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# Greg Kroah\-Hartman – Security in the LLM Age \[video\]

303 points · 110 comments

[Full discussion](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929391>)

[Read original](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnV_cWeoo5Q>)

Category: [Safety & Privacy](<https://hacksnap.live/?category=safety-privacy>)

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Article unavailable; in a small discussion sample, LLM vulnerability reports are seen as overstating real kernel fixes, with only a fraction surviving expert review\.

## The brief

The original article couldn’t be retrieved. This brief covers the discussion only.

## Discussion themes

Analyzed: 2026\-10\-03T18:00:18\.731206\+00:00

Analysis sample: Based on 22 of 22 usable stored comments. Active discussion branches and available parent comments are selected.

This sample may omit parts of the full thread. Selected themes do not measure community opinion or how common a view is.

### Mythos vulnerability count and severity

Comments scrutinize the claim that Mythos found 79 kernel vulnerabilities, noting many were not bugs, already fixed, or trivial, and that Greg Kroah\-Hartman characterized only about ten as real bugfixes\.

Sources: [Comment 49929433](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929433>) · [Comment 49937321](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937321>) · [Comment 49937402](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937402>) · [Comment 49937882](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937882>) · [Comment 49938609](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938609>) · [Comment 49938814](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938814>) · [Comment 49938910](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938910>) · [Comment 49939161](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939161>)

### LLM false positives and expert review burden

Commenters describe automated security scanning producing verbose, confident false positives that require hours of expert human labor to understand, test, and discard, especially in volunteer open\-source projects\.

Sources: [Comment 49937162](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937162>) · [Comment 49938008](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938008>) · [Comment 49940124](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940124>) · [Comment 49940732](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49940732>) · [Comment 49941836](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941836>)

### Hype and AI safety marketing

Comments criticize overhyped claims around Mythos and frontier labs, contrasting safety warnings with underwhelming bug\-finding results and accusing companies of uncritical press\-release promotion\.

Sources: [Comment 49929433](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49929433>) · [Comment 49937402](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937402>) · [Comment 49938032](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938032>) · [Comment 49938129](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938129>) · [Comment 49938609](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49938609>) · [Comment 49943382](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49943382>)

### Attribution and copyright/legal concerns

Comments raise that Anthropic did not cite kernel developers whose patches were pattern\-matched, and question how Linux navigates training data with legally restricted content and potential copyright issues in LLM output\.

Sources: [Comment 49937882](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937882>) · [Comment 49941075](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941075>)

### Alternative LLM security approaches

Comments mention other tools like AISLE finding real issues and suggest specialized models trained on kernel specifics, coding standards, threat models, and triage validation could improve bug discovery\.

Sources: [Comment 49937192](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49937192>) · [Comment 49939161](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939161>)

### Agentic cyber threats and malicious swarms

Comments caution against dismissing agentic cyber capabilities based on false positives, noting that a single true positive matters and that autonomous, self\-replicating malicious swarms present novel mitigation challenges\.

Sources: [Comment 49942124](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49942124>) · [Comment 49939227](<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49939227>)

## Sources & coverage

AI-generated summary · 2026\-10\-02T22:01:13\.163698\+00:00

Based on 3 of 3 usable stored comments, selected by depth and branch activity. This is a sample of the discussion. Article text may also be shortened.

Generated using deepseek\-ai/DeepSeek\-V4\.1\-Flash. Check the linked sources for full context.