Hacker News: dskrvk

Autonomous AI Hacking and the Future of Cybersecurity

dskrvk — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:42:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/10/autonomous-ai-hacking-and-the-future-of-cybersecurity.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45540893

Points: 3

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New comment by dskrvk in "Ultrasonic Chef's Knife"

dskrvk — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 20:56:20 +0000

I like this vibro-knife “demo” by Neil Blompkamp’s Oats Studios: https://youtu.be/zaeFgSR_DMU

I Was Wrong About Data Center Water Consumption

dskrvk — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 19:29:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-data-center-water

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45095826

Points: 56

# Comments: 29

New comment by dskrvk in "The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump"

dskrvk — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 04:37:16 +0000

> And for another, in the process of seeking to maximize its gain from technologies discovered in its labs, the University of Chicago now does more than participate in licensing. It actively invests in start-ups by its faculty, millions of dollars in dozens of investments. Quite apart from the fact that these investments have mostly been a bust, the practice raises serious questions. Can a university make rational decisions about the value of a given employee when it co-invests in commercial ventures with that employee?

> And more seriously, where does the money come from? Is the university driving down what it spends to educate its own students so that it can use unrestricted funds to invest in startups? Or is the university functioning as a kind of tax-free pass-through organization? Does it receive third-party money that it invests as a tax-free enterprise, to the benefit of other investors in the same start-up?

> Spending as little tuition as possible on educating students, and (instead) investing in start-ups ... This is why I say the University of Chicago’s leadership and trustees run it as a tax-free technology incubator. All of which raises the question, whether an operation of this kind deserves the status of 501(c)(3) charitable organization.

JSFireTruck: Exploring Malicious JavaScript Using JSFuck Obfuscation Technique

dskrvk — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:19:15 +0000

Article URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/malicious-javascript-using-jsfiretruck-as-obfuscation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44329248

Points: 1

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The 'Digital Trade' Trap

dskrvk — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 15:27:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.compactmag.com/article/the-digital-trade-trap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494653

Points: 1

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New comment by dskrvk in "Exploring the Paramilitary Leaks"

dskrvk — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:40:26 +0000

The guy is just walking us through the process of analyzing the dataset. He’s not really making any conclusions at this point - it’s like a technical tutorial for journalists.

New comment by dskrvk in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

dskrvk — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 13:35:03 +0000

Bloomberg recently did an excellent series on just this issue (including insurers of last resort in different states). The first part: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-home-insurance-real-...

New comment by dskrvk in "The Weeds Are Winning"

dskrvk — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:54:03 +0000

Bruce Sterling’s “Heavy Weather” describes (offhandedly) a post-agricultural ecosystem where only herbicide/cold/heat-resistant weeds remain. People then breed genetically-engineered livestock that can convert the weeds into more useful substances.

New comment by dskrvk in "The Friendship that made Google huge (2018)"

dskrvk — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 01:00:59 +0000

It elevates Google itself. “It’s a place where people like Jeff and Sanjay work!” Not saying that was the main motivation for producing the article and definitely not trying to question the protagonists’ achievements.

New comment by dskrvk in "AI-powered music scam nets musician $10M in royalties–and federal charges"

dskrvk — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:53:14 +0000

He didn’t generate the music himself, and likely worked with others on setting up the bots (the article mentions co-conspirators). On the song generation:

> This led Smith to pivot to AI-generated music in 2018 when he partnered with an as-yet-unnamed AI music company CEO and a music promoter to create a large library of computer-generated songs. The district attorney announcement did not specify precisely what method Smith used to generate the songs.

I wonder what company he used and whether they can be liable too.

New comment by dskrvk in "Please do not attempt to simplify this code"

dskrvk — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:44:17 +0000

But comments go out of date, and the compiler doesn’t check them against the implementation. To document + enforce the intended functionality, use tests.

New comment by dskrvk in "Boeing Starliner launches first crewed mission"

dskrvk — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 00:20:34 +0000

It’s also surprising that BBC, a government-funded media outlet, is showing ads. Either the government funding isn’t enough or they are trying to recoup some of those costs by showing ads to people who’ve already paid for the content with their taxes (even the international part is paid for - see below).

> Its work is funded principally by an annual television licence fee which is charged to all British households, companies, and organisations using any type of equipment to receive or record live television broadcasts or to use the BBC's streaming service, iPlayer. The fee is set by the British Government, agreed by Parliament, and is used to fund the BBC's radio, TV, and online services covering the nations and regions of the UK. Since 1 April 2014, it has also funded the BBC World Service (launched in 1932 as the BBC Empire Service), which broadcasts in 28 languages and provides comprehensive TV, radio, and online services in Arabic and Persian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC