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...gs that humans could find… if only they had infinite time and patience. A great HackerNews comment: "To put this into game theory lingo, I think this is because the 'branching factor' for any kind of research or exploit is extremely large....
...uish an incident responder from an attacker,' they said." A cynical take from a HackerNews comment: "The product strategy of 'consumer-grade' AI making deliberately insecure software, and then selling you limited access to the model that c...
An insightful HackerNews comment about how social networks turned into social media. "The terminology explains what happened. The Zuckerberg movie was called The Social Netw...
An insightful HackerNews comment about the faux variety of LLM responses: "If you ask humans to write 1,000 books, you're asking 1,000 different humans with different experi...
A HackerNews comment about open models: "Never stop cheering for open source. If you were a human 3000 years ago ,you wouldn't want fire to be controlled by two ...
... of momentum. If there is a discontinuity, for example being on the homepage of HackerNews, that will lead to net new stars. But only the stars produced by PMF really matter. Those little blips of discontinuities obscure the underlying cur...
An insightful HackerNews comment about how hollowed out modern society is: "The problem isn't retirement per se, it is that people don't have things to occupy themselves wit...
...ow. The Pulse: token spend breaks budgets – what next? An insightful comment on HackerNews: "I see highly trained engineers spend hundreds of thousands of tokens doing what can reliably be accomplished with 150 lines of python. I think the...
An insightful comment on HackerNews: "There's no such thing as an app that cares about your privacy or your interests." "If the app could make another $0.05 selling your location to ki...
An insightful HackerNews comment about the extraordinary privilege to the US of owning the world reserve currency. It's something that we take for granted, but is an extraor...
...rwise useful spaces. For example, online spaces that people find valuable, like HackerNews, attract more posts to get noticed, since people pay attention to it and value it. That means that people trying to get an edge (e.g. with LLM assis...
An insightful frame in a comment from HackerNews: "Once you're a billionaire you've unlocked the infinite money glitch."
An insightful comment on HackerNews about the incentives of data collection: "Private surveillance is so much more scary than regular government surveillance because they have every in...
A morality tale from a HackerNews comment that resonated with me: 'Rabbi Haim once ascended to the firmaments to see the difference between the worlds. He first visited Gehenna (Hell...
Nice summary of agentic browsers from a HackerNews comment. "Let's spend years plugging holes in V8, splitting browser components to separate processes and improving sandboxing and then just plug in ...
An insightful HackerNews comment about code generation: "AI makes starting easier but finishing harder.[eq][er] You get to 80% fast[es], then spend longer on the last 20% th...
A nice distillation from a HackerNews comment: "Closed doors (focused work) lets you reach the local minimum faster. Open doors (More connections) lets you escape the local minimum."
... a scenario where it's easy to expose secrets in MCP with Supabase. I found the HackerNews thread interesting. The Supabase team was discussing the mitigations they were taking to make MCP infiltrations less likely, including by automatica...
A HackerNews comment that stuck with me: "From the very beginning Facebook has been an AI wearing your friends as a skinsuit."
I was entranced by this random article on HackerNews: 3D-printed device splits white noise into an acoustic rainbow without power. This design is a kind that can not be built from top down plans. It ca...