I flagged this as undisclosed slopware being pushed as secure cryptographic engineering with no reasonable measure of human review.
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-HG
Readit Newshalosghost commented on OpenAI Hacked, a Lot Leaked peq42.com/blog/openai-hac... · Posted by u/peq42
I flagged this as heavily-clickbaited self-promotion.
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Why? The press release is much more useful for the vast majority of HN readers in my opinion. The paper is something you read if you want to know more so the right place for it is the comments.
In general, not referring to this specific case, scientific papers are often written for people with specialized background and are hard to understand for people without that background, even if they're otherwise smart and educated.
Just to say, I actually disagree entirely. I do not believe press releases are, almost ever, valuable. Papers are just a format (with some writing style conventions that tend to follow the given field-of-study); they may be intimidating for many, but the hacker spirit and ethos is to dive in and tackle it, and that will pay far more dividends for everyone reading it than to consume more advertising. :)
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Hey @dang (I know it doesn't work, but isn't it fun to use your imagination?), can we get this press release replaced by a link to the actual paper [0]? This one is even open-access!
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halosghost commented on My gf thinks videogames cannot be art. What to show her? · Posted by u/Gerard0
Kentucky Route Zero [0], which managed to not just be beautiful in its own right, but so perfectly captures the visual language it's aiming for that you'll just lose yourself in moments of experience.
Also, Pathologic 2 [1] (probably, if you have more fortitude than me, maybe the original or HD remaster are of value [2]).
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-HG
[0] https://www.gog.com/en/game/kentucky_route_zero
halosghost commented on Human writers have always used the em dash theringer.com/2025/08/20/... · Posted by u/FromTheArchives
"Point to the keys you press to enter the em dash". And smart quotes. My conjecture (and personal experience) is 99% of the occurrences of these characters is not due to pressing they corresponding keys, it is due to copy paste. So it should not be surprising or considered to be a personal attack on AI.
From `/usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose`:
...
<Multi_key> <less> <apostrophe> : "‘" U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <apostrophe> <less> : "‘" U2018 # LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <greater> <apostrophe> : "’" U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <apostrophe> <greater> : "’" U2019 # RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <less> <quotedbl> : "“" U201c # LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <quotedbl> <less> : "“" U201c # LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <greater> <quotedbl> : "”" U201d # RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
<Multi_key> <quotedbl> <greater> : "”" U201d # RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK
...
<Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <minus> : "—" U2014 # EM DASH
...
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-HG
halosghost commented on Why do lawyers keep using ChatGPT? theverge.com/policy/67737... · Posted by u/pseudolus
Because, like everyone else that keeps using <LLM-of-choice>, they think it can be relied upon either because they don't care enough about the work they do to actually do it, or because they have bought the marketing hype.
“The beatings shall continue until morale improves…”
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halosghost commented on · Posted by u/dispin
I flagged this post as the article is rather exclusively culture-war politics (which accurately reflects all other comments from this poster), and has nothing to do with tech or hacker culture.
[Edit:] Also, just to be clear, it's transparently prejudiced drivel that doesn't deserve the time it takes to skim the title. And yes, I read more than the title. The full article is garbage. :)
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-HG
halosghost commented on Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack fabulous.systems/posts/20... · Posted by u/DoctorOW
> Unfortunately nobody has a good answer for how to deal with abusive users without catching well behaved but deliberately anonymous users in the crossfire...
Uhh, that's not right. There is a good answer, but no turnkey solution yet.
The answer is making each request cost a certain amount of something from the person, and increased load by that person comes with increased cost on that person.
Note that this is actually one of the things Anubis does. That's what the proof-of-work system is, it just operates across the full load rather than targeted to a specific user's load. But, to the GP's point, that's the best option while allowing anonymous users.
All the best,
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All the best,
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