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flyingpenguin
Personal blog · flyingpenguin.com · on HN as feigewalnusssecurityai
flyingpenguin is a personal blog at flyingpenguin.com about security and ai. Since 2010, 31 different Hacker News readers have linked it 40 times, most often “A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-28, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters cite flyingpenguin posts as references on Okta security breaches, AI security claims such as Mythos, Tesla crash data and Elon Musk's motives. The posts are used as sources rather than praised.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-04-15
- Tesla's Safety Record vs. Volvo3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-19
- Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-15
What Hacker News says?
> Didn't Okta had several major hacking incidents over the last decade as well? Yes [1]. [1] https://www.flyingpenguin.com/a-simple-list-of-the-many-okta...
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on “Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents”Submitted Interview with Marian Rejewski, the first person to crack Enigma (1974) [video] as a story · 205 points
HN discussionOkta has been plagued by security issues [1], never heard of Ping Identity, Azure only makes sense if you get a sweetheart deal and are willing to deal with Azure's crap, and I'd never recommend anyone to use anything Google any more. [1] https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=54722
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on “Amazon tripled prices for the basic tier of their auth service Cognito”Submitted Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? as a story · 58 points
HN discussionIt's not so much that Copilot is a threat because it could produce tight, elegant code that handles all the edge cases and so on, but because employers still see coders as expensive keyboard jockeys whose code is not significantly better than what a Copilot user could cargo-cult into existence. Blaming Copilot feels a bit like the wrong target. Like the Luddites, the real question is the relationship between employe…
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on “Why Copilot Is Making Programmers Worse at Programming”Submitted Tesla's Safety Record vs. Volvo as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI think there's an easy answer for Elon's motivation in particular: he wants to damage the US as revenge for ending South African apartheid ( https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=65793 ).
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on “‘Bloody Saturday’ at Voice of America and other U.S.-funded networks”Submitted DHH Nazism Funded by 1Password VP Who Wrote "Honest Security" as a story · 12 points
HN discussionGood but not necessarily better that was is already pay-as-you-go available today. ref. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/the-boy-that-cried-mythos-veri... This AISLE benchmark is interesting in this matter: https://aisle.com/blog/ai-cybersecurity-after-mythos-the-jag... And the recently discovered Copy Fail by Xint code is another proof that the gating is overblown: https://xint.io/blog/copy-fail-linux-distributions
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on “After dissing Anthropic for limiting Mythos, OpenAI restricts access to Cyber”Submitted Trump White House Press Ban Matches 1933 Nazi Law as a story · 10 points
HN discussionNo, not really. Mythos found 3 CVEs, not 271. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/mythos-mystery-in-mozilla-numb...
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on “Project Glasswing: An Initial Update”Submitted A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic as a story · 7 points
HN discussionWow as far as you know? That settles it then! Just ignore this: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/wheres-ed-anthropic-told-court...
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on “Bun's Rust rewrite has been merged”Submitted Drones Hit Yandex So Cloudflare Kept the Russians Online as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThey also crash way more often[1] and have disproportionally more deaths[2]. 1. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2023/12/18/tesla-ha... 2. https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=35819
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on “Honda and Nissan might team up against Tesla and other EV rivals”Submitted Tesla Cooked and Then Lost Norway as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThe developer responsible for breaking the integrity of this commonly used software package is known as Brandon Nozaki Miller. It is public information that he is the maintainer. I think we will have to wait for him to announce if he personally did this or was hacked. TURN OFF AUTO UPDATES FOR DEPENDENCIES. One good thing is that this bad actor will just bring more light to better practices for dependency management…
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on “Node-ipc developers add malware which wipes Russian IP's”Submitted Cloudflare CEO Is Lying to You About the Bot Traffic Jump as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can compare Tesla death rates per vehicule sold vs similar cars however: https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=35819
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on “Tesla asked officials to redact info of driver-assistance in use during crashes”Submitted FreeBSD CVE-2026-4747 Log Suggests Mythos Is a Marketing Trick as a story · 3 points
HN discussionHow about the boy who called nonsense security vulnerabilities. This is the same author who posts with incredulity that the ability to change a config file with a shell command in it gives you the ability to run the shell command you posted and wants it treated as some big CVE. Absolutely inconceivable that you might already have your harness in a sandbox where this is okay, and inconceivable that anyone might have…
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on “A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic”Submitted A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted RustSec Integrity Breach Hides Dangerous Crypto Flaw as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Facebook is lying as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Chinese AI Open Weights Grow Safer as American AI Becomes Dead Weight as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Stanford Says AI Agents Become Marxist as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where's Ed: Anthropic Told Court $5B but Public $19B as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Lyrik: reproducing Mythos discovery findings for $0.75 on public API as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Boy That Cried Mythos: Verification Is Collapsing Trust in Anthropic as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted FitBit Fakes Data: Google Treats Integrity as Career Poison as a story · 2 points
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