Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade

Posted by littlexsparkee 3 days ago

Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade(sfstandard.com)

60 points | 56 commentspage 2

lprimeisafk 3 days ago|

Why does it feel like this was written by AI?

landr0id 3 days ago||

Mythos hacked the site, wrote, and published the article

paulddraper 3 days ago||

IDK, 12 em dashes?

int32_64 3 days ago||

There will probably be congressional hearings when it turns out Lazarus Group had access, and then the USG will use it as an excuse to lock AI behind harsh KYC.

https://x.com/kevinakwok/status/2049984076141281482

raffael_de 3 days ago||

no, it's not. it's a tool in a zero sum game. a competitive imbalance. an exclusive moat. it's not improving anything, it's shifting power.

warkdarrior 3 days ago||

As long as it shifts the zero-sum game in the favor of the defender, it is improving things.

HDBaseT 3 days ago|||

In a technical sense, I assume the defender means cybersecurity companies, open source developers, etc?

In a physical sense, Anthropic is giving access to who we believe are the "defenders", aka the United States DoD and Israel.

bixxie09 3 days ago|||

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Salgat 3 days ago||

I disagree. Assuming code complexity is roughly fixed, more sophisticated code analysis will result in a smaller surface area for bugs. Bugs will still be found, but there will be less bugs to be found and less opportunities to exploit.

wslh 3 days ago||

I'd expect the bigger shift to be toward secure-by-construction building blocks: less custom code that needs to be audited from scratch, and more hardened or verified components where common bug classes are already designed out.

Salgat 3 days ago||

A similar concept is used in Rust, where code that needs unsafe sections is generally done in very isolated and very heavily scrutinized modules.

parliament32 2 days ago||

Remember when GPT-2 was "too dangerous to release"?

I'll believe it when I see it, but it's almost certainly just marketing drivel.

fpj 3 days ago||

Like seems to be broken, this one worked for me: https://sfstandard.com/opinion/2026/05/06/mythos-cybersecuri...

littlexsparkee 3 days ago||

Oops, sorry - orig was double pasted and it won't let me edit :/

k310 3 days ago||

You can ask admins to post-edit.

hn@ycombinator.com

littlexsparkee 3 days ago||

Thanks, reached out

swapnakm15 3 days ago||

Yes link not working. Need deep dive to know more on Mythos.

immanuwell 3 days ago|

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dang 3 days ago|

According to our software (which is, of course, imperfect), your account has repeatedly been posting AI-generated and/or AI-edited comments. If so, can you please stop? It's not allowed here, and will eventually get your account banned.

(See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#generated and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47340079.)