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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:50PM (#50332569)
Samsung TVs were literally recording people with microphones and doing voice recognition. Unless you don’t speak in your home, it will have you identified quite quickly.
Re:Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:25AM (#50300761)
> TBH I think I (and maybe others) just get triggered when the bogey man is invoked each time there's a crypto story.

It’s not a “bogey man” because it’s literally North Korea’s well-documented MO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazarus_Group

It’s like reading an article about a Russian dissident politician dying from falling out of a window and then getting outraged when someone suggests he may have been murdered by someone in power.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:59PM (#50262134)
It’s not a key to your credit card unless you fucked up and the key has no enforced access controls or MFA.

If you architected things correctly, your root DB key should be useless without an additional compromise of an independent system.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @12:55PM (#50262075)
No, a leaked credential should not be enough to get access to your database,
> I really wish I understood why nuclear has this cult-like following. It's completely irrational.

Because “cost” is not an argument against something that hasn’t been scaled. Nuclear was snuffed in the crib before any repeatable plants could be brought online.

If you looked at the cost of solar in 1995, using it to power anything like a house was a complete joke. It had to fall over an order of magnitude and leave behind a trail of solar company corpses to get to a point where you can break even after 10 years putting them on a house.

Solar and wind need storage to make a complete solution, so when it comes to climate change discussions, you just end up with two “irrational” groups arguing about the optimistic potential things that don’t actually exist at an affordable cost.

Solar is “working just fine” as a way to help contribute daytime generation. It’s only 20% and the storage bit hasn’t been worked out so it’s going to continue to require something to cover the gaps at night. So the gas/coal/nuclear needs to backstop unless the population is good with nighttime blackouts when the wind stops. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_Spain
“Getting solved” isn’t solved though. Abandoning nuclear for an inadequate replacement led to massive global expansion of natural gas and coal generation from the 80s onward. While solar and wind exploded in deployments, it didn’t keep up and shuttering nuclear is likely the largest mistake societies made as far as global warming goes. It was the only non-austerity option with the capacity capability.
Nope, this is wrong. Deep sea drilling is what goes into the abyssal plains.
Holy shit dude. The whole point was that the shield of deep water horizon, which was an entirely separate company, did not protect BP.

Yet you’re sitting here pretending to be outraged that people forming LLCs are related to this.

Re:Railway Security Disclosure on Thursday October 22, 2026 @12:58AM (#50191348)
No, a leaked credential is a nothing event in a mass leak as far as expected loss goes.

You’re better off waiting and monitoring until you’re sure you can get back online if your service supports any kind of revenue.

Re:Most advice is right for the person giving it on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @12:04PM (#50183274)
Nicotine addiction isn’t the problem though, you’ve just shifted the goal posts. A nicotine pill is not giving someone lung cancer.
“A made up scenario, I am outraged!”

Do you know that BP wasn’t the company that spilled? LLCs don’t let you shirk responsibility like that.

What’s exhausting is shifting the goal posts. BP should be held up as a great example where the responsibility transferred onto the shareholders.

“Oh, but there are other bad actors doing things” is not a counterpoint. That’s the same as claiming a government can’t work by pointing to a different failed policy every time someone points how how a policy failure was corrected.

How much of the ocean is deep sea vs not? Slow recovery doesn’t mean it’s the worst until you normalize it. Rare shallow but short life populations might be significantly more delicate
Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:50PM (#50170043)
>Usually we end up with cartels in such cases, see OPEC, mafias etc.

No we don’t. That’s quite rare.

Look at the collapse of the solar market around 2010 as the price collapsed.

Look at the collapse of the steel industry in the US as outsourcing to Asia took over in the 70s-80s.

Look at the entire computing boom from 1990-2020. Memory and storage followed such a steady line down and to the right that people are struggling to operate compute businesses in a normal market.

E-bikes, scooters, electric cars, lithium ion batteries in general. Most food.

The list of these commoditized things that started out as areas of innovation and became just the marginal cost of production is enormous.

Re:DeepSeek just open-sourced its inference engine on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @01:43PM (#50169959)
A long time ago we decided as a society that in order for an engineer to sign off on physical designs, they have to take legal liability for them.

No such process exists for a model to take a design seriously that can kill people.

Re:RPKI now protects 70% of internet routes on Thursday October 15, 2026 @10:22PM (#50113130)
>Do you honestly think the world would be better if there was no international law, or legal constraints on ISPs? Do you think BGP operators are somehow supra legal?

Yes. It was the vision of the internet to continue on outside of the whatever political whims some tiny slice of western governments.

It’s just too ripe for abuse.

You can make whatever “whatabout” arguments on DNS, etc but none of those are required to get connectivity (DHT, p2p hosts, tor names, etc).

Any centralization around the narrow middle IP layer of the internet should be treated with extreme skepticism and pushback.

Re:Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic on Wednesday October 14, 2026 @02:25AM (#50083196)
70 hours a week. You gotta be cranking out trash at a monumental rate
Re:Our $445M Series D on Sunday October 11, 2026 @07:00AM (#50041852)
Not default, not an hour each, and that’s still 1 short of the standard for oxide.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:59AM (#50041849)
Travel time is not equivalent to interview time. I would rather travel 2 days for a 3 hour interview than have a 9 hour interview in my current city. Interviews are exhausting if they are thorough.

> Nine hours does not actually sound like all that much to me.

I think because of who you are you haven’t actually had to experience a regular tech interview in 10+ years.

Re:Our $445M Series D on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:54AM (#50041811)
Yes, my point is you can’t claim 9 hours of interviews in 3 3 hour tranches is standard.
Re:Our $445M Series D on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:48AM (#50041776)
>Can you imagine if they raised $445M of debt?

Yes, it wouldn’t even be a headline. “Profitable company sells bonds, water is wet, news at 10.”

Re:Our $445M Series D on Sunday October 11, 2026 @06:45AM (#50041753)
It’s not no risk. The risk is losing employees because you’re diluting a large portion of their income.

Continued rounds for a decade really blows as an employee.

Re:Our $445M Series D on Friday October 09, 2026 @10:57PM (#50029082)
I call BS. Google didn’t have that many hours of interviews for L5 and it’s TC and the TC is around 500k between cash and liquid RSUs.

The comparison to a superintendent is bunk because that’s a politically loaded position so the vetting is high because of that, not the comp.

None of the FAANG gang put up 9 hours of interviews and pay more than Oxide.

Just own it, your process is more time consuming and is NOT normal. But it’s what gives you an extraordinary team. FAANGs are filled with bad hires.

Your Amazon example is misleading. That $250 price today really undersells the growth because that’s post split. Their dot com high was like $4 in today’s terms. Or multiply today’s price by 20 for the 1999 equivalent ($5000).

It doesn’t negate your point about 10 years to recover but it’s important to highlight how substantial the growth was after it did.

Re:How Singapore's government-run dating service works on Saturday October 03, 2026 @10:45PM (#49950116)
>I don't have trauma.

>"Aren't you a male, too?" Do you think I haven't tried to kill myself? It's surprisingly difficult.

Brother, you need help.

You do know that places don’t have cell phone coverage at all still, right?
Re:You Are No Longer Invited to Dinner on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @03:54AM (#49905792)
Why did you friend assume it was the Covid and not some other issue? How did the doctor help him?

That 400 million number is BS though. Here is the methodology:

> After acute SARS-CoV-2 infection, an estimated 400 million people globally and 17 million, or 6.8% of Americans, based on Household Pulse Survey, experienced Long COVID symptoms, such as fatigue, cognitive impairment, body pain, headache, dizziness, sleep disturbance and a myriad of other symptoms and signs spanning multiple body systems [1, 2]

They surveyed people after the biggest societal disruption in 50 years and found some of them were tired.

This is why people don’t take long COVID seriously. It’s just a catch-all for feeling off.

Eh, 21 limit was in place for all millennials and most of Gen X. And millennials drink like fish.
The reality is that most awkwardness comes across as creepy. Lots of people are awkward, especially young people. They shouldn’t be shamed for it.

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