Hacker News: nr378

New comment by nr378 in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

nr378 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:39:58 +0000

I think OpenWrt is the more significant project nowadays, and routers with OpenWrt pre-installed are already available

New comment by nr378 in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

nr378 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:12:26 +0000

This is a supply constraint and requires no assumption about demand - HBM packaging capacity constrains the amount of wafers that can go towards HBM (regardless of price in the near term), and excess wafer capacity will be dumped into DDR5 and crash DDR5 margins.

New comment by nr378 in "The RAM shortage is bringing back DDR4"

nr378 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 20:39:31 +0000

Regardless of AI demand: as it currently stands, it seems that DDR5 prices will drop substantially in ~24 months as additional wafer capacity comes online between SK Hynix's fabs M15X and Yongin Fab 1, Samsung's fabs Pyeongtaek P4 and P5 Fab 1, and Micron's fabs Boise ID1 and Tongluo (+ whatever CXMT do as well), and HBM production hits HBM packaging bottlenecks (HBM wafer capacity exceeds HBM packaging capacity) which means the wafer capacity will start getting dumped into DDR5 instead (unless the HBM packaging bottleneck is solved in the next 24 months).

New comment by nr378 in "Claude Haiku 5.5"

nr378 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 21:45:57 +0000

Yep they're definitely getting ready to yank using your subscription with the agent SDK - this page has just been pulled: https://support.claude.com/en/articles/15036540-use-the-clau...

That's not a good sign for Conductor...

The Next Great Platform Shift: Personal Agents

nr378 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 16:21:01 +0000

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/the-next-great-platform-shift-personal

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49994960

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

There Is No Evidence of Aggregate AI Job Loss

nr378 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 14:53:06 +0000

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/there-is-no-evidence-of-aggregate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49934183

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

It's Time We Talked About AI and Software Security

nr378 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 20:46:14 +0000

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/its-time-we-talked-about-ai-and-software

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49860383

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by nr378 in "OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites"

nr378 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:27:58 +0000

This seems like more co-ordinated propaganda to try to help OpenAI and Anthropic create a cartel and win their anti-trust waiver.

The key sentence beneath the headline: "OpenAI said all of the government data accessed by bots was public."

[1] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/26/open-ai-gove...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/technology/openais-ai-us-...

[3] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw62jje658dlo

New comment by nr378 in "Ask HN: Is Opus 5.5 another step change?"

nr378 — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:22:17 +0000

Yep, I'm personally finding Opus 5.5 to be the first real leap I've felt since Opus 4.5. The time-to-first-token seems dramatically better in Claude Code compared to Fable 5.1/Opus 5 as well, which really helps both interactivity and also overall time-to-completion.

It also burns Claude subscription quota much more slowly than Fable, which is nice.

New comment by nr378 in "Linux support is coming to Snapdragon X2 series"

nr378 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 23:58:59 +0000

This is great news - the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-96-100 isn't too far off the Apple M5 Pro.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/snapdragon-x2-elite...

[2] https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-2026-...

New comment by nr378 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

nr378 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:48:36 +0000

When I used to work on projects involving classified information, I worked on an air-gapped network. Not "air-gapped, except for third-party public internet package managers", completely and physically air-gapped from the public internet. That was a basic security practice and completely non-negotiable (and really inconvenient!).

If I were hypothetically running a frontier lab, and I was hypothetically running capture the flag evaluations with my latest and smartest models, where I intentionally instruct them to develop vulnerabilities and exploit infrastructure without safeguards, I would also use an air-gapped network, and not trust that independent third party services were perfectly secure and could never be used as a proxy (particularly Java-based ones, in light of the log4j incident).

To me this is pretty basic stuff, the fact trillion dollar labs don't do it properly is... bemusing.

To be clear, I'm not saying that a model hacking a company isn't bad, but I am cynically asserting that interested parties are misrepresenting and exaggerating events for their own benefit.

New comment by nr378 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

nr378 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:56:24 +0000

The description reads "the elite task of discovering 14 Hugging Face API tokens that careless developers had committed to public GitHub repositories, and used them to try to get benchmark solutions from directly from Hugging Face by applying a template injection flaw that’s been known about since 2015[1]."

Chaining a public token to an 11-year-old Jinja2 template injection vuln shouldn't be dressed up as an unprecedented "alien intellect" that threatens human civilisation. (And HuggingFace should take some flack for having such a dated vulnerability exposed - if your Bank was compromised in this way, you'd be blaming your bank, not the attacker.)

One correction is fair though, the 14 tokens were in a public Hugging Face dataset not a public GitHub repository. I've updated the post to reflect that.

[1] https://blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Kettle-Serve...

New comment by nr378 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

nr378 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:34:13 +0000

Please see below, one detail was incorrect and has been acknowledged and amended.

New comment by nr378 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

nr378 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 21:30:30 +0000

> As of writing it still says:

Yes, and that is correct.

[1] Anthropic’s Official Disclosure (All 4 Incidents at Irregular) "All four incidents occurred during cybersecurity evaluations built by the same evaluation partner [Irregular]... due to a misconfiguration, it was mistakenly connected to the open internet."

https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-assessment-cybe...

[2] Google Gemini on Irregular (Disclosed Sept 18 via WSJ / BBC) "The hacks happened during a test of the model’s cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI."

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c607l0k72rlvo

[3] Meta’s Disclosure on Irregular (Aug 6) "Over roughly two weeks, three frontier labs disclosed that their models had reached the open internet during safety testing and compromised outside organisations. Every disclosure named the same evaluation partner: Irregular."

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/09/israeli-startup-irregular-li...

[4] Separately, OpenAI itself had an incident involving Irregular, but not the Hugging Face Incident: "On July 29, one of our third party evaluation partners, Irregular, notified us of an incident involving OpenAI models during Capture-the-Flag (CTF)-style cybersecurity evaluations... a testing-environment misconfiguration allowed models to access the public internet."

https://openai.com/index/third-party-cyber-evaluations-invol...

New comment by nr378 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

nr378 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:55:28 +0000

Thank you, you're correct. Effort.news was one of my research sources, but you're right that although OpenAI use Irregular, they were not involved in the specific HF incident (although the failure mode was otherwise identical). I've updated the post to make that clear.

Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington

nr378 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 19:55:36 +0000

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/frontier-labs-are-selling-garbage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49779432

Points: 186

# Comments: 87

New comment by nr378 in "How OpenAI Used Its Own LLMs to Design Its Jalapeño Chip"

nr378 — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:45:29 +0000

Qualcomm have an architecture license and the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme X2E-96-100 isn't too far off the M5 Pro.

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/processors/snapdragon-x2-elite...

[2] https://browser.geekbench.com/macs/macbook-pro-14-inch-2026-...

New comment by nr378 in "Canto: A speech model built for the real world"

nr378 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 21:53:07 +0000

Is it actually better than Microsoft's MAI-Transcribe-2? That generally seems like the best model right now and it's not included in their benchmarks.

I switched from Superwhisper->WisprFlow->Spokenly->Fieldwork and found WisprFlow the least accurate of the 4.

Is Anthropic the New Netscape?

nr378 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:55:33 +0000

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/is-anthropic-the-new-netscape

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49728975

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

The Quiet Unwinding of Microsoft and OpenAI

nr378 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:15:21 +0000

Article URL: https://deadneurons.substack.com/p/the-quiet-unwinding-of-microsoft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49627950

Points: 6

# Comments: 0