Hacker News: 0xmohit

Nvidia, AMD to pay 15% of China chip sale revenue to US, official says

0xmohit — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 15:33:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-amd-pay-15-china-chip-sale-revenue-us-official-says-2025-08-11/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44865330

Points: 7

# Comments: 4

Yale professor who studies fascism fleeing US to work in Canada

0xmohit — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 03:05:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/26/yale-professor-fascism-canada

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43501084

Points: 94

# Comments: 80

Scammers Panic After I Hack Their Live CCTV Cameras [video]

0xmohit — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58JqGuclqng

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41426767

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

My McLuhan Lecture on Enshittification

0xmohit — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 07:59:53 +0000

Article URL: https://doctorow.medium.com/my-mcluhan-lecture-on-enshittification-ea343342b9bc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40631253

Points: 9

# Comments: 1

New comment by 0xmohit in "Ask HN: Is it true that Google search prioritizes websites with Google Ads?"

0xmohit — Fri, 31 May 2024 18:03:58 +0000

Does https://ads.google.com/intl/en_us/home/campaigns/search-ads/ answer your question?

The Case Against Gmail (2020)

0xmohit — Fri, 31 May 2024 18:02:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.migadu.com/blog/gmail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40538375

Points: 54

# Comments: 65

New comment by 0xmohit in "Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain"

0xmohit — Tue, 07 May 2024 04:10:15 +0000

    This case is particularly noteworthy because it involves a series of
    requests across different jurisdictions and companies, highlighting the
    complex interplay between technology firms, user privacy, and law
    enforcement.  The requests were made under the guise of anti-terrorism
    laws, despite the primary activities of the Democratic Tsunami involving
    protests and roadblocks, which raises questions about the proportionality
    and justification of such measures.

Porn, Piracy, Fraud: What Lurks Inside Google’s Black Box Ad Empire

0xmohit — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 02:26:28 +0000

Article URL: https://www.propublica.org/article/google-display-ads-piracy-porn-fraud

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35089691

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Putting Undetectable Backdoors in Machine Learning Models

0xmohit — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 15:13:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/02/putting-undetectable-backdoors-in-machine-learning-models.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34925237

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Identifying People Using Cell Phone Location Data

0xmohit — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 14:35:54 +0000

Article URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2023/01/identifying-people-using-cell-phone-location-data.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34310754

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

SF police 'killer robits' would have explosives, not guns: SFPD

0xmohit — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 07:41:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kron4.com/news/bay-area/sf-police-killer-robots-would-have-explosives-not-guns-sfpd/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33798026

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Meta Sued over Data Retention for 'Forced' Personal Ads

0xmohit — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:31:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2022/11/22/meta-sued-over-data-retention-for-forced-personal-ads/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33706820

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0xmohit in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

0xmohit — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:18:39 +0000

The Indian government has, over the years, awarded contracts worth billions of dollars to Infosys for projects like the Goods and Service Tax portal, Income Tax portal. In all these cases, the implementations are slow and super buggy. Deadlines to deliver are routinely missed. In an ideal world, these companies should not be allowed to exist.

New comment by 0xmohit in "Infosys leaked FullAdminAccess AWS keys on PyPI for over a year"

0xmohit — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:07:41 +0000

This is hardly surprising. Most of them would be completely clueless about the code they've "written".

New comment by 0xmohit in "Tesla Is Recalling 40k Cars in Its 17th Recall of the Year"

0xmohit — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 16:52:08 +0000

Interesting thread about Tesla and Elon:

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1590111416014409728.html

New comment by 0xmohit in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

0xmohit — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:23:29 +0000

It seems to do an awful job.

Input:

"At the start of Covid, the world rapidly moved online and the surge of e-commerce led to outsized revenue growth."

Results in:

"When Covid first launched, the world was moving quickly online, and the e-commerce boom caused an astronomical increase in revenue."

New comment by 0xmohit in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

0xmohit — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:45:42 +0000

Everybody used the same AI to write the memo.

WiFi security flaw lets a drone track devices through walls

0xmohit — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 18:02:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.engadget.com/wifi-security-hole-see-through-walls-152138038.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33522065

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Elon Musk’s Twitter Faces Exodus of Advertisers and Executives

0xmohit — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:35:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/technology/elon-musk-twitter-advertisers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33452629

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by 0xmohit in "Sile: A Modern Rewrite of TeX"

0xmohit — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 15:34:06 +0000

I particularly like the fact that you can control floats much better than in LaTex/pdfTeX, but I agree that the community is smaller.

It appears that there is no development in ConTeXt for a while now. I haven't checked it, but it seems that they are working on LuaMetaTeX.

http://www.pragma-ade.com/luametatex-1.htm