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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects?

Ask HN: How to deal with security implications of running/installing projects? 5 by johng | 1 comments on Hacker News. There are so many neat projects coming out on HN/Github, etc. But, it's so easy to inject back doors and malware into software projects now a days. I'm wondering how people deal with the secrutiy of this. Even if you install them under docker, if it's run by root it seems like there are ways they can get root access on the box. I see so many neat projects here I'd like to try out but I'm worried that I may install some malware or backdoored software on here. There are a few AI harnesses, terminals, etc. that keep coming up that look neat... but at the very least they'd be able to get your Claude credentials, if not worse. I'm just wondering with so much stuff coming out, most of it AI coded. Just wondering how people deal with it? What's the best sandbox way of testing it if that's the solution?
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New ask Hacker News story: The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code

The Author of Clean Code No Longer Reviews AI-Generated Code 4 by SantiDev | 0 comments on Hacker News. Tweet URL: https://ift.tt/I9W1V0a Robert Martin, the author of Clean Code, tweeted the following: > I’m significantly older than you. I started coding in the late 60s. My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. What I do instead is to surround the agents with extreme constraints. Unit tests, gherkin tests, QA procedures, quality metrics, mutation testing, test coverage, and a plethora of others. In the end, I have very high confidence in the code they produce because they’ve had to run the gauntlet of all of my constraints and tests.
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New ask Hacker News story: This is an accidental duplicate post, please delete

This is an accidental duplicate post, please delete 3 by VitaSetLLC | 0 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone else experiencing extreme Codex limits token burn rate?

Ask HN: Anyone else experiencing extreme Codex limits token burn rate? 2 by throwaway2027 | 1 comments on Hacker News.
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation?

Ask HN: Anyone suffering from the tyranny of the Waiting Equation? 2 by akersten | 1 comments on Hacker News. In space exploration, there's a famous conundrum that we shouldn't launch a 100-year journey transport ship to another galaxy, because in 20 years technology will have made the ship twice as fast, and we can get there earlier by waiting. In this episode of "how this translates to B2B sales," I ask if anyone else is struggling to invest in ideas (anywhere from side projects to startups) knowing that the frontier of AI might soon overlap any possible technical or operational moat that you spend a year or more building, and your entire business is just a one-shot prompt away (from either you, meaning you wasted time building, or your target customer, who no longer has a reason to pay you). Historically it's always been better to Just Build, but this reality seems to be getting tougher to ignore.
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New ask Hacker News story: I built a new PoW protocol and observed a surprisingly early solution

I built a new PoW protocol and observed a surprisingly early solution 2 by babakkarimib | 0 comments on Hacker News. I recently deployed an experimental proof-of-work protocol called Shardhash. The idea is simple: miners compete by finding hashes with a required suffix pattern, and rewards scale with the number of matching hex digits. Something unexpected happened during testing. A wallet that had never interacted with the protocol before submitted a failed claim and then a successful claim. The successful solution was Tier 10 (roughly a 1 in 16^10 event), with a nonce value of 18. The interesting part was the timing: - The failed claim used nonce 17 but was rejected because the round had already expired. - The failed claim was submitted 300 seconds after the round started, even though the submission window is only 12 seconds. - The next claim used nonce 18 and succeeded. - The successful claim was submitted 480 seconds after that round started (42 Ethereum blocks later), about 180 ...
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New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used?

Ask HN: What are some popular AI detection software that you know/have used? 2 by dd-sharma | 1 comments on Hacker News. We want to undertake a comprehensive evaluation of popular AI detection software that detect the text content. If you use a software for this purpose, please share the name of the product and if possible a brief on what you like/dislike about it? Thanks in advance.
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