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New comment by big_youth in "Mechanical Watch (2022)"

big_youth — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:00:41 +0000

Rolex just launched a integrated bracelet model and Royal Oaks have been popular with celebrities for decades, that style is probably here to stay.

New comment by big_youth in "China vs. Taiwan: The Geography of an Unfinished War"

big_youth — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:55:20 +0000

They didn't really become a global power until recently. Even during my youth in the 2000's it was 'China is rising', 75 years ago they were extremely poor, mostly agrarian and recovering from decades of war and revolution. 2026 China is a completely different beast.

New comment by big_youth in "India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark"

big_youth — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:38:07 +0000

Record temp in austin is 112, and that was during that 2011 heat wave.

New comment by big_youth in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

big_youth — Sat, 16 May 2026 21:08:50 +0000

The Resnicks: https://perfectunion.us/how-this-billionaire-couple-stole-ca....

New comment by big_youth in "Mythos Finds a Curl Vulnerability"

big_youth — Mon, 11 May 2026 12:03:38 +0000

debugging code. I had some issue so I create a plan to root cause that would run the code, change some functions or variables and run again until we get a confirmed answer.

I just work up to that very workflow this morning. I ran last night and finished at around 3am with ~200k tokens spent. Fixed the issue and created a follow up doc for things that it could not verify.

New comment by big_youth in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

big_youth — Tue, 05 May 2026 20:01:07 +0000

I worked for Coinbase. Brian won't even speak more to this to the company. He led by twitter post. I was there for 4 years (thanks to a great manager) but Brian was one of the worst leaders I've ever experienced.

New comment by big_youth in "How do you plan to make a living after AI takes your job?"

big_youth — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:01:32 +0000

How would cyber/AI security survive in a world where AI can do software development? I'm not a LLM bull but I am a security engineer and it's already very good, I don't see how this field could possibly continue if it advances enough to destroy dev jobs.

New comment by big_youth in "Over 65? Congratulations, You Own the Economy"

big_youth — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 23:56:30 +0000

They are both true? Between the ultra rich and the elderly there are scraps for everyone else.

New comment by big_youth in "Thief of $90M in seized U.S.-controlled crypto is gov't contractor's son"

big_youth — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:11:38 +0000

They did something, how else could the son flex watches worth 6 figures.

New comment by big_youth in "Tech sector is at lowest share of US employment since early 2021"

big_youth — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 01:03:57 +0000

Kids in the 90's would have had long fruitful careers making much more than the median american for relatively easy and stable work.

New comment by big_youth in "Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing"

big_youth — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:57:49 +0000

That markets been slaughtered for a while. Pretty much every big tech company has built up strong internal security teams and automated as much as possible. Look up what happened to NCC Group post Matasano acquisitions, I joined within a year of the isec/matasano/intrepedus acquisitions and saw a slow ride down. After 5 years the rate was still $2500 a day and everyone with real talent left to internal teams for much much higher pay. NCC Group is now a scan shop operating out of the phillipines, I still have one friend that works there from the isec days! The exception being some leet places like Trail-Of-Bits.

New comment by big_youth in "Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing"

big_youth — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 03:49:59 +0000

Yes and Yes. I was suprised walking around the DefCon CTF room lat year and half the screens were AI chats of some sort.

New comment by big_youth in "US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again"

big_youth — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 22:16:09 +0000

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New comment by big_youth in "US TikTok investors in limbo as deal set to be delayed again"

big_youth — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 20:28:18 +0000

> TikTok is an American company with American employees

All tiktok code is written by ByteDance engineers in china.

Context for the non-beleivers. I work on the TikTok USDS team.

New comment by big_youth in "x402 — An open protocol for internet-native payments"

big_youth — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 19:47:03 +0000

I'm sorry but I'm big into crypto and have never seen a contract like that deployed in the wild.

And I actually use crypto for payments more than most people. I used some just last week to buy a replica rolex from a chinese dealer because they gave a better price than credit cards.

New comment by big_youth in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

big_youth — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 22:34:41 +0000

Current Oracle CEO Safra Catz lives in Palm Beach and is a frequent visitor to Mar-a-lago. She is actually a big Israel supporter, visiting and donating money often.

New comment by big_youth in "Using JWT to establish a trusted context for Row Level Security"

big_youth — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 00:25:42 +0000

> I thought this was common knowledge on HN?

Just as an aside but I would never say this, this is why people hate security teams. I'm a security 'expert' with 15+ years in the industry including speaking at DEFCON, Blackhat, and all that.

I had no idea about these issues and have never heard of PASETO until now! I'm actually a few months in into my startup and we are using JWT for a lot of stuff so this is very relevant. Thanks for sharing! But if I can't keep up with everything then devs who don't do this all day simply cannot.

New comment by big_youth in "How I program with LLMs"

big_youth — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 15:46:49 +0000

> If you spend more time proving your optimization of a cryptographic algorithm is not vulnerable to timing attacks than you do writing the code, I don't think any of my observations here are going to be useful to you.

I am not a software dev I am a security researcher. LLM's are great for my security research! It is so much easier and faster to iterate on code like fuzzers to do security testing. Writing code to do a padding oracle attack would have taken me a week+ in the past. Now I can work with an LLM to write code and learn and break within the day.

It has accelerated my security research 10 fold, just because I am able to write code and parse and interpret logs at a level above what I was able to a few years ago.

New comment by big_youth in "Ask HN: Is patio11's salary negotiation guide relevant in today's market?"

big_youth — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:03:53 +0000

>We’ve been getting far too much money, for far too long. In normal office jobs, it takes a lifetime of sacrifices to get to higher pay grade.

I don't understand this mindset. We should all support our working class brothers to get better wages. Just because the custodian, accountant, and jr HR person are also paid crap doesn't mean we should all grin and bear because at least we're not the day laborers outside.

New comment by big_youth in "Bitcoin physical bearer instrument using NFC JavaCards"

big_youth — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 15:57:49 +0000

The devs can change anything, it's just software. As long as miners, which are extremely centralized, agree it's the new chain.

I was a part of the bitcointalk forums in 2010 when the dev team created a soft fork that modified the blockchain to change consensus rules. THink about it, devs changed the consensus mechanism, that goes against everything bitcoin is supposed to be. They can do it again

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_overflow_incident