Hacker News: kseniamorph

New comment by kseniamorph in "Throwing AI-generated walls of text into conversations"

kseniamorph — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:37:10 +0000

don't undervote me....it's a joke

New comment by kseniamorph in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

kseniamorph — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:28:08 +0000

It's worrying because it feels like a loss of control. But there must be control. And this what responsibility is. You should worry only about people who don't understand responsibility, not AI-inspired ones

Microsoft's AI system tops Anthropic's Mythos on cybersecurity benchmark

kseniamorph — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:10:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsofts-multi-agent-ai-system-tops-anthropics-mythos-on-cybersecurity-benchmark/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48134907

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by kseniamorph in "CDK before BlackSuit: 90 signals on what $5.8B in acquisition debt looked like"

kseniamorph — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:42:28 +0000

Co-author here. We collected 90 public signals from employee reviews and social media describing the organizational impact of post-acquisition cost extraction at CDK in the year before the attack. The question we’re interested in is the following: does the PR ownership model inherently increase cyber risk? This is what we see based on the data, but we found little to no research on this topic. Has anyone seen credible academic or industry research on PE or LBO-style ownership as a cyber risk factor specifically? We could only find adjacent work (PE portfolio cyber surveys, PE healthcare studies) and would value pointers to anything we missed.

CDK before BlackSuit: 90 signals on what $5.8B in acquisition debt looked like

kseniamorph — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:38:16 +0000

Article URL: https://counterpartywatch.substack.com/p/cdk-attack-inside-the-portfolio-company

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703599

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by kseniamorph in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

kseniamorph — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:03:18 +0000

> nothing but thieves! cool band btw

New comment by kseniamorph in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

kseniamorph — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:46:17 +0000

there is a real one though — https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-sandboxing. needs to be enabled with /sandbox, not on by default.

New comment by kseniamorph in "Astral to Join OpenAI"

kseniamorph — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 14:25:47 +0000

i feel like moves like this make it even harder for new open-source tools to break through. there's already evidence that LLMs are biased toward established tools in their training data (you can check it here https://amplifying.ai/research/claude-code-picks). when a dominant player acquires the most popular toolchain in an ecosystem, that bias only deepens. not because of any skewing, but because the acquired tools get more usage, more documentation, more community content. getting a new project into model weights at meaningful scale is already really hard. acquisitions like this make it even harder.

New comment by kseniamorph in "GPT‑5.4 Mini and Nano"

kseniamorph — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:09:03 +0000

wow, not bad result on the computer use benchmark for the mini model. for example, Claude Sonnet 4.6 shows 72.5%, almost on par with GPT-5.4 mini (72.1%). but sonnet costs 4x more on input and 3x more on output

New comment by kseniamorph in "Where does engineering go? Retreat findings and insights [pdf]"

kseniamorph — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:47:29 +0000

given specification approach: personally i found it useful in some cases to write preceding block-comments for functions. you can describe the desired behaviour there, input/output types, etc. you can even make a skeleton from comment blocks and run one-shot generation. but this approach is especially useful in iterative development and maintenance.

New comment by kseniamorph in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

kseniamorph — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 20:25:21 +0000

i like how this research (and others related) kind of supports the idea that free will might be lacking. I still keep a pinch of skepticism about this idea, understanding that it's just a concept. But personally i like it, because it even fells a bit relieving... not to say that it helps you abandon responsibility, but it makes your stance on life easier, and pushes you not to blame yourself too much for your weaknesses.

New comment by kseniamorph in "Cloudflare crawl endpoint"

kseniamorph — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:14:08 +0000

I remember reading a CF blog post about crawler separation and responsible AI bot principles where they argue every bot should have one distinct purpose. Now they're building crawling infrastructure themselves, and their own /crawl endpoint lists "training AI systems" as a use case alongside regular crawling. So not only are they in the crawling business now, they're not following the separation principle. To be fair, there's a business logic here. But it's hard not to notice the irony. https://blog.cloudflare.com/uk-google-ai-crawler-policy/

New comment by kseniamorph in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

kseniamorph — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 18:37:11 +0000

they are seeking talent, not buying the product. this is a valid strategy for devs - just to attract attention no matter what.

New comment by kseniamorph in "TCS had a perfect security score. Then M&S and JLR were breached"

kseniamorph — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:52:58 +0000

Curious whether people here see value in this kind of research: using alternative public data to assess vendor risk before a breach, rather than after. We're aware that "we found signals before a known breach" is a weaker claim than "these signals predicted a breach we didn't know about yet." Is retrospective analysis like this useful to practitioners, or does it only matter if it can be made prospective?

TCS had a perfect security score. Then M&S and JLR were breached

kseniamorph — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:45:20 +0000

Article URL: https://counterpartywatch.substack.com/p/tcs-had-a-perfect-security-score

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47311519

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by kseniamorph in "Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions"

kseniamorph — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:13:24 +0000

This matches what I've seen too. Though I'd add another dimension: soft skills. In my experience, job searching has always been easier for people who communicate well regardless of their technical level. And soft skills might be what's making some people more resilient to this market shift specifically

New comment by kseniamorph in "We might all be AI engineers now"

kseniamorph — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:05:35 +0000

Saw the edit: I think that clarification was important. The core point resonates with me personally. The shift isn't about writing less code, it's about where the real judgment lives. Knowing what to build, how to decompose a problem, which patterns to reach for - and critically, when the model is confidently wrong. Without that foundation you're not moving faster, you're just making bad decisions faster. The scope point resonates too. Small, well-defined tasks with verifiable output is where agents actually shine.

New comment by kseniamorph in "GPT-5.4"

kseniamorph — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 19:31:36 +0000

makes sense, but i'd separate two things: models converging in ability vs hitting a fundamental ceiling. what we're probably seeing is the current training recipe plateauing — bigger model, more tokens, same optimizer. that would explain the convergence. but that's not necessarily the architecture being maxed out. would be interesting to see what happens when genuinely new approaches get to frontier scale.

New comment by kseniamorph in "NanoGPT Slowrun: Language Modeling with Limited Data, Infinite Compute"

kseniamorph — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:08:02 +0000

Curious about the baseline choice. modded-nanogpt was optimized for wall-clock speed, not data efficiency, so it seems like an unusual reference point for this kind of benchmark. Why not vanilla NanoGPT?

New comment by kseniamorph in "Father claims Google's AI product fuelled son's delusional spiral"

kseniamorph — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:57:36 +0000

oh it reminds me of all these claims regarding "bad" TV shows, "bad" songs, "bad" movies, etc. i understand that AI gives you a deeper feeling of interaction, but let's be honest - if you have a mental illness anything can be a trigger. that's sad, but it looks like personal responsibility rather than a corporate one