Full-Stack/OS/Cybersecurity. Thiel Fellowship
Indiana, USA
Joined March 2009
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Ryan Lelek retweeted
Speaking of Oreo, I've noticed several mudsharks in the restaurant during my last couple visits
They are a health hazard and it's very important to spray and seal building cracks to prevent their entry, especially as the weather turns colder (they like the warmth)
Ryan Lelek retweeted
Hacked my own VPS last night with abliterated models. Took less than 10 minutes and $5 in inference, and got root level access to the box and all credentials.
Lots to process and share soon, but feeling deeply in touch with my eastern european roots this morning...
This is similar to self-replicating DNA btw
Punch cards => Compiler
automated translating the output but required manual input
Programming => AI
automating the input, now a full iterative loop system
We will all be learning in coming weeks & months, that most human-made software:
▫️ Was really slow
▫️ Had many security vulnerabilities
▫️ Was under-specified and incorrect
AI will rewrite it all. Many times. It will make it fast, cost-efficient, and secure. It will think about failure modes we couldn't wrap our heads around.
It will prove, formally verify, load test, harden. It will turn memory-unsafe foundations into robust, optimized ones. If you ask, it'll thoroughly document it, teach you about it, make diagrams, animations, and slide decks.
In many ways, we are witnessing the true birth of software engineering.
Ryan Lelek retweeted
The typical unicorn founder starts the company at 34.
My team at the Stanford GSB Venture Capital Initiative and I estimated the age at founding of 3,586 founders of 1,540 US VC-backed unicorns.
Three out of every four founders started between 25 and 45. The median age at founding is 34, and the average is almost 36.
Ryan Lelek retweeted
#BREAKING: Lockheed Martin to pay $29.5M over alleged discrimination against white workers.
Ryan Lelek retweeted
*sshole is out
if you run sshd on alpine, openwrt or any musl box with password auth on: update now
official writeup: sshhole.com
Ryan Lelek retweeted
HEADS UP re: RAILWAY INCIDENT: Josh @joshmanders needs some help with incident response so I am posting this on his behalf and with his permission asking for those of you in my orbit who are qualified, and many of you are, to reach out to him with serious intent about helping him with the recent Railway incident.
Triage.
Log analysis.
Correlation.
Josh will give you the specifics.
And no trolling or I'm going to lose my shit on you. This is a serious tweet and inquiry.
Make me proud.
P. S. Retweet far and wide please.
Ryan Lelek retweeted
Am one click away from transfering all my domain names from GoDaddy (HOORIBBLE UX) to CloudFlare
If it was automatic & SAFE, I would push that button now.
Yes, AND ALSO
26.04 is not in us-east-1 (released April 2026)
While I don't advocate for us-east-1, it is "the" region and many customers are on it, so WTF indeed
It's in a handful of other regions but this is "support"?
cloud-images.ubuntu.com/loca…
So @Ubuntu still hasn't patched this open hole on any Ubuntu server on the public internet that lets anyone take it over
We might just have to switch all our servers over to Debian in this new post-AGI time of rapid cybersecurity hacks which require just as rapid patching
Slowpokes will be left behind
chalmovsky.com/posts/wtf-ubu…
Update, found it in the API
But seriously @Ubuntu, get it together. This is embarrassing. Take the tool down if it doesnt work
for those playing at home, here's your pattern
ubuntu/images/hvm-ssd-gp3/ubuntu-resolute-26.04
ami-0bfc5cae5711ffac8
