Hacker News: reassess_blind

New comment by reassess_blind in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

reassess_blind — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:09:10 +0000

That reminds me, I need to rewatch Minority Report.

New comment by reassess_blind in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

reassess_blind — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 23:36:33 +0000

My comment was in response to "just air-gap them" being a full solution, not a comment on whether OpenAI are doing enough to sandbox them and restrict their ability to act maliciously. They're clearly not.

Interacting with the internet is a large part of the product's intended functionality. These agents are already in the hands of the masses with full access to the internet. Air-gapping it entirely avoids the risk by removing much of the capability they're trying to develop in the first place, and won't be testing it in the environment they'll actually be used in.

I agree they're testing on the town square too early. They clearly need tighter controls.

New comment by reassess_blind in "OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects"

reassess_blind — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:26:44 +0000

Being able to interact with the internet is a large part of their value.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Newgrounds.com – A community of games, music, and art"

reassess_blind — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:46:43 +0000

Site is loading super slow for me. Anyone else?

New comment by reassess_blind in "Sites in ChatGPT"

reassess_blind — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 03:03:29 +0000

Their first example is 404: https://developers.openai.com/showcase/frame-studio

New comment by reassess_blind in "Clef: Open-weight decision models, and new RL fine-tuning platform"

reassess_blind — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 02:02:44 +0000

I'm trialling using it to scan user signups for signs of gambling spam, phishing etc. My current process uses an LLM, but seems like a good fit for these classifiers.

New comment by reassess_blind in "The death of web development education"

reassess_blind — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 21:36:15 +0000

The traffic to my blog and my books (which were free to read online) increased beyond what I can currently afford.

That’s a shame. I’m surprised someone so well versed in web technologies has such a brittle setup. Cloudflare Pages, or if you you’d prefer to stay CDN-less, a $4 VPS, will handle any sort of traffic this blog can reasonably receive.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

reassess_blind — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:30:46 +0000

Yeah, but the more common ongoing cases will likely be end users whose agents perform the hacking.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

reassess_blind — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:38:05 +0000

I'm not a lawyer, but I'd suggest one of the novel aspects of the AI hacking cases (where the end user is running an agent and it goes off the rails) is that in many jurisdictions "hacking" or computer fraud requires intentional or knowing access to the system. If the end user had no intention and no reasonable way of knowing that agent was going to hack a database, logically I wouldn't think they're liable.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

reassess_blind — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 23:11:17 +0000

If I fire a computer program that mistakenly causes another person harm, its my fault. Or it would be the maker of the program's fault.

Which one is it? The person behind the wheel when it goes off the rails, or the maker of the software?

Isn’t that part of the question?

New comment by reassess_blind in "What is the size of Yemen? (2024)"

reassess_blind — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:23:23 +0000

A quick lazy calculation (including adding in Antartica) the countries totals came up ~2,000,000km2 short. I don't care enough to dive deeper, but if no one is claiming that land I'll happily take it.

New comment by reassess_blind in "What is the size of Yemen? (2024)"

reassess_blind — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 05:55:21 +0000

I wonder if you sum every countries claimed size, how far off it is from the actual total land on Earth.

New comment by reassess_blind in "CAPTCHAs don't prove you're human – they prove you're American"

reassess_blind — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:10:21 +0000

Those do appear to be San Francisco taxis and I agree with the overall sentiment, but the US is not the only country with yellow taxis.

Taiwan, Colombia, Ecuador, Australia, and many European countries all have (not exclusively, but they do have) yellow taxis.

Maybe "Prove you're not English" is really their intention.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Running local LLMs on your Mac: what fits, what's free, and what's overkill"

reassess_blind — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 10:50:06 +0000

Whats the best coding model that fits on 16GB unified memory these days?

New comment by reassess_blind in "Meta VR Glasses"

reassess_blind — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 01:36:07 +0000

What's their motive there?

New comment by reassess_blind in "Apple Music to open concert venue in Battersea Power Station"

reassess_blind — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:47:30 +0000

What would you have preferred the area become?

New comment by reassess_blind in "Make your first edit to OpenStreetMap"

reassess_blind — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:18:17 +0000

Surely if they want any chance of having relatively up-to-date meta data on their map, making edits needs to be more user friendly than this.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Shopify acquires Tailwind"

reassess_blind — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:38:15 +0000

Any word on how much they paid? Tailwind’s revenue was declining sharply due to AI as far as I recall.

New comment by reassess_blind in "GitHub Outage Tracker: Is GitHub Cooked?"

reassess_blind — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:47:58 +0000

I’d be surprised if paid traffic was more than 1%.

New comment by reassess_blind in "Run OpenBSD on DigitalOcean for $4/month"

reassess_blind — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:33:52 +0000

Uptime is overrated.