Hacker News: p_stuart82

SK Hynix flooded with offers from Big Tech to secure memory chips

p_stuart82 — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/sk-hynix-flooded-with-unprecedented-offers-big-tech-firms-secure-chip-supplies-2026-05-07/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48214762

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Grafana says stolen GitHub token allowed attackers to download its codebase

p_stuart82 — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:29:38 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/grafana-says-stolen-github-token-let-hackers-steal-codebase/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184362

Points: 14

# Comments: 1

FTC tells platforms to comply with Take It Down Act by May 19

p_stuart82 — Sun, 17 May 2026 20:58:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-chairman-ferguson-advises-companies-comply-take-it-down-act

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48173138

Points: 23

# Comments: 1

ExploitGym: Can AI agents turn bugs into exploits?

p_stuart82 — Fri, 15 May 2026 23:41:26 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.11086

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48155357

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

AWS user gets $30K Claude bill after cost alert misses it

p_stuart82 — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/saas/2026/05/14/bedrock-and-a-hard-place-claude-adventure-leaves-aws-user-staring-down-30k-invoice/5238153

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48153258

Points: 8

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Hotel check-in system exposed 1M passports and driver's licenses

p_stuart82 — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:26:00 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/15/a-hotel-check-in-system-left-a-million-passports-and-drivers-licenses-open-for-anyone-to-see/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48152759

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Tesla Wall Connector bootloader bypasses the firmware downgrade ratchet

p_stuart82 — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:41:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.synacktiv.com/en/publications/exploiting-the-tesla-wall-connector-from-its-charge-port-connector-part-2-bypassing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48140953

Points: 136

# Comments: 82

126 Chrome extensions collected WhatsApp data through undisclosed servers

p_stuart82 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:38:35 +0000

Article URL: https://malext.io/reports/WaSteal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48129664

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Factorio syncs inputs, not a million objects [video]

p_stuart82 — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:51:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FHSZ1hani0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48099814

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by p_stuart82 in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

p_stuart82 — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:30:20 +0000

this feels closer to ATLAS/FFTW than a model runner. the generated kernel ages out, the tuning harness is the bit you actually want to keep.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

p_stuart82 — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:58:57 +0000

I think you kind of answered this in the post though. "I want somebody to have used the thing" is dogfooding. and it's probably the only quality signal left that can't be generated in 30 minutes.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "AI Self-preferencing in Algorithmic Hiring: Empirical Evidence and Insights"

p_stuart82 — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:13:08 +0000

that's the loop though. if GPT does the screening, people learn to write for GPT. once that loop exists, why would the company selling the filter want it gone?

New comment by p_stuart82 in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

p_stuart82 — Fri, 01 May 2026 19:38:27 +0000

imo this is a pricing problem more than a cooling-design problem. datacenters get cheap clean water while locals pay for the pipes and grid upgrades.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

p_stuart82 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:55:13 +0000

yeah and once the KPI is "how much AI did you use" instead of "what did you ship," the budget blowout writes itself. people will game the number.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "LinkedIn scans for 6,278 extensions and encrypts the results into every request"

p_stuart82 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:49:20 +0000

because Chrome lets sites probe "installed", and LinkedIn turns that into telemetry.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

p_stuart82 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:52:45 +0000

Yep. They built the quote engine before they built the pricing page. "OpenClaw" in your git history is enough to kick you off quota and onto metered billing.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing"

p_stuart82 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 20:15:01 +0000

somehow it's always the expensive path that works fine.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "Localsend: An open-source cross-platform alternative to AirDrop"

p_stuart82 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:58:51 +0000

yeah the airdrop part is not having to turn one phone into a hotspot first.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "U.S. companies back Sam Altman's World ID even as much of the world pushes back"

p_stuart82 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:28:50 +0000

Let the bot mess get bad enough, then charge users to prove they're human. That's the business model.

New comment by p_stuart82 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

p_stuart82 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:13:21 +0000

$250b committed to azure helps. especially when some of that is your own investment coming back.