alt Hacker NewsWhat is happening? I see multiple outages and CVEs is being reported on HN's front page. I've never seen these many security/incident related posts on HN's front page.
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> What is happening?
Slowly at first, and then suddenly. AI assisted anything follows this trend. As capabilities improve, new avenues become "good enough" to automate. Today is security.
i believe a good portion of the cves hitting the front page are moreso because they are ai-related (found partially/in whole by ai) and make for quick upvotes.
In some sense, I wonder if non-open-source is "safer" since LLMs can't mass scan the code for exploits.
It's actually the perfect evergreen content to discuss on HN in an age where so much else is AI generated.
A mix of AI and hybrid warfare.
Perhaps it was the prior quiescent period that was the anomaly.
I wonder where are the Rust naysayers hiding now
C code is broken - period
... there's also a bit of a frequency illusion factor.
Some combination of reporting bias given concerns about LLM security capabilities and actual new vulnerabilities found with LLM assistance. Even if exploits and outages are unrelated to LLMs, I'm certainly thinking about whether claude could build these things (or if actors already have).