mtlynch

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by mtlynch 6mo ago
What do you mean? Is the non-existent millionth floor of the Empire State Building still part of the Empire State Building? Also, I'm assuming we're in agreement that software should not accept invalid GPS coordinates from untrust
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
A longitude that's outside the range of [-180, +180] or a latitude that's outside the range of [-90, +90].
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
> there are Blackberry-style client devices which don't require an app at all, and all the actual firmware is open source (MIT). Worth noting that the Blackberry-style devices are also closed source and the hardware and software is
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
> Would you trust AI generated mesh firmware ? It's ridiculous to me that they're concerned about the trustworthiness of AI-generated code when their code quality is so low. They don't even have automated tests and ignore
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North Korea uses AI to industrialize attacks on developers(expel.com)
6 points by mtlynch 6mo ago|0 comments
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
I don't understand what you mean. What separates this from other fingerprinting techniques your company monetizes? No software wants to be fingerprinted. If it did, it would offer an API with a stable identifier. All fingerprinting i
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
Corresponding HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758309
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
I'm not claiming that all indie founders are successful. I'm disputing the claim that almost all indie founders are struggling by saying I regularly meet indie founders who are successful. Not like driving exotic cars successful,
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
Honestly, no. They're free meetups. I don't stand to gain anything by exaggerating the results of the meetup attendees. Unless you think I'm trying to recruit people on HN to come to my meetups and meet successful founders?
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
> You rarely see anything more than a couple hundred bucks a month. There are notable exceptions, but unfortunately a lot of those notable exceptions are scammy, spammy business models. I suspect this is largely sampling bias. I host me
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
When I worked at two different FAANG companies, both legal orientation sessions taught this specific scenario as an example of something that's not attorney-client privileged. If you email your lawyer to ask legal questions, that&#x2
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
This seems to be an AI-generated post where the "author" never reveals building any successful product or even tangible project with Gas Town.
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
>> the government designed it to be employer-agnostic > The other interpretation of being employer-agnostic is that the H1B isn't tied to a "sponsoring company" and doesn't require any of the transfer shenani
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
Those aren't false positives; they're results he hasn't yet inspected. I wrote a longer reply here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47638062
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
> 5 out of 1000+ reports to be valid is statistically worse than running a fuzzer on the codebase. Carlini said "hundreds" of crashes, not 1000+. It's not that only 5 were true positives and the rest were false positives
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
OP here. I don't understand this critique. Carlini did use Claude Code directly. Claude Code used the Claude Opus 4.6 model, but I don't know why you'd consider it inaccurate to say Claude Code found it. GPT 5.4 might be ca
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
> What is not mentioned is that Claude Code also found one thousand false positive bugs, which developers spent three months to rule out. Source? I haven't seen this anywhere. In my experience, false positive rate on vulnerabiliti
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
I don't understand what you're advocating. Do you think it's a bad thing that the US implemented occupational safety laws? I agree that it's not great that many of those risks just shifted overseas, but it's certain
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
Thanks for the kind words! To clarify, I certainly agree it's possible for a business to succeed without using H1B visas, especially for something small at the the scale of TinyPilot (7 people when I sold). I just mean on a large scale
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
That's missing the point. Ultimately, companies who use H1B visas will outcompete companies who don't because the H1B system gives them cheaper labor costs. The solution has to come at the regulatory level. 150 years ago, if you t
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Claude Code Found a Linux Vulnerability Hidden for 23 Years(mtlynch.io)
10 points by mtlynch 6mo ago|2 comments
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Which Design Doc Did AI Write?(refactoringenglish.com)
2 points by mtlynch 6mo ago|1 comments
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by mtlynch 6mo ago
How is the company achieving economies of scale with AI chatbots? The dominant cost is token cost, and even if they're a $1B company, they're not getting that much better of a deal on tokens or GPUs than a regular consumer. Also
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by mtlynch 7mo ago
> If a company has the capability to hire literal people to waste your time, they can deploy more AI than you to waste the time of your AI. I don't totally buy OP's argument, but I think you're dismissing it unfairly. Hi
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by mtlynch 7mo ago
> The by far nastiest part is CI. GitHub has done an excellent job luring people in with free macOS runners and infinite capacity for public repos. This was my biggest blocker as well, as there weren't any managed CIs that supporte
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Which Design Doc Did a Human Write?(refactoringenglish.com)
2 points by mtlynch 7mo ago|0 comments
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Which Design Doc Did a Human Write(refactoringenglish.com)
4 points by mtlynch 7mo ago|0 comments
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by mtlynch 7mo ago
It's a bit weird to see someone doing free work for the community and then ask them to do even more free work.
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by mtlynch 7mo ago
Cool! This is something I've been thinking about and wanted to build too. I don't want it to be like I'm a valuable person and lower people pay for the privilege of my attention, but I do like the idea of making it so that se
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by mtlynch 8mo ago
Hey Flavius! Thanks for reading and the kind words!

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