Hacker News: skilled

New comment by skilled in "Google Was a Lifeline for Publishers. Now Some Are Thinking of Cutting It Off"

skilled — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 06:01:37 +0000

New comment by skilled in "US tech groups cut 140k jobs"

skilled — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:10:12 +0000

New comment by skilled in "Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users"

skilled — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:25:21 +0000

I have read that there is private software for radiologists that has better training data, but I can’t comment on it myself.

Maybe someone who has used it can give some feedback.

New comment by skilled in "Launching Health in ChatGPT to US Users"

skilled — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:14:43 +0000

I think doctors are going to lose their minds or at the very least get extremely agitated/frustrated as patients increasingly use AI tools to do self-research for symptoms and diagnosis. And I know this because I am guilty of this myself and recently had a dentist tell me to not do that. And this applies to so many health workers, your GP as well as your physical therapist, etc.

Recently I had Claude analyze an MRI of my knee and it gave me five different potential problems, but once I got the radiologist report - none of those problems were present, it did not detect that it was chondromalacia that I found out from the radiologist report.

Health and the current iteration of LLM's just doesn't seem like a great match.

Waiting for an Epiphany

skilled — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 05:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2006/12/05/waiting-for-an-epiphany/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48988542

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

wp2shell: Pre-Auth RCE in WordPress Core

skilled — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 17:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://own2pwn.fr/articles/appsec/wp2shell-wordpress-rce

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48969855

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by skilled in "GPT‑Live"

skilled — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:24:43 +0000

Not had a chance to experiment yet, but will this be an upgrade for using AI for language learning?

New comment by skilled in "OpenAI proposes handing Trump administration 5% stake"

skilled — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 05:39:30 +0000

https://archive.is/jafKB

New comment by skilled in "One million passports leaked online"

skilled — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:56:15 +0000

I think the URL should be changed to The Verge link or something else as the current source is repetitive AI writing and incohesive to read.

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