Hacker News: ccurrens

New comment by ccurrens in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

ccurrens — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:29:54 +0000

Does it? It says “We won’t use this data to train new Claude models”. Couldn’t the wording “new Claude models” allow them to use it on their existing ones? It’s vague enough to me, at least.

New comment by ccurrens in "M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake"

ccurrens — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:46:33 +0000

USGS suggests that this was a main earthquake of a series. I guess there was one mid march

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?currentFeatureI...

    This event is identified as the potential mainshock of an earthquake sequence.

From this URL: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000ma74...

New comment by ccurrens in "M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake"

ccurrens — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:44:48 +0000

I've been watching USGS since I felt it. It was originally 4.8, then it was 4.7 for a little bit, and they brought it back up to 4.8.

New comment by ccurrens in "If needed, you have a role at Microsoft that matches your compensation"

ccurrens — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 15:48:07 +0000

> When was the last time you used Bard?

So far, every time I use bard it gives me an incorrect answer. But I am happy with how fast it returns it, at least. I haven't had that problem with Bing chat (at least in the past few months), which has pretty much changed the way I search.

That being said, I hope Bard improves drastically. It would be nice to have more competition from them in this space.

New comment by ccurrens in "Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010)"

ccurrens — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 11:47:11 +0000

I attended a seminar on the office binary file formats about 10 years ago at MS. The reason it was done was for performance reasons, including the wonky layout that made it quicker to save and read the file from slow media like floppy discs.

Pronounce GIF · the Correct Way, Without Question

ccurrens — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 17:37:45 +0000

Article URL: https://pronouncegif.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31005845

Points: 15

# Comments: 35

New comment by ccurrens in "20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions"

ccurrens — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 20:00:55 +0000

That's an excellent point I wouldn't have considered. I have no intention of looking at the dump anyway, but thanks for the warning.

New comment by ccurrens in "20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions"

ccurrens — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 19:52:39 +0000

> If you find password protected zips in the release the password is probably either "Intel123" or "intel123". This was not set by me or my source, this is how it was aquired from Intel.

Can't say I'm surprised, people are lazy.

Another large tech company I used to work for commonly used an only-slightly more complex password. But it was never changed, so people who had left the team still could have access to things if they knew the password. It was an entry point into the system more than the company's Red team.

New comment by ccurrens in "Nvidia is now worth more than Intel"

ccurrens — Thu, 09 Jul 2020 14:34:00 +0000

For consumers, I'm not sure. But I know as part of cutting costs, Azure decided to start running servers on ARM instead of x64: https://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-server-on-arm-m...

New comment by ccurrens in "DIY True 4K Projector"

ccurrens — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 17:13:55 +0000

I agree! I particularly liked the one using a two-way plastic mirror and webcam, so that you can maintain eye contact when you're video calling someone. Similar principal to a teleprompter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AecAXinars

New comment by ccurrens in "GitHub renaming default branch to “main”"

ccurrens — Mon, 15 Jun 2020 15:45:22 +0000

The git dev responsible for the choice has said it had nothing to do with master/slave:

> "master" as in e.g. "master recording". Perhaps you could say the original, but viewed from the production process perspective.

> A clueless Central European youngster whose command of English was mostly illusory came up with the term, which is why it isn't very obvious...

https://twitter.com/xpasky/status/1272280760280637441?s=20

I always thought it meant "master copy"...

New comment by ccurrens in "Make your 404s into 302s"

ccurrens — Fri, 29 May 2020 12:21:57 +0000

Yeah, I didn't understand and jumped straight to the comments to see if there was an easy explanation here. Guess I should have clicked "How?" at the top.

https://4042302.org/how/

New comment by ccurrens in "Reverse engineering a custom CPU from a single program"

ccurrens — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 01:07:21 +0000

Cool! This reminds me a lot of this[0] where there was a specification for a custom VM in a newspaper along with a binary. It still blows me away when I read how they solved the puzzle.

[0] https://safiire.github.io/blog/2017/08/19/solving-danish-def...

New comment by ccurrens in "The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows"

ccurrens — Mon, 17 Jun 2019 14:42:52 +0000

There is the Windows Hypervisor Platform[1] component recently added in windows, that at least allows other VMs to share the hypervisor using a common API. IIRC, VirtualBox 6 supports it.

To me, it seems like the use of Hyper-V was probably necessary to get the tight integration they needed to make the use of WSL 2 as seamless as it is today with the lightweight containers.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/virtualization/api/

Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

ccurrens — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 22:28:18 +0000

Article URL: https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory-with-side.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16065919

Points: 217

# Comments: 1

New comment by ccurrens in "Rise of ARM: First Windows 10 PC Running Snapdragon 835 Chip Demonstrated"

ccurrens — Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:59:42 +0000

Microsoft has plans on moving some of its Azure services to run on ARM, among other things for Windows Server on ARM.[0]

> "We feel ARM servers represent a real opportunity and some Microsoft cloud services already have future deployment plans on ARM servers," he wrote ahead of the conference.

> "We have been running evaluations side by side with our production workloads and what we see is quite compelling.

> "The high Instruction Per Cycle (IPC) counts, high core and thread counts, the connectivity options and the integration that we see across the ARM ecosystem are very exciting and continues to improve."

[0] http://www.techrepublic.com/article/windows-server-on-arm-mi...

New comment by ccurrens in "Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365"

ccurrens — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:56:24 +0000

It seems to, yes. [0] It also looks like you can filter on date, team and channel, attachments, who it's from, messages where you're mentioned.

[0] http://imgur.com/DSmXg41

New comment by ccurrens in "Microsoft Teams, the new chat-based workspace in Office 365"

ccurrens — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 16:53:53 +0000

From what I can tell, it's written in Electron. I assume they did this so that they could share the code base between desktop (win/mac), ios/android/winphone, and web -- keeping the features sets the same on all platforms. VS Code is the same way and that works beautifully on Mac. I expect that same for this.

Disclaimer: I work for Microsoft (Azure) but have no relation to Office or Microsoft Teams.

New comment by ccurrens in "Live Writer Is Now Open Source"

ccurrens — Wed, 09 Dec 2015 20:01:35 +0000

The readme on their github[1] says that Live Writer was originally part of an acquisition. I would guess that winforms may have already been in use when they acquired Onfolio. There may be other reasons as well, but I don't know what they are :)

[1] https://github.com/OpenLiveWriter/OpenLiveWriter

New comment by ccurrens in "Real Games for Windows (1994)"

ccurrens — Fri, 21 Aug 2015 15:14:22 +0000

You can find a lot of old game/pc/dev magazines on archive.org, downloadable in many formats (including epub and PDF).

They have some PC Mag issues out there. Here is one from Jan 29, 1991: https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_X_tru4xwJ_sC