Hacker News: prox

New comment by prox in "Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth"

prox — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 21:27:26 +0000

Dang, that’s tough. Recently having to deal with php2shell was a good wake-up call for anybody doing hosting of any kind. Next few years gonna be rough (but food on the table for cybersecurity experts I guess)

New comment by prox in "Malware uses LLMs to rank victims by how much they're worth"

prox — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:51:11 +0000

Whats your perspective? Front end dev here.

New comment by prox in "Patrick Stewart has died"

prox — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 09:00:12 +0000

“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.” - Douglas Adams HHG2G

True as always.

New comment by prox in "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability"

prox — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:33:38 +0000

Because it’s not the same type. There was no actual info until the patch dropped, with some people in the know , which made it dangerous to leave your site up. The stopgaps were wild guesses. The multi-upload mitigation wouldn’t have worked.

There was no check that could be trusted to be the check to mitigate it. So that left the scenario that we went through.

New comment by prox in "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability"

prox — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:25:03 +0000

Agreed. This is all lazy chair hindsight talk, maybe by those not affected by it. In the moment you act on the imperfect information you have available and you use the safe than sorry rule. And to demand perfect information is also a fallacy, it doesn’t exist until after the fact.

New comment by prox in "There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability"

prox — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 07:21:39 +0000

This is all hindsight talking. You act on the information as it becomes available. At the moment, the being safe than sorry rule applied.

New comment by prox in "Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]"

prox — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 08:15:33 +0000

Only feed them away from your house. These are smart birds, you don’t want them tracking you home ;)

New comment by prox in "The role of cat eye narrowing movements in cat–human communication (2020)"

prox — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 06:55:43 +0000

This works for most dogs as well, or any pet really. Scent is very important for them and builds trust.

New comment by prox in "Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch"

prox — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 11:24:02 +0000

I like that George seems to be in a better headspace. He was like that posh brit talking others down with a know it all attitude, but since the summerbreak he has been way more relaxed and less antagonistic.

New comment by prox in "Greg Kroah-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age [video]"

prox — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 12:43:20 +0000

Blast radius!

New comment by prox in "An Update on Orion for Linux and Windows"

prox — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:25:52 +0000

The struggle is the blind opening of chrome, like most people probably just do without thinking. Unless you are really a hardcore frontend developer, you lose nothing by switching to Firefox (or non chrome/chromium browser). I operate both and for 95%, maybe even more, there is no difference. By switching you will put pressure on google to keep on the users good side.

New comment by prox in "Of Gods and Languages: On "When God Spoke Greek" (2013)"

prox — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 08:56:44 +0000

I think the schism happened for several reasons, none of which I can personally account. If people really want to dig in, the subreddit r/academicbiblical is full of well, academics and people who know their stuff.

New comment by prox in "Mullenweg has returned as CEO after attempted board ouster"

prox — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:06:57 +0000

Could very well be a venn diagram here

New comment by prox in "google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update"

prox — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 07:48:52 +0000

A lot of them. Claude is a choice. Here is the list : https://help.kagi.com/kagi/ai/assistant.html

You can even choose a model for each turn.

New comment by prox in "Automattic's board forces CEO Matt Mullenweg into leave of absence"

prox — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:28:11 +0000

I have seen way too many people in my surroundings go off their rockers after too many ayahuasca trips, especially if they do it in a short time frame, they get emotionally unregulated.

New comment by prox in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

prox — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 19:58:11 +0000

So when do you use Fable? For difficult singular tasks?

New comment by prox in "LinkedIn CringeBot 3000"

prox — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 09:58:30 +0000

We talk about words here

insert 10 short one sentence life experiences about words

you can subscribe to my word salad workshop for $5

New comment by prox in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

prox — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:34:39 +0000

If this is true, this is the person some folks think is fit to lead a nation. One little thing not suiting his whim of the day? Lets hate something that helps with energy production.

Welcome the world of transactional opportunism.

New comment by prox in "Discovery of a multicomponent alloy forged by the Hiroshima atomic blast"

prox — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 08:06:30 +0000

Looks like every time a new “big thing” gets invented, the big thing becomes like a hammer and everything else turns into the proverbial nail. Then it was atomic everything, not its AI everything. Same pattern repeating.

New comment by prox in "Ship Safe, an open source security scanner for coding agents"

prox — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 06:33:06 +0000

How about HN make a rule where you can’t just post your latest vibe, you need to tell us why and how this project fits and what it meant writing it. Put the effort in, remove the low-effort.