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Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

138 points · 43 comments · abhisek

  1. j2kun · · focus · HN ↗
    Why in the world would that specific 3x3 matrix be a trigger for an attack? Are they trying to find someone doing some particular kind of numerical analysis?
    1. coder-pm · · focus · HN ↗

      [dead]

      1. stymaar · · focus · HN ↗
        1. “The X is not Y, it's Z” 2. 3 months old account

        Bad bot.

        (I still wonder what these not operators have to gain in that process, but they sure want HN karma).

        1. smokel · · focus · HN ↗
          Interestingly, the presumed bot uses unicode apostrophes (’) instead of ', yet misspells "its".
          1. yorwba · · focus · HN ↗
            Tamping down on verbosity, removing em-dashes and adding misspellings are the obvious fixes to apply when your first attempts at spamming get flagged for being too on-the-nose: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;threads?id=coder-pm&amp;next=48716765">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;threads?id=coder-pm&amp;next=487167...
            1. tadfisher · · focus · HN ↗
              There are &quot;humanizer&quot; scripts that these people like to use. This one is not the typical style I see in my online moderator adventures, which is usually &quot;lowercase everything and remove all punctuation except periods&quot;, as if we are repelled by em-dash use and not the tortured prose.

              I like the removal of a random definite article, to simulate an ESL writer and garner sympathy for using LLMs as a &quot;tool to clean up posts&quot;. Heavens, they would never even think of using their Claude subscription to be a slop factory, that would cross a line.

        2. ajkjk · · focus · HN ↗
          gotta be careful. inevitably people will start emulating the LLM writing style since they&#x27;re so overexposed to it
        3. coder-pm · · focus · HN ↗
          Being new here doesn&#x27;t mean I&#x27;m a bot. I&#x27;m not native and maybe my style looks for you like a bot, I won&#x27;t try to argue with you. Just wanted to contribute
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