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New comment by kriztw in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

kriztw — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:07:22 +0000

That's not true, they did do obfuscation but the main sneaky thing they did was to make hackers think that they had found all of the checks, and then hide checks that would only trigger half way through the game. That kind of obfuscation is also not relevant to security vulnerabilities.

AI is already superhuman at reading and understanding assembly and decompilation output, especially for obfuscated binaries. I have tried giving the same binary with and without heavy control flow obfuscation to the same model, and it was able to understand the obfuscated one just fine.

New comment by kriztw in "Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop"

kriztw — Mon, 03 May 2021 06:41:47 +0000

https://i.reddit.com, or equivalent reddit.com/.compact

If they remove that then they'll finally have pushed me off reddit on mobile, but I think it's obscure enough that it'll stay in the near future

New comment by kriztw in "2019 redefinition of the SI base units"

kriztw — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:11:18 +0000

Because the standards are made for people who makes measurement devices. It is much easier to measure electric current than charge.

They also did make charge more fundamental, as they derive the Ampere by fixing the charge of an electron.

New comment by kriztw in "2019 redefinition of the SI base units"

kriztw — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 21:07:30 +0000

The old definitions are still essentially correct, so for teaching nothing really changes except the word "approximately" being inserted somewhere.

Fuzz testing in Rust with cargo fuzz

kriztw — Fri, 25 May 2018 11:09:06 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@seasoned_sw/fuzz-testing-in-rust-with-cargo-fuzz-13b89feecc30

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17152403

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by kriztw in "Modern CSS Explained"

kriztw — Mon, 05 Feb 2018 13:23:25 +0000

It has his meaning in tiling window managers (where a floating window is in another layer, usually above the others), and probably in window managers in general. I'm curious if there are other examples.

New comment by kriztw in "JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers Many Hours"

kriztw — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 17:20:09 +0000

Definitely not for full automation. The question "do I have a case?" could involve basically anything, and sounds very AI-complete to me.

Of course, discovery and a lot of the repetitive work can be automated much more easily, but that's more like keeping the car in a highway lane, which we can already do for cars.

New comment by kriztw in "Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling"

kriztw — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:34:34 +0000

It sounds like you are proposing a perpetual motion machine, which cannot work because of the laws of thermodynamics (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion).

New comment by kriztw in "The dominance of baby boomers is becoming total"

kriztw — Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:47:19 +0000

Someone made a nice graphic that shows opening times in the US: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3ddapj/bar...

New comment by kriztw in "VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks"

kriztw — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 12:36:24 +0000

All of those are ideologies with certain views on how the world is and how it should be, which can also said of religions.

If religions where purely spiritual and said nothing about the world then I would agree with you, but then I guess there wouldn't be any problems either.