Hacker News: ackbar03

New comment by ackbar03 in "The shady world of IP leasing"

ackbar03 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:13:40 +0000

this guy most dangerous motherf* man, so edgy, what do you expect

New comment by ackbar03 in "XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne"

ackbar03 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 11:43:28 +0000

> The market for bounties is a circus, breadcrumbs for free work from people trying to 'make it'. > The number of CVSS vulns with a score above 8 that have floated across the front page of HN in the past year without anyone getting paid tells you that much.

You make it sound like there's a ton of people going around who can just dig up CVSS vulns above 8 and is making me all confused. Is that really happening? I have a single bounty on H1 just to show I could do it, and that still took ages and was a shitty bug.

New comment by ackbar03 in "Google Restricts Android Sideloading–What It Means for User Autonomy and Freedom"

ackbar03 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 18:28:51 +0000

A lot of Chinese apps still do. Mostly cause I guess they don't allow Google play store in China (? I think it's blocked, can't quite remember for sure)

New comment by ackbar03 in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

ackbar03 — Mon, 19 May 2025 14:03:53 +0000

I'm curious about this though, does a rich man actually wear the same pair of boots for 10 years?

That being said, I've noticed that a lot of clothes that I bought 10 years ago or so are of pretty high quality compared to today, (and no, they are not rich man's clothes). Some of them I actually have been wearing for more than 10 years now.

New comment by ackbar03 in "Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries"

ackbar03 — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:24:51 +0000

That's stock speculation for you, everything you do is wrong in retrospect

New comment by ackbar03 in "The Guardian flourishes without a paywall"

ackbar03 — Tue, 01 Apr 2025 03:31:08 +0000

From the way they keep asking for donations, I thought they were constantly about to go out of business. Props to them though, good journalism is important

New comment by ackbar03 in "Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)"

ackbar03 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 07:37:14 +0000

Oof. Interesting take.

New comment by ackbar03 in "D-Wave quantum annealers solve problems classical algorithms struggle with"

ackbar03 — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 06:16:56 +0000

When you check the results change

New comment by ackbar03 in "Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?"

ackbar03 — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 06:12:01 +0000

yea was gonna mention this as well lol

New comment by ackbar03 in "The Demoralization is just Beginning"

ackbar03 — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 03:17:07 +0000

Huh. I didn't know geohot commented on geopolitics

New comment by ackbar03 in "Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure"

ackbar03 — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 05:21:16 +0000

Any chance could talk to you directly? See my profile for email

New comment by ackbar03 in "Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission"

ackbar03 — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:34:28 +0000

Problem with CAR-T is still too expensive to use...

people should be investing a lot more in early stage drug discovery biotechs! A lot more!!! (I'm doing an early stage drug discovery biotech)

New comment by ackbar03 in "US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago"

ackbar03 — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 08:27:08 +0000

I was going to mention this as well. This is pretty standard musk, delete large swaiths of stuff, see what breaks, and put the essential pieces back. It's supposed to be much faster than meticulous planning.

New comment by ackbar03 in "Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation"

ackbar03 — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 05:52:07 +0000

They break into people's houses in that show?

New comment by ackbar03 in "Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living"

ackbar03 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 05:30:24 +0000

I see a merger in the works

Why the China bubble still hasn't popped

ackbar03 — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 07:13:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-30/why-the-china-bubble-still-hasn-t-popped

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42896465

Points: 9

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New comment by ackbar03 in "Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat"

ackbar03 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 03:16:56 +0000

What are off the shelf tools/methods people use now? Ida was pretty standard goto when I was into RE

New comment by ackbar03 in "I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research"

ackbar03 — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 01:53:33 +0000

He only uses that one when he's getting short squeezed

New comment by ackbar03 in "Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third"

ackbar03 — Wed, 15 Jan 2025 11:29:14 +0000

We should get prisoners to just randomly dig holes in the sand, a shovels length in diameter

New comment by ackbar03 in "Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things"

ackbar03 — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 07:35:34 +0000

If you want more entrepreneurial type stories.

When the heavens went on sale, by Ashly Vance, is pretty good. It details the early days of the space start-ups other than spaceX

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley is also pretty good, describes the crazy days of early paypal.

Someone already mentioned Liftoff by Erig Berger. Starting a private space company is probably as hard as things get, and it describes the early days pretty well