Hacker News: Sandworm5639

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data"

Sandworm5639 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 23:13:41 +0000

Ah, thank you. I'm not a native speaker so that's not what I imagined when I read that he "attended the protest for 5 minutes".

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Tell HN: Fiverr left customer files public and searchable"

Sandworm5639 — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:14:44 +0000

> This caused many accounts to "lose value" and thus rank lower on searches

wouldn't this make some other accounts rank higher on searches then? I mean it couldn't have been a problem that affected absolutely everyone so for someone it must've been a positive change.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "I’m Not a Robot"

Sandworm5639 — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 22:46:45 +0000

The Empire State Building level was very satisfying to pass.

I just didn't like that you had to use your camera. Oh well I only gave them my ceiling and shutterstock pictures.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "The Origins of Wokeness"

Sandworm5639 — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 19:35:32 +0000

That Elon/Twitter part was really out of place, like a VPN ad integration in the middle of a Youtube video. Attributing the rise of wokeness to students becoming deans and administrators sounds kinda dubious but maybe, he could use more evidence there.

Otherwise a great piece.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Ask HN: Real name vs. Anonymous Username – Which do you use online and Why?"

Sandworm5639 — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 22:44:58 +0000

If one can choose A or B, can always change A to B if one wants but can never go from B to A, the choice is kinda obvious I think.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Chatbot hinted a kid should kill his parents over screen time limits: lawsuit"

Sandworm5639 — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 01:18:19 +0000

The most surprising thing is Billie Eilish letting them use her name for this. Even if she's legally insulated, still looks like a very bad PR.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "How I ship projects at big tech companies"

Sandworm5639 — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:14:48 +0000

As any worthwhile piece of advice, this post is not saying "Do good things, don't do bad things" but instead "Prioritize one good thing over another". Hence lots of comments. I wish there were more submissions like this.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Mira Murati leaves OpenAI"

Sandworm5639 — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:42:43 +0000

Can anyone tell me more about Mira Murati? What else is she known for? How did she end up in this position?

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Bitcoin puzzle #66 was solved: 6.6 BTC (~$400k) withdrawn"

Sandworm5639 — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 15:53:47 +0000

Is it known who set it up and for what purpose?

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Show HN: I made a web game that makes practicing basic arithmetic fun"

Sandworm5639 — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:09:29 +0000

You can choose a diagonal segment but it doesn't count even if the concatenated digits give the M.N.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Sieve is simpler than LRU"

Sandworm5639 — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 09:00:10 +0000

Why call it "FIFO queue"(isn't it just stack?) when actually you need to remove elements from the middle?

Also I think you could do away with storing "prev" for each node and make it like std::forward_list(with some additional work during eviction).

> We pushed SIEVE a bit further by letting it peek into the future – well, sort of. We tested how well it could guess the next request. It turns out, with this extra bit of foresight, SIEVE is nailing it, outperforming the rest in almost all scenarios.

No idea what they mean here.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "A study of Google's code review tooling (Critique)"

Sandworm5639 — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:52:19 +0000

> A CL (or Pull Request) is created in Google’s in-house code editor Cider

Since the article is pretty accurate about everything else, I just want to point out that this is(was?) just one way of creating a CL. I was using IDEA and was mostly creating CLs using a command line.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Judge finds Google destroyed evidence and repeatedly lied to the court [pdf]"

Sandworm5639 — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 23:22:12 +0000

> At any given time, Google has thousands of employees who are under a litigation hold for document preservation.

Crazy, it's an order of magnitude more than I'd guess.

> Lim testified that the thought process that he might need to save something that was said because he was subject to a legal hold simply “doesn’t occur because, as I said, I’m under so many legal holds, it’s impossible to think that way.”

This is also a crazy thing to say. But I guess I misunderstand something here, just before that it says that he did try to save _something_ copying it into docs etc and the problem is that he wasn't saving _everything_.

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "CFTC sues Binance and CEO Changpeng Zhao [pdf]"

Sandworm5639 — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 22:26:06 +0000

The original report in English, linked in the article https://transparency.org.ru/en/news/from-moscow-city-with-cr...

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Block: Inflated user metrics and “frictionless” fraud facilitation"

Sandworm5639 — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 19:39:31 +0000

How does this end if you don't have CashApp installed?

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Alameda took 1B hit in mobileCoin trade to prop up FTX"

Sandworm5639 — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 23:44:58 +0000

Very weird, the information is not sourced at all and this is FT, not a random website.

>Two people familiar with the matter said...

who are they? Current/former employees/someone who knows that trader? Is this from some of the bankruptcy proceedings filed docs?

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade"

Sandworm5639 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 20:24:24 +0000

Thomas really is a conservative extremist and I agree that his concurrence is very concerning. But no one else joined his opinion and the majority explicitly stated that all those cases shouldn't be affected(because of how abortion affects "two lives").

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

Sandworm5639 — Thu, 12 May 2022 13:28:52 +0000

Do I understand this correctly: there's no inherent incentive to put the "correct" price, they just need to agree with each other. Essentially playing "Guess 2/3 of the average" but it's just "Guess the average".

New comment by Sandworm5639 in "Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did"

Sandworm5639 — Thu, 12 May 2022 13:03:23 +0000

* 1USDT is always $0.999 on tether.io

* But only if you're exchanging at least $1'000'000(and you can't exchange at all below $100'000)

* But only after you've paid $150 verification fee.(all per https://tether.to/en/fees/)

* And of course "Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens" (https://tether.to/en/legal/)