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Why does mathmain need an encrypted loader?

138 points · 43 comments · abhisek

zzril · 1790021921 · focus · HN ↗
Had I found sthg like this, I'd be proud to tell everyone and certainly enjoy doing the writeup. But this smells like it was ai-written...
1. [deleted] · 1790021997 · focus · HN ↗
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2. mavamaarten · 1790022143 · focus · HN ↗
  Yeah lots of weird emphasis on things a human wouldn't care about. And emphasis on what it isn't, rather than what it is. It's not Y, it's X. And there are two files!!!
  1. fwip · 1790033820 · focus · HN ↗
    Tinfoil hat theory - the "malware" and the blog post are written by the same LLM agent, intended only to drive views to a blog rather than accomplish anything malicious.
3. phyzome · 1790041433 · focus · HN ↗
  It didn't seem like the usual AI style, but the flow and language was very strange indeed.
4. a_t48 · 1790054880 · focus · HN ↗
  It uses the LICENSE file as a lock. Before anything else, it reads the package's own LICENSE file and looks for a line that has no business being in a licence:
  _sigh_
5. mmmlinux · 1790180349 · focus · HN ↗
  Some people enjoy doing the thing more than writing about it later. Would you rather this, or no write up at all?

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