Hacker News: chews

New comment by chews in "Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds"

chews — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:20:25 +0000

... it in fact did not end well.

New comment by chews in "Kalshi to allow trading on borrowed funds"

chews — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 03:19:15 +0000

betting on turtle races all the way down.

New comment by chews in "Obscura: VPN that can't log your activity"

chews — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:43:17 +0000

a vpn company is a paid for MITM attack surface.

New comment by chews in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

chews — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 19:21:59 +0000

nice, Karp really reeled in a nice big fish, and ofcourse he is going to blame OpenAI/Anthropic for giving the targets, this explains his CNBC rants about the frontiers, his tool was the trigger in a killchain of hallucination.

New comment by chews in "Show HN: AI·rete·RAG – a Rete rule engine decides, RAG explains why"

chews — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:45:51 +0000

It's been a while since I used a Rete rule engine, back in my days as math nerd at a mortgage bank (ooof we survived the 08 meltdown by the skin of our teeth) we used an internal fork of Drools and paired it with a merkle tree datasctructure to store lending decisions.... I knew blockchain was gonna be a thing when the genesis block referenced the bailout... I kick myself daily cause should've bought more bitcoin.

New comment by chews in "Meta’s Muse has a serious 0-day"

chews — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:37:50 +0000

I love that when you open a web inspection console on facebook, it says "Stop! This is a browser feature intended for developers. If someone told you to copy-paste something here to enable a Facebook feature or "hack" someone's account, it's a scam and will give them access to your Facebook account. See https://www.facebook.com/selfxss for more information."

New comment by chews in "The $100M ETF Built on Research That Doesn't Replicate"

chews — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:39:43 +0000

Classic case of Texas Sharp-shooting, painting bullseyes around the bullets.

New comment by chews in "AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran"

chews — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:29:43 +0000

I'm sorry but your data is in another castle.

New comment by chews in "A single firm is behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta hacking scandals"

chews — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:16:26 +0000

It's almost as if they would allow a terrorist plot to be successful for future reasons.

New comment by chews in "Hugging Face is billing OpenAI $100M for hacking it"

chews — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 19:32:30 +0000

That next Nvidia order just got an extra 100M service fee.

New comment by chews in "JPMorgan cut off Situational Awareness lending after AI losses"

chews — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 05:49:26 +0000

https://archive.is/43KSG

New comment by chews in "How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats"

chews — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 01:12:12 +0000

Leaders of the US use an Israeli backdoored version of Signal (TM-Signal) TeleMessage by Smarsh was used by DOD, CPB, and others for records retention reasons... also hacked to smithereens.

New comment by chews in "How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of Signal chats"

chews — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 18:24:50 +0000

I have worked with Trail of Bits before and their cryptography teams are of the toppest of notches, I still have deep skepticism of Signal though. There are safer ways to use it, never getting push notifications is one part of it. I think their work is admirable, but the need for them to bootstrap you with SMS is a gotcha... they have usernames now, but even with those you have to have to bootstrap it with a number/identity.

New comment by chews in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

chews — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:06:14 +0000

now is time to start the ai to spam/reverse the - google.com/goto for url resolution, it can't be that hard to reverse engineer how the hash works. It was doable for twitter and YouTube, it will be doable here too...

New comment by chews in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

chews — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:59:24 +0000

you should kick the tires on an unfiltered (abliterated model) it's the closest thing to having a real conversation with the devil. There is good reason for the concern's outlined above and undoubtedly Anthropic / OpenAI have internal unfiltered models with no safety... they got freaked out based on how they work and are virtue signaling alarm... all while selling out to defense contractors.

New comment by chews in "US to ban Canadian dairy, alcohol, motor vehicle imports on September 29"

chews — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:28:51 +0000

This is what made a generation of Kennedy's...

New comment by chews in "Chinese AI Companies Conducting Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies [pdf]"

chews — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:18:42 +0000

Add a dash of nimby and xenophobia and this is about right... you've got the likes of OpenAi and Anthropic destroying printed work from Austrailia and New Zealand to acquire latent data, Meta executives downloading commercial porn on their home computers and driving SSD's into work, all of them are building datascenters in metropolitan areas with generous tax breaks for their non-profitable ventures. The fact that 60% of model usage is now Chinese is what's prompting these folks to whine for protectionary measures. Meanwhile they will have no problem clearcutting massive swaths of meaningful work for people in their pursuit of AGI.

New comment by chews in "It took a year to ship WebAssembly in Anubis"

chews — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:53:17 +0000

It's wild to me that PoW systems are how we sort the bot problem... the bummer is that all this "work" is just wasted cycles, at least in crypto there is a token you can sell.

New comment by chews in "The car industry A/B tested selling a car with and without CarPlay"

chews — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:48:18 +0000

Both CarPlay and Android Auto are second screens to your phone... they're just "Airplay" streaming a simpler interface.

New comment by chews in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

chews — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:18:23 +0000

being done by No Such Agency.