HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

kriztw

35 karma · joined November 17, 2015

submissionscomments
kriztw··on DOS Game "F-15 Strike Eagle II" reversing project needs DOS test pilots
AI is superhuman at reading and understanding assembly, it doesn't care much about if it's decompiled or has symbols, that just makes it a bit slower. In some cases it can even understand heavily obfuscated control flow directly without using tools.
kriztw··on NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist
That's not true, they did do obfuscation but the main sneaky thing they did was to make hackers think that they had found all of the checks, and then hide checks that would only trigger half way through the game. That kind of obfuscation is also not relevant to security vulnerabilities.

AI is already superhuman at reading and understanding assembly and decompilation output, especially for obfuscated binaries. I have tried giving the same binary with and without heavy control flow obfuscation to the same model, and it was able to understand the obfuscated one just fine.

kriztw··on Request for comments regarding topics to be discussed at Dark Patterns workshop
https://i.reddit.com, or equivalent reddit.com/.compact

If they remove that then they'll finally have pushed me off reddit on mobile, but I think it's obscure enough that it'll stay in the near future

kriztw··on 2019 redefinition of the SI base units
Because the standards are made for people who makes measurement devices. It is much easier to measure electric current than charge.

They also did make charge more fundamental, as they derive the Ampere by fixing the charge of an electron.

kriztw··on 2019 redefinition of the SI base units
The old definitions are still essentially correct, so for teaching nothing really changes except the word "approximately" being inserted somewhere.
kriztw··on Modern CSS Explained
It has his meaning in tiling window managers (where a floating window is in another layer, usually above the others), and probably in window managers in general. I'm curious if there are other examples.
kriztw··on JPMorgan Software Does in Seconds What Took Lawyers Many Hours
Definitely not for full automation. The question "do I have a case?" could involve basically anything, and sounds very AI-complete to me.

Of course, discovery and a lot of the repetitive work can be automated much more easily, but that's more like keeping the car in a highway lane, which we can already do for cars.

kriztw··on Inside tiny tubes, water turns solid when it should be boiling
It sounds like you are proposing a perpetual motion machine, which cannot work because of the laws of thermodynamics (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpetual_motion).
kriztw··on The dominance of baby boomers is becoming total
Someone made a nice graphic that shows opening times in the US: https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/3ddapj/bar...
kriztw··on VLC contributor living in Aleppo writing about the Paris attacks
All of those are ideologies with certain views on how the world is and how it should be, which can also said of religions.

If religions where purely spiritual and said nothing about the world then I would agree with you, but then I guess there wouldn't be any problems either.