Hacker News: weare138

New comment by weare138 in "Anna's Archive hit with $19.5M default judgment and global domain takedown order"

weare138 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:37:50 +0000

The publishers argued that, in addition to sharing pirated books with the public, the shadow library is serving as a primary training data hub for AI companies like Meta and NVIDIA.

So when are we seizing Meta and Nvidia's domains?

New comment by weare138 in "GPT‑5.5 Bio Bug Bounty"

weare138 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:29:45 +0000

The fact the bug bounty program is private and requires you to apply and be accepted first is also sus especially when the scope is the desktop app anyone can download.

New comment by weare138 in "Contra Benn Jordan, data center (and all) sub-audible infrasound issues are fake"

weare138 — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:30:12 +0000

The author of this article is an AI industry promoter and lobbyist. Just read through his substack which was the first red flag. He's on Substack. The author has a history of making misleading claims about the environmental safety and efficacy of AI. This guy is going to need some pom-poms to cheer any harder for the AI industry.

New comment by weare138 in "NASA Force"

weare138 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:20:51 +0000

Still no idea what 'NASA Force' is but they do have a slick looking website.

New comment by weare138 in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

weare138 — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:16:06 +0000

But it was nice of these devs to make this tool that will tell you how to make your site hostile to AI agents and even check it for you.

New comment by weare138 in "Python Is Dead"

weare138 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 03:41:13 +0000

Last month I wrote a dynamic malware analysis tool in Rust. About 20,000 lines of it. Process management, threading, memory management, the whole stack. I don’t know Rust

And I won't be using that...

New comment by weare138 in "This year’s insane timeline of hacks"

weare138 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:26:58 +0000

They're not and they won't. I'm from genx and have a background in infosec. I don't agree that AI is the cause of this sudden surge in activity or if this is even a sudden surge. This stuff was always occurring if you were paying attention. It just making the mainstream news now.

Geopolitics is the cause of the recent uptick in activity. Many of these groups are state sponsored or just fronts for nation-states themselves. genAI just makes it easier for people further down the chain to go after low hanging fruit.

The most significant impact genAI is having on infosec is creating work for those people in infosec through vibe coding and turning untested AI systems loose on internal networks. genAI just lets developers and admins shoot themselves in the foot faster. genAI is an artificial intern.

New comment by weare138 in "Battle for Wesnoth: open-source, turn-based strategy game"

weare138 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:07:42 +0000

For anyone that was into Star Control check out Endless Sky:

https://endless-sky.github.io

New comment by weare138 in "Why LLM-Generated Passwords Are Dangerously Insecure"

weare138 — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:49:15 +0000

If anyone is that desperate for a secure random password here's a Perl one-liner I came up with that will generate random cryptographically secure passwords with all unique characters using /dev/urandom. No dependencies:

  perl -E 'while (open($_,"/dev/urandom") && $#p+1 != $ARGV[0]) { $_ = getc $_, push @p, grep !$u{$_}++, /[!-~]/g } say @p' 24

Minified:

  perl -E 'while(open($_,"/dev/urandom")&&$#p+1!=$ARGV[0]){$_=getc$_;push@p,/[!-~]/g}say@p' 42

New comment by weare138 in "LinkedIn uses 2.4 GB RAM across two tabs"

weare138 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 06:43:34 +0000

I remember when your computer had 128MB of ram and could still run an entire desktop OS, web browser and chat app at the same time.

New comment by weare138 in "How to have a healthy relationship with caffeine"

weare138 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 05:10:05 +0000

You're not my supervisor.

New comment by weare138 in "Parallel Perl – Autoparallelizing interpreter with JIT"

weare138 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:47:53 +0000

I'm kind of curious how it compares to some of the current concurrency solutions for Perl because there is a bunch of them now:

https://metacpan.org/pod/Coro

https://metacpan.org/pod/MCE

https://metacpan.org/pod/OpenMP

https://metacpan.org/dist/UV

New comment by weare138 in "Meta acquires Moltbook"

weare138 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:44:40 +0000

A network for bots acquires a network for bots. Story at 11.

New comment by weare138 in "Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package"

weare138 — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 19:40:36 +0000

So Sundar is an AI engineer in his spare time too?

New comment by weare138 in "Claude is an Electron App because we've lost native"

weare138 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:42:50 +0000

You can still style native apps.

New comment by weare138 in "The whole thing was a scam"

weare138 — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 14:12:00 +0000

In capitalism, the market decides.

In oligarchy, connections and donations decide.

It sure look like the US is transitioning from the former to the latter.

As someone from genx I can definitively confirm this is how it always worked. If you're younger do not delude yourselves into thinking this is all somehow new and things were better in the past. They weren't.

New comment by weare138 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

weare138 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:24:33 +0000

There's was an 80s movie about this...

The Strange Case of South American Chickens (2023)

weare138 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 18:33:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.randyschickenblog.com/home/2019/10/27/chickens-from-outer-space-the-strange-case-of-south-american-chickens

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47103361

Points: 2

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New comment by weare138 in "Be wary of Bluesky"

weare138 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 12:53:26 +0000

But how is that 'decentralized' which was the entire point of Bluesky and the AT protocol to begin with? We're just back to running centralized services. Without decentralization this is just XMPP with extra steps. You might as well just run something like Movim and save yourself the hassle.

New comment by weare138 in "I'm Sick of This AI Shit [video]"

weare138 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 16:15:16 +0000

If you are sick of AI music just start stealing it. AI generated media is not copyrightable. The people shoveling all this AI music can't claim ownership of it. It's generated from models trained on copyrighted content. Also wholly generated media is not covered under copyright laws to begin with if a human wasn't involved in it's creation.

So just start reposting and monetizing music from AI generated 'artists. Undermine it's value and the market for it. Eventually the time and cost of producing it would be more than the profits someone could generate monetizing it. Then people will stop wasting their time on it.