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pessimizeryesterday at 8:20 PM1 replyview on HN

> This is a perfect illustration of what cracks me up about the hyperbolic reactions to Mythos.

The hyperbole was press released and consciously engineered. It consists entirely of the company who made Mythos, the usual captured media outlets who follow the leader, and the usual suspects from social media.

The reaction to it as if it is meaningful just fluffs it up more.

These are unprofitable companies trying to suck up maximum possible investment until they become something that the government can justify bailing out with tax money when they fail. Once you've crossed that line, you've won.

Some model that is super good at finding vulnerabilities will be run against software by the people trying to close those vulnerabilities far more often than by anyone trying to exploit them.


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hn_acc1yesterday at 9:22 PM

It reminds me a bit of the Segway hype "they'll build complete cities around these".

Sure, you can find problems faster, but it's not like they'll find 20 NEW classes of bugs.