On: Checkout.com hacked, refuses ransom payment, donates to security labs

[red-iron-pine]

> The level of persistence these guys went through to phish at scale is astounding—which is how they gained most of their access.

explain

[ChrisMarshallNY → the_gipsy]

That’s standard practice, on HN, and has been, before AI was a broken condom on the drug store shelf.

Unpleasant, but comes with the territory (I don’t like it, when it’s done to me).

That said, I’m not sure that kind of scolding is particularly effective, either.

[tuckerman → ChrisMarshallNY]

I think saying just "explain" is a bit of a meme and meant to come across as almost humorously asking for an explanation.

[ryandrake → ChrisMarshallNY]

Yea you get that once in a while here, also: "wrong".

It's like some commenters treat human interaction as a command-line interface.

[oersted → the_gipsy]

Not every culture has the same standards of politeness. I didn't think it was rude, I think it can be even respectful of their time and intelligence to be concise, plain and direct, as long as you are not literally attacking them.

I mean, the comments under the GPT-5.1 announcement just today were full of people wishing that AI actually responded to them like this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45904551