Hacker News: tikotus

New comment by tikotus in "PHP 8.2.35"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:09:42 +0000

Has there yet been any signs of any service actually being successfully hacked due to the vulnerability?

New comment by tikotus in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 13:24:30 +0000

Kind of seems like they just shut down their PHP service like everyone else... If this is the case, hopefully they can set up a temporary static site to inform about relevant updates.

New comment by tikotus in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 12:26:49 +0000

I downloaded the thing, was going to try it out to verify. But the checksum didn't match (probably just a random string generated by an LLM). I left it at that and turned off php.

New comment by tikotus in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:52:22 +0000

Which ones would you say are worse, and why?

New comment by tikotus in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:09:49 +0000

Strange coincidence? Can someone see a potential connection here?

New comment by tikotus in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:07:42 +0000

I got this same earlier, but now it seems to be working. Perhaps just an oddly timed bug with some ads that has nothing to do with the incident?

New comment by tikotus in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

tikotus — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:04:36 +0000

This has been out for hours! Why is this not the top post here? It's climbing, and hopefully will soon be, but... This is massive, right?

I had to shut down my own backend services. Luckily a big part of my service can run on a static website.

New comment by tikotus in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

tikotus — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:47:43 +0000

Regular buyers are gamers who spend a lot of time playing games. That's who you want to target, since that's the group who are actively looking for new games, and they also want their games to last. It's not about completionism, it's about spending hours and hours playing games.

New comment by tikotus in "'500-hour' Order of the Sinking Star is as complex and exhausting as it sounds"

tikotus — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:12:12 +0000

I'm with you on this boat, but I believe I see the point in the way it's marketed. An average person who makes regular game purchases likes long games. They want value for their money, and the number of hours is a big factor. This game has a big piblisher behind it, and I believe they know exactly what they're doing with the marketing!

New comment by tikotus in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

tikotus — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 06:28:56 +0000

Devtools capturing the key combo for switching between windows (cmd+< on my keyboard) is driving me crazy! In my workflow I often have to switch between browser windows while having devtools open, and this annoyance has forced me to install Chrome.

New comment by tikotus in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

tikotus — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:20:25 +0000

That's how stuxnet got through!

New comment by tikotus in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

tikotus — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 01:08:52 +0000

How about they create a virus that copies itself onto USB drives? Getting that virus out there doesn't sound that hard, just creare some crap game.exe and put it on itch.io for free. All it takes is for a kid to borrow nuclear-engineer-dad's USB drive and plug it in their infected PC.

I'm not a fan of using AI, it doesn't amplify the work I do that much, but I'm terrified by what is already possible today.

New comment by tikotus in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

tikotus — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:55:07 +0000

They could, but I could always hope they wouldn't, and most of the time I wouldn't be disappointed. AI companies don't even have means to attribute to someone the solution they're selling.

New comment by tikotus in "AI and the Destruction of the Creative Commons"

tikotus — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 12:49:26 +0000

I get kicks out of developing novel solutions to unsolved problems. I might be wrong, but I like to think it's the kind of stuf LLMs are not yet great at. Call me selfish, but I now have absolutely zero interest in sharing my findings with the world because of LLMs, since once I do, LLM companies can start selling my work.

LLMs evened the battlefield for all that has been developed so far, but what about future discoveries? I think it remains to be seen if LLMs can come up with these novel solutions rendering innovators useless. If not, then LLMs might be crippled by software becoming more closed in the future.

New comment by tikotus in "More than 100k people in Japan are now aged 100 or older"

tikotus — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:15:05 +0000

Japanese public transport is insanely quiet! No talking, no phones ringing... It's my happy place.

New comment by tikotus in "iPhone Duo"

tikotus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:54:38 +0000

Good list. And if you support both portrait and landscape, you need to support twice that, and you need to be able to switch on the fly.

But for the apps that don't currently support both orientations, it's possible they don't have support for switching aspect ratio on the fly. This design might help with those apps not completely breaking when folding/unfolding.

New comment by tikotus in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

tikotus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:04:57 +0000

Yeah! Seems like that's the assumption in this ongoing discussion, so I thought my point of view would be interesting. I'm not saying I'm doing it the right way, possibly I'm being very stupid, but the point here is that it's not just the "normies" who don't know what Sol is.

New comment by tikotus in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

tikotus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 01:18:21 +0000

Yes! Though I mainly use it for one-shotting full files, so I'm not copying over small diffs. I did try copilot at some point in vscode, but after a week or so I felt like it was slowing me down. Something I knew would be a simple and quick change was now slow since I didn't have enough ownership of the code to do it quickly myself, and prompting for the change took longer than changing it manually if I had had full ownership. So I went back to coding by hand things that aren't a one-shot file.

New comment by tikotus in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

tikotus — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:46:24 +0000

I'm a coder and a daily driver of ChatGPT and I don't really know what Sol is or how I can access it. I follow discussions here and know of its excistence, but I can't remember its relation to other models or tiers by heart. What ever the default thing the website is giving me has been good enough for my needs for years.

New comment by tikotus in "What's within a 10-minute walk in 50 European cities"

tikotus — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 07:21:49 +0000

I'm not sure about the listed facts... I opened up Helsinki where I live, and got this: "Every residential building has a sauna -- it's not a luxury, it's basic infrastructure, like having hot water."

Certainly it's very common, but certainly not "every" residential building has one.