Hacker News: bsamuels

New comment by bsamuels in "Claude Sonnet 4.6"

bsamuels — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 19:54:16 +0000

thinking tokens, output tokens, etc. Being more clever about file reads/tool calling.

New comment by bsamuels in "Security issues with electronic invoices"

bsamuels — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:13:05 +0000

dont unzip an untrusted payload

New comment by bsamuels in "Anthropic’s paper smells like bullshit"

bsamuels — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:27:10 +0000

welcome, you're well along the path of realizing that most of the people on this site don't know what they're talking about

New comment by bsamuels in "Bruteforcing the phone number of any Google user"

bsamuels — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 18:36:21 +0000

IP rate limiting hasn't been a serious misuse prevention tool for 15-20 years

New comment by bsamuels in "Claude 4"

bsamuels — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:36:15 +0000

as soon as you publish a benchmark like this, it becomes worthless because it can be included in the training corpus

New comment by bsamuels in "Making PyPI's test suite faster"

bsamuels — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:35:40 +0000

In addition to what Will posted, published reports for blockchain projects tend to be skewed compared to our other groups.

Blockchain clients tend to want to publish the report, but that isn't true for our business lines/projects/clients that are more interesting to HN's audience.

New comment by bsamuels in "The $1.5B Bybit Hack"

bsamuels — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:58:44 +0000

the exact details of the attack were still evolving when we pushed the blog post out, so we kept it to what we did know and what could be extrapolated from it

New comment by bsamuels in "Engineering Sleep"

bsamuels — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 14:52:05 +0000

had the same thing coincide with covid, but much harder to fall asleep once disrupted. Melatonin only seems to last for an hour or so, so I would take one to go back to sleep after a disruption

New comment by bsamuels in "Ask HN: Should you reply STOP to unwanted texts?"

bsamuels — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:59:41 +0000

3. is a romance scam. pig butchering/romance scams take place over multiple months, not one texting session

New comment by bsamuels in "Man convicted for trying to help undercover game wardens recover deer with drone"

bsamuels — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:08:41 +0000

I love these threads because nobody in them ever knows what entrapment is

New comment by bsamuels in "Launch HN: Slauth (YC S22) – auto-generate secure IAM policies for AWS and GCP"

bsamuels — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 16:00:01 +0000

At my previous job we used GCP and went through so much effort/tooling to try to fix IAM. We definitely would have given this tool a spin. Ignore the HN flashmob.

Another use case you might run in to as you talk with more clients is figuring out what developer IAM roles need to be. This was the far bigger problem for us as we had a ToS that restricted employees from viewing/accessing user data.

New comment by bsamuels in "Reddit mods dumped tokens hours before blockchain program termination"

bsamuels — Sat, 21 Oct 2023 23:53:03 +0000

> largely on account of the victims being unsympathetic.

the crass bullshit that people on HN say astounds me every day. the victims here are literally the people who need protecting the most

New comment by bsamuels in "Ask HN: What is the best thing you learnt or got out of Hacker News?"

bsamuels — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 15:20:52 +0000

This is as meta as it gets, but I learned what it sounds like when smart sounding, but closed minded people try to shut down an idea.

Looking over all the old YC projects that ended up being wildly successful, but their HN threads were full of naysayers who are better at sounding smart on the internet than providing actual feedback. Learning to differentiate between that kind of poster and people who have genuine feedback that reflects what users actually want is invaluable.

SVB Hall of Shame

bsamuels — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 02:01:39 +0000

Article URL: https://svbhallofshame.wordpress.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35191927

Points: 416

# Comments: 288

New comment by bsamuels in "North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year"

bsamuels — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 17:13:39 +0000

do you feel the same way about Tor?

If 99% of Tor's volume is helping laundering international drug trade money, distributing CSAM, etc, should it be demonized as well?

New comment by bsamuels in "One of the biggest landlords in Los Angeles just defaulted on $755M"

bsamuels — Fri, 17 Feb 2023 16:13:12 +0000

Bankruptcy and the ability to flush bad management out of the economic system is the single most redeeming feature of capitalism.

New comment by bsamuels in "Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet"

bsamuels — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:36:18 +0000

If apologists like you ran the world, I would probably have to pay Apple 30% premium on the value of my entire house if I tried to sign mortgage paperwork on an iphone

New comment by bsamuels in "The Ethereum merge is done"

bsamuels — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 07:14:12 +0000

what you're referring to is an earlier way the merge was designed. there is no PoW mining anymore.

New comment by bsamuels in "Ridiculous vulnerability disclosure process with CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor"

bsamuels — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 16:34:41 +0000

Seriously. I don't think the researcher realizes how many people try to bypass hackerone because H1 would have flagged their finding as invalid.

Using h1 isn't about bug bounties, it's about not having to spend a 1-2 of your team's full time engineers triaging security researcher reports.

New comment by bsamuels in "Ethereum Goerli testnet merge goes live before move to proof-of-stake"

bsamuels — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 19:00:35 +0000

RE the first point: you don't have to store/host 100% of the data, content can be blocklisted based on hash or other attributes so your node doesn't replicate or retransmit it. The censorship resistant claim assumes there's at least 1 node on the network willing to host your content.

RE the second point: highly recommend taking a look at the arweave white paper. They use an interesting pricing mechanism that tries to account for the cost of the next 200 years of storage (dunno where 1000 came from, the spec plans for 200).