Hacker News: zingababba

New comment by zingababba in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

zingababba — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 21:24:27 +0000

Same, sad how far Claude has fallen. I still think Claude code patterns are amazing so I just port those.

New comment by zingababba in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

zingababba — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:43:28 +0000

They absolutely are and they are also sitting on a goldmine of data they are using to enable them to do just that. If you doubt this just ask them for a demo of their agentic capabilities and start talking to them about roadmap, they are full steam ahead with fucking over the people that made them what they are.

New comment by zingababba in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

zingababba — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:54:52 +0000

I know I'm an outlier in that regard. It's not the peak/thinking I'm a color I find useful, it's the coming back to reality afterwards. Salvia is an incredibly potent perception cleanser. After peak, as your default perceptions slide back into place you can catch them in the act of taking hold again. I've caught myself 'putting back on' pieces of myself I thought I could never change/always thought was unquestionable/absolute.

New comment by zingababba in "DEA to Temporarily Schedule 7-Oh and Related Substances to Protect Public Safety"

zingababba — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 16:47:13 +0000

You used to be able to find some wild stuff in GNC ~20 years ago, the 'pro-hormone' era was funny.

All the cannabinoid analogs are a good example too, people just want to get high.

I do miss salvia extracts though. Being able to pick that up in a head shop was nice before it got banned.

New comment by zingababba in "PwC Report: AI Making Medical Bills Higher"

zingababba — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:21:33 +0000

They might have a skill or something that goes from report -> 'fortune article' - it honestly would not surprise me.

New comment by zingababba in "US Government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

zingababba — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:27:28 +0000

Right now it's basically this easy: 1. apex domain 2. ???? 3. critical PII exposure

There is /so/ much stuff on the internet that just needed someone to spend enough time on it.

New comment by zingababba in "I Think They [Anthropic] Are Lying to You [video]"

zingababba — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:03:00 +0000

Well said. Most of my career I made a trade-off and that trade-off was that I would much rather spend my free time outside in nature than on implementing my wild ideas which I always recognized would take considerable time. I'd maybe take 1% of my ideas anywhere. Now I can play with ideas while I'm out on the trail and turn those into something I can test within a couple hours, it's the most fun I've had on computers since the very beginning.

New comment by zingababba in "AMD Stiffs Researcher $10k Bug Bounty"

zingababba — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 00:06:12 +0000

Post from researcher: https://mrbruh.com/amd2/

New comment by zingababba in "Ask HN: Are we as society going to let LLM companies take all the values?"

zingababba — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:02:25 +0000

In the public sphere yes. A long term effect of this will be what ends up in the public sphere won't be the same as it once was.

New comment by zingababba in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

zingababba — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:49:41 +0000

I 24/7 never stop thinking about leaving tech at this point. Dependents is what makes the decision in any way complicated for me. When you have others that have become accustomed to a certain level of comfort, telling them you want to take that away so you personally don't have to deal with the absolute hell that is 'agentic' corporate america becomes a real pain in the ass.

New comment by zingababba in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

zingababba — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:16:11 +0000

There was one study that has never been replicated that showed it increased DHT levels in Rugby players. Higher DHT levels are associate with hair loss and enlarged prostate. Creatine has always come with too many side effects for me as well, I don't get how people take that stuff every day.

New comment by zingababba in "Please Use AI"

zingababba — Sat, 30 May 2026 01:17:27 +0000

Find satisfaction doing something else. What is this soul vs machine obsession?

New comment by zingababba in "Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump"

zingababba — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:54:31 +0000

Watching Microsoft squirm is always peak

New comment by zingababba in "Cities Are Covering Flock Cameras with Trash Bags"

zingababba — Thu, 28 May 2026 22:39:10 +0000

Humans care about practical reality you say? Thanks for the laugh.

New comment by zingababba in "GitHub's take on age assurance for developers"

zingababba — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:32:18 +0000

Right, GitHub of old is long gone.

New comment by zingababba in "560-610 minutes of exercise a week needed for substantial heart benefits"

zingababba — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:00:02 +0000

I mean I get you are trying to imply this is some type of luxury but I've been exercising almost daily my entire life from when I was an unemployed teenager to now at 40yo making a respectable living. It has absolutely nothing to do with wealth. Hell during a rough spot in my life I was homeless for a week and was still working out daily. For me it's literally my anti-depressant.

What it honestly comes down to is people absolutely love to make excuses, simple as.

New comment by zingababba in "Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit"

zingababba — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:27:47 +0000

https://github.com/BigPolarBear1/The_story

I've been pretty convinced this is SandboxEscaper for awhile now.

New comment by zingababba in "AI is wiping out entry-level jobs"

zingababba — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:23:30 +0000

No one has any idea what the cost will be. It seems like at the moment every sector is removing barriers to at least accelerated adoption of an entirely new technique (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techne).

The Mythos spook is starting to mobilize any org that had either still been on the fence or more heavily regulated. Look at how quickly the thinking around agentic governance is progressing, it is a reflection of how fast we are progressing with implementing this capability, it reveals what types of questions are being asked by institutions resistant to change.

New comment by zingababba in "US inflation jumps to 3.8% as energy costs surge from Iran war"

zingababba — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:33:49 +0000

It was replaced, by the tech bros.

New comment by zingababba in "AI-powered hacking has exploded into industrial-scale threat, Google says"

zingababba — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:46:12 +0000

Actual report https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-...