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Pwntool – Discontinued Hacker Toolkit Looking for Devs
by hejhdiss | 2025-06-29 04:53:10+00:00
I created PWNTOOL, a discontinued open-source hacker toolkit now available for anyone to fork or build upon.

Licensed under MIT + CC BY-SA 4.0. Looking for developers interested in contributing or continuing the project.

Repo: https://github.com/hejhdiss/pwntool
by vintermann | 2025-06-29 04:53:19+00:00
Conservatory music culture is peculiar. Yes, lots of upper class parents want their children to take part in it, but it is not a good career economically speaking. (Unless you want to be a double-showoff and study medicine alongside classical piano, like one guy in my hometown did.) Especially classical musicians take a step down economical class-wise if they succeed. And this has been the case for most entertainer professions for a long time.
by abdullahkhalids | 2025-06-29 04:55:14+00:00
> I suppose you could try to make a social media platform without dark patterns and charge a monthly fee for it, but how many people would pay for it?

In 2022, mastodon.social was provisioned at a cost of 0.6EUR/year/user for 191k users [1]. This price is payable even by many people in poor countries. People would pay for something like this same as they pay for other stuff, assuming it was well designed and gave users power to do stuff.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38117385
by btilly | 2025-06-29 04:55:31+00:00
No, the original was correct.

Any computable sequence S(n) must be computed by a specific finite program of fixed length.

Once n gets big enough, BB(n) will include the function S(2^n), and therefore will exceed that computable sequence.

Given computable sequences may exceed BB(n) for a finite number of terms. But eventually BB(n) will outgrow them, and will never look back.
by bruce511 | 2025-06-29 04:55:35+00:00
It helps to formally understand who is who. Every company has staff, customers, suppliers and product.

If you go the VC route then the VC is the customer. Since any good business is focused on customer satisfaction, a VC funded business is focused on VC satisfaction.

VCs want an exit. Which necessarily means switching funding model. The only switch that has worked so far is advertising. Advertising requires attention.

Of course a business can succeed with say SaaS subscriptions instead of advertising. This works well for B2B, but less so for B2C. Amazon is the poster child for B2C success, but makes most of its money from AWS (which is B2B).

The pattern is now well understood, and well demonstrated. If your business is B2C then figure out the funding model. If you can't do that, if you can't do it without VC money, then your path is predestined.
by geocar | 2025-06-29 04:55:42+00:00
> I wanted a tool that would show me a diff if a script changed, run it through `shellcheck`

Why? What exactly do you think "shellcheck" does? When do you think you're diffing and what do you think you are diffing with?

> and ask for my explicit OK before executing.

But to what end? You're not better informed by what the script does with this strategy.

A small shell script like yours I can read in a minute and decide it does nothing for me, but large installers can be hard to decipher since they are balancing bandwidth costs with compatibility, and a lot of legitimate techniques can make this hard to follow without care and imagination.

> The install process itself uses this philosophy - I encourage you to check the installer script before running it!

I don't understand what philosophy you're talking about.

I think you're doing the exact same thing that malicious attackers do, you're just doing it worse:

$ wget -qO- https://getvet.sh --2025-06-29 05:22:26-- https://getvet.sh/ Resolving getvet.sh (getvet.sh)... 2a06:98c1:3120::5, 2a06:98c1:3121::5, 188.114.97.5, ... Connecting to getvet.sh (getvet.sh)|2a06:98c1:3120::5|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: unspecified [text/html] Saving to: ‘STDOUT’ <!DOCTYPE html> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8" />

I mean your script knows about wget, but your server doesn't. Sad. I also think you should be telling people to pull "https://github.com/vet-run/vet/blob/main/scripts/install.sh" instead of trying to be cute, but that's just me.

> I'd love to hear your feedback.

You're getting it: I think your program sucks, but I also like the idea of trying to do something, and I understand you just don't have any idea what to do or what the problem actually is.

So let me teach you a little bash:

check () { echo "> $BASH_COMMAND" >&2 echo -n "Allow? (yes/no) " >&2 select c in yes no do if [ "$c" = "yes" ] then break elif [ "$c" = "no" ] then return 1 fi done } shopt -s extdebug trap check DEBUG

This little scriptlet will wait until bash tries to run something, and ask before proceeding. Simples. Put this in front of an installer (or something else messy) and get step-by-step confirmation of what's going on. Something like this is in the BASH manual someplace, or was once upon a time.

In a large script this might annoy people, so if it were me, I would have a whitelist of commands that I think are safe, or maybe a "remember" option that updates that script. I might also have a blacklist for things like sudo.

While I'm on the subject of sudo, a nasty trick bad guys use is get you to run sudo on something innocuous and then rely on the cached credentials to run a sneaky (silent) sudo in the same session. Running sudo -k before interacting with an unknown program can help tremendously with this.
by dbmnt | 2025-06-29 04:56:33+00:00
Aruba Networks (acquired by HP in 2015, right before HP split into HP/HPE) has approximately 5% of the market for switching outside of the datacenter segment. They aren't a big player in the DC, you're right about that.

Google used to use HP (pre Aruba) switches in the DC in the early days. Not many though. Mostly for OOB access. I doubt they still do.
by rented_mule | 2025-06-29 04:57:09+00:00
> this depends on the antecedent claim that much if not all of reason is strictly representational and strictly linguistic. It's not obvious to me that this is the case

I'm with you on this. Software engineers talk about being in the flow when they are at their most productive. For me, the telltale sign of being in the flow is that I'm no longer thinking in English, but I'm somehow navigating the problem / solution space more intuitively. The same thing happens in many other domains. We learn to walk long before we have the language for all the cognitive processes required. I don't think we deeply understand what's going in these situations, so how are we going to build something to emulate it? I certainly don't consciously predict the next token, especially when I'm in the flow.

And why would we try to emulate how we do it? I'd much rather have technology that complements. I want different failure modes and different abilities so that we can achieve more with these tools than we could by just adding subservient humans. The good news is that everything we've built so far is succeeding at this!

We'll know that society is finally starting to understand these technologies and how to apply them when we are able to get away from using science fiction tropes to talk about them. The people I know who develop LLMs for a living, and the others I know that are creating the most interesting applications of them, already talk about them as tools without any need to anthropomorphize. It's sad to watch their frustration as they are slowed down every time a person in power shows up with a vision based on assumptions of human-like qualities rather than a vision informed by the actual qualities of the technology.

Maybe I'm being too harsh or impatient? I suppose we had to slowly come to understand the unique qualities of a "car" before we could stop limiting our thinking by referring to it as a "horseless carriage".
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 04:58:24+00:00
The cliff theory is an interesting one. I don't have any kind of schizo propensity, to my knowledge, but I did, for a brief period of my life, have what I call a "firemind" experience.

During that period I spent an unhealthy amount of time alone. I also spent tons of time reading. During that time the ability of my brain to free-associate seemed to absolutely explode. I felt like I could see a pattern or form a connection between almost anything whatsoever. I read symbolism in everything. The few times I did see friends during that time, I remember them being kind of shocked at the callbacks, linkages, etc. that I was able to fire off instantaneously at the board game table.

My brian no longer works like this. I underwent several lifestyle changes and it seemed to really rewire me. I'm much more logical in my thinking now, but it's taken practice, and the shift was gradual. Every now and then I kind of miss the "semiotic aptitude" I had in those days, but I wonder if I was really just teetering on the edge of a cliff. Maybe a few more months of isolation would have pushed me over the edge.
by whatever1 | 2025-06-29 04:58:43+00:00
The investors don’t care about the morals of the company; they just want a higher valuation so they can flip it for a profit.

Either with a guy promising Mars while siegheiling or jeopardizing teens’ health or ruining the Earth. All that matters is the valuation.

And why not? Investors never get into trouble for the mess their investments cause. Worst-case scenario, they lose their investment.
by leakycap | 2025-06-29 04:58:53+00:00
> I have a few points on some comments, then come back a few hours or a day later and my comments are downvoted into negative numbers without any new replies.

The issue here is caring about points. Just enjoy the site, actually take in the content and ideas here, and you will be so much better served than caring about points.

The most interesting/thought provoking comments are the prize for you, not the number by your handle
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-29 04:59:04+00:00
> Who is committing the atrocities?

Mostly Israel due to a firepower disadvantage. But Hamas seems to be about as into committing war crimes as Netanyahu.

In terms of indifference to suffering, the people dying are in Gaza. Not Israel. Hamas should be suing for peace, not posturing because some fucks in Doha would prefer to punt the question. (Palestine unilaterally turning over its hostages would rob Israel of a tremendous amount of leverage.)
by kjellsbells | 2025-06-29 04:59:13+00:00
(This is not intended as an adversial question.)

I've always been curious about how the non-English world feels about hearing their language spoken with a strong "English" accent. Dont they just get on with it? As a native English speaker I'm totally unfazed by strongly accented English: Indian accents, Chinese accents, Italian etc. For example Italians rarely pronounce the H in house (presumably because H is silent in Italian). Even twists like unusual word stress patterns or prnounciations are easily figured out on the fly.

I know that Parisians are supposed to be one exception: infamously snooty about visitors speaking French absolutely perfectly. But fpr everyone else, it's 2025 and we live in a world of mass tourism and mass migration. Are the non-English still fazed by English accents and insistent on audible correctness?
by FollowingTheDao | 2025-06-29 04:59:19+00:00
There’s no such thing as a “pro schizophrenia genes”. There are only genes that increase the risk of schizophrenia, and this is probably due to environmental variables.

Exchanging a risk for cancer for a risk of schizophrenia is not a win-win situation. You’re just switching one set of risk genes for another.
by NitpickLawyer | 2025-06-29 05:01:53+00:00
> If nothing else, his perspective is a counterbalance to what is clearly an extreme hype machine that is doing its utmost to force adoption through overpromising, false advertising, etc. These are bad things even if the tech does actually have some useful applications.

In other words, overhyped in the short term, underhyped in the long term. Where short and long term are extremely volatile.

Take programming as an example. 2.5 years ago, gpt3.5 was seen as "cute" in the programming world. Oh, look, it does poems and e-mails, and the code looks like python but it's wrong 9 times out of 10. But now a 24B model can handle end-to-end SWE tasks in 0-shot a lot of the times.
by UltraSane | 2025-06-29 05:02:46+00:00
This paper argues the opposite

https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01622

Are world models a necessary ingredient for flexible, goal-directed behaviour, or is model-free learning sufficient? We provide a formal answer to this question, showing that any agent capable of generalizing to multi-step goal-directed tasks must have learned a predictive model of its environment. We show that this model can be extracted from the agent's policy, and that increasing the agents performance or the complexity of the goals it can achieve requires learning increasingly accurate world models. This has a number of consequences: from developing safe and general agents, to bounding agent capabilities in complex environments, and providing new algorithms for eliciting world models from agents.
by boc | 2025-06-29 05:04:04+00:00
""For the first time ever in our country's history, we are making leading-edge 4nm chips on American soil, American workers — on par in yield and quality with Taiwan," Raimondo told Reuters."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ts...

https://www.tsmc.com/static/abouttsmcaz/index.htm
by rramadass | 2025-06-29 05:04:05+00:00
Nietzsche said Man does not seek Happiness; only the Englishman does that. What Man seeks is Meaning and Purpose. That is not an exact quote but a gist of his philosophical outlook.

The fundamental problem is that the Scientific Revolution upended everything we had known and around which we had built our social structures. People were born into an existing "social framework structure" which they followed obediently without questioning and when something went wrong/did not understand, they simply attributed it to an almighty "G-O-D" and washed their hands off of it. Being absolved of any personal responsibility and not being forced to learn and make hard decisions and live with its consequences is highly cognitively consonant rather than dissonant and keeps one "Happy". Mere Scientific Knowledge without resolution into a coherent and understandable framework leads to more cognitive dissonance and hence keeps one "Unhappy".

The solution is to use Modern Science to understand Objective Reality and use ancient Philosophical Concepts/Frameworks from Hindu/Buddhist/Greek Cultures to mould our Subjective View of it (but without going off into la-la land).
by necovek | 2025-06-29 05:08:39+00:00
Most people's actions are influenced both by stressful, but also by positive events in our lives: that's what makes us, really, "us". And really, everyone experiences what one would call trauma (trauma can be temporary as well).

When an event, positive or negative, influences us in a way where we can't continue to operate according to certain norms, we recognize that as a mental health issue.

So we can either claim that there are no people without mental health issues, which I think is not a very useful "calibration" of the terminology, or we can establish a baseline where we expect people to have some challenges with mental health which we call "normal response to trauma", and focus on those who have exaggerated or diminished responses.
by eszed | 2025-06-29 05:09:28+00:00
What if you want to maximize your talent? I'm sure you're good at something; isn't it satisfying to get better at it? At some point you'll maximize the improvement you can make in your free time; if you get there before you reach the ceiling of your ability or your drive, then what else are you going to (want to) do?

This comment makes the same point, better than I did:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44410292
by voidhorse | 2025-06-29 05:09:58+00:00
Couldn't agree more. I look forward to the other side of this current craze where we actually have reasonable language around what these machines are best for.

On a more general level, I also never understood this urge to build machines that are "just like us". Like you I want machines that, arguably, are best characterized by the ways in which they are not like us—more reliable, more precise, serving a specific function. It's telling that critiques of the failures of LLMs are often met with "humans have the same problems"—why are humans the bar? We have plenty of humans. We don't need more humans. If we're investing so much time and energy, shouldn't the bar be bette than humans? And if it isn't, why isn't it? Oh, right it's because actually human error is good enough and the actual benefit of these tools is that they are humans that can work without break, don't have autonomy, and that you don't need to listen to or pay. The main beneficiaries of this path are capital owners who just want free labor. That's literally all this is. People who actually want to build stuff want precision machines that are tailored for the task at hand, not some grab bag of sort of works sometimes stochastic doohickeys.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-29 05:10:01+00:00
> I still think (as a native English speaker), it's fairly routine to stop and re-think what you are saying because you're grasping for the right word.

When speaking in a foreign language, it is commonly the case that you will have a word in mind, but it will be a word from your native language. This can cause problems when, for example, you set up the sentence to use a noun, but the language you're speaking doesn't have a noun that fits into your context correctly. Now you have two problems:

1. You need to retroactively rephrase your whole sentence to present the same information in a different style, because that's the way this language does it. This works best if you can change the past.

2. You probably don't know the correct thing to say, or you wouldn't have made that mistake to begin with.
by ksec | 2025-06-29 05:10:44+00:00
I heard there is still trouble to buy consumer grade Nvidia GPU. At this point I am wondering if it is Gaming market demand, AI, or simply a supply issue.

On another note I am waiting for Nvidia's entry to CPU. At some point down the line I expect the CPU will be less important, ( relatively speaking ) and Nvidia could afford to throw a CPU in the system as bonus. Especially when we are expecting ARM X930 to rival Apple's M4 in terms of IPC. CPU design has become somewhat of a commodity.
by aucisson_masque | 2025-06-29 05:11:40+00:00
So what’s wrong with open source social network ? They don’t have the issue mentioned, because they don’t have investor there is no need to optimize kpi and when it’s optimized the infrastructure cost can be minimized a lot.

See mastodon for instance.

Yet it doesn’t catch up in popularity, seems like people do prefer the traditional Facebook, twitter and instagram.

You can only show a donkey where water is but you can’t force it to drink.
by dbmnt | 2025-06-29 05:12:10+00:00
Acquisitions have been central to Hewlett-Packard’s strategy since the mid-1980s. Just look at this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Hewlet...

HPE consistently struggles to retain talent and foster growth post-acquisition. Integration is hampered by decades of IT cruft, leading to a sluggish tech stack and a deeply bureaucratic culture. Like many public companies, they also suffer from a lack of long-term focus.
by zkry | 2025-06-29 05:12:14+00:00
From reading this, it sounds more like a management problem more than anything else. For example, retention goals should be such that all a companies experts (at anything, not just language) don't evaporate overnight and hiring goals should be such that experts are retrained and re-hired.

I think the analogy is also off a bit. I't be more apt to say a good surgeon should be expected to use electrosurgical units from different manufacturers, which is a completely fair expectation.
by thaumasiotes | 2025-06-29 05:13:03+00:00
> When I was learning English as a second language, I could understand most of what was said in an action movie or a simple sitcom like Friends after I could read simple novels like Sheldon's If Tomorrow Comes.

Friends does some interesting linguistic things. One of my favorite examples:

You told me to go out and be a caterer, so I went! I be'd!

Monica isn't making a mistake there. But I would be very surprised if someone who was just learning the language understood that joke.
by Incipient | 2025-06-29 05:13:44+00:00
My understanding is it's the AI demand and willingness to pay crazy money for wafer that makes consumer GPUs a significantly less attractive product to produce.

I don't have really solid evidence, just semi-anecdotal/semi-reliable internet posts:

Eg. https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/more-than-251-mil...

Nvidia as a whole has been fairly anti-consumer recently with pricing, so I wouldn't be banking on them for a great cpu option. Weirdly Intel is in the position where they have to prove themselves, so hopefully they'll give us some great products in the next 2-5 years - if they survive (think the old lead-up-to-ryzen era for amd)
by lormayna | 2025-06-29 05:14:30+00:00
> I think it’s worth a shot.

Even if it will win, having a state, means also to have an army. And guess what will happens immediately? The problem is also the education: in Gaza, the school system (also the one by ONU/UNWRA paid by us) is completely rotten: they are not preparing people to improve their country, they are preparing people to become martyr and hate Israel.

> One could even throw in a reparation fund for the lands Israel conquered since ‘48 as well as those which the French and British gave away.

Do you have any idea about how many money the Western country put in Gaza for humanitarian and development projects? Well, a big part of those funds are spent on building tunnels, buying weapons and building rockets. There is no any way to change the situation until Hamas would be there.

> Hell, eminent domain the West Bank settlers and pay them out, too

Israeli settlers are a big obstacle to peace and should be stopped and repressed with force. Unfortunately it will not happen until Ben-Gvir and Smotrich are part of the government
by Dilettante_ | 2025-06-29 05:14:34+00:00
IIuc, the original point/implication of this thread of conversation was more like "there's an unusally high concentration of child predation on Roblox", which, while not invalidating it, is a considerably different problem than "there is more child predation than there ought to be on Roblox".

The former implies that rblx has some attributes that are conducive to child predation, which would be worth teasing apart out of scientific interest, while the latter is a very general problem, as (I dare take this as self-evident) any place that has greater than 0 child predators has more than there ought to be.