Hacker News: JoshTko

New comment by JoshTko in "The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes"

JoshTko — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 07:13:47 +0000

Plenty to film/story to tell - Binance team freaking about the operation, the users who find out funds are gone, and the thieves living it up on the stolen money.

New comment by JoshTko in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

JoshTko — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:53:41 +0000

I wonder though how much of science has similar issues, that there are hundreds of semi-promising but niche areas that require tons ton of deep analysis that would have simply cost too much to explore all areas, but now become feasible.

New comment by JoshTko in "Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study"

JoshTko — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:26:44 +0000

ah, the Koch brother's PR firm the CATO org. Brilliant spin org.

New comment by JoshTko in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

JoshTko — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:17:53 +0000

prolly bots and meta employees

New comment by JoshTko in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

JoshTko — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:24:53 +0000

It's a litmus test of who understand basic physics and thermodynamics

New comment by JoshTko in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

JoshTko — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 03:21:11 +0000

And water is wet

New comment by JoshTko in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

JoshTko — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:57:06 +0000

So what's your intelligent argument as to why SpaceX's deserves an exception? Please lay out a case that's comessurate to the gravity of such an exception

New comment by JoshTko in "War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare"

JoshTko — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:10:06 +0000

Ok. tiny might have been a stretch but Iran spends $10B a year on military compared to $900B for the US. Iran has 500 aircraft (pre conflict) vs 13,000 for US.

New comment by JoshTko in "College students drown out AI-praising commencement speeches with boos"

JoshTko — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:04:17 +0000

It's ironic that these speakers tout AI benefits but failed to use it to learn what college students are concerned about

New comment by JoshTko in "War game exposed U.S. vulnerability to low-tech warfare"

JoshTko — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:12:23 +0000

War game is not needed. The war with Iran has already proven that a relatively tiny but sophisticated opponent can have massive asymmetric impact on USA.

New comment by JoshTko in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

JoshTko — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:54:53 +0000

Mac Mini is a stellar product...

New comment by JoshTko in "Small models also found the vulnerabilities that Mythos found"

JoshTko — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 09:01:49 +0000

I bet Anthropic just had marketing strategy discussions with Mythos to get the "breakthrough hacking tool!" framing.

New comment by JoshTko in "Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs"

JoshTko — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 05:49:43 +0000

Sounds like the story of capitalism. CEOs, VPs, and middle managers are all similarly pressured. Knowing that a few of your peers have given in to pressures must only add to the pressure. I think it's fair to conclude that capitalism erodes ethics by default

New comment by JoshTko in "Apple introduces new AirTag with longer range and improved findability"

JoshTko — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 03:17:50 +0000

The challenge is how you prevent such features being abused by like stalkers

New comment by JoshTko in "Credit report shows Meta keeping $27B off its books through advanced geometry"

JoshTko — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:47:08 +0000

I’m guessing Meta isn’t the only one doing this

New comment by JoshTko in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

JoshTko — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:30:17 +0000

"ChatGPT can you give me a catchy phrase I can use to sway the public discourse against Meta that puts OpenAI in the most favorable light? Also sprinkle in some alliteration if you could"

New comment by JoshTko in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

JoshTko — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 15:13:00 +0000

Competitors just need to lobby sufficiently to get action

New comment by JoshTko in "Show HN: Ikuyo a Travel Planning Web Application"

JoshTko — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 14:45:35 +0000

What key feature are you providing that can't be easily done by a google sheet?

New comment by JoshTko in "Mass spectrometry method identifies pathogens within minutes instead of days"

JoshTko — Thu, 08 May 2025 13:55:04 +0000

This. Mass Spectrometry should portably only be used to confirm/train AI vision models. Once a large enough data set has been created for a particular pathogen, incremental diagnostic cost would be effectively 0.

New comment by JoshTko in "Accents in latent spaces: How AI hears accent strength in English"

JoshTko — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:04:13 +0000

Thank you for pinpoints my confusion/disconnect on what lack of improvement that I was sensing. There was an improvement on pacing, and cadence, yes, but that was not the main challenge with Victors accent. Visually I'd say victor improved by at most 5% and not 50% as indicated by the visualization. In some regards it was even harder to understand than the original due to speed and cadence without improvement in core pronunciation.