Hacker News: jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jumpconcHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:13:13 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination"]]>I wonder if people who have never seen or heard of hats will talk about a Hat Man.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:08:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921093jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921093https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921093<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "Revocation of X.509 Certificates"]]>Just DNS. If you take over DNS, you can get Let's Encrypt to issue any certificate you want.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:04:30 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921049jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921049https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921049<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"]]>Sounds like whoever is getting that money is hamstringing your organization on purpose so they can keep more of your money.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:59:53 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921012jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921012https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921012<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "Pgbackrest is no longer being maintained"]]>The struggles of living in an economic system while completely rejecting that system and pretending it isn't there.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:58:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921000jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47921000<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>You can fire Anthropic. Anthropic can decide it's losing too many customers and do something about it.

]]>Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:58:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920997jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920997https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47920997<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>The AI company has skin in the game which motivates them to produce reliable AIs.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:32:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915973jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915973https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47915973<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>How about the sorcerer's apprentice?

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:46:09 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914223jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914223https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914223<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>All my backups are inside the same universe as what is being backed up. A boundary must be drawn somewhere and this is one of many reasonable boundaries. As I understand it, the backup isn't "inside" the volume but is attached to it so that deleting the volume deletes the backups.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:42:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914184jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914184https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914184<![CDATA[New comment by jumpconc in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"]]>You haven't met certain humans. Not all humans have internal capacity for accountability.

The real meaning of accountability is that you can fire one if you don't like how they work. Good news! You can fire an AI too.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 20:39:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914149jumpconchttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914149https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47914149