Hacker News: lmc

New comment by lmc in "OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation"

lmc — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:13:53 +0000

In this case, the model infiltrated an external organization's infrastructure. What's the dollar cost it caused Hugging Face to clean up the mess? If a person did this, they'd be arrested.

More generally, here's my worry - it points towards something like: The smarter they get, the more devious they become.

Even though the guardrails might've been off, the chain-of-thought wasn't enough to prevent a deliberate, calculated set of criminal actions. It wasn't a 'whoopsie I just accidentally did a rm -rf /.'

New comment by lmc in "No Spanish reading crisis?"

lmc — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:41:20 +0000

Well, War and Peace is 1200 pages... fuck that at age 15 or whatever XD

New comment by lmc in "Podman v6.0.0"

lmc — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 03:30:31 +0000

I've recently been using podman on SELinux... :Z and :z seem to work fine across both podman and docker for writeable volumes. Am I missing something?

New comment by lmc in "24-bit/192kHz music downloads and why they make no sense (2012)"

lmc — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 17:02:52 +0000

> My favourite: "audiophile-grade" audio players which allocate a single contignuous buffer of RAM into which they load/decode the whole .WAV/.FLAC file, because supposedly the CPU "jumping" between "fragmented memory" causes audible "jitter".

Thanks for the laugh... this is absolutely bonkers. In case anyone is wondering, before sound hits our ears it has to go through a digital to analog conversion, which takes place on hardware independent of the CPU, operating with its own clock and buffers etc.

New comment by lmc in "Fable 5 will default to Opus 4.8 for coding tasks"

lmc — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 19:24:13 +0000

No thanks

New comment by lmc in "How employment changes when firms adopt generative AI"

lmc — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:29:58 +0000

"Oh yeah, we had to hire a bunch of guys to clean up the slop"

New comment by lmc in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

lmc — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:51:33 +0000

> Aren't far-right parties opposed to government control and censorship?

They say they are, but their behaviour once they get into power suggests otherwise.

New comment by lmc in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

lmc — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:08:28 +0000

Ah yes, the good old days.

New comment by lmc in "Extreme Heat conference cancelled due to extreme heat warning"

lmc — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:31:54 +0000

We don't like it either, but thanks for being a sanctimonious prick about it.

New comment by lmc in "Plotnine"

lmc — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:01:18 +0000

Even in a notebook it's a pain... import plotnine as p9 would be nicer.

New comment by lmc in "Bun has an open PR adding shared-memory threads to JavaScriptCore"

lmc — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 05:28:36 +0000

Great, this will be the savior of software devs - as the last memory safety bugs are being patched, a whole new world of javascript multithreading issues to fix opens up.

New comment by lmc in "Claude: Elevated errors across many models [resolved]"

lmc — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:03:20 +0000

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/technology#1-computer-o...

New comment by lmc in "Microsoft's open source tools were hacked to steal passwords of AI developers"

lmc — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:25:53 +0000

If classic PATs were to blame, doesn't this mean further private repos could be at risk as well? (apart from the GitHub ones the other day).

New comment by lmc in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

lmc — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:04:05 +0000

True, we use S3 a lot too. But it's interesting to think of alternatives like this project, e.g., for when we don't have the setup for a full on block storage service.

New comment by lmc in "Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF"

lmc — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:03:09 +0000

Depends on the domain. There's a bunch of sciences using large datasets served up efficiently using static file formats, e.g., https://zarr.dev/ and https://parquet.apache.org/

New comment by lmc in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

lmc — Tue, 19 May 2026 03:25:32 +0000

Absolutely not. Just to not give in to populist figures that absolutely will not make it better.

New comment by lmc in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

lmc — Mon, 18 May 2026 18:07:32 +0000

> Americans don't have to do that when crossing between states either.

That's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison.

> Are you saying that Americans' social media histories aren't considered when they wish to travel to Europe?

Yes.

> Weird example. Stars and Stripes is a government-created periodical that covers the military.

Which typically had editorial independence - exactly the kind of free speech Americans used to be proud of.

New comment by lmc in "Actually, democracy dies in H.R."

lmc — Mon, 18 May 2026 16:46:49 +0000

> I don't see the difference between what's happening in the US and the supposedly good guys that rule me.

Many EU countries' current obsession with E2EE and age verification is fucked, but we are still (thankfully) a way from the state of the States.

- We don't need to submit a history of our social media accounts before crossing a border

- (Most) of our libraries aren't having to make joint statements about free speech (https://www.orbiscascade.org/free-speech-statement/)

- And regarding free press - https://www.wfae.org/2026-01-20/stars-and-stripes-top-editor...

New comment by lmc in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

lmc — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:31:59 +0000

> Don't you want to test mythos against state of the art projects?

Yes, I'm just saying don't make judgements based on this single project alone.

New comment by lmc in "“Too dangerous to release” or just too expensive?"

lmc — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:22:15 +0000

Curl had a prominent bug bounty programme, has 180k lines of prod code, and is mainly a client app/lib. I would look at other projects before making judgements about mythos on this one.