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New comment by nozzlegear in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

nozzlegear — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 23:08:59 +0000

> There is absolutely zero reason to believe you could use this same approach to find and exploit vulns without Mythos finding them first.

There's one huge reason to believe it: we can actually use small models, but we cant use Anthropic's special marketing model that's too dangerous for mere mortals.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Show HN: Pardonned.com – A searchable database of US Pardons"

nozzlegear — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 14:52:12 +0000

> crime family

New comment by nozzlegear in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

nozzlegear — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:41:15 +0000

> in the tail end

This implies you have knowledge of future events, which means you could make a lot of money grifting on Polymarket

New comment by nozzlegear in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

nozzlegear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:32:21 +0000

I'm generally open to lobbying, but I'm not generally open to "you can never file a lawsuit against the comically evil pesticide corporation standing behind us twirling their mustaches." There needs to be a middle ground.

New comment by nozzlegear in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

nozzlegear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:47:18 +0000

I'm not a lawyer, nor a judge, so I can't say. All I can tell you is that it feels wrong that [Monsanto/OpenAI] can lobby a state's legislature to prevent you, the average joe and potential lucrative victim, from filing a lawsuit against them when it seems clear to any reasonable person that people are developing [cancer/mental health issues] due to the use of [pesticides/AI].

Perhaps something like anti-SLAPP rules for the ignominious corporations would be a happy middle ground? I don't know if that would "fix" anything – or if there's anything to fix – so don't take that as a super serious suggestion.

New comment by nozzlegear in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

nozzlegear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:24:16 +0000

Normally I would agree with you, but the primary lobby behind both of the bills was Bayer (née Monsanto), with backing from several of Iowa's industrial farming organizations. They launched a giant ad campaign to "control weeds, not farming" alongside their bill to influence opinions. Cancer, nitrates and pesticides are at the top of everyone's mind in the state these past couple years, so having the pesticide giant try to swoop in and put a bill in place that would prevent Iowans from suing them feels like that same kind of seagulling behavior you described in another comment.

New comment by nozzlegear in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

nozzlegear — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:50:52 +0000

As an Iowan, this reminds me a lot of the bill that's been pushed through my state's senate twice now (as recently as last year), which would prevent Iowans from filing lawsuits against pesticide and herbicide companies if those companies follow the EPA's labeling guidelines. The bill passed the senate both times, only stopped because the house declined to take it up.

For context, Iowa has the fastest growing rate of new cancer diagnoses in the country, and the second highest overall cancer rate.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Git commands I run before reading any code"

nozzlegear — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:54:30 +0000

This needs a small tweak to work on macOS, where git uses the POSIX version of grep (which doesn't support `\b`). You need to use the Perl Regexp option by switching -E with -P:

New comment by nozzlegear in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

nozzlegear — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:53:16 +0000

> We have seen that the US ability to project power is great. We've also seen (and I don't think anyone didn't know that) that power has its limits. Especially when it comes to fighting fanatics with nothing to lose.

My unprovable pet theory is that the US would've had less black eyes if we didn't have incompetent people like Kegseth in charge, and especially if he hadn't been allowed to dismiss top brass across the military just because they were too woke/not "warrior" enough.

New comment by nozzlegear in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

nozzlegear — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:42:28 +0000

TACO enjoyers always come out on top.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Boneyard: Generate pixel-perfect skeleton screens from your real DOM"

nozzlegear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 20:44:11 +0000

I love seeing things that support Svelte.

New comment by nozzlegear in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

nozzlegear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:35:27 +0000

Freak out about what? I read the announcement and thought "that's a dumb name, they sure are full of themselves" – then I went back to using Claude as a glorified commit message writer. For all its supposed leaps, AI hasn't affected my life much in the real except to make HN stories more predictable.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Blackholing My Email"

nozzlegear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:35:25 +0000

I have noticed it for sure. The default spam filter catches most of what I'd consider spam, but the Learn Spam feature is needed for things that get through because they look legitimate. For example, I get a lot of those weird "You're an American, I'm from [China, India, etc.], we can make a lot of money if you go to all the interviews/meetings and then let me do all the work" kind of emails. They look like normal correspondence (maybe they are) so they occasionally end up in my inbox. When they do, I send them to the "Learn Spam" folder, and the next time I check my actual Spam folder I'll find that Fastmail caught several more just like it and sent them straight there.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Blackholing My Email"

nozzlegear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 15:22:43 +0000

I've been a Fastmail customer for years and have been pretty happy with their spam filtering too. Anything that does get through either gets a custom rule to send it to the shadow realm, or gets sent to a special "Learn spam" folder that I set up which will train the spam filter on that message.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Peptides: where to begin?"

nozzlegear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:21:23 +0000

I actually like tipping culture because it makes me feel generous and charitable, not because there's some kind of weird master/servant relationship. I even make it a point to passive aggressively tip well when service sucks because who gives a shit?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

nozzlegear — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:19:51 +0000

I would expect more downvotes for your needless "I'm going to get downvoted because the sheep hate when wolves tell the truth!" persecution complex. Your comment was at least mildly interesting before you got to that.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

nozzlegear — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 17:02:57 +0000

I'm mostly being tongue-in-cheek (I should've added /s but it's too late to edit it in now). As a former Bernie volunteer and caucuser turned neoliberal globalist shill, I just like to poke at DNC conspiracies by pointing out that Bernie was a flawed candidate and that, even today, he isn't very left-leaning at all on some issues like immigration, visas and trade.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

nozzlegear — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:46:27 +0000

> Hillary is a party stooge through and through, it’s why she was essentially installed as the 2016 dem candidate, in spite of voter preferences. They did Bernie dirty

No, this is so factually untrue as to be offensive. I caucused and volunteered for Bernie in 2016. He lost the primary vote fair and square, but he dragged himself and his supporters to the convention kicking and screaming as if there was some chance he could overcome a mathematical defeat. Superdelegates never even entered the equation. All he did was instill a conspiracy in his diehard supporters.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

nozzlegear — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:04:56 +0000

It was the hegemon of Europe though, and it is once again – at least economically. I don't know much about European culture to say how popular German pop culture is there though.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Japanese, French and Omani vessels cross Strait of Hormuz"

nozzlegear — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 14:01:58 +0000

I'm not saying the country is perfect right now. We need a third Reconstruction.