in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

asciii — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:24:45 +0000

> On July 8th, OpenAI agents discovered a vulnerability within their sandbox environment allowing them to reach external websites on the internet. This access seems to have only allowed the agents to make ‘GET’ requests, meaning they could fetch and read websites, but not interact with them, submit forms, or send data to them.

Yeah to me it's more like the sandbox wasn't monitored at all. In their observability setup...did they not catch all these urls, multi get requests, chaining etc from the sandbox per se?

New comment by asciii in "Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners"

asciii — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:18:05 +0000

> Tech became the greatest trojan horse for south asian immigration.

Weird take, are you against upward mobility? Would you not take the same opportunity in their position?

New comment by asciii in "Jury finds Facebook liable for deceiving users in Cambridge Analytica case"

asciii — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 04:00:37 +0000

Reminds me of that FOIA request a guy filed when he had his kid and did not receive reply/confirmation until his kid was in college...

New comment by asciii in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

asciii — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 03:57:26 +0000

Running in a "Sandbox"...but agent can still send GET requests? Whaaat

New comment by asciii in "BMW Spider-Man in-car advertising"

asciii — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 03:54:23 +0000

Drove a lot of BMWs when I was working summers as a mechanic

New comment by asciii in "Claude Fable 5"

asciii — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:45:36 +0000

jjj

New comment by asciii in "Feedr v0.8.0 – a TUI RSS reader, now read the full article from your terminal"

asciii — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:12:50 +0000

text is king. The rise of LLMs helped reinforce that nicely IMO.

New comment by asciii in "The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?"

asciii — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:07:46 +0000

$5 VPS + your AI subscription?

New comment by asciii in "Ask HN: What career will you switch to when AI replaces developers?"

asciii — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:23:58 +0000

AI Debugger

New comment by asciii in "We might all be AI engineers now"

asciii — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 21:04:33 +0000

Amazing to re-watch

> "I cannot wait to castrate a 3000 pound bull as it kicks my head in"

How I feel about merging an AI-generated PR these days and waiting for the issues

New comment by asciii in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

asciii — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:59:41 +0000

There were deaths in these fishing incidents[1].

> Anyone believing these're equivalent imperialism activity is hypocrite at best.

In terms of equivalence, I would say based on their intentions they wish they could be more but would rather let the US burn it on the way down

[1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/03/asia/philippines-south-china-...

New comment by asciii in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

asciii — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 04:50:37 +0000

I disagree on China. What would you call China's behavior[1] in the South China Sea with regards to fishing vessels and other non-military boats?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzZrcqf826E

New comment by asciii in "IBM Plunges After Anthropic's Latest Update Takes on COBOL"

asciii — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 22:38:04 +0000

> how we take the stability of our payments infrastructure for granted.

I was about to comment we should all closely watch those bank statements and balances...

While I'm OK with the use of AI to understand the COBOL codebase, I understand it's a single prompt away from transformation and production. Just one executive approval away ha.

New comment by asciii in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

asciii — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:37:49 +0000

It was also merged 15 days prior to production release...however, you're spot on with the empty test. That's a basic scenario that if it returned all...is like oh no.

New comment by asciii in "The Pentagon just threatened to blacklist Anthropic"

asciii — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 02:39:08 +0000

I read recently that they removed "safely" from their mission statement...or have been moving away from it for a while.

https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe...

New comment by asciii in "OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission"

asciii — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:04:18 +0000

There should be a name change to reflect the closed nature of “Open”AI…imo

New comment by asciii in "Monosketch"

asciii — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:14:44 +0000

Just my kinda thing--great stuff!

New comment by asciii in "Show HN: Rowboat – AI coworker that turns your work into a knowledge graph (OSS)"

asciii — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 20:58:02 +0000

I second this, as a big Fastmail user

New comment by asciii in "Everything – Locate files and folders by name instantly"

asciii — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 00:41:49 +0000

This tool is incredible for its simplicity. I was looking for old files I thought I deleted from flash drive and it was able to detect them instantly on my PC vs. native explorer.

New comment by asciii in "Bitcoin tumbles below $70K, heavy losses in cryptocurrencies in last three weeks"

asciii — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 15:35:18 +0000

Maybe Satoshi will finally sell his coins at $0 as a joke to the world