Hacker News: underdeserver

New comment by underdeserver in "The worst job interview I ever had"

underdeserver — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:07:56 +0000

Was this a technical role?

New comment by underdeserver in "Taking a walk may lead to more creativity than sitting, study finds (2014)"

underdeserver — Tue, 26 May 2026 19:01:10 +0000

Um, could it have been the job itself that killed your productivity and not the walks?

New comment by underdeserver in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

underdeserver — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:57:26 +0000

Is writing the blog post taking longer than the rewrite

New comment by underdeserver in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

underdeserver — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:37:37 +0000

There is a tradeoff between the freedom users have on their devices on one side, and the likelihood less sophisticated users will get their information stolen or their devices pwned and used to DoS innocent websites on the other side.

If you don't address this tradeoff you're not really engaging the issue.

What I think we need is a professional, well-informed advocate of freedom who is willing to seriously discuss the tradeoff and concede that neither extreme is ideal.

New comment by underdeserver in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

underdeserver — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:57:27 +0000

When I was in grad school I graded homework for first year math classes, and the thing about math homework is that the perfect homework takes almost no time to grade.

It's the bad, semi-coherent submissions that eat up your time, because you do want to award some points and tell students where they went wrong. It's the Anna Karenina principle applied to math.

Code review is the same thing. If you're sure Claude wrote your endpoint right, why not review it anyway? It's going to take you two minutes, and you're not going to wonder whether this time it missed a nuance.

New comment by underdeserver in "For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day"

underdeserver — Sun, 03 May 2026 20:40:48 +0000

Okay but that hardware doesn't have to be in Beijing, it can be in a Dutch data centre.

New comment by underdeserver in "Waymo in Portland"

underdeserver — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:09:34 +0000

They didn't mention it was Oregon. Maybe they're rolling out to Portland, Maine?

New comment by underdeserver in "Ghostty is leaving GitHub"

underdeserver — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:01:38 +0000

Those footnotes - "no, not that outage" - are damning.

New comment by underdeserver in "The Joy of Folding Bikes"

underdeserver — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:05:47 +0000

Did the guy in the grocery video just leave his bike outside? That's so beyond naïve it's rude.

New comment by underdeserver in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

underdeserver — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 21:28:48 +0000

It's not VTOL. It has STOVL and CATOBAR variants.

New comment by underdeserver in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

underdeserver — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 02:46:07 +0000

Please quote the clause he violated in said contract.

New comment by underdeserver in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

underdeserver — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:54:07 +0000

I used to hear it called "virtual scroll", and I remember webpages ballooning in RAM when they didn't do it.

New comment by underdeserver in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

underdeserver — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 21:25:57 +0000

"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer. This is known as Godwin's law."

New comment by underdeserver in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

underdeserver — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:15:31 +0000

Thank goodness. Let's hope some peace and quiet comes out of this.

New comment by underdeserver in "Assessing Claude Mythos Preview's cybersecurity capabilities"

underdeserver — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:13:46 +0000

I think the system card one should be separate, but this and the Glasswing thread are basically the same story.

New comment by underdeserver in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

underdeserver — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 23:11:10 +0000

I would suggest watching Nicholas Carlini's talk and Heather Adkins and Four Flynn's talks from unprompted:

https://youtu.be/1sd26pWhfmg?si=onOai_ocxkZeNWP0

https://youtu.be/B_7RpP90rUk?si=HkRBhw95DbbKX9lL

My takeaway is that fuzzing is not just complementary, it also gives a stronger AI a starting point. But AI is generally faster and better.

New comment by underdeserver in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

underdeserver — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:52:21 +0000

Interesting also is what they didn't find, e.g. a Linux network stack remote code execution vulnerability. I wonder if Mythos is good enough that there really isn't one.

New comment by underdeserver in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

underdeserver — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 18:48:37 +0000

Key point: available to participants.

New comment by underdeserver in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

underdeserver — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 06:10:30 +0000

It's not just about cost - a $2m drone and a $200m drone can both be sacrificed if cost/benefit analysis merits it.

You don't sacrifice pilots, ever.

New comment by underdeserver in "Vulnerability research is cooked"

underdeserver — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:45:22 +0000

Just wanted to point out that tptacek is the blog post's author (and a veteran security researcher).