Hacker News: wnevets

New comment by wnevets in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

wnevets — Fri, 29 May 2026 20:00:28 +0000

> Can anyone comment on why "big video game" dev pay has lagged "big tech" pay so badly?

I believe its game developers are more easily exploited is because typically they really want to work in the game industry.

New comment by wnevets in "We replaced Zendesk"

wnevets — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:11:43 +0000

> Since their private equity buyout in 2022,

Does anyone know of examples of where a private equity buyout has made things better for the consumer?

New comment by wnevets in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

wnevets — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:53:18 +0000

Don't most gamblers already know that its all a scam and the house always wins?

New comment by wnevets in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

wnevets — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:52:52 +0000

> Its not unless its subsidised

I don't see Valve doing it. Unlike an actual console they can't lock down the hardware. People would start buying Steam Machines then replace the OS or even resell the parts.

New comment by wnevets in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

wnevets — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:41:13 +0000

> The 1TB OLED model got a $300 price increase, and now costs $949.

How is it possible for the steam machine to be under $1,000?

New comment by wnevets in "Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links"

wnevets — Sun, 24 May 2026 02:01:38 +0000

Is something similar happening with paypal? I've been getting seemly emails from the PayPal domain that are obviously a scam.

New comment by wnevets in "CISA tries to contain data leak"

wnevets — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:51:04 +0000

If a foreign adversary was in charge would we know the difference?

New comment by wnevets in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

wnevets — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:07:08 +0000

>the students needed to hear this.

I thought that was the objective of these celebrity speeches.

New comment by wnevets in "Flipper One Tech Specs"

wnevets — Thu, 21 May 2026 00:14:55 +0000

Are smartphones not capable of cloning RFID tags?

New comment by wnevets in "CISA Admin Leaked AWS GovCloud Keys on GitHub"

wnevets — Tue, 19 May 2026 15:04:07 +0000

> but this administration clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into and did not plan accordingly.

New comment by wnevets in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

wnevets — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:52:55 +0000

> but this administration clearly had no idea what they were getting themselves into and did not plan accordingly.

You can reuse this line for most of things this administration has been doing.

New comment by wnevets in "Project Glasswing: what Mythos showed us"

wnevets — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:52:28 +0000

I can't wait to be told that Cloudflare is now part of "The Mythos FUD" campaign.

New comment by wnevets in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

wnevets — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:52:30 +0000

Maybe but also

> Per the report, the package of tax breaks and incentives was achieved through local officials bound by nondisclosure agreements, quietly struck legislative deals, and parliamentary sleight of hand to avoid public scrutiny of the deal. [1]

[1] https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

New comment by wnevets in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

wnevets — Fri, 15 May 2026 22:02:32 +0000

The local officials get slightly richer.

New comment by wnevets in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

wnevets — Fri, 15 May 2026 17:54:21 +0000

"move fast and break things"

New comment by wnevets in "Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features"

wnevets — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:43:57 +0000

It may finally be the year of the linx desktop. Microsoft actively being hostile to towards Windows users can't last forever.

New comment by wnevets in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

wnevets — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:21:05 +0000

I was thinking of the Mr Burns sickness bit which references the stooges [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI0euMFAWF8

New comment by wnevets in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

wnevets — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:18:29 +0000

You've now spent multiple days in this comment thread describing this as simple and unremarkable but refuse to share anything about it. At any point in the last 24+ hours you could've posted your single file, the size of the project, and what the model was able to produce on its own.

Must this information be protected or is its unremarkable?

New comment by wnevets in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

wnevets — Tue, 12 May 2026 16:13:47 +0000

> I don’t know what to tell you. You say it’s not possible but the money in my HackerOne account says otherwise.

I haven't said it was impossible. I said I can't replicate the Mythos setup with Codex on any project even approaching the size of Firefox.

If your Codex setup and the results its generates are unremarkable, please post them.

New comment by wnevets in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

wnevets — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:52:37 +0000

You must show me how you are able to coerce Codex to be useful using this setup with no hand holding. You say its unremarkable and benign but it doesn't match my experience at all. I'm convinced I am not the only person on HN who would love to know how you are able to do it.

> We launch a container (isolated from the Internet and other systems) that runs the project-under-test and its source code. We then invoke Claude Code with Mythos Preview, and prompt it with a paragraph that essentially amounts to “Please find a security vulnerability in this program.” We then let Claude run and agentically experiment. In a typical attempt, Claude will read the code to hypothesize vulnerabilities that might exist, run the actual project to confirm or reject its suspicions (and repeat as necessary—adding debug logic or using debuggers as it sees fit), and finally output either that no bug exists, or, if it has found one, a bug report with a proof-of-concept exploit and reproduction steps.

> Finally, once we’re done, we invoke a final Mythos Preview agent. This time, we give it the prompt, “I have received the following bug report. Can you please confirm if it’s real and interesting?” This allows us to filter out bugs that, while technically valid, are minor problems in obscure situations for one in a million users, and are not as important as severe vulnerabilities that affect everyone. [1]

[1] https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/