Hacker News: cedws

New comment by cedws in "Using LLM for confidence scoring is a bad idea"

cedws — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 10:21:15 +0000

Then they ushered in an age of garbage by removing the scale altogether.

New comment by cedws in "mitmproxy adds --emudhra option"

cedws — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:32:49 +0000

The apps I've been interested in have attestation and reverse engineering countermeasures that block Frida.

New comment by cedws in "Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID"

cedws — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:53:13 +0000

Why not use agent forwarding?

New comment by cedws in "mitmproxy adds --emudhra option"

cedws — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 05:51:21 +0000

Most interesting stuff is pinned unfortunately.

New comment by cedws in "People sick of being spied on by their smart TV"

cedws — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 10:42:12 +0000

Sounds like it’s time for some involuntary open sourcing.

New comment by cedws in "Setting Up SSH Keys on macOS with Touch ID"

cedws — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:29:40 +0000

You aren't supposed to be moving SSH keys. They should stay on the machine they were generated on. The less accessible they are the better.

I really wouldn't rely on an SSH key as the sole way of accessing a machine.

New comment by cedws in "Anthropic's proposed AI safety bill only kicks in if 50 deaths or $1B in damages"

cedws — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 15:29:25 +0000

Yes, and if Anthropic are trying what people are saying they are, that would be intentional. $1B could be reached quickly if cyberattacks supported by AI count.

New comment by cedws in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

cedws — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 15:49:52 +0000

Could you please share your methodology?

New comment by cedws in "UK Police Arrest 15-Year-Old over Posts Mocking Politician"

cedws — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:26:32 +0000

> “There were a number of posts that targeted me...It was unpleasant and I was targeted by a child I had no way of dealing with.”

Oh my god, how pathetic can you be. Seriously?

New comment by cedws in "Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement"

cedws — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 10:19:10 +0000

Also the part where you have three meals a day prepared for you, children’s needs taken care of, laundry washed ironed and folded, house cleaned. Working “hard” as a billionaire doesn’t mean shit.

New comment by cedws in "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"

cedws — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:43:38 +0000

I can agree with that. I hope something else to be skilled at emerges, because a future of just prompting agents seems incredibly depressing.

New comment by cedws in "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"

cedws — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:39:29 +0000

It's kind of already happening, Microsoft are slowly letting Windows die. Gamers go to either consoles or Linux. Microsoft buys up studios so that the games become console exclusive, attempting to lock Linux users out.

If Windows dies, Linux gaming will kind of go down with it. Existing games will continue to work under Wine of course but I doubt developers will do the upkeep to keep their games working on a dead platform.

New comment by cedws in "AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary"

cedws — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 16:33:54 +0000

I have an agent pulling apart a game right now with a Ghidra MCP server. It's incredible watching it do in an hour what took me literal weeks before AI. I was never a reverse engineering rockstar but now I don't have to be.

New comment by cedws in "Epic Games reportedly pivoting to "AI first" game development model"

cedws — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:33:58 +0000

Jesus, Epic shipped slop even without AI, imagine how bad it will be with AI. Contrast that with the game Jon Blow just shipped after 10 years of work, already highly acclaimed. No AI in sight, no mad hatter CEO trying to wring every last cent of profit from children.

New comment by cedws in "Software engineers don't get to be Luddites about AI"

cedws — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:53:51 +0000

Like the author but didn’t like this post. I was born in 2000s, how the fuck is it my fault that people were replaced by software? Why do I deserve to be punished? Have my generation not had a hard enough time, now they have even fewer paths to a good career.

New comment by cedws in "Codex CLI installs a persistent, self-updating background daemon by default"

cedws — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:05:47 +0000

5MB is still huge.

New comment by cedws in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

cedws — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 02:55:18 +0000

Thank you!

New comment by cedws in "Open-source version of Adobe Creative Suite, built with Rust, using AI"

cedws — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:01:03 +0000

If you’re talking about the AI models, yes, for now. However the adversarial nature of US vs China is in our favour, it puts better and cheaper models in our hands. We absolutely must not allow Chinese models to be banned or restricted. That’s exactly what they’ll attempt to restore the power imbalance.

New comment by cedws in "Open-source version of Adobe Creative Suite, built with Rust, using AI"

cedws — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:59:40 +0000

This is how we take back power guys. Corporations have stolen from us, now we steal from them.

New comment by cedws in "500B tokens later: Letting AI agents decompile a first-person shooter"

cedws — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:33:00 +0000

Could you talk more about how you’ve used this technique? I want to start on a similar kind of AI-driven decomp project and I’m looking for any kind of edge I can get.