Hacker News: bragr

New comment by bragr in "We know 15k websites are infected. how do we tell them?"

bragr — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:36:28 +0000

Unfortunately, this is how I found out 10 years ago when someone hacked a 3rd party dependency I was using on my site.

New comment by bragr in "Guerrilla bike lanes: San Francisco makes illicit infrastructure permanent (2016)"

bragr — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 16:00:02 +0000

There's another side of stuff like this. People living up in the hills above LA near trail heads will put up fake no parking zones in front of their houses. People have gotten real tickets in fake zones.

New comment by bragr in "Synaptics Appears to Use Legal Threats to Block Open-Source DisplayLink Driver"

bragr — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 15:03:49 +0000

Well since most providers have cross session memory or things like it, using another provider would ensure you aren't leaking any information from the first step to the second step aside from the spec produced in the first step.

New comment by bragr in "US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures"

bragr — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:55:40 +0000

I lived near mega diaries and oil fields growing up. Depending on the wind you either smelled manure or sulfur. People used to say "smells like money" because ag and oil were the source of jobs in the area.

New comment by bragr in "US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures"

bragr — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 14:51:07 +0000

Has anyone done an analysis of how these laws are defining "data center"? Anyone accidentally ban having a rack of servers on an office closet? That could suck for a lot of small businesses. I'm all for local autonomy, but knee jerk local laws can also be... messy.

New comment by bragr in "Kalshi and its co-founders face felony charges for violating Utah gambling laws"

bragr — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:57:33 +0000

Counter point: the 10th amendment is also strong. Is it finance? Strongly a Federal issue. Gambling? Strongly a State issue.

New comment by bragr in "Charles Tandy, the mastermind behind Radio Shack"

bragr — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:47:25 +0000

Does this even happen with that much regularity? The company would have to be valued at over $15 million to trigger federal estate taxes. I feel like if you have that big of a going concern and never got together with a lawyer to figure out inheritance, that's a bit on you.

New comment by bragr in "Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable"

bragr — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:32:23 +0000

>reported almost 30 million in revenue in 2024

You're misreading. In 2024 they had $415k of revenue against $1.4 million in expenses, with $28.7M in assets (which I assume is what you're confusing). Assets have been steadily declining since 2022 as expenses have been consistently higher than revenue.

https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/816...

New comment by bragr in "Molly (Signal fork) has not been updated since 3 months and is vulnerable"

bragr — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 12:41:01 +0000

>Signal hates users who aren't total normies.

No it's the other way around. Signal is explicitly designed for normies, which is why so many people use it. I doubt they sat around and thought of ways to screw certain users.

>Just as they could easily offer a Google free version

Easily? There's no easy in maintaining and releasing two different versions of your app, especially for a small non-profit.

New comment by bragr in "US Army practices digging temporary battlefield graves"

bragr — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 18:01:31 +0000

Indeed, the army reserve center down the road has a Mortuary Affairs company. This kind of thing is what they are responsible for.

New comment by bragr in "US agency approves Amazon Leo’s $11.5B acquisition of Globalstar"

bragr — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 17:09:58 +0000

The NEXT satellites also do space based ADS-B and AIS tracking. They packed an impressive variety of side businesses into the current satellites.

New comment by bragr in "Listen and read USA nuclear forces Emergency Action Messages, heard on 11175 kHz"

bragr — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:22:52 +0000

>Mostly static. The net is quiet until it isn't.

Having tuned in myself with a SDR, it isn't that quiet. There's pretty steady rate of messages.

New comment by bragr in "The St. Helena 5 pence coin shows Jonathan, a roughly 190 year old tortoise"

bragr — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 20:53:00 +0000

You're assuming natural selection selects for not flipping over, when in reality, it selects for the winner of the shell flipping contest as presumably without intervention, the flipped tortoise does not breed, while the winning tortoise does (or at least still has the opportunity to)

New comment by bragr in "CVE Tracker"

bragr — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:54:57 +0000

I am more interested in the long term trend. Do we burn through the low hanging fruit at some point or is this the new normal?

New comment by bragr in "MPs moving to restrict gambling ads in Canada"

bragr — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 21:01:17 +0000

If they actually operated in a disinterested way, sure, but how many different forms of advertising do you see the lotto being promoted in? Doesn't seem disinterested to me.

New comment by bragr in "A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system"

bragr — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:58:50 +0000

The anti AI scraping on this site doesn't work that well. I'm being served non-sense text about buttplugs. I'm human, I swear.

New comment by bragr in "Quad9 to exit France"

bragr — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 19:56:55 +0000

>Will these copyright enforcers now go after Google for 8.8.8.8? Cloudflare for 1.1.1.1?

they already have.

New comment by bragr in "Tesla Roadster"

bragr — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:17:11 +0000

The Batpod bike was also practical, although infamous for being super hard to drive unlike the batmobile leading to a now infamous crash with an imax camera: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdMpxN-7_rw

New comment by bragr in "Siri is so bad at everything"

bragr — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:16:29 +0000

Gemini in android auto just refuses to place calls for you now for "safety" but will also have an extended argument with you about that at the same time.

New comment by bragr in "Cartographers of North Korea (2019)"

bragr — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:18:20 +0000

>Tourism is open only for Russians. It's been closed for the world since COVID.

This is no longer true. They've opened up again in the last year and there's been a small flood of extreme travel of people going. https://youtu.be/TUmEcL3Feo0