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It is not the Department of War. He's towing the line from the get-go. Forget this guy.

I have had other LLMs QA the work of Claude Code and they find bugs. It's a good cycle, but the bugs almost never get fixed in one-shot without causing chaos in the codebase or vast swaths of rewritten code for no reason.

What exactly is credible about archive.today if they are willing to change the archive to meet some desire of the leadership? That's not credible in the least.

A lot more credible than archive.org that lets archives be changed and deleted by the archive targets.

What's your better idea?


Does archive.org really let its archives be changed? That's very different than letting them be deleted from a credibility perspective.

Yes.

Archive.org snapshots may load javascript from external sites, where the original page had loaded them. That script can change anything on the page. Most often, the domain is expired and hijacked by a parking company, so it just replaces the whole page with ads.

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20140701040026/http://echo.msk.r...

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And another example: https://web.archive.org/web/20260219005158/https://time.is/

The page "got changed" every second. It is easy to make an archived page which would show different content depending on current time or whether you have Mac or Windows, or your locale, or browser fingerpring, or been tailored for you personally


I don't think it's fair to equate running JS that can change the rendered output with the archive server actually changing the HTML it sends back.

I agree, JS is much worse. Because anyone could create an "untrustworthy" page on archive.org, no hack or admin assistance is required.

Much worse indeed. This's why one should be deeply sceptical of the handful of WP users seeking to replace archive.today by archive.org. AT allows tampering by the archive operator; IA allows tampering by half the planet... including WP editors who'd love that replacement.

> the archive targets

Isn't there a substantial overlap with the copyright holders?


Overlap?

Why would they need to own the archive at all? The archive.org infrastructure is built to do this work already. It's outside of WMF's remit to internally archive all of the data it has links to.

Profit is a myth of epistemic collapse at this point. Productivity gains are also mythical and probably just anecdotal in the moment.


Perhaps I’m misunderstanding but a lot of people (ok, well, a few, but you know) make a lot of money on relatively mundane stuff. Technocapitalism’s Accursed Share is sacrificing wealth for myth making about its own future.


This is highly ridiculous. It's missing entire categories of costs, not to mention selling 1000bu of corn is not easy and you won't get that price for it.

The real question isn't "Can AI do x thing?" but "SHOULD AI do x thing". We know how to grow and sell corn. There is zero that AI can do to make it more "efficient" than it already is.

Come on.


NAT is not a security measure at all. It just obscures what's behind a firewall, but that is leaky and not reliable from a security perspective. It might make you feel better, but that is not security.


A firewall has nothing to filter, if nothing is routed to it. My IoT devices communicate with a server running in my network. As long as I am behind an IPv4 router, their communications to that server will never make it to the internet, and any communications from the internet have no way of addressing any device on my network. I literally can't add any security to a firewall because there's no communications to handle. Sure, I have personal computers on the same network, which aren't on a separate VLAN because I'm not familiar enough with my router to set that up, so a compromised PC could forward attacks to my IoT devices, but the firewall would be useless at that point.

If I have an IPv6 router, I can miss-configure it in a way where all of my internal communications between IoT devices work as expected, but they also have discoverable addresses on the internet. This would give the firewall something to do, but I'd rather there be no route in the first place.

Also, if I trusted myself to properly configure my router for IPv6, I would put all of my IoT equipment on ULAs, which much like an IPv4 NAT would leave me with nothing to configure in the firewall.

If I were to take your claims at face value, using GUAs with packet filtering is far more reliable and secure than ULAs, and that seems preposterous.

A properly configured firewall for sure adds security, but isolation always wins out.


Yea, people consider NAT a firewall, but at best it stops direct connections from outside. People use this as a rationale to non secure individual devices on the network. Then the moment a single device on your network is compromised (do you really trust that Chinese IOT device?) every host that doesn't have its own firewall is at risk.

With IPv6 you at least say "Holy crap, anyone could connect to this, I better secure it from outside and inside attacks" which is how actual security works.


They didn't require you to have a public IPv4 address. Just an IPv4 address.


Which requires dual-stack and all the issues that come with it, especially with private addresses.


That is a ridiculous statement.


without Sparkfun, whose catalog could they have scraped?

Without Sparkfun developing the business model for them to copy, where would they be?


You mean the radio shack business model?

The Heathkit business model?

The Eico business model?

Jameco? Digikey?


you wouldn't know of them if they had emulated any of those.


Yes. But that doesn't make it right.


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