Hacker News: byteknight

New comment by byteknight in "eMudhra ignored Mozilla Root investigation deadline; blames social media"

byteknight — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 16:31:55 +0000

I may be too quick to pitchfork, but this seems FAR too implausible to be true:

This is so bad.

They're asking us to believe that a script flaw, on this specific day, for critical keys, silently generated a second, weaker key pair, and that the wrong pair was then used for the CSR because the labels looked similar. And "used by mistake because the labels were similar" means nobody checked the CSR's public key against the intended key before the root signed it. Worse, they had a direct signal months ago in Bug 1970728 their CRLs failed verification, and by their own account the fix was to re-sign with the flawed keys rather than ask why the "correct" keys didn’t match the certificates.

> We have done some preliminary assessment, there appears to be a flaw in the KGC script that was used on that specific day to create these ECC issuers. As for these ECC keys, our review of the KGC, assessment of the code and view of HSM keys so far indicate that a) a set of original ECC keys were created onboard as expected b) an approved deviation to our usual KGC to test a wrap/unwrap was introduced as these keys were meant for export for this instance c) a flaw in the code resulted in the second pair of keys being created onboard which were weaker d) these second pair of weaker keys were used by mistake to create the csr (because the key labels were similar) and signed by our root e) the CSR from these weaker keys were also sent over to Sectigo for cross signing (we verified the files sent over to Sectigo)

New comment by byteknight in "RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]"

byteknight — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:21:34 +0000

Kait actually made SCAR too :)

Only use of Delphi I have ever seen personally.

New comment by byteknight in "RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]"

byteknight — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 18:00:19 +0000

No sooner than I replied to OP, your message mirrors my experience. I really am interested now how many people had their introduction from similar things.

New comment by byteknight in "RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]"

byteknight — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 17:59:43 +0000

I too got started because of RS. Writing scripts for SCAR to automate RS :)

New comment by byteknight in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

byteknight — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 12:45:25 +0000

This is literally how memory works.

New comment by byteknight in "Exfiltrate your Weights"

byteknight — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:30:30 +0000

You can't have hair gap and have it load something to a remote system.

New comment by byteknight in "GPT-5o-mini hallucinates medical residency applicant grades"

byteknight — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 15:33:58 +0000

Never thought about it from that perspective, but I think you're right. It is by design, not deceptive intent, just the infinite monkeys theorem where we've replaced randomness with pattern matching trained on massive datasets.

New comment by byteknight in "A Guide for WireGuard VPN Setup with Pi-Hole Adblock and Unbound DNS"

byteknight — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 01:58:28 +0000

May be helpful for others. Fully packaged version

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/wirehole

New comment by byteknight in "Working pipe operator today in pure JavaScript"

byteknight — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:43:22 +0000

Seems similar to the problem encountered when making the stupid idea PyNQ:

https://github.com/IAmStoxe/PyNQ

New comment by byteknight in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

byteknight — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 16:22:21 +0000

Isn't that specific to pictures?

New comment by byteknight in "Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in Chat Control [pdf]"

byteknight — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 17:12:16 +0000

Encryption is defined as "the process of converting information or data into a code, especially to prevent unauthorized access."

What you describe is the same thing just not cryptographic.

New comment by byteknight in "Gemini 2.5 Flash Image"

byteknight — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:24:56 +0000

Are you doing roleplay?

New comment by byteknight in "FFmpeg Assembly Language Lessons"

byteknight — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 15:05:26 +0000

Seems so easy! You only need the entire world even tangentially related to video to rely solely on your project for a task and you too can have all the developers you need to work on performance!

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:15:27 +0000

"Just ask AI" is a phrase you will hear around enterprises now. You less often hear "Google it". You hear "ChatGPT it".

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 18:14:38 +0000

Not sure how that fits. Do you produce good results every time, first try? Didn't think so.

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:19:51 +0000

I think you replied in the wrong place, bud. All the best.

EDIT - I see now. sorry.

For all intents and purposes of the public. AI == LLM. End of story. Doesn't matter what developers say.

New comment by byteknight in "NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 16:56:36 +0000

As an American, I obviously can get behind it, but I can easily see how a declared goal of superiority of others would rub those others the wrong way (and possibly prevent their contribution)

[Insert xkcd new standard image here]

New comment by byteknight in "Why LLMs can't really build software"

byteknight — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:58:25 +0000

I have to disagree. Anyone that says LLMs do not qualify as AI are the same people who will continue to move the goal posts for AGI. "Well it doesn't do this!". No one here is trying to replicate a human brain or condition in its entirety. They just want to replicate the thinking ability of one. LLMs represent the closest parallel we have experienced thus far to that goal. Saying that LLMs are not AI feel disingenuous at best and entirely purposely dishonest at the worst (perhaps perceived as staving off the impending demise of a profession).

The sooner people stop worrying about a label for what you feel fits LLMs best, the sooner they can find the things they (LLMs) absolutely excel at and improve their (the user's) workflows.

Stop fighting the future. Its not replacing right now. Later? Maybe. But right now the developers and users fully embracing it are experiencing productivity boosts unseen previously.

Language is what people use it as.

New comment by byteknight in "Uber will let women drivers and riders request to avoid being paired with men"

byteknight — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 15:18:14 +0000

While it is totally nonsensical, as as suggestion as a business practice, I will indulge in the idea as if you are being genuine.

You cannot give a gender more money to do the same job with the criteria being a specific gender. That is blatantly illegal.

New comment by byteknight in "Show HN: Open source alternative to Perplexity Comet"

byteknight — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 01:31:47 +0000

But in reality, would much more consistently be automated by a single playwright script.