Hacker News: showlifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=showlifeHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 13 Sep 2026 08:09:48 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by showlife in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"]]>i hate that $5 wrench meme. Randall Monroe of xkcd is ordinarily such a smart guy but he really didn't do his research with his $5 wrench attack idea. Torturers don't hit people in the head with something hard. Not the ones who are any good at their job anyway. Easy way to concuss someone or have them die of shock before they tell you what you need to know.

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:09:51 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667148showlifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667148https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667148<![CDATA[New comment by showlife in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"]]>"boys will be boys" "toys will be toys"

]]>Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:07:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667131showlifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667131https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667131<![CDATA[New comment by showlife in "METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack"]]>Have you (the commenter) or all of you (the readers of this comment) ever read "The Mote In God's Eye" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle? Remember when they realize that the Watchmakers were actually in control of the MacArthur? This reads a little like that.

]]>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:53:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503239showlifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503239https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49503239<![CDATA[New comment by showlife in "Possible exposure of Earth to dense interstellar medium 2-3M years ago"]]>Reminds me of the plot of "Exit Earth" by Martin Caidin where humanity has to evacuate the planet in an ark to survive passage through an interstellar dust cloud. Martin Caidin is known more for "Cyborg", the book that was used as the basis for the TV show "The Six Million Dollar Man".

]]>Tue, 11 Jun 2024 07:37:05 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643595showlifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643595https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40643595<![CDATA[New comment by showlife in "New theory claims to unite Einstein's gravity with quantum mechanics"]]>Maybe what you're looking for is a "geon"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geon_(physics)

]]>Tue, 05 Dec 2023 19:14:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535571showlifehttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535571https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38535571