michaelaiello
Re:Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving
on Friday November 28, 2025 @04:00AM (#46076911)
Really enjoy this forum. Thank you everyone for building a great community.
Re:Details of LockBit Ransomware and Operations
on Tuesday February 20, 2024 @07:41AM (#39440527)
Today there was an international disruption of
LockBit including law enforcement taking over the onion address and replacing it with a summary of research and enforcement actions.
https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/D5622AQFAMjEf-8Pz2g/feedsh...
The Communications Security Establishment (CSE), claims that LockBit was responsible for 44% of all global ransomware attacks.
Re:Show HN: Coffeehouse, one-on-one voicechat with random HN users
on Saturday January 20, 2024 @11:18AM (#39069077)
Spoke with folks in Brazil, Switzerland and Minnesota. So much fun.
Re:Tell HN: Merry Christmas
on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:53AM (#38762200)
Merry Christmas HN Community!
Re:Stable Diffusion Turbo on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 generates an image ...
on Thursday December 14, 2023 @04:44PM (#38647710)
Are there llms models that will run on small ripis similar to llama?
Re:FBI, Partners Dismantle Qakbot Infrastructure in Multinational Cybe...
on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @04:49PM (#37313852)
Some more technical details on what we observed here.
https://www.secureworks.com/blog/law-enforcement-takes-down-...
https://www.secureworks.com/blog/qakbot-campaign-delivered-b...
Re:Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
on Monday August 07, 2023 @09:26AM (#37034147)
RFID Blocking Wallets!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka4eg9Kl6hI&t=104s
Re:Please stop sending me emails written by GPT
on Friday May 26, 2023 @01:00PM (#36086788)
Is there a prompt someone has created yet to translate all their incoming email to a format/structure they like?
Re:Beloved hacking veteran Kelly ‘Aloria’ Lum passes away at 41
on Thursday March 30, 2023 @10:58AM (#35373632)
we miss you Kelly
Re:If we all cycled like the Dutch, global emissions would drop 700M t...
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:35AM (#34298983)
What time horizon are we solving for? I recall a case study (apologies I do not have the reference) in business school that if everyone cycled as suggested in the article - life expectancy would increase significantly for the population leading to more carbon emissions in the long run.
Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)
on Monday January 04, 2021 @03:06PM (#25637118)
WhiteOps | Product Managers / Threat Intelligence / Threat Research | On Site NYC and remote (US, UK, EU) | Full-time | https://www.whiteops.com/
Product Managers with Digital Advertising Ecosystem, CyberSecurity / Cloud Security Product Experience. Threat Intelligence, Threat Research folks.
What do we do? Building the world's best human verification platform. Disrupting the profit centers of cybercrime. Solving enduringly difficult cybersecurity problems.
Funding? Recently completed a large funding round and are growing rapidly. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6747567...
Email me (Product Hiring Manager) directly. No recruiters please. michael dot aiello at whiteops dot com
Re:Is carbon capture a viable solution?
on Tuesday November 24, 2020 @05:49AM (#25197266)
They key metric here is how much it costs ($/TON of CO2 Captured and Sequestered). There are a range of methods and approaches to do this. The average cost for Air Capture across modern approaches is $250/Ton of C02 Captured and Sequestered.
There are other approaches besides Atmospheric Capture and Sequestration which hold more promise 1. High concentration C02 Emission Capture at source 2. Ocean surface capture and de-acidification
Wrote a quick article describing all of them linking to specific research papers and their results here https://www.projectcelsius.com/2017/05/29/capture-methods/
I expect this will follow a similar journey to how solar panel adoption went... once things tipped over the critical ($/KWH) where it made sense over grid electrical, people started to adopt. I imagine once one of the techniques reaches a critical $/TON Captured & Sequestered, governments or institutions will pay to build whatever machines to start. Right now things are too expensive using any method (i.e. using the best method, it would cost ~$12 Trillion dollars to capture and sequester ~49 Gigatons - the estimated carbon emitted in 1 year by humans in 2020)
Re:Port knocking
on Friday May 15, 2020 @09:56AM (#23192198)
Many Many Moons ago I implemented an OS version of this for windows. It was taken over a few years back and is released as KnockKnock. https://sourceforge.net/projects/knockknock/
We are now using the same technique in a network security product at AppGate which is used to protect highly sensitive workloads around the world. https://www.appgate.com/blog/dont-be-fooled-by-lowercase-sdp...
Port Knocking is great, another layer of defense.
Re:Ad.watch – Breaking open Facebook's machine of political persuasion
on Friday September 27, 2019 @02:50PM (#21095080)
Re:Show HN: I made a neural net that analyzes privacy policies
on Sunday September 22, 2019 @02:20PM (#21042936)
Hello!
Made a similar project many moons ago and is still kicking along. Thanks all on HN for the feedback.
Re:Many more trees could be planted without encroaching on crop land o...
on Thursday July 04, 2019 @03:39PM (#20357149)
You can plant trees at $USD0.10 per tree at trees.org
Re:Privacy Policies Are an Incomprehensible Disaster
on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @02:26PM (#20167728)
Built http://www.privacyparrot.com which uses ML to simplify privacy policies back in 2011 and it continues to grow in usage.
Thank you HN community for the feedback back then https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222334
Re:Windows 98 Icons are Great (2015)
on Monday January 21, 2019 @01:30AM (#18958138)
Classic Shell helps bring us back to this design.
http://www.classicshell.net/
Re:An algorithm kicks businesses out of food stamp program on dubious ...
on Saturday October 20, 2018 @06:28PM (#18265822)
Let's look at this from the user perspective.
Grocery store 1: No credit option, must have a positive balance on my EBT card.
Grocery store 2 (P&L Deli Grocery) flexible credit option, able to take a loan out while waiting for EBT card to get replenished.
As a customer, which one of these two offerings is better?
#2 is clearly a better grocery store. It is a grocery + lender for those on EBT cards!
The EBT system (and, likely every other credit card / merchant processor) bans informal credit because there is no basis of control or audit-ability on these kinds of transactions.
Re:API providing threat analysis of any given IP address
on Saturday August 06, 2016 @12:57PM (#12238804)
Where do you get your data for botnet compromised IPs?
Re:N-queen puzzle in 4 lines of Scala
on Sunday April 10, 2016 @08:10AM (#11465840)
This problem is also fun with perl regexes
Re:UBlock Origin
on Monday June 15, 2015 @12:38PM (#9720445)
Re:Terms of Service, Didn't Read
on Monday June 08, 2015 @09:47AM (#9678976)
http://www.privacyparrot.com
Similar -> Uses Baysean classifier to classify privacy policies vs rely on humans maintaining. More coverage.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3222334
Re:How Verizon and Turn Defeat Browser Privacy Protections
on Thursday January 15, 2015 @03:04PM (#8894989)
Re:Startup idea: Do we value our laundry more than our privacy?
on Wednesday February 08, 2012 @08:40AM (#3566455)
A few months ago, we put together http://www.privacyparrot.com which uses machine learning to try to classify what's in a privacy policy. (right now just trying to determine if a site sells your data or not). I am unfortunately confident that there isn't a viable business model in selling people online privacy for free services.
Re:Ask HN: Please Review My Startup: What Do You Really Think About Me?
on Thursday December 08, 2011 @10:51AM (#3329531)
Anonymous feedback + internet seems ripe for ugliness - see http://hardnewsinc.blogs.com/.a/6a00d83428f05153ef00e553e58b...
Also, what kind of feedback are you expecting people to give which 1)is meaningful to the person it is directed to and 2) does not identify the person giving the feedback. It's very difficult to give feedback which meets both 1 and 2.
Re:ShowHN: Identity.io, Opt-out of data brokers and regain control of ...
on Monday November 21, 2011 @09:14PM (#3263742)
Thanks for the heads up, I actually haven't seen this site until now. We haven't gone after the "search for your data out on the internet and send opt-outs" piece of puzzle. Some of them require you to submit a copy of your driver's license. Also, it seemed like the reputation.com service is on top of this currently.
Re:ShowHN: Identity.io, Opt-out of data brokers and regain control of ...
on Monday November 21, 2011 @07:09PM (#3263409)
Interesting, would you really pay for it? Quite a few of the folks we've interviewed & surveyed say they'd use it, only if free. What kind of demographic do you think would be happy to pay for this kind of service.
Re:ShowHN: Identity.io, Opt-out of data brokers and regain control of ...
on Monday November 21, 2011 @07:04PM (#3263394)
Should be back in business if you'd like to try again.