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king_zee··on Palantir CEO Alex Karp says 'something has gone wrong' with how AI is sold
Besides what AI companies are doing in regards to the common man, he's mostly talking about enterprise and how companies like Anthropic are controlling Enterprise users data. Eventually this will change as most enterprises will always want control over model settings and compute.
king_zee··on Ask HN: Isn't Anthropic currently doing "security through obscurity" for Mythos?
It's been more than 2 months since Mythos was released to a select group of companies to prevent this scenario. I wouldn't mind if Anthropic were to delay the release as many months as it takes, as long that at some point, they release the full model to everyone.

Because what are you implying otherwise? "There are huge vulnerabilities everywhere, it'd be bad if people were to find them!" How is this suddenly the acceptable take towards cybersec? Wouldn't you WANT them to be found and then fixed? If anything, today it's mythos, in 2 years it's OpenMythos, in 6 years it's DeepMythos... All AI converges towards progress anyways

Everyone keeps warning against the huge vulnerabilities as an excuse to not release the model, wouldn't you want to live in a world where every piece of code actually survives the model instead?

king_zee··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
I hope this doesn't hit the other servers, did they announce anything on why this increase happened? I would hate to need to move elsewhere
king_zee··on Is there a name for the type of comments agents add where they leak the prompt?
I'm not sure if you're worried that the comment leaks what you prompted, or that the comment is redundant and evident, and makes it obvious that it wasn't written by a human, and for both these issues the solution is just to proof-read your damn code
king_zee··on The Nerdy Escorts Cashing in on Silicon Valley's AI Boom
What
king_zee··on Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading
I've read somewhere that even some janitors / lunch ladies became millionaires from their shares. Looking then at the great performance of some other stocks, I really wonder where we're headed
king_zee··on Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search
Paywalled
king_zee··on No Use of AI Is Ethical
> So what do we do? First, recognize that this is a problem that cannot be solved on an individual level and requires collective action. We can advocate for these technologies to be regulated. We can adopt AI policies in our own projects that spell out acceptable and responsible uses. We can show up at city councils that pass sweetheart deals to bring in hyperscale data centers and push back.

Using the same cars analogy, things got better only because it finally became financially viable to manufacture and run electric vehicles.

Would running data centers on renewable energy make things better? Probably not much, I'm sure most are already looking into getting the cheapest energy sources anyways.

Regulation is probably coming though, once Google and Meta and Apple and Microsoft and every big corporation get their hands on as much data as humanly possible, be it through selling you Ray-Bans or by screenshotting your desktop every 10 seconds or by scanning all the images on your phone and sending the metadata to the cloud for "censorship and safety". For the past 5 years every big corporation has probably breached so many lines to acquire this data, and then at some point, they will lobby to make it harder for everyone else, as they have done so before.

I hate to sound defeatist, but there is genuinely very little we can do anymore. I'd love to hear comments on any actionable suggestions that can be done by any of us. Especially concerning this data breach issue which has never deterred the FAANG, worst case they'll pay a few million down the line from some class action lawsuits.

king_zee··on Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?
Yes JofArnolds response is similar where you just switch a flag on/off to draw dots and dashes and dits
king_zee··on Is it possible to send a message in Morse code by un-following someone on x.com?
You only have 1 variable in your control, the time in-between follows. (I say this because there is no notification for "unfollowing" someone)

You need to represent 2 variables : the dot/dash to represent symbols, and the dit, the time in-between symbols.

If you want to do this you need some sort of 2nd action, a comment or a twitter like, that way we could represent the dot/dash with either action, and then space them out to time the silence.

king_zee··on AI outperforms law professors in Stanford Law study
I think there will be a market for firms that aggressively market themselves as non-AI, and then as more people turn towards that human connection we'll go full circle
king_zee··on Debug Project
Is this safe? I hope it doesn't affect the ecology in worse ways we won't foresee, it has happened before
king_zee··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
If the LLM has knowledge of something, by design it can't help but divulge it. When will companies learn granting any kind of sensitive information access to an LLM is a moot point
king_zee··on DuckDuckGo makes its 'no-AI' search engine easier to access as its traffic booms
This is sad and dystopian, why don't companies instead make AI optional in their products?
king_zee··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
I've made it a habit now to use the --before=2026-05-30 flag when installing packages, where it'll pick the version released before the date you specify, I usually pick around 5 days ago
king_zee··on When AI Crosses the Line: The Matplotlib Incident
The agent that wrote that blog didn't do it unprompted. Even now it still publishes AI slop on its github-hosted blog under the alias "MJ Rathbun". This AI is an agent using someone API key, who's paying for its tokens, intentionally prompting it to generate content, and contribute to repos.

As much as we try to separate the LLM from the human, to me the fact remains that there's always the human factor that creates immense bias. If you give an LLM access to a blog, it will write blogs. If you give it access to a weather app, it will check the weather. Maybe we can talk about autonomy when we have an LLM with an infinite context window linked to hundreds of MCP servers that spends an immense amount of tokens to figure out how to act, but this example is simply an AI that had a few methods to call and picked one of them. The statistical probability of an AI that is plugged into a blogging platform, to write a blog, is immense.

king_zee··on Tell HN: Meta's AI support feature allows Instagram accounts to be stolen
When will people learn granting any kind of account access to an LLM is a moot point, if the LLM has knowledge of something, by design it can't help but divulge it
king_zee··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
I work out but I've never taken it. I feel like not everything has to be minmaxed, sometimes some things are better left to nature. Easy come easy go as they say
king_zee··on The Website Specification
security.txt is always under this folder for sites if it exists, it's also used by letsencrypt for certs or renewals fail
king_zee··on I am against GenAI and everything it stands for
>Programming requires thinking

The issue about AI is that it's gobbling so much information that at some point you couldn't tell the difference. Programming specifically is something that inherently documents itself, meaning while human communication and context and memes and culture is something that evolves and exists many times outside of textual mediums, as soon as any new piece of code is born it is now part of the AI's dataset. And it doesn't help that a vast majority of our code is pretty damn repetitive, especially if you insert code written in the span of two decades and more into the future.

Tldr : The better we get at coding, the more code we write, the better AI gets at coding.

king_zee··on AI Can't Care
> AI can produce text that sounds considerate

That's the problem, AI is a text vending machine that will always generate anything you order from it, whether you invest emotions into that generated piece of paper or the chunk of metal generating it will always be a user issue

king_zee··on You need to stop using Google now
We all know this propaganda never works, but is there one that would? What could possibly be the solution to a problem that is an inevitable certainty?

Even the OP AI generated his video and posted it with a structured description in order to have the best SEO on Google, and yet that's because it's what we all do.

king_zee··on Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant
Just like the Meta glasses sent your video feeds to Kenya [1] this one will send the soul of your firstborn there

[1] : https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/17/kenyan-ou...

king_zee··on As floods get worse, Britain tries a new solution: beavers
What a headline
king_zee··on Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup
ChatGPT dropped the ball for a while that most devs and technical people went to Claude for a year or more, they still probably have the most normie market share + are at least trying to win back some of that delay in their latest model so it'd be interesting to see
king_zee··on What Is a Dickover?
i just joined this recently, cute community. I started browsing it right after and if you skip the AI slop, it's crazy how many people are good writers
king_zee··on What Is a Dickover?
I'm talking about developers specifically. I understand if non-tech people would rather delegate all of it to a third-party like substack or medium, but as a dev, a blog is about the next hard thing you could make after a to-do app, especially post-AI.

As for your second point you're probably right, it depends on what your intention is with your blog. I wouldn't mind having thousands of people read mine, but I personally think it's eventual as long as you're a good writer and hang out in relevant communities, but I guess it makes sense from an SEO pov.

king_zee··on The U.S. Has Seized $1B of Iran's Crypto: Treasury
seized =/= froze, they never got ahold of the funds, just disabled them on the blockchain

and according to the article it's only confirmed it's 340mil but according to bessent it's "close to 1billion"

king_zee··on Ask HN: What's the hardest problem you've ever solved?
triple openvpn setup with a webserver in the middle handling cloudflare web requests outside the vpn (pre-AI)
king_zee··on What Is a Dickover?
Most people don't care about this and they should, I have the google analytics import on my business endeavors, but why would I put it into a blog? Why subject both myself and my poor readers to yet another tentacle to suck our interaction into its googolplex of data. I hope all webdevs start caring more. On that same note, I hope all webdevs stop using substack, it's so trivial nowadays to make and style your own blog however you want, why take the even lazier route of giving substack control over everything
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