Hacker News: ls612

New comment by ls612 in "Proton goes all in on using AI"

ls612 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:00:43 +0000

You underestimate just how much software humans can interact with in any given second. ;)

New comment by ls612 in "Proton goes all in on using AI"

ls612 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:40:25 +0000

The lump of labor fallacy is a fallacy not real. Phrased another way, demand for software is more or less infinite so if coding agents make everyone a 10x engineer eventually we will easily find use for 10x more software.

New comment by ls612 in "Proton goes all in on using AI"

ls612 — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:30:57 +0000

After everything in the past six months do we really think that humans are better than coding agents at writing secure code?! This announcement honestly makes me more confident not less in their products.

New comment by ls612 in "Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin"

ls612 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:50:45 +0000

It’s not a 0day it’s now 5 days and counting since disclosure. Nobody is gaining value sitting on an exploit for a vulnerability which is being actively patched.

New comment by ls612 in "Show HN: Steal My Bitcoin"

ls612 — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 22:25:26 +0000

It is a price signal. They expect to lose the money they want to show that nobody has an automated swarm just pwning every server running PHP connected to the internet. At least not yet, on day 5 and counting.

New comment by ls612 in "Two States Can Now Restrict Social Media Access–Here's What to Do Next"

ls612 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 22:18:56 +0000

This is going to end up at the Supreme Court probably sooner rather than later. The only reason it hasn't yet is that the justices usually wait for two circuits to rule definitively in contrary ways before taking a case, but Kavanaugh, in a statement respecting denial of cert for a similar law in Mississippi last year said that banning minors from social media was likely a first amendment violation. I would expect given that there are precedents that the first amendment protects both the speech of minors and anonymous speech that in the end these laws will be struck down.

New comment by ls612 in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

ls612 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 19:01:49 +0000

Presumably if it knows how to find and fix bugs it can be told how to exploit them. But who knows what it will actually be capable of doing in the real world as opposed to Kiki’s benchmarks

New comment by ls612 in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

ls612 — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:05:08 +0000

I mean they say they will release the weights by November 4, so presumably after that it won’t be hard for people to fine-tune it to be better at cyber right?

New comment by ls612 in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

ls612 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:56:42 +0000

It was always OK with most things I asked until the whole Mythos freakout but nowadays they have silently pulled the classifiers way back, really now bio is more gatekept than cyber stuff. From what I have read so long as you have the models do the decompilation/disassembly using an MCP so they aren't hunting through the actual binaries by hand (that can freak them out) once you get the decompiled code they don't complain at all.

New comment by ls612 in "Jailbreaking the Switch 2"

ls612 — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:28:55 +0000

It is one thing to go after a couple emulator teams where expertise is concentrated, that at least is a plausible bottleneck. But open source did open source things so forks appeared and development has continued in various forms. And now with AI the expertise is available to everyone so we are getting into “suing individual Napster users” territory. That is not to say that Nintendo won’t make some examples of people developing jailbreaks or doing recomps but it won’t fundamentally stop it from happening.

New comment by ls612 in "How Far Will AI Assistants Go for a Refund They Can't Get?"

ls612 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 19:34:54 +0000

Nothing described here seems illegal as opposed to merely annoying? I guess on some level “everything is wire fraud” but that was the case even without AI.

New comment by ls612 in "Show HN: 2026 Midterms Tracker blends polls and Kalshi/Poymarket odds"

ls612 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:51:50 +0000

This is very similar to https://electionbettingodds.com/ which has been doing this for decades at this point.

New comment by ls612 in "Tesla Roadster"

ls612 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 02:08:53 +0000

To show off? Like whatever you think of it the market for supercars is rich men who want to show off so Tesla is playing in that market.

New comment by ls612 in "Banks are now trying to offload the AI data center debt they just underwrote"

ls612 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:38:08 +0000

This is completely normal. Banks underwrite large loans and then package a bunch of them in different ways to sell to different investors.

New comment by ls612 in "TV4 postpones show after AI agent erases edited material"

ls612 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:31:04 +0000

There is all the difference in the world with a rogue agent going off and choosing to delete critical files and a human using an agent to implement a suboptimal backup strategy, and then being surprised pikachu when it fails.

New comment by ls612 in "My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping"

ls612 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:59:50 +0000

And this is different in what substantive way to the western system? The vast vast majority of ordinary Chinese will never interact with their national security state. This reads as you saying I’m right without saying I’m right.

New comment by ls612 in "AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities"

ls612 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:07:16 +0000

It will provide Anthropic a great blog post next month to push banning open weights.

New comment by ls612 in "My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping"

ls612 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:58:17 +0000

I’d suggest that one of the key innovations of authoritarian control over the populace in the 21st century vs the 20th is that surveillance and compute means the authoritarian states don’t need to use the brute force of the legal system against the average person to keep power. They can focus only on key targets while not molesting the broader population in the same way the Stasi et al did. I’d go so far as to say for the typical American and the typical Chinese their experience of the legal system is virtually identical, in that they don’t experience it. But for those targeted by the system, the precise mechanism may vary but the certainty of the outcome does not.

New comment by ls612 in "My Reddit AMA on the Law of Web Scraping"

ls612 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:07:17 +0000

And I’m saying that three felonies a day and the way China does it are fundamentally the same thing with different window dressing.

New comment by ls612 in "Muse Wonder"

ls612 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:16:33 +0000

Let’s be honest it’s funnier as written.