116
Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator
(www.theregister.com)
this post was submitted on 14 May 2026
116 points (97.5% liked)
Programming
26957 readers
929 users here now
Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!
Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.
Hope you enjoy the instance!
Rules
Rules
- Follow the programming.dev instance rules
- Keep content related to programming in some way
- If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos
Wormhole
Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Dev on one of the most highly used simple tools finds project is secure. News at 11. They really would have to try hard to find a worse example.
I stopped reading there, curl can do crazy stuff, even sending emails.
Curl has some 200k lines of code.
Nvidia drivers are 1M.
Nix kernel is 40M
Don't get your trousers in a twist, it's useful, but it's not that complex and limited in scope compared to an actually large and complex product.
What's the biggest code base you have worked with?