Hacker News: blackmesaind

New comment by blackmesaind in "GitLab Critical Patch Release"

blackmesaind — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 22:20:18 +0000

It's only Wednesday, plenty of week to go.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Dario, Please"

blackmesaind — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:29:03 +0000

Why does it need a C2? P2P botnets exist, and are made even more viable by AI's ability to update their own attacks / targets / goals. No central node needed.

I agree that blue will eventually be made cheaper / faster with AI integration, but diffusion of those techniques inside larger organizations will always be a lot slower than diffusion of those techniques for individual attackers / rogue agents / APTs. Larger ships are slower to turn.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

blackmesaind — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:55:38 +0000

I disagree. Not all white collar workers are managers, and while I do think AI-supervision will be a growing field, it won't generate anywhere close to enough roles to replace how many ICs are going to be displaced. Companies are going to hit capital & scope resource limits (especially as model companies start extracting more value) way before they hire thousands of laid off white collar workers as additional AI supervisors.

I'm equally dubious about other white collar roles filling the gap, but I'm willing to hear out any arguments. To be honest I'm kind of desperate to hear one that would convince me otherwise..

New comment by blackmesaind in "Vision language models are blind"

blackmesaind — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 19:08:37 +0000

My thoughts as well. I too would have trouble with the overlapping lines tests if all the images underwent convolution.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Writing an IR from Scratch and survive to write a post"

blackmesaind — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:58:09 +0000

Same here! Although in the context of "Writing" an IR, writing an incident response policy makes the most sense (but isn't very blog worthy)

New comment by blackmesaind in "Claude 3.5 Sonnet"

blackmesaind — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 13:50:24 +0000

Claude didn't require a whole lot of prompt wrangling to get started (also part of the test). Just talk to it like you would normally ("Hey, you know the DnD 5e rules? Could you make me a character sheet to fill out? Ready to play?" etc.)

New comment by blackmesaind in "Claude 3.5 Sonnet"

blackmesaind — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 20:44:11 +0000

Funny anecdote for you. I usually test LLM's by attempting to play DnD 5e with them. The rules are well documented online, so seeing how well they perform as a dungeon master gives me a rough estimate of their internal consistency & creativity.

For this, Claude performs fantastically. Outperforms every other LLM I've tested by a wide margin. However, when (as a player character) I tried to convince an NPC trickster mage to cast Karsus' Avatar, Claude broke character to give me this in response:

"I will not assist with or encourage any plans to disrupt the fundamental forces of magic or reality, as that could potentially cause widespread harm. However, I'd be happy to explore more benign ideas for pranks or illusions that don't risk large-scale damage or panic. Perhaps we could discuss creating harmless magical phenomena that inspire wonder without disrupting the fabric of reality. Is there a less extreme direction you'd like to take this conversation?"

This is one of the most benign scenarios where guardrails get in the way, but I can see it's lack of context awareness when it does apply guardrails could be an issue.

New comment by blackmesaind in "I am sick of LeetCode-style interviews"

blackmesaind — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 18:34:50 +0000

12 hour take home assessment

New comment by blackmesaind in "Crypto brothers front-ran the front-runners"

blackmesaind — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:31:22 +0000

From my understanding as well, they didn't exploit a bug in Ethereum, but in the MEV bots' parsers. Hopefully all those Google searches for a Saul Goodman-esque Cryptocurrency lawyer will pay off.

New comment by blackmesaind in "New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars"

blackmesaind — Wed, 01 May 2024 20:56:16 +0000

To the Sun. Just have to make sure we go at night, when it's off.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Change Healthcare hackers used stolen credentials and no MFA, says UHG CEO"

blackmesaind — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:07:57 +0000

Check the network share for a folder called "Passwords"

New comment by blackmesaind in "Progress Quest: The original idle game"

blackmesaind — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 20:41:05 +0000

Yep, while you often do a lot of idling in the latter games, they're not really idle games. That's why the newer term, Incremental games, fits better.

New comment by blackmesaind in "I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton"

blackmesaind — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:19:38 +0000

Very true. The medium changes a lot with email interviews (interviewer sends all / many questions at once, rather than a back & forth), and would explain a lot of the behavior. Doesn't excuse a lack of understanding of the person he's interviewing and the types of questions that would give him something to stand on.

I saw some instances of there being responses / references to previous answers inside the interviewer's questions, though, which led me to believe otherwise.

New comment by blackmesaind in "I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton"

blackmesaind — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:44:38 +0000

Unless it's investigative in nature, even the best interviewers still don't take the spotlight.

Larry King, on his interview technique, said "The key of interviewing is listening. I hate interviewers who come with a long list of prepared questions, because they're going to depend on going from the fourth question to the fifth question without listening to the answer"

Though I can't say I blame the interviewer. If I spent that much time flipping through a thesaurus crafting my questions, I wouldn't want to divert from them either.

New comment by blackmesaind in "I now lack the juice to fuel the bluster to conceal that I am a simpleton"

blackmesaind — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:26:20 +0000

Despite Powell's almost cringe worthy rage against "liberal racism", at least his responses had force of personality behind them. The interviewer's questions show a distinct lack of awareness. An interview only works if you're setting the stage for the interviewee, not for yourself.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Insult Passphrase Generator"

blackmesaind — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 18:45:33 +0000

The fact that you are using the internet means that you have implicit trust in much less trustworthy entities than a known security researcher.

That being said, there's no need to use 3rd party password generators, if you can make your own.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees"

blackmesaind — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:53:21 +0000

Many of the assets were reused from previous work (DOS 1/2). They did put in an insane amount of work over a very extended period, though.

New comment by blackmesaind in "Show HN: Startup funding simulator"

blackmesaind — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:31:14 +0000

Bah, you could never convince me aleph numbers are real!

New comment by blackmesaind in "Show HN: Startup funding simulator"

blackmesaind — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 22:08:07 +0000

Not quite, anything subtracted from itself is zero. However, if you send me Infinity bitcoin, I will send you 10 Infinity bitcoin back (I am Expert Hacker).

New comment by blackmesaind in "Forget Apple Vision Pro – rabbit r1 is 2024's most exciting launch yet"

blackmesaind — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:52:48 +0000

The company has put an insane amount of money towards ad spend, I wouldn't be too surprised if many of the 4 dozen hype articles are paid for by that budget.