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alienbabyon Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

| in today's world software needs continuous pen testing and scanning

points to a bigger problem perhaps; software design, construction and distribution is fundamentally flawed.

alienbabyon Exploit brokers pay $500k for WordPress RCEs. I found one with GPT5.6 and $25

| We will all benefit from more secure systems

the people that can afford it, sure.

alienbabyon Mathematicians still don't know the fastest way to multiply numbers

We're going to need a bigger abacus.

alienbabyon The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence

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Oh yeah! Neat.

alienbabyon Show HN: Ant – A JavaScript runtime and ecosystem

Unreviewed, untested, understood?

alienbabyon IT administrators are "fed up" with Microsoft's "useless" apps and Windows 11

Right, I came here wondering if others saw the same. What is this doing on hn!??

alienbabyon My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite

this is what worries me. I have friends that love what AI tells them about their personal pet 'thing' and how awesome it is. Yet not one of them has even tried once to get the AI to criticise it's own answers, and hence learn that you can trivially get an AI to make a convincing-_sounding case for any point of view.

I tell them to try, and they laugh at me as they roll their eyes and waffle on about 'tricking' the AI like its some kind of hacking.

alienbabyon Home made GPU escalated quickly [video]

Ok, I watched it, it looks amazing, what's it for/do ?

alienbabyon Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

Nice! Some fun making big chains explodey things :)

alienbabyon Show HN: Homegames. An open-source game platform I've been making for 8 years

And Amos and blitz basic

alienbabyon Leaking YouTube creators' private videos

"The solutions is so pleasant, treat comment data as untrusted content not inline commands / prompts. "

Yes, good luck with that.

alienbabyon The bottleneck might be the air in the room

Is it a tually lower oxygen in the blood that's the problem, or higher co2? I'm not sure if having high co2 automatically implies lower oxygen, I have no idea at all but feels like it may not necessarily be strictly. Linked. Also, are the cognitive issues of low oxygen the same as high co2 or do they produce different effects?

alienbabyon The bottleneck might be the air in the room

Working from home next to my open window feels generally way better then being in the office. Perhaps this is contributing. Still, seems more of a case for WFH rather than against, as article mentions some people have tried to make the case for.

alienbabyon GLM5.2 on AMD MI355X at 2626 tok/s/node at over 2x lower cost than Blackwell

*per stream, I guess is more accurate than either?

alienbabyon Performance per dollar is getting faster and cheaper

I'm interested if anyone knows how much legwork the assumed 60% cache hit, plus running a quantised model is doing? Esp. compared to what the headline half implies is a full fat GLM5.2

alienbabyon Godot will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions

For now, while it's simple enough to tell.

alienbabyon Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

Why care about privacy if your not doing anything wrong??

Not everyone agrees that what you are doing is benign.

alienbabyon Claude Code is steganographically marking requests

This causes me to be concerned it is just the tip of the iceberg for all 'sensitive'/gov adjacent/'nefarious intent' adjacent codebase, if it's here, it's in other places. Which places, and how much?

alienbabyon GLM 5.2 beats Claude in our benchmarks

Possibly, nothing other than accuracy

alienbabyon The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

I assumed it meant that when open weights reach the capability of frontier models, and tounge in cheek referencing the terrible consequences of us all getting our hands on mythos+ capability models without restrictions.

alienbabyon The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs

On mobile, or at least on mine (pixel 10) using chrome, the graphs are unreadable and unusable, which is a shame as I'm quite interested in them and I don't have access to a pc at the moment. Would you be able to change that?

They steal the scroll/drag touch and turn into a nightmare if zooming / unzooming, and are squashed and unreadable when they first render.

alienbabyon Previewing GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model

I started with a 2400baud modem, I've seen how this goes

alienbabyon What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant

Did you miss the bit where it was posted on hn?

alienbabyon GLM 5.2 vs. Opus

It doesn't teat the models ability to make good decisions on its own, it tests the models ability to make something that 'works'. Often you look inside and it does a whole load of questionable things that mostly work, sure, but if you say and designed it properly yourself you would likely come up with something for more sane and maintainable.

alienbabyon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

I was gonna say, you spelled that wrong :p

alienbabyon How many of the 170k English words do you know?

69400 for me, and I knew I fucked up on ~ 5 I really did know.. or perhaps I didn't know them as well as I thought?

alienbabyon US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

I may have got it a little mixed up with sabotage :/

alienbabyon US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

Peak of skill and capability, perhaps not, for now. But the ability to automate and discover relevant weaknesses at a greatly increased rate definitely counts as increasing the threat nation states can present.

alienbabyon US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks

Not sure I follow your point, are you confusing espionage with IP theft? The victims are entirely different in each case, I am sure china would not restrict itself to corporate espionage.