Hacker News: dazed_confused

New comment by dazed_confused in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

dazed_confused — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:27:51 +0000

I'll just note that building an enigma simulator and/or code cracker is a common course project and there are several tutorials on doing so.

New comment by dazed_confused in "When str.lower() is a security vulnerability in Python"

dazed_confused — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:09:33 +0000

How else are we supposed to have claims that we are finding all the vulnerabilities in the world?

New comment by dazed_confused in "Neovim 0.12.0"

dazed_confused — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:27:43 +0000

some people still write code

New comment by dazed_confused in "Amazon Ring's lost dog ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance"

dazed_confused — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 17:35:37 +0000

Just had the pleasure of listening to a Turing Award winner, and to answer a question about how to know what issues could come up. His response, "Read science fiction!" helps scientists imagine the future. I'll take his advice and stick to my mostly fiction reading :)

New comment by dazed_confused in "House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias"

dazed_confused — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 03:15:57 +0000

It is a bad thing and anyone who thinks otherwise is acting in bad faith.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Illinois limits the use of AI in therapy and psychotherapy"

dazed_confused — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 23:36:23 +0000

Yeah in other professions negligence can lead to jail...

New comment by dazed_confused in "Tools: Code Is All You Need"

dazed_confused — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:49:28 +0000

Yes, to an extent, but I would say that is an extension of artillery and long-range fire capabilities.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell"

dazed_confused — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:23:30 +0000

Hmm, an interesting pattern is that every queen is a knight's move away. I haven't thought about this problem since I started dabbling in chess but now looks like a simple pattern.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case"

dazed_confused — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:40:50 +0000

Exactly! Unfortunately people lap it up as some ground truth when it is a dude providing a theory and as you said “selling it”

New comment by dazed_confused in "Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case"

dazed_confused — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:38:55 +0000

I would recommend reading about the Friedman Doctrine and the time period where it came about. It is only a theory and not necessarily a good one.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Zig's dot star syntax (value.*)"

dazed_confused — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 01:17:39 +0000

Are you honestly surprised?

New comment by dazed_confused in "One of CL-415 Super Scooper Planes Taken Out of Palisades Fire Fight by Drone"

dazed_confused — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:59:27 +0000

The ignorance on this site is a sight to behold at times. A further risk to the aircraft and crew is not to be taken lightly...

New comment by dazed_confused in "Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity of Modern CSS for Fingerprinting"

dazed_confused — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 19:46:26 +0000

As mentioned the paper was accepted in NDSS. https://www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/accepted-papers/ The conference occurs in Feb, and typically, the conference proceedings are published a little earlier than the conference itself.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2025)"

dazed_confused — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 23:50:18 +0000

Yeah cost of living in TN is verrrryyyyy different than the west coast…

New comment by dazed_confused in "I Automated My Job Application Process"

dazed_confused — Sat, 28 Dec 2024 16:43:57 +0000

Good luck! Sounds terrible

New comment by dazed_confused in "Will that hub or dock slow your SSDs, or even make them faster?"

dazed_confused — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 16:53:45 +0000

Any decent consumer SSD will be exactly the same, brands such as SK Hynix, Samsung, Crucial, WD, etc. same chips and same performance, much cheaper than the Apple tax.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn't matter"

dazed_confused — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 02:56:36 +0000

Pour-over funnels have glass and ceramic options, and the coffee turns out quite tasty.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Updates to H-1B"

dazed_confused — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 00:12:38 +0000

Crazy to think the people who come to US universities to obtain post-bachelor degrees are more qualified than those who didn't... This is purely anecdotal, but my experience at a top institution is that the majority of CS/ECE of MS and PhD programs are foreign students, and the H1B folks I worked with had these advanced degrees.

New comment by dazed_confused in "US airspace closures, lack of answers deepen East Coast drone mystery"

dazed_confused — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 16:00:32 +0000

Shutting down airspace around Joint Base McGuire–Dix–Lakehurst makes sense if gunnery is happening.

New comment by dazed_confused in "Ergo Chat – A modern IRC server written in Go"

dazed_confused — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:57:34 +0000

> Signal doesn't offer history for newly joining devices

This is a great feature for privacy though