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eugenekolo··on Example.com just launched the biggest redesign in decades
I believe your use is what they're trying to discourage.

example.com is meant to be legally allowed to be used in text such as "You visit a website (example.com) to browse the internet"

It is not meant to be queried by automated tests or used as a service.

eugenekolo··on RSA-896
"I work at Anthropic and used idle GPUs running known algorithm to factor a number. I used Claude btw"
eugenekolo··on PS5 Linux lead quits: "a bunch of noobs using LLMs" that "they don't understand"
Hobby groups projects like this are less fun for a lot of people who used to enjoy interacting with smart people. It's definitely become a game of just spam claude for answers with zero understanding or care for how anything actually works. That's fine to get things done and fine for a lot of side projects, but it definitely ruins the joy that people have in understanding systems and working with intellectuals.
eugenekolo··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
Marketing
eugenekolo··on Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
Surprised only 1/3 tbh.
eugenekolo··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
It really is an absolute massive jump. Have no clue what's going on in the back to warrant a 3x increase... 25-50%, sure.. but 3x is wild.
eugenekolo··on ABC News has taken all FiveThirtyEight articles offline
WOuldn't proof of that be some grounds for breach of fiduciary duty?
eugenekolo··on SWE-bench Verified no longer measures frontier coding capabilities
Without SWE-Bench though, how will AI models properly game their results to show ~5-10% gain each iteration?

Once a benchmark is known and there's billion of dollars on the line, obviously every company will game them.

eugenekolo··on I don't chain everything in JavaScript anymore
Generally I agree with the sentiment, for one major reason: debugability/dev loops.

Inevitably you're going to end up having to debug that each of those steps is correct, for that you'll find it a lot easier to break it out.. and the next person who has to do it will as well.

I do think the example is somewhat loaded though, rename "result" to "top5ActiveUserNames" would do a lot there.

eugenekolo··on Rockstar Games Hacked, Hackers Threaten a Massive Data Leak If Not Paid Ransom
..again?
eugenekolo··on I'm OK being left behind, thanks
I'm not sure Bitcoin won.. it just continues being a ponzi scheme that you can make money in.

You can also accept that certain things and be happy in life either way. Don't need to chase get rich schemes. Some are more privileged than others in being able to do this.

eugenekolo··on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
No, because Lockdown Mode disabled JIT which is a part of this exploit chain.
eugenekolo··on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
Unrelated bug as far as I can tell.
eugenekolo··on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
I suspect you'll see one with this or Coruna soon enough.
eugenekolo··on Hundreds of Millions of iPhones Can Be Hacked With a New Tool Found in the Wild
It's actually a fascinating find by Lookout, iVerify, and Google. This is a multi million dollar exploit chain sold to various buyers.

Complete full chain 1-click exploit from Safari to complete device take over exfiltrating personal data, passwords, and crypto wallets.

https://www.lookout.com/threat-intelligence/article/darkswor...

https://iverify.io/blog/darksword-ios-exploit-kit-explained

https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/dar...

eugenekolo··on Warn about PyPy being unmaintained
Donated. Thank you and everyone else on the PyPy team.

I use PyPy regularly on an app of mine, and very often when I need to do some compute heavy load. Typically over 5x faster than CPython. It makes some stuff that takes impossibly long with CPython (nobody wants to wait 5 minutes...), to returning a response in a few seconds.

eugenekolo··on Windows Notepad App Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
But is it running ShellExecute on URIs?
eugenekolo··on Cellebrite to Acquire Corellium
June 5, 2025
eugenekolo··on John Carmack on mutable variables
I disagree you'd find "obvious" non-generic names easily. After all, "naming" is one of the hardest things in computer science.
eugenekolo··on I dumped Google for Kagi
I think paying for search is becoming more acceptable when you look at the amount of people paying $20/mo for their AI subs, which to many people are just search engines.

There will always be users who refuse (not going to convince my parents ever), but for many power users, or semi-power users, it's becoming more acceptable to just pay the $20/mo and get a better product.

eugenekolo··on 2D to 3D model and 3D print it
So you can detect if it's AI slop quickly.. but they might be catching on to this.
eugenekolo··on Chrome's SSL Bypass Cheatcode
It's possible they changed it from "thisisunsafe" to the b64 version to avoid automatic scanners finding "unsafe" keyword usage.
eugenekolo··on How to live on $432 a month in America
Confused by his portrayal of Massena, NY. I don't live there and have never driven through, but looking on Google Maps it doesn't seem that bad or depressing as the author (and I guess commentators) make it out to be.

It has a Walmart, Home Depot, BJs (similar to Costco), a main street with several businesses. A walkable grid with sidewalks in that main town area....

Feels like reaching that this place is so desolate and depressing.

eugenekolo··on Gemini 2.5 Pro vs. Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Coding Comparison
It's definitely an attempt to compare models, and Gemini clearly won in the tests. But, I don't think the tests are particularly good or showcasing. It's generally an easy problem to ask AI to give you greenfields JS code for common tasks, and Leetcode's been done 1000 times on Github and stackoverflow, so the solutions are all right there.

I'd like to see tests that are more complicated for AI things like refactoring an existing codebase, writing a program to auto play God of War for you, improving the response time of a keyboard driver and so on.

eugenekolo··on Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row
They heavily compete on "privacy" and "security", so I wouldn't expect them to. Additionally, once you start rolling with one government, every one wants you to do something for them while offering you no additional money for the work and weakening of your project.
eugenekolo··on 0-click deanonymization attack targeting Signal, Discord, other platforms
Can probably achieve the same level of deanonymization by just monitoring what times the user communicates most often. Or send them enough links that they'll click on.
eugenekolo··on Standard patterns in choice-based games (2015)
This was actually a really cool analysis. Fun to see how these things can be broken down so cleanly into graphs.
eugenekolo··on Using reinforcement learning and $4.80 of GPU time to find the best HN post
What does the model say about this post?
eugenekolo··on JetBrains Rider is now free for non-commercial use
Awesome news.
eugenekolo··on CrowdStrike's outage should not have happened
Sentiment might hold some merit, but this article is 80% copy pasting from an RCA report and 2 sentences saying nothing more than "This shouldn't happen" while offering no alternative or deep thought into improvement...
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