Hacker News: 400thecat

GrapheneOS project: pixel 11 no longer supports hardware memory tagging (MTE)

400thecat — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:26:28 +0000

Article URL: https://bsky.app/profile/grapheneos.org/post/3mua32q4ds22e

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49490702

Points: 316

# Comments: 188

New comment by 400thecat in "Kalshi and Polymarket have begun taking bets on Phase III drug trials"

400thecat — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:41:05 +0000

The main problem with prediction markets as "truth machines" is, that they can only work efficiently if insider trading is allowed (even encouraged). If insider trading is illegal, than these are just casinos

Kalshi and Polymarket have begun taking bets on Phase III drug trials

400thecat — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:35:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/put-your-money-down-they-say

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49205649

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by 400thecat in "GrapheneOS has been ported to Android 17"

400thecat — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:51:10 +0000

the Play store reviews for Curve are attrocious, especially the most recent ones. Looks like Curve is absolutely unusable, for many reasons

New comment by 400thecat in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

400thecat — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 10:01:38 +0000

How do you use voice-to-text? You mean, in the browser? I am only familiar with Claude Code, which I have installed on remote server, and there obviously, voice-to-text does not work. I have to type, which is tiring.

New comment by 400thecat in "The SpaceX IPO Will Be the Theft of the Century"

400thecat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:45:16 +0000

yes! Michael Munger expressed it beautifully: "anything that is going to happen has already happened"

New comment by 400thecat in "The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century"

400thecat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:52:37 +0000

An S-1 full of fantasies, insiders who will pocket millions, index companies that have changed the rules: it's all a recipe for regular people to have their pockets picked.

The SpaceX IPO will be the theft of the century

400thecat — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:52:37 +0000

Article URL: https://montanaskeptic.substack.com/p/the-spacex-ipo-will-be-the-theft

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48394034

Points: 142

# Comments: 120

New comment by 400thecat in "VS Code inserting 'Co-Authored-by Copilot' into commits regardless of usage"

400thecat — Sun, 03 May 2026 09:30:25 +0000

I noticed you only respond to comments that are positive (or neutral). The majority (and the most insightful) comments here are negative, but you seem to ignore them.

New comment by 400thecat in "Copy Fail"

400thecat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:14:37 +0000

can you please give me a real-life example of an application, on a typical linux laptop or typical linux server, which userspace application would use this CRYPTO_USER_API ? None that I looked at seem to use it: openssl, pgp, sha256sum

New comment by 400thecat in "Copy Fail"

400thecat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 08:14:05 +0000

New comment by 400thecat in "Copy Fail"

400thecat — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:01:30 +0000

is CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API needed for hw acceleration for cryptsetup (dm-crypt) disk encryption ?

New comment by 400thecat in "Traders placed over $1B in perfectly timed bets on the Iran war"

400thecat — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 04:28:39 +0000

I completely agree with you. The only thing I would add is, that prediction markets are not necessarily oracles for predicting the future. They can just as well be used for hedging: imagine, hypothetically I really do not want Trump to win. I can bet on Trump, not because I want or expect him to win, but to hedge my position (perhaps my business would suffer if Trump wins)

New comment by 400thecat in "Backblaze Drive Stats for Q3 2025"

400thecat — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 15:28:29 +0000

is there any danger this data is biased? Everything good gets corrupted eventually (amazon reviews, consumer reports, ..). is it possible they get some kickbacks for positive reviews ?

New comment by 400thecat in "GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT"

400thecat — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:22:49 +0000

> a noticeable amount of LLM output sounds like I’m getting answers from a millennial reddit user

LLM was trained on data from the whole internet (of which reddit is a big part). The result is a composite of all the text on the internet.

New comment by 400thecat in "Scripts I wrote that I use all the time"

400thecat — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:50:39 +0000

you can configure Alt+Left to go up level

New comment by 400thecat in "Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish?"

400thecat — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 09:52:49 +0000

how would that help? either they check the returned boxes or they don't. sending back 1 shoe does not fools the inspection

New comment by 400thecat in "Chromium browser tries to read sensitive files: –/.ssh –/.gnupg –/.dbus /boot"

400thecat — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 13:05:08 +0000

I assume upstream. Hard to imagine that Debian would be adding this "feature" themselves.

New comment by 400thecat in "Chromium browser tries to read sensitive files: –/.ssh –/.gnupg –/.dbus /boot"

400thecat — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:04:39 +0000

Package: chromium Version: 138.0.7204.49-1~deb12u1

I am experiencing very weird and suspicious issue on debian 12.

For context, I am using grsecurity + RBAC, which gives me the possibility to see what files each program wants to access. My issue is not caused by RBAC. but RBAC brought my attention to this issue.

SO, I have upgraded chromium browser to: 138.0.7204.49

and suddenly when chromium starts, in addition to trying to access the usual files in my home, such as ~/.config/chromium or ~/.cache , it now tries to access sensitive folders on my system:

~/.ssh/ ~/.gnupg/ ~/.dbus/ /boot/

(while ~/.dbus is not as immediately alarming as the others, Chromium accessing this when it didn't before is still a change in behavior that deserves scrutiny)

this never happened before. I am sure, because the RBAC rules that I am using would have alerted me.

this is highly suspicious and potentially a serious security issue !

this issue was originally reported on chromium 138, fixed in next version, and now it's back in version 140.0.7339.80

Chromium browser tries to read sensitive files: –/.ssh –/.gnupg –/.dbus /boot