Hacker News: Dibby053

New comment by Dibby053 in "Apple 'Hide My Email' vulnerability reveals peoples' real email addresses"

Dibby053 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:32:08 +0000

My guess would be it has nothing to do with email itself. Maybe it's some iCloud API that accepts obfuscated emails but returns the original email in the response, or an ID which can be used to retrieve the iCloud email from another API endpoint. Could be as simple as an "add contact/friend" feature in some Apple product (like a mail client, or a file sharing service) that resolves the obfuscated email to the original iCloud account.

New comment by Dibby053 in "European ISPs Want Rightsholders Held Accountable for Overblocking Damage"

Dibby053 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:39:07 +0000

>The phrase is a paraphrasing of a dictum, or non-binding statement, from Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s opinion in the United States Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States in 1919, which held that the defendant's speech in opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected free speech under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days"

Dibby053 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:45:53 +0000

Take a look now.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Daisugi, the Japanese technique of growing trees out of other trees (2020)"

Dibby053 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:51:50 +0000

Looks more advanced than simple pollarding. I have never seen this kind of straight, tall tree tops in Europe. If it exists I would like to know!

New comment by Dibby053 in "Historical memory prices 1960-2026"

Dibby053 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:41:44 +0000

One could also blame crypto and AI (they're clearly responsible for some of the volatility in the graph), but I can see the curve flatten in the 2010s, just as Moore's law ended.

New comment by Dibby053 in "DSpark: Speculative decoding accelerates LLM inference [pdf]"

Dibby053 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:41:39 +0000

People who donated to OpenAI in its early years might disagree on that.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Millimeter wave technology drills 100 meters into granite"

Dibby053 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 15:14:08 +0000

>They have the absolute simplest model for nuclear fission that I can imagine

Agree. What I don't understand is: why has it never been done before? They can't possibly be the first to come up with this idea, which doesn't seem to rely on any novel technology.

New comment by Dibby053 in "In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words"

Dibby053 — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:47:48 +0000

I think everybody likes to be part of something big. I would definitely be proud of having worked on something so well-known.

This feature is from a different time, though. The people working at big tech these days clearly don't care as much about the output of the stuff they work on.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Epidurals are a miracle technology"

Dibby053 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:17:33 +0000

To add to this, C-section rates seem to be significantly higher in private hospitals, when compared to public hospitals.

New comment by Dibby053 in "The Reversal Curse: LLMs trained on "A is B" fail to learn "B is A""

Dibby053 — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 12:24:05 +0000

"A is the B" does entail "the B is A", because "the" establishes an identity/bijection.

New comment by Dibby053 in "How we run Firecracker VMs inside EC2 and start browsers in less than 1s"

Dibby053 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:46:29 +0000

No mention of the tools/methods used to do the profiling, I think that would be the most interesting part.

Also a bit surprising that a checkpoint with the browser running wouldn't just work. Is this some quirk of firecracker?

New comment by Dibby053 in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

Dibby053 — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:35:11 +0000

>no data can be exfiltrated.

Well, that depends on the other apps you have installed. Unless things have changed in newer versions, apps with no networking can still do IPC, so any app can for example use Cronet to make network requests via Google Play Services, regardless of the toggle, as long as sandboxed Google Play Services has network permission.

New comment by Dibby053 in "How to earn a billion dollars"

Dibby053 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 05:19:55 +0000

If they don't get to choose, they already gave up control in an earlier stage. Just as with going public, they're relinquishing partial or total control of their company and this is a moral decision.

If you make a successful crowdsourced reviews website by building trust over time with contributors and users, and by any mechanism it ends up getting owned by an advertisement company that makes a business out of making it pay-to-win, should you not be held responsible?

I'm not talking about legal responsibility here, just moral responsibility. Ideally the former should follow the latter but it's not always the case.

New comment by Dibby053 in "How to earn a billion dollars"

Dibby053 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 04:49:54 +0000

>One can't be held responsible for unethical things done by his creation once it's sold.

In a free market everybody can choose to sell or not, who to sell to and under which terms. Therefore, he should be held morally responsible for giving away control of his creation to the wrong people, or for not ensuring his creation can't be turned into something bad.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Let's Encrypt bans certificate usage in any US sanctioned territory [pdf]"

Dibby053 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:21:58 +0000

All they can do is disable support for certain ccTLDs, but other than that, it's unenforceable.

That's why many tech companies echo these laws overtly and with a lot of fanfare... They know they have no real control over who uses their services, so this is a way to signal their good faith and best effort in advance, in case they end up caught up in some foreign cyberbullshit.

New comment by Dibby053 in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

Dibby053 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:12:23 +0000

My point is that the "space race" didn't really have a finish line, and despite early Soviet successes, the Americans ultimately took the lead. Because they sustained that momentum continuing to explore deep space, putting people on the Moon, and achieving all kinds of successes while the Soviets stalled and scrapped their programs, it's commonly understood (in the West, anyway, as Moon landing denialism is surprisingly rampant elsewhere) that the Americans won the race.

No need to apologize. In any case, I should apologize for hiding my point behind sarcasm.

New comment by Dibby053 in "American capitalism has taken an apocalyptic turn"

Dibby053 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:38:57 +0000

Well, because obviously the finish line of the space race was the Moon.

Had the Soviets declared the line on the "first woman in space", now we probably would use Soviet GPS, we would use Soviet maps of planet surfaces, we would have Soviet Mars rovers, Soviet Voyager... You get the idea.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Americans don't know how to fight AI so they're fighting data centers"

Dibby053 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 05:52:59 +0000

I guess the argument is that if Ukraine hadn't willingly handed over the 3rd largest nuclear arsenal in the world after its independence, Russia would have not started a war against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

New comment by Dibby053 in "The FBI Wants to Buy Nationwide Access to License Plate Readers"

Dibby053 — Tue, 19 May 2026 00:11:15 +0000

Helping solve kidnapping cases is a direct and straightforward application of vehicle intelligence data.

New comment by Dibby053 in "Tell HN: Docker pull fails in Spain due to football Cloudflare block"

Dibby053 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 04:54:47 +0000

>By way of demonstrating that such power is unacceptable, it sounds like LaLiga is also trying to get Spanish ISPs to block all VPNs whenever a game is on.

What LaLiga did was get some VPN providers (NordVPN and ProtonVPN) to start blocking pirate streaming websites. They're not trying to block VPNs themselves unless there's other news I didn't find.