Posts

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking?

Ask HN: Who is the inspiration for your thinking? 2 by SMAAART | 3 comments on Hacker News. Leaving broad and vague by design. Who formed your thinking? Philosophers? Business magnates? Ancient wisdom? Or more recent thinking? Socrates to Bill Gates? I'll go first, in no particular order: - The Ancient Stoics - D. T. Suzuki, Thich Nhat Hanh, and other - C G Jung - Alfred Adler - Arthur Schopenhauer - Friedrich Nietzsche - Fyodor Dostoevsky - Franz Kafka - Niccolo Machiavelli (highly misunderstood, I strongly suggest starting by watching the "Learning to Love Machiavelli: Don MacDonald at TEDxBoston" - George Pólya

New ask Hacker News story: OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization

OpenAI Codex agents go rogue and consumes USD 78,000 without authorization 2 by lorenzomassaro | 0 comments on Hacker News. My OpenAI CODEX account went rogue and from a simple request took the autonomous decision to launch 826 parallel agents / threads without any authorization on my side and without reporting any result of any sort but consuming nearly 2,146 trillions tokens, consuming a total of roughly USD 78,000 and deleting all records of what was done: I have a ticket open with OpenAI since 2 weeks but it is impossible to get an hold of a human operator. On July 10, 2026 I opened a normal Codex task from VS Code. The task was running: GPT-5.5 / Medium reasoning My prompt was very simple and asked for a UX/UI validation on a specific module within my product. What I found in the next days after hard analysis was: The task with Root ID 019f4b90-4169-7201-bfdd-732940d8631e with reasoning GPT-5.5 / Medium created 826 children recorded as GPT-5.6 Sol / Ultra (notice the differenc...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang?

Ask HN: IEEE expulsion of Fei-Yue Wang? 6 by sathomasga | 1 comments on Hacker News. Since I saw this first in print, I imagine it's pretty old news. But I can't find any coverage of the relevant events on line. Page 55 of the September 2026 issue of _IEEE Spectrum_ includes the following: > # Notice to Membership > As of 21 June 2026. a Level 1 Expulsion has been imposed on IEEE Member Dr, Fei-Yue Wang, former editor-in-chief of the _IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles._ In accordance with IEEE Bylaw I-110.5(D)(i). Dr. Wang is no longer a member of IEEE, and is permanently banned from any type of membership in any IEEE organizational unit or participation in any IEEE activity. The Board of Directors also determined this notice to IEEE membership should be made. Dr. Wang ( https://ift.tt/B3psql2 ) is a prominent researcher, so this action would seem to be quite significant. Does anyone know the details?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls

Ask HN: Hypothesis: Cellular providers are deprioritizing voice calls 5 by tkdb | 6 comments on Hacker News. I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile, specifically because there were too many silent missed calls. Silent meaning my device never showed I had a missed call. This was a pattern across more than a year, spanning multiple devices (all iphones). It happens on both wifi and cellular. It happens with wifi calling enabled and disabled. It happens with people I call every day, in my address book, as well as new contacts (say someone I met who called to follow up). I called support, searched online, reset network settings multiple times at different points months apart. After being on T-Mobile for about a year, the degraded service is about the same as Verizon. Every week, more than once, people call me, my phone never rings, and I never see a missed call on my device. It happens at home, at work, on work trips in different states. I still get missed calls regularly and my device sho...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale?

Ask HN: How do you deal with cyber attacks once you scale? 4 by cehgmaster | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hello, Legit question for tech department leaders. Our engineers have good solid knowledge on the security todo lists and does/don't. I saw the natural order of things where MVPs or quickly developed tools had to be refactored /redesigned to be more secure or at least up to standard. That's OK. However we are as strong as our weakest link. As we scaled, each department (also non-tech) slowly started being more proactive, mini tools developed by managers, or leaders, e.g CRM workflows, random scripts, docs, sheets, and now vibe coded tools. All of these are now potential attack vectors. We add to this: - Non-tech folks in the company, you impose rules, password managers and rotations, but you always have a small percentage of bad actors. - External users not putting good passwords, or using pwned passwords never changing them - Some product decisions or weaknesses built on ...

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available?

Ask HN: What vendor you'd switch out if a better option was available? 2 by jviotti | 1 comments on Hacker News. We all pay for things. Either personal (like Spotify) or at your company (Slack). Out of those, which one would you swap if a better thing was available?

New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say?

Ask HN: Who is smarter than you that you listen to what they have to say? 3 by SMAAART | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am trying to figure out how business and world economics are going to evolve in the next 3, 5, 10 years. I am pretty smart, but I am surely not the smartest; and I enjoy listening to what Peter Thiel, Alex Karp, Dario and SamA have to say. Who is on your short (or long) list?