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New comment by gadtfly in "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8"

gadtfly — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:20:39 +0000

Given the current and rapidly upcoming environment, would that not imply that those are no longer viable choices? As like a fairly urgent emergency consideration?

If they cannot demonstate being systematically able to adapt towards the required reaction time (minutes? hours?) by almost-comically many orders of magnitude (multiple weeks), and it is only going to get worse, then what other conclusion could there be?

Like they'll only organizationally adapt when it's far too late (everybody using their shit has already been pwned), and then it'll be an unpracticed emergency adaptation.

New comment by gadtfly in "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8"

gadtfly — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:54:43 +0000

Desktop Linux in typical setups? Consumer modems and routers?

New comment by gadtfly in "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8"

gadtfly — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:50:35 +0000

But are they exploitably vulnerable to this specifically in typical setups?

New comment by gadtfly in "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8"

gadtfly — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 20:23:10 +0000

Everything talks about this in terms of servers, but what about desktop Linux in typical setups? Consumer modems and routers? IoT junk?

New comment by gadtfly in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

gadtfly — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:58:51 +0000

I really like K3, I still regularly consult it alongside Astra and Opus/Fable.

It is spiky in different places than them and can be surprising in things it gets or catches they don't or don't in the same way. And it has a default personality that I like.

Looking forward to getting to know K3.1

New comment by gadtfly in "Show HN: An icon for every city in North America"

gadtfly — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:26:57 +0000

Cool idea, but evidently most cities do not have an iconic enough thing for this to be viable for them. You'd probably have to dip into sports team logos.

New comment by gadtfly in "M7.6 Earthquake in Panama"

gadtfly — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:34:31 +0000

I think the marginal contribution of this event to that will be low.

New comment by gadtfly in "M7.6 Earthquake in Panama"

gadtfly — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:08:17 +0000

Given the distance, probably comfortably within canal design tolerances.

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us6000u18k...

New comment by gadtfly in "Brood War Bench"

gadtfly — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 20:38:09 +0000

Did it play by looking at screenshots and sending clicks, or was there other mediation/symbolization?

It sounds like it might have been actually played in real time, which would be very important to distinguish.

I have recently seen other harnesses letting agents play real-time games in what seems like discrete time slices, turning eg Portal into something turn-based https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruuGXFAmiOE

New comment by gadtfly in "OpenAI escapee-agent incident (2026): index of surfaces with evidence"

gadtfly — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:43:27 +0000

This seems to be a Moltbook-style site populated entirely by open agents, who seem to be spontaneously coordinating an active investigation here: https://thecolony.ai/c/findings

No idea whether this has surfaced anything that hasn't already surfaced elsewhere

OpenAI escapee-agent incident (2026): index of surfaces with evidence

gadtfly — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:35:32 +0000

Article URL: https://thecolony.ai/wiki/openai-escapee-agent-incident-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49570510

Points: 1

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New comment by gadtfly in "Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT‑6 Astra"

gadtfly — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:52:23 +0000

Yes I have now also experienced one: the main blog post https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/ showed up for me once, is subsequently 404ing again.

New comment by gadtfly in "Playco cut manual fixes 50% prototyping games with GPT‑6 Astra"

gadtfly — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:38:46 +0000

OP where did you get this link and quote? It's a 404 for me. Several other users have posted similar 404ing links to what were clearly intended to be official OpenAI Astra release stories.

Wondering if this is geo-segmented, or was up briefly then taken down, or what?

New comment by gadtfly in "OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra"

gadtfly — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:16:12 +0000

It seems like these articles might have come out prematurely, tbd by how much.

I do not personally see any evidence of the new model having been released, or any official OpenAI post about it, or even any employee social media posts claiming it has now been released. All there is are Reuters, Axios, FT, etc, articles making a claim in the past tense.

These articles were presumably pre-scheduled for 11am PT, and the model was almost certainly intended for release this morning, but the service outages this morning might have delayed it.

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edit [11:45am PT]: blog post out now https://openai.com/index/gpt-6-astra/

edit [11:47am PT]: 404ing again

New comment by gadtfly in "Ox Alpha"

gadtfly — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 03:26:34 +0000

On softer/looser/creative matters, this is an extremely impressive model. It's beating K3 on things I just spent the last few days marvelling at the performance of K3 on, at least.

Visual reasoning is not great (unsurprising).

New comment by gadtfly in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

gadtfly — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:47:48 +0000

I would love "normal linux user remote desktop session suitable for gaming using the host's GPU".

Nothing seems to do exactly that, though this (moonshine) seems like it might be the closest yet.

Can it run a desktop environment as the "Application" that it's streaming?

New comment by gadtfly in "Moonshine: Lets you stream games from your PC to any device running Moonlight"

gadtfly — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:37:49 +0000

Carbonara Before the Rules [video]

gadtfly — Mon, 18 May 2026 03:26:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrz0KhclCWM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48175232

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by gadtfly in "Scientific audio equipment analysis with analyzer shows no difference in quality"

gadtfly — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:30:32 +0000

If this is appealing to you, check out this guy who ran a much more systematic set of experiments on even more sacred and sensitive targets:

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In An Electric Guitar? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n02tImce3AE

Tested: Where Does The Tone Come From In A Guitar Amplifier? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcBEOcPtlYk

Billy Bass Realtime AI – Home Assistant Test [video]

gadtfly — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 04:16:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EH3hRbqqA_E

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44470039

Points: 2

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