august-'s comments

august- | 9 days ago | on: Swiss e-voting pilot can't count 2,048 ballots after decryption failure

honest question - has any country actually deployed e-voting at scale without running into serious issues? it feels like every pilot i read about hits a wall at some point

august- | 9 days ago | on: How we hacked McKinsey's AI platform

is this kind of thing more common at big consulting firms that bolt on tech products as an afterthought? feels like their core competency is slides and strategy, not shipping secure software

august- | 9 days ago | on: I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job

has anyone actually gotten hired through one of these ai interviews? curious if companies even review the recordings or if it's just a filter to reduce applicant volume

august- | 9 days ago | on: The dead Internet is not a theory anymore

do you think small, invite-only communities will end up being the last holdout for genuine human conversation online? or will bots eventually infiltrate those too?

august- | 9 days ago | on: Show HN: Klaus – OpenClaw on a VM, batteries included

OpenClaw indeed breaks with every update haha, nicely done

august- | 9 days ago | on: Scientists revive activity in frozen mouse brains for the first time

What does "activity" mean here exactly — are we talking about electrical signals, or something closer to functional neural circuits? Big difference for the cryonics crowd.

august- | 9 days ago | on: Dead man's switches: how they work and when to use one

Has anyone here actually set one up for personal use? Curious what the failure modes look like in practice — seems easy to accidentally trigger.

august- | 9 days ago | on: Who Will Remember Us When the Servers Go Dark?

Is anyone actually working on practical long-term digital preservation outside of the Internet Archive? Feels like we talk about this problem a lot but the solutions are still incredibly fragile.

august- | 1 year ago | on: Show HN: A cartoon intro to how the attention mechanism works

Really cool!