Hacker News: vasco

New comment by vasco in "AdFection: Targeted ads turned into a pipeline for zero-click mercenary spyware"

vasco — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:05:53 +0000

Guess where the company big AI labs are using for security sandbox is from? The one that was involved in both big hacking scandals from "rogue agents" by OpenAI and Anthropic?

New comment by vasco in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

vasco — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:40:30 +0000

Wrong, why do people think they can speak for a whole continent? There's good and bad ones and the bad ones are as bad as US. I have many similar stories.

I've been getting told my wisdom teeth need to be pulled out for the last 20 years for example, never touched them, no issues.

New comment by vasco in "Gemini 4 Argon"

vasco — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 07:21:28 +0000

Many times you lack the context or words, but after it gave them to you, you can look up papers and figure out if it matches. Same as you do with human doctors to decide if you need a second opinion.

New comment by vasco in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

vasco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:57:18 +0000

I admire you having the patience to even come back to people who are just pretending to know it all. This thread is specially bad.

New comment by vasco in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

vasco — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 05:48:06 +0000

Unless they missed a single one and then everything is owned immediately.

New comment by vasco in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

vasco — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:45:44 +0000

And because those backups lifecycle is usually tied to the instance itself. Someone deletes your instance and your backups are gone as well.

New comment by vasco in "Programmable pigments: Photochromic nanoparticle inks for rewritable tattoos"

vasco — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 06:23:30 +0000

Plenty of monster drink tattoos around

New comment by vasco in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

vasco — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:43:32 +0000

You could FOIA their cameras every week, cops have no privacy

New comment by vasco in "Typesafe AI raises $870M at $7.5B"

vasco — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 07:40:33 +0000

> People who can find things of value, and execute on those things, are worth investing in

Investing isn't binary. You can be investible but not at a 7.5b valuation.

New comment by vasco in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

vasco — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:54:32 +0000

There's illicit enrichment so it's not like just getting likes.

New comment by vasco in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

vasco — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 06:46:38 +0000

It couldn't make every human understand. But it could make Tao and other mathematicians understand. You're not going to become knowledgeable at everything suddenly, even though I doubt what you say. Many months of 1-1 tutoring and hard work from a student with a top mathematician would make you understand a lot. Just not sit down and read it first day.

New comment by vasco in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

vasco — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 05:39:51 +0000

He is right if model intelligence stalls. If model intelligence continues to improve soon there's no need for the prompter to understand anything or for any workshop as a mathematician will just be able to ask the model to explain how the proof works and models will do a good job at walking them through it step by step.

There will be no gap in understanding. Now there is because the models are discovering things at the edge of what they can do and so suck at explaining it. There's nothing particularly special about a newly solved problem in terms of learning it.

If we accept AI can explain all of existing math nicely, why shouldn't it be able to explain new proofs?

New comment by vasco in "Claude Code’s suggested message feature: I think the real customer is the model"

vasco — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:53:50 +0000

You get a feeling some people would send a robot wearing their face to hug their mom if they thought the mom couldn't tell the difference. And to have sex with their wife. It'll happen too which is the sad bit.

New comment by vasco in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

vasco — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:41:46 +0000

So it's not the situation they described at all, you didn't waste time during the PhD having to scramble to change topics as it happened after you were done.

New comment by vasco in "After bankruptcy, he was banned from sports betting sites. Then he found Kalshi"

vasco — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:33:45 +0000

Legalize murder so people aren't forced to do it in the backrooms. Think of the murderers, they'll get their legs broken otherwise!

New comment by vasco in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

vasco — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:57:24 +0000

I guess it's time to come up with a more plausible explanation about why I asked how to make nuclear weapons almost every month to test LLM refusals.

New comment by vasco in "Celebrating the 100th birthday of the kidney donated to him as a teenager"

vasco — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:57:37 +0000

Farming young humans to expand the lifespan of old rich ones has a little bit of a je ne sais quoi though.

New comment by vasco in "We're working on a new RuneScape MMO"

vasco — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:55:33 +0000

SaaS is dead and other AI doomerism, might as well play games. Nobody knows so might as well guess.

New comment by vasco in "Muse Gadgets"

vasco — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:17:12 +0000

It won't move because anyone with a brain won't use this, but I was also surprised at how many people put Bezos-listening devices in their own home.

New comment by vasco in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

vasco — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 03:34:18 +0000

Do you also think of all the things you could do if you didn't have to sleep with such seriousness? Unless you actually don't think women deserve those rights, why even spend time pondering such things? I don't go around annoyed I can't read books instead of sleep because I'll always need sleep.