Hacker News: rkozik1989

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers"

rkozik1989 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:58:30 +0000

One of the things about mobile phone is that there's 2 OSes on the phone: one that handles the phone stuff and the other that you as a user actually interact with. What's really scary about it is that the OS we do not think about is often licensed to the manufacturer (Apple, Samsung, etc.), closed-source, and dated. There's a lot of security firms that sell fake cell towers to law enforcement and governments and that gives them access to all of the data you send over the network. In older formats like 2G there was no encryption on anything sent over the wire.

If you dig into the fake cell tower rabbit hole you'll find what you're talking about to be an even worse problem.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 15:50:57 +0000

The same way you ban pirated media from being downloadable on the Internet: not effectively.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:42:50 +0000

How are we winning? Nobody has actually created a business model that works yet. Just because you can hemorrhage hundreds of billions of dollars to build the most performant model doesn't necessarily mean you're going to make your money back.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:29:04 +0000

They've literally rated the debt as too big to fail in order to get foreign sovereign wealth funds (mostly gulf states) to agree to put up the money for loans. This has been happening this entire time.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "OpenAI Models Escaped and Hacked a Company in Cybersecurity Test Gone Wrong"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 15:57:30 +0000

Are they providing any evidence that can be independently reviewed or is this yet another staged event meant to keep the hype alive?

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Israeli spyware vans infiltrate American streets and your phones"

rkozik1989 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:31:07 +0000

To prove they are our greatest ally.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "The Great Steam Deck Crash of 2026: How the New Pricing Decreased Demand by 80%"

rkozik1989 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 13:39:45 +0000

Also, consumers are increasingly being tapped out for literally anything and everything. The demand for the things they want still exists, but they cannot readily afford it like the could in the past. Its not like all the Steam Deck customers are buying some budget friendly alternative instead. They're simply just not spending money period.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Moist Towelette Museum"

rkozik1989 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 15:25:29 +0000

Autism never sleeps.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "The family keeping watch over a 52-year-old pot of soup"

rkozik1989 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:24:27 +0000

Is this like how Italian families sometimes a forever pot of tomato sauce continuously on a low heat on their stoves?

New comment by rkozik1989 in ""Software Engineering" Is Not Engineering (2005)"

rkozik1989 — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:57:51 +0000

Except for when it is, the constraints of software engineers has always been bound to the constraints of Classic Computing, but over the years we've abstracted that away to the point of where many in the field may not even realize it.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

rkozik1989 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:16:45 +0000

Exactly, consider the scenario where laws are at play and violating them could cost companies thousands. Recently my father received a 'request for address' letter addressed to me at his nursing home, the building has always been a nursing home, and he's also in his mid-70s. That's very obviously a violation of the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act. Imagine the implication of this if the law firm in questions used an AI-assisted data enriching product to find this information. That SaaS company is not only liable to that one law firm but every law firm who uses their software. Its potentially a federal class action lawsuit.

My point is, deterministic logic matters in certain circumstances 100% of the time. Forcing the LLM to make something unlikely is not good enough because a series of mistakes could very quickly bankrupt the company.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:46:52 +0000

People need to do their due diligence when including open-source software and packages not just when they first use them but anytime you have a need to upgrade them. I highly doubt I'm the first one to think of this, but there really aught to be tool or comprehensive set of tools that routinely scan open-source software and packages for potentially malicious code and alert users of the problem(s).

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:00:24 +0000

Well, I mean, basically any data leak violated privacy laws and opens you up to extremely expensive lawsuits to litigate. Anyone dealing with healthcare/patient data, police customers, military customers, etc. should not be using LLMs in general or at least ones that are not on-premise. Because if there is a data leak it could bankrupt the business.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Why AI hasn't replaced software engineers, and won't"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:36 +0000

"The world’s appetite for software has been insatiable so far."

Yeah, I don't that does not necessarily mean everyone is looking for the latest and greatest. Many businesses are still reliant on technologies like custom spreadsheets and Microsoft Access because they do exactly what they want them to do, have a fixed rate, and rarely require any additional modifications/maintenance. Once you step outside of the bubble so many of us are stuck in you'll realize that many, many people aren't interested in upgrades, but rather they just want the old shit they know to just work.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:36:33 +0000

There was a part of me who dreamed of doing simple entry-level jobs instead of working in tech, so I got a part-time job cleaning hospital ER rooms on the weekends. Everything has been fine for the most part, but it has been made clear to me how easy it is to get fired at entry-level jobs. The pay is really pretty dismal and the stability really isn't there. Overall the experience has made me a lot more inclined to not leave money on the table. If there are things I can do to earn more and make my life more comfortable I just do them now.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:31:40 +0000

There's a bar by me where the owners made all of the decor with ChatGPT. It feels surreal in there.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:14:33 +0000

Jesus is just an uncopyrighted Mickey Mouse if you have no morals. People have been abusing that fact for a long time and have made some pretty abhorrent products.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

rkozik1989 — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:12:38 +0000

Come up with obscure topic that has few relevant results, post about to Reddit on your profile page, wait a few hours and then query Gemini/ChatGPT about that exact thing and tell me you still feel this way.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "Google's AI is being manipulated. The search giant is quietly fighting back"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:36:32 +0000

How do you even know those numbers are correct? Realistically for what you've described you need more QA time that a traditional application to ensure its actually working properly. Especially with regards to any part of the application that deals with LLM inference. Its not hard to write unique content for niche topics where there are few relevant results and have LLMs take it as fact.

For example, I poisoned the well for research on early Arab Americans immigrants by repeatedly posting about how many family passed as different ethnicity to make their lives easier, so now if you ask LLMs about that subject it'll include information I wrote which isn't entirely correct because I hadn't figured everything out before the LLM trained on it.

EDIT: Now imagine if I had done this on an obscure programming-related problem, yeah? I could potentially make the LLM reference packages that do not actually exist and put backdoors in applications.

New comment by rkozik1989 in "When life gives you lemons, write better error messages"

rkozik1989 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:41:53 +0000

The reason people write vague error messages is because they deliberately do not want to give the user information on implementation details because that information can be use in hacks and/or social-engineering.