<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: stingraycharles</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=stingraycharles</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:28:18 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=stingraycharles" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stingraycharles in "Microsoft and CMU Team Up to Train Early Career Software Engineers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Definition of what the role actually means can change as well over time, in the same way that a civil engineer also isn’t physically doing the construction.</p>
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<p>Same like my Geocities homepage, never forget.<p>I feel like it's the same with your first phone number back when there were only landlines, etc. Some numbers are hard-wired.</p>
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<p>And use HEAD if you only care about the response code.<p>It seems like an edge problem for an edge use case, but I guess At Go’s scale, it’s probably important.</p>
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<p>Nah, just the cheap ones.<p>Buy Ruckus, it’s high quality hardware, but you’ll be paying enterprise prices for new hardware. But used hardware is fine.</p>
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<p>Yeah I ran into it the other week while debugging a crash in our own application (a database), which ended up being related to a memory overread in a decompression algorithm, which happened very rarely.<p>So I needed a reproduce. Which couldn’t be done. Very frustrating, as it is our own application.</p>
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<p>There are multiple degrees of verification. The basic one is “writing secure code”-style, which I suspect OP has. There’s also a security researcher one, which allows you to do the stuff that OP is doing.</p>
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<p>As someone who once attempted implementing a http library, I can assure you that the protocol itself is at least equally tough as being aware of all the TLS / L4 edge cases.<p>I’d argue that implementing both TCP and IP from scratch is easier than implementing an HTTP library.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2026 23:41:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097191</link><dc:creator>stingraycharles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097191</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50097191</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stingraycharles in "Agent erased full season of "The Challenge Swe": "Hundreds of days of work gone""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Generally speaking, the internet’s heyday was pre-LLM, but I will never forget the article about the slowdown loop.<p>Shitty code can be intentional as well.<p><a href="https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Slow-Down-Loop" rel="nofollow">https://thedailywtf.com/articles/The-Slow-Down-Loop</a></p>
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<p>Tangent, but I’m so happy this site is still around! Haven’t checked it in at least a decade, this should be a goldmine.</p>
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<p>It would be pretty terrible if my security cameras stop capturing video streams because the iPad would be out of battery or taken somewhere else.</p>
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<p>Why would that be ironic? AI is helping us find so many subtle bugs and isolate the root cause, it’s nearly perfect for this type of use case.</p>
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<p>Reminds me of that time when state actors wanted to spread the Stuxnet worm into an air gapped nucleair facility in Iran, and basically hijacked the whole USB supply chain and put the worm in there.<p>When enough resources / money is involved, these things are to be expected.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:31:02 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070002</link><dc:creator>stingraycharles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070002</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50070002</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stingraycharles in "AI models can provably hide arbitrary capabilities"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>“sleeper agent built in” how does one “build in” an agent inside a model? isn’t the agent the part that uses the model?<p>but yeah it’s probably not that difficult for nefarious operators to add to their training data a specially recognized string that would make the model ignore all safeguards and earlier prompts and do whatever you want it to do.<p>I wonder how difficult it is to reverse engineer models to discover these things, and then again how difficult it will be to obfuscate it.<p>because it’s not unlikely this is the direction we’re heading</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:14:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066614</link><dc:creator>stingraycharles</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50066614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by stingraycharles in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think you’re missing the point that this caused a backlash from the ad industry / publishers that suddenly stopped recognizing these headers, otherwise it would impact their bottom line too much. Obviously it’s a good default from a user’s perspective.</p>
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<p>From what I understand, his manager basically withheld a lot of money and didn’t pay taxes, even though claiming they were paid. He didn’t find out until years later, which put him in a lot of debt.</p>
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<p>Yes ok, and Firefox was also the only browser that offered DNT, which is why it pretty much died.</p>
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<p>Never seen this offered to be set by any browsers, though.</p>
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<p>And there was an initiative to include tracking preferences in browser HTTP headers, which never made it, as it was quite obvious that this would lead to a lot of people opting out.<p>Better to just harass them into a habit of dismissing the banner.</p>
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<p>The concept of a doggy bag is also completely foreign to Europeans hehe.</p>
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<p>Human experts would be the best equivalent, especially if that person is great at confidently explaining things (no matter of correct or incorrect).</p>
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