Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48300363

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48284243

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  When she scanned with her app in front of the manager, a whole new set of prices came up. “Where are these prices coming from? So now I’ve got new prices. Different price in the back, different price at the register, brand new prices at customer service.”

  After an hour of dealing with just the shoes, the manager tells her that the shoes simply won’t ring up for $3 — but Kat wouldn’t back down.

  “We’re not doing that again just because you’ve now decided to change the price while I’ve been here talking to you,” she said. “I’m not mad at any human here talking to me…This just is a glimpse, tangible, provable event that this is happening — because before it was all just hypothetical.”

  Eventually, they “allowed” her to buy the shoes for $3.

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Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48283768

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  [Hugh] Wilson recalled that Dr. Johnny Fever "would always say, 'More music and less Nessman.' And he (Les) never got it."

Plus he should plan on living on the ground floor of any building as recent Russians have had a habit of jumping from high buildings...

see https://www.geekwire.com/2019/microsoft-says-goodbye-past-de...

for a virtual walkthrough, see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250708-00/?p=11...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48144004

Points: 5

# Comments: 3

It's hard to convince managers to spend money on static analysis tools (or any development tool).

Unless your company just got bad publicity for a bug and your devs come to you and demonstrate that a certain static analysis tool would have flagged that particular piece of code, most managers would let the beancounter-facet dominate the decision making process.

Ideally, you'd do a comprehensive all-source-code scan, (and the LLM-scanner finds everything during those scans), and fix all the reported defects.

Afterwards, any dev that commits code will run the LLM-scanner on the modified code (and affected areas) and fix any reported defects.

So the black-hat hacker would be shut out unless they get access to an LLM-scanner with better analysis than what the target project is using.

Major LLM-scanners could give priority access for new versions of LLM-scanners to major projects to find any defects in the current source code before any other party could use the reported defects against the project or their users.

So black-hat hackers would be left with developing their own LLM-scanner better/more efficient than existing major LLM-scanners.

Given enough incentive, they might develop such a tool. Look at the market for zero-day vulnerabilities for smartphones, esp iPhones.

Possible problems within a function should be discoverable.

This particular bug would be hard to discover for a typical linter unless they knew/remembered that there are two execution paths for cleanup of a given element.

see https://scan.coverity.com/projects/linux for the linux-specific scan results - you need to create an account to view the reported defects.

This past couple of weeks isn't a good look for them with the releases of defects found in Linux and Firefox.

see https://www.blackduck.com/static-analysis-tools-sast/coverit...

and for Firefox-related alleged defects, see https://scan.coverity.com/projects/firefox

You have to create an account to view the actual reported defects.

There are just over 5000 reported defects still outstanding. I don't know how many overlap with the reported 271 Mythos-reported defects.

It goes back to what is the common action that the user would perform in the app. Forwarding an email is more common that Finding text in an email - at least to Billg.

see https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...

Sabastian Sawe: https://x.com/CitiusMag/status/2048471733636636730

Yomif Kejelcha: https://x.com/ChrisChavez/status/2048788130208092204

Jacob Kiplimo: https://x.com/ChrisChavez/status/2048544289743950320