<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: jsnell</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jsnell</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:16:28 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=jsnell" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "Claude wrote a full FreeBSD remote kernel RCE with root shell"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Obviously no guarantees that it's exactly what was done in this case, but he talked about his general process recently at a conference and more in depth in a podcast:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sd26pWhfmg</a><p><a href="https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/" rel="nofollow">https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-f...</a><p>It pretty much is just "Claude find me an exploitable 0-day" in a loop.</p>
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<p>> Do you have a link to that? A rather important piece of context.<p>It was a quote from your own link from the initial post?<p><a href="https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:08.rpcsec_gss.asc" rel="nofollow">https://www.freebsd.org/security/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-26:08...</a><p>> Credits:        Nicholas Carlini using Claude, Anthropic</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 11:49:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599593</link><dc:creator>jsnell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599593</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47599593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Except it's not 100x revenues, and it's not 17% growth. I don't know where you got those numbers from?<p>The numbers OpenAI gave in the post would mean a 30x multiple pre-money. And the $20B -> $24B run-rate growth since the start of the year could plausibly mean anything from 110% to 200% annualized growth rate, depending on whether that happened over two or three months. The $24B is a lower bound as well, since they only gave use one significant digit for the monthly revenue.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 21:53:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593978</link><dc:creator>jsnell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593978</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47593978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "OpenAI closes funding round at an $852B valuation"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What what? Are you surprised it's that low, that high, that they can tell what their revenue is, that they report it on a monthly rather than annual basis, or something totally different?<p>It's going to be pretty hard to get a good answer to whatever you're having difficulties understanding if you can't be bothered to write more than a word.</p>
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<p>A theory that at least is consistent with the observed correlation seems vastly superior to a midbrow dismissal that doesn't. Your "raising kids is hard" theory would explain why people don't have a third child, but raising kids is hard universally. What was observed was that a third child was delayed for longer (even indefinitely) in states with higher age thresholds for mandatory car seats (even when controlling for demographics).<p>Their causal explanation relies on two additional observations that seem pretty hard to explain by other theories: the effect disappears for single-parent and carless households.</p>
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<p>Right, but the business decisions probably aren't the constraint at this point? (But were a year ago.)<p>Once the ability of the supply chain to grow has been saturated, no amount of extra confidence will make it grow faster.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 19:38:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578753</link><dc:creator>jsnell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578753</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47578753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A new fab will need to be filled with advanced equipment like lithography machines. They are the most complex thing humanity has every built.<p>There is one supplier of EUV lithography machines in the world, ASML. They are basically acting as an integrator for hundreds of highly specialized components manufactured to unimaginable levels of precision. Each of them has roughly one eligible supplier in the world who are operating at full capacity. To expand, they'll need yet another set of specialized and almost impossible to build equipment.<p>So the supply chain moves <i>incredibly</i> slowly, and the slowness is intrinsic due to the complexity and depth of the supply chain. It can't be fixed with just money. IIRC ASML is aiming to merely double their production of EUV lithography machines by 2030.</p>
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<p>It wasn't actually that exact amount. It was "about 12 tons", and somebody did the 12000 kg / 29g calculation and used the answer with way too many significant digits. Probably the reporter trying to make the 12 ton number relatable.<p>(You might object that KitKats usually weigh 40g. So these were probably the new KitKat Icon F1 chocolates, which weigh exactly 29g.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:02:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563761</link><dc:creator>jsnell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563761</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47563761</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On Chrome, right-click brings up the context menu in addition to flagging a mine, which basically makes this unplayable.<p>Also the ship is not explained at all (the graphics, the controls, the systems). I'd recommend at least a one paragraph help section in the menu.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 12:19:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476750</link><dc:creator>jsnell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476750</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47476750</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you've misunderstood something. This is not about rejecting LLM-written articles. It is about rejecting the articles of people who used LLMs for their reviews.<p>So your quip is just nonsensical.</p>
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<p>Almost certainly so that they can afford more AI data center capex.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 03:39:48 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373105</link><dc:creator>jsnell</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373105</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47373105</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by jsnell in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans."]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A practical question: what should readers do when they suspect a comment (or story) is AI-generated? Is that an appropriate reason for flagging? Email the mods? Do nothing?<p>I've been pretty wary about flagging AI slop that wasn't breaking other guidelines, and by default this will probably make me do it more. But it is a lot harder to be certain about something being AI-written than it is to judge other types of rules violations.<p>(But am definitely flagging every single "this was written by AI" joke comment posted on this story. What the hell is wrong with you people?)</p>
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<p>For example:<p>The METR time-horizon benchmark shows steady exponential growth. The frontier lab revenue has been growing exponentially from basically the moment they had any revenues. (The latter has confounding factors. For example it doesn't just depend on the quality of the model but on the quality of the apps and products using the model. But the model quality is still the main component, the products seem to pop into existence the moment the necessary model capabilities exist.)</p>
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<p>The premise is wrong, we are not seeing diminishing returns. By basically any metric that has a ratio scale, AI progress is accelerating, not slowing down.</p>
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<p>I don't think it's "regardless", your opinion on LeCun being right should be highly correlated to your opinion on whether this is good for Europe.<p>If you think that LLMs are sufficient and RSI is imminent (<1 year), this is horrible for Europe. It is a distracting boondoggle exactly at the wrong time.</p>
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<p>Most projects under the "google" org will have exactly the same disclaimer about not being official Google products.</p>
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<p>Where are you getting that from?<p>The article is crystal clear that these uses are not permitted by the current or any past contract, and the DoW wants to remove those exceptions.<p>> Two such use cases have never been included in our contracts with the Department of War, and we believe they should not be included now<p>It also links to DoW's official memo from January 9th that confirms that DoW is changing their contract language going forwards to remove restrictions. A pretty clear indication that the current language has some.</p>
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<p>I'm hope not, and that they'll instead spin out WB, for it to be gobbled up again. Anything done three times is tradition, and breaking it just wouldn't do.</p>
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<p>It is basically impossible for AI software improvements to devalue the AI compute investments.<p>It's the other way around, software improvements make the hardware more valuable. Let's say that one unit of compute can generate one unit of value. As the software improves on any of the principal axes (cheaper cost for same quality, or new capabilities that you could previously not get for any price), that same unit of compute will produce <i>more</i> value.<p>What would threaten those compute investments? Basically order of magnitude improvements in the hardware, but that kind of thing will take longer to happen than the projected lifetime of the hardware. (Or the demand for AI evaporating, but that tends to be an issue of faith that is hard to have a useful discussion on.)</p>
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<p>The abstract of the article is very short, and seems pretty clear to both of your questions.<p>This is what is special about them:<p>> a set of ten math questions which have arisen naturally in the research process of the authors. The questions had not been shared publicly until now;<p>I.e. these are problems of some practical interest, not just performative/competitive maths.<p>And this is what is know about the solutions:<p>> the answers are known to the authors of the questions but will remain encrypted for a short time.<p>I.e. a solution is known, but is guaranteed to not be in the training set for any AI.</p>
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