Hacker News: skilled

Epidemiology of Snakebites

skilled — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:33:08 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_snakebites

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47977557

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by skilled in "CPanel and WHM Authentication Bypass – CVE-2026-41940"

skilled — Fri, 01 May 2026 05:59:52 +0000

What a shame that I no longer have access to my teenage-level conscience, I am sallivating at the idea of going wild with this and the Copy Fail cve.

The potential here to do all kinds of manipulation for search engines / AI tools is enormous. Perhaps the more scary thought is that someone could easily make an agent that would exploit both bugs to wipe out servers.

Good on these companies to publish their findings straight away as I'd imagine that both bugs would have fetched quite a lot on the black market.

New comment by skilled in "Copy Fail"

skilled — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:38:00 +0000

This looks like an extraordinary find at first glance.

Does this mean you can go from a basic web shell from a shared hosting account to root? I can see how that could wreak havoc really quickly.

New comment by skilled in "Copy Fail – CVE-2026-31431"

skilled — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:34:38 +0000

Probably to some extent it is marketing, but generally it has to do with significant bug finds to get the message out to the people who need to apply patches and/or be informed. Heartbleed, Log4Shell, etc.

Very few CVE’s get names dedicated to them like this, because usually when they do - it is very serious, as in this case.

New comment by skilled in "Sergey Brin Moves to the Right, with a 'MAGA Girlfriend' by His Side"

skilled — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:39:21 +0000

https://archive.is/9n5Ow

New comment by skilled in "Inside Nepal's Fake Rescue Racket"

skilled — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 13:18:36 +0000

I did the Everest base camp trek in late 2015, at that time it was quite common (saw it myself and heard about it) that people would do the trek up but to get down they would fake a leg/back injury or blame altitude sickness and the chopper from Kathmandu would come pick you up, as long as you had the right insurance.

New comment by skilled in "Voyager 1 runs on 69 KB of memory and an 8-track tape recorder"

skilled — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 04:04:57 +0000

Norway

New comment by skilled in "GitHub hits CTRL-Z, decides it will train its AI with user data after all"

skilled — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:16:22 +0000

Discussion from two days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47521799

New comment by skilled in "Norway wealth fund moves towards some AI-driven decisions with humans in control"

skilled — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:02:19 +0000

https://archive.is/3te3o

DarkSword: iOS Exploit Chain Adopted by Multiple Threat Actors

skilled — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:52:52 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/darksword-ios-exploit-chain

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47426540

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

New comment by skilled in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

skilled — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 18:54:02 +0000

https://xcancel.com/id_aa_carmack/status/2032460578669691171

New comment by skilled in "Ask HN: Where do all the web devs talk?"

skilled — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 10:03:11 +0000

I think Discord/IRC are the best two options for real-time talk. Social media sites are quite clunky for that purpose, but still useful to discuss the topic.

New comment by skilled in "[dead]"

skilled — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 18:25:31 +0000

Will it be possible to attend virtually?

New comment by skilled in "Nvidia contacted Anna's Archive to access books"

skilled — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 11:17:59 +0000

> In response, NVIDIA defended its actions as fair use, noting that books are nothing more than statistical correlations to its AI models.

Does this even make sense? Are the copyright laws so bad that a statement like this would actually be in NVIDIA’s favor?

New comment by skilled in "Does this demonstrate verifiable governance for autonomous systems?"

skilled — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 06:58:32 +0000

New account. Plain zip file. Unclear instructions.

Those are clear red flags that HN users will consider and ignore the submission accordingly.

Write a blog about it and do a better presentation.

New comment by skilled in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

skilled — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 16:54:03 +0000

https://xcancel.com/eastdakota/status/2009654937303896492

New comment by skilled in "London–Calcutta bus service"

skilled — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 15:24:12 +0000

Interesting. I did a quick search but doesn’t look like there are any personal stories on this.

Can see it having been a unique experience, bonding with people over such a long period of time.

Looks like photos from inside the bus are also not available sadly.

New comment by skilled in "'Chinese Peptides' Are the Latest Biohacking Trend in the Tech World"

skilled — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 11:46:05 +0000

https://archive.is/4DH0k

New comment by skilled in "New York to require social media platforms to display mental health warnings"

skilled — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 17:07:54 +0000

Well, no. Upvoting a certain story doesn’t change the homepage to match it to similar stories.

New comment by skilled in "Show HN: Jmail – Google Suite for Epstein files"

skilled — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 15:56:07 +0000

Not much to say other than that this is really impressive work. Thanks for putting it all together!