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Can AI agents write kernel exploits?

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3 points·by 152334H·5 месяцев назад·0 comments

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152334H
·16 часов назад·discuss
lots of things happening in this post

1st: the presumption that AI generated text is actually unsuccessful, rather than proliferating broadly unchallenged today

2nd: the disposition that negative attitudes towards AI text are unjustified discrirmination, rather than working as a strong latent predictor of low-effort content

3rd: the assumption that human writing is reliably doled benefits, rather than some poor proxy of it (winning the social contest for claiming authenticity)

Operationally, only a very small minority of humans actually successfully identify AI generated text at rates ≥ Pangram. People discriminate against the label of "AI", but mostly fail to vote accurately. It's not uncommon to see bots abusing this gap for their own success -- accusing humans, sympathizing with generated profiles... FUD environment where people routinely get away with dismissing true accusations.

For someone who is mediocre at detection, this would structurally feel like an unhinged, unjustified bias: look at all these good posts, these honest people, getting undermined by discrimination...
152334H
·17 часов назад·discuss
Most parsimonious explanation IMV: site staff can't see most AI slop. Reasons unimportant, but moderation systems are guaranteed to break down when the moderators themselves have poor classification ability.

A simple beneficial step that would lead to modest improvements and little downside: partner with Pangram. Either adding it as an automated spam filter, or by simply attaching the detection % to all posts.
152334H
·26 дней назад·discuss
what's the novelty? mixing healthcare together with a spa is an idea older than Christ. USCT is decades old.

Their butterfly chips might be cool, but it's not like the article says anything about that. There's only one other comment in the whole thread that even mentions it.
152334H
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
i wasn't even trying and i got flagged already...
152334H
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Yeah, and the author is obviously lying. Ever since mid-2025 it has been a winning move for AI users to categorically deny all allegations & reap the labor rewards of generated content.
152334H
·2 месяца назад·discuss
> For the kinds of software I’m talking about, you want the prompts more than you want the source code.

Please do not do this.

Per OurWorldInData, >50% of the world lives below $10/day in 2026.

A $200/mth AI subscription costs ~66% of that.

Generation costs still exceed distribution costs by a wide margin.

Uploading costs you nothing, and it can help the poor.
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
why does this even occur? if it's merely compute limitations, why not just 429 some requests?
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Thank you
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
homely and relatable, but why promoted on HN?

How many here have read Burmese Days, had the bookworm's childhood, and are imbued with that sense of political worldliness?
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
if it does so happen that the crash originates from a browser exploit, you should expect to be more at risk due to the absence of a crash on an older version, not less
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
The article's frame is concerning, but is it right to attribute the arrest to zero-click spyware? How is the process of the police's discovery known?
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
"NPU" seems to refer to trainium only?
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Best to treat it with some emotional distance. It's not like the optimization process feels it.

Whether be it human dullards, scripted botfarms, or even maleficence -- none of them experience shame. If they do see it at all, it would be as one of many factors to boost engagement.
152334H
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Doubtful commentary misses the obvious: that, had Calif been slightly more responsible in their harness design -- and in particular, their definition of what constitutes a real bug -- it'd be rather unsurprising if Claude correctly dug some up.
152334H
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Maybe it's not so sensible to offload the responsibility of clear thinking to AI companies?

How is a chatbot supposed to determine when a user fools even themselves about what they have experienced?

What 'tough love' can be given to one who, having been so unreasonable throughout their lives - as to always invite scorn and retort from all humans alike - is happy to interpret engagement at all as a sign of approval?
152334H
·4 месяца назад·discuss
flagged for aigc
152334H
·4 месяца назад·discuss
the invisible hand of the market strangles its strongest adherents

The desire for something "new", for a Mildly Ethical product, killed off the most obvious path to success - to actually just make TikTok+AIGC, or in the present, Douyin+Seedance2.
152334H
·4 месяца назад·discuss


  “What’s up Outragers, just dialing in from my NBA team’s headquarters to yell at the people whose careers I’ve just pummeled,” Unterwurzacher wrote. Atlassian fired her a few days later, saying she had “engaged in acrimonious communications and ad hominem attacks against teammates and colleagues.”

  Unterwurzacher replied, “I think it’s difficult to point out the power imbalance in a way that is not potentially described by somebody as an ad hominem attack.”
Perhaps it is difficult, but it doesn't look like she was trying
152334H
·4 месяца назад·discuss
Nobody mentioning how this project is vibecoded slop?

  > The code is really bad with completely uneeded parts. The LLM (Qwen 2.5 7B) has hardcoded the i9 14700KF topology, and has variables related to it never used... It's even funnier that the show hardware function always prints the same string. There are even random pip log files. Why did this slop got coverage here?
https://www.phoronix.com/forums/forum/linux-graphics-x-org-d...
152334H
·4 месяца назад·discuss
It's AI-assisted content, but has good reference links.