Hacker News: nope1000

New comment by nope1000 in "Ubuntu now has higher system hardware requirements than Windows 11"

nope1000 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:57:03 +0000

I can't imagine that Windows 11 would be usable with a 2 core 1GHz processor and 4GB of ram. It might install, but opening the start menu alone will fill up your memory (slightly hyperbole)

New comment by nope1000 in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

nope1000 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:41:46 +0000

> The direct corollary is that any successful compromise of the host can give an attacker access to the complete memory of every VM running on that node. Keeping the host secure is therefore critical.

> In that context, hosting a web service that is directly reachable from any guest VM and running it on the secure host side created a significantly larger attack surface than I expected.

That is quite scary

New comment by nope1000 in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

nope1000 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:27:33 +0000

Sure it's certainly not perfect and a lot of the documentation is something you just write for the audit and never look at it again but that's why I am saying play the odds. The average delve customer startup might be less secure that the average startup who has to justify their processes to a real auditor.

New comment by nope1000 in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

nope1000 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:11:02 +0000

> The incident also prompted LiteLLM to make changes to its compliance processes, including shifting from controversial startup Delve to Vanta for compliance certifications.

This is pretty funny.

The leaked excel sheet with customers of Delve is basically a shortlist of targets for hackers to try now. Not that they necessarily have bad security, but you can play the odds

New comment by nope1000 in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

nope1000 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:18:14 +0000

True but neither will going bankrupt.

New comment by nope1000 in "The OpenAI Graveyard: All the Deals and Products That Haven't Happened"

nope1000 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:02:24 +0000

What they really should focus on is making those models more efficient. With them most likely losing money on inference (+model training + salaries + building data centers), I can't see why they would want more compute and more products, since more tokens spent is actually bad for them.

New comment by nope1000 in "Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website"

nope1000 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:20:38 +0000

I would assume the average purchase in Walmart is significantly more low-tech than this though

New comment by nope1000 in "Colorectal cancer is now the top cause of cancer death in younger people"

nope1000 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:46:42 +0000

Paywall so I couldn't read, they probably mention this: Eating more fiber (to a point of course) will decrease your risk of colorectal cancer. Most westerners, especially americans, are eating about half the recommended amount of fiber. Could certainly be a contributing factor.

New comment by nope1000 in "People who come off slimming jabs regain weight four times faster than dieters"

nope1000 — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 14:32:48 +0000

> Dr Adam Collins, an expert in nutrition at the University of Surrey, says the way the jabs work in the brain and body might explain why weight regain is amplified once you stop taking them. They mimic a natural hormone called GLP-1, which regulates hunger. "Artificially providing GLP-1 levels several times higher than normal over a long period may cause you to produce less of your own natural GLP-1, and may also make you less sensitive to its effects. "That's not a problem when taking the drugs, but as soon as you withdraw this GLP-1 'fix', appetite is no longer kept in check and overeating is far more likely."

If that is true, and it makes mechanistic sense if I think about opiod withdrawals for example, then it is a problem regardless. If you have a stronger hunger impulse then before AND a lower body weight and thus TDEE, I can imagine that it would be pretty tough mentally to maintain your weight, even if you count your calories.

New comment by nope1000 in "The death of tech idealism and rise of the homeless in Northern California"

nope1000 — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 08:23:24 +0000

Does an article need to supply all this expertise or can it not just be descriptive?

New comment by nope1000 in "Coinbase CEO Revealed He Fired Engineers Who Didn't Use AI Tools"

nope1000 — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 13:23:44 +0000

Sometimes I envy the salary of US programmers but then I read news like these and I'm happy that in my country you can't be fired for stupid reasons like these.

New comment by nope1000 in "Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database"

nope1000 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:10:16 +0000

Ha, very good

New comment by nope1000 in "Medical cannabis patient data exposed by unsecured database"

nope1000 — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 10:26:51 +0000

Publicly accessible, not password protected, not encrypted. That is insanity.

New comment by nope1000 in "XZ Utils Backdoor Still Lurking in Docker Images"

nope1000 — Tue, 19 Aug 2025 12:57:34 +0000

I'm actually thinking the opposite. If you are a small company, the cloud makes sense and once you grow big it makes sense to build your own infra. For example my company of 10 people, we do B2B SaaS and we couldn't do that if we hosted ourselves. We would need people with the skill to set something like this up, develop physical security concepts, backup duplication, disaster recovery, etc. We would spend more time working on the infra than on the actual product we are selling.

New comment by nope1000 in "Replit's CEO apologizes after its AI agent wiped a company's code base"

nope1000 — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:42:07 +0000

That's not how I interpreted this sentence. I think after the database was deleted, the LLM Agent would still return correct looking data from the database operation even though the database was empty. Maybe I misinterpreted it myself however.

> Replit had been "covering up bugs and issues by creating fake data, fake reports, [...]"

New comment by nope1000 in "Watching AI drive Microsoft employees insane"

nope1000 — Wed, 21 May 2025 12:47:29 +0000

On the other hand: why should you accept that your employer is trying to fire you but first wants you to train the machine that will replace you? For me this is the most "them vs us" it can be.

New comment by nope1000 in "Walmart is preparing to welcome its next customer: the AI shopping agent"

nope1000 — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:56:15 +0000

Buying, absolutely not. But I could see a use case of describing your requirements to a product in natural language and it searches matching products and finds places to get them. So using the AI for the thing it's good at: transforming natural language. And not for what it's bad at: making reliable decisions.

New comment by nope1000 in "Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI"

nope1000 — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 07:31:10 +0000

If people wanted that, they could just ask an LLM to be their language coach. The big issue is that with a foreign language, you cannot really verify that anything the model gives you is correct. And with how LLMs work, the wrong answers will look very convincing. I don't think that's a good idea.

New comment by nope1000 in "Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI"

nope1000 — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 15:03:44 +0000

Works great on my end.

New comment by nope1000 in "White House AI Czar Sacks Says 'Evidence' DeepSeek Leaned on OpenAI's Models"

nope1000 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 08:52:22 +0000

I think it would be impossible to not use output from OpenAI's models, since a significant fraction of new internet content is AI-generated. They are suffering from their own success.