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rpicard··on Show HN: Nightcrawler – A local AI pentesting agent running on a smartphone
Are you referring to GitHub policies? I haven’t seen issues like that from people publishing security tools before.

Metasploit is one example: https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework

rpicard··on Show HN: Segue – Save context in one AI, load it in another by a short handle
This is such a great name and domain for this purpose.

I don’t think I’d like using a third party server for this, but a skill that just handles it locally or something would be useful.

rpicard··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
In my experience this is not representative of most fintechs. Of course there are both cases of real intentional noncompliance, and accidental, but by and large it seems like everyone’s trying to innovate within the law.
rpicard··on SSH certificates: the better SSH experience
I’d love if they supported an SSH certificate CA for commit signing verification though.
rpicard··on US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement
This is what confuses me about tech sales too. Why do I always get a discount for buying right at the end of the quarter? Seems like you could just get ahead on the next one.
rpicard··on How far back in time can you understand English?
I’ve listened to a few of these. Agree it’s also really well done.
rpicard··on How far back in time can you understand English?
Oh that’s funny. Yes you’re right.

He has actually mentioned the History of English before, but I’ve never listened to it. Great to hear though!

rpicard··on How far back in time can you understand English?
I think there’s a numbering difference. He went back and re did a bunch of earlier ones.

I’m listening on Apple Podcasts. Season 5 episode 5 “Printin and Perkin” if it helps.

rpicard··on How far back in time can you understand English?
I’m just ahead of you on episode 200! Just getting into the rise of printing in English.

I absolutely agree. This has become my comfort podcast when I just want to decompress.

rpicard··on Google denies 'misleading' reports of Gmail using your emails to train AI
I’ve been happy with hey.com. No plans on switching.
rpicard··on LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
Fair! I’ve been surprised in some cases. I’m thinking specifically of a handful of conversations I was in or around during the Vegas cons.

I might also be hyper sensitive to the cynicism. It tends to bug me more than it probably should.

rpicard··on LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
No clue, and $1.
rpicard··on LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
My car can drive itself today.
rpicard··on LLMs and coding agents are a security nightmare
I’ve noticed a strong negative streak in the security community around LLMs. Lots of comments about how they’ll just generate more vulnerabilities, “junk code”, etc.

It seems very short sighted.

I think of it more like self driving cars. I expect the error rate to quickly become lower than humans.

Maybe in a couple of years we’ll consider it irresponsible not to write security and safety critical code with frontier LLMs.

rpicard··on Ask HN: Any active COBOL devs here? What are you working on?
I’m not affiliated, but this made me think of this AI for COBOL startup: https://www.cobolcopilot.com/

For some reason I think we’re all drawn to the idea of working with an older language. I wonder why!

rpicard··on Git Notes: Git's coolest, most unloved­ feature (2022)
This would be a cool place for LLMs to store a summary of the prompts used to generate the code in order to make it easier for other LLMs and humans to pick up where they left off.
rpicard··on Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
I’m pretty sure this is an AI bot of some kind, especially after reviewing its history.
rpicard··on My sourdough starter has twins
My wife makes sourdough discard cookies and they’re amazing.
rpicard··on What Air Defenses Do the Houthis in Yemen Have?
Funny enough I read it as Wiz and was just as confused.
rpicard··on How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail
Good advice thank you. Makes me think maybe a slow charging set up by the bed and a fast charger down in the living room / kitchen / for travel.

Then maybe another slow charger for all those miscellaneous things around the house.

rpicard··on How to quickly charge your smartphone: fast charging technologies in detail
I have so many different chargers, brands, cables, and adapters and honestly have never checked what any are capable of.

I’d like to just buy 10 of a given charger, maybe with a couple of adapters for different devices.

What’s the best option today?

rpicard··on OpenAI in Talks to Buy Windsurf for About $3B
This would make a lot of sense for both sides I think. Owning the part of the stack that decides where the inference requests go is like Google owning the browser.
rpicard··on Vacheron Constantin breaks the world record for most complicated wristwatch
The recent Acquired episode on Rolex is a great peak into the world of luxury Swiss watches: https://www.acquired.fm/episodes/rolex

What I love about it all is that whatever arguments are made for or against these sorts of things, I think people are just into it because it’s fun.

rpicard··on Half-Life
Nightmare House was a super fun mod that I found at some point.

I don’t remember where or how, but it scared the heck out of me.

rpicard··on Excellent Pull Request Reviews
Somehow I’d never heard of the GitHub suggestions feature. That’s very cool.
rpicard··on A password generator inspired by the Xkcd password spec
I usually just add a standard set of numbers and special characters at the end of an otherwise secure password to appease the complexity gods.
rpicard··on Ask HN: Advice for someone entering their 30s
It has really stuck with me since I read it.
rpicard··on My washing machine refreshed my thinking on software estimation
I really enjoyed this read. Great connections.

I’m also impressed at how much suffering was saved by that E39 error instead of a backed up laundry room full of waste water.

Washing machines are cool.

A couple of other good perspectives on software estimation:

https://world.hey.com/dhh/software-estimates-have-never-work...

https://softwareforgood.com/estimates-lies/

rpicard··on Deel vs. Remote, which is the better pick for a US based company?
I’ve used Deel EOR in the US and Argentina. So far so good on all counts!

Just one data point, but we’ll only look at changing things up if we get enough people that we can get a good health plan directly to save on some of the EOR cost domestically at least.

rpicard··on Ask HN: Advice for someone entering their 30s
I’m glad to hear they were helpful! David Goggins two books are great as well, and probably in line with your current themes. Can’t Hurt Me and Never Finished. Highly recommend the audiobooks for those too.
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