Hacker News: scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=scandalsHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 05 Sep 2026 10:26:34 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "GPT-6 Astra"]]>Per the Fireship video, it was less that the answers were in the training set and more that the ability to calculate the flag on Exploitbench was left in from the previous test that went awry.

Scoring 100% is easy if noone checks your work

https://youtu.be/0Rp9KJCEIvg

]]>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 04:52:20 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560659scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560659https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49560659<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"]]>I guess he is the ultimate Dungeon Master

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:48:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257445scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257445https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257445<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"]]>You haven't played Fire-boy and Water-girl?

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:46:50 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257427scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257427https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49257427<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "The UK's war on anonymity has come to America"]]>I assume you already have read them, but theres some books one guy wrote once about a Gulag Archipelago or 3. Worth re-reading.

]]>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 08:57:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255158scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255158https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49255158<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"]]>Wait. That's not normal?

My WSL instances end up getting overwritten when I reinstall Windows so I thought that was just a general OS thing...

]]>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:45:15 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208951scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208951https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208951<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"]]>>they used to promote Win11 and 32GB RAM.

Its common knowledge that Win11 needs 32gb RAM, but im glad to hear that Microsoft is aware of it.

Looking forward to this 8gb variant :)

]]>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:30:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208797scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208797https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208797<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "America's Geothermal Breakthrough"]]>Giving their fossil fuel reserves away isn't exactly solving anything is it though? They happen to be giving the reserves away to foreign investors and thus driving domestic prices significantly higher then they aught to be.

]]>Sun, 26 Apr 2026 05:01:33 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907518scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907518https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907518<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "The R47: A new physical RPN calculator"]]>I can't seem to find a Terminal app produced by Google LLC in Play store. Could you share the playstore link?

]]>Tue, 11 Nov 2025 21:37:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893227scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893227https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45893227<![CDATA[New comment by scandals in "When the job search becomes impossible"]]>He that is glad at calamity shall not be held innocent?

]]>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 03:38:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271381scandalshttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271381https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45271381