Hacker News: dfedbeef

New comment by dfedbeef in "Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program"

dfedbeef — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:36:03 +0000

It discourages all reports, so you get the reduced slop reports for free.

New comment by dfedbeef in "Nobody knows what a used GPU cluster is worth"

dfedbeef — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 04:29:14 +0000

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New comment by dfedbeef in "The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war"

dfedbeef — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:35:43 +0000

Almost all of those things have happened already except for the market crash

New comment by dfedbeef in "Meta reuses old RAM in new servers with custom bridge chip"

dfedbeef — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:16:08 +0000

3MB of RAM but 120PB of storage. Sure you're paging a lot but

New comment by dfedbeef in "Every new car sold in the European Union must include a driver monitoring camera"

dfedbeef — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:36:37 +0000

Imagine reading this headline in 1999 lol

New comment by dfedbeef in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

dfedbeef — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 05:07:01 +0000

Pretty sure it's going to be a tough couple of decades, not just years.

New comment by dfedbeef in "Did my old job only exist because of fraud?"

dfedbeef — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 01:06:36 +0000

Someone hasn't heard of qui tam

New comment by dfedbeef in "What happened to nerds?"

dfedbeef — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:25:40 +0000

> This will probably catch on slower and be less viral, but it will pay off in the long-run once people 'turn against' tech founders as reality stars, which they eventually will.

The whole problem with opening Pandora's box is that you don't get to close it if you don't like what came out.

Why would things eventually get better? Especially on a time scale that matters to anyone who is currently alive?

New comment by dfedbeef in "Extinction-Level Capitalism"

dfedbeef — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:21:15 +0000

Slavery?

New comment by dfedbeef in "Exif Smuggling (2025)"

dfedbeef — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 05:01:32 +0000

GitHub star farming, I'm guessing?

New comment by dfedbeef in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dfedbeef — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:46:30 +0000

Also, which way down is.

New comment by dfedbeef in "Surveillance is not safety: A statement on the UK's latest threat to privacy [pdf]"

dfedbeef — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 11:57:40 +0000

'Misusing freedom' is a funny concept.

New comment by dfedbeef in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

dfedbeef — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:28:53 +0000

There should be a word for paying investors with money from other investors

New comment by dfedbeef in "United Airlines 767 returns to Newark after Bluetooth name sparks alert"

dfedbeef — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:35:00 +0000

I don't think people would be mocking bombing victims

New comment by dfedbeef in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

dfedbeef — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:01:42 +0000

As long as our stock price continues to... Continues to rise... Which... Hmm... I'm just now reading our balance sheet. Is this number right? Great, thanks.

As I was saying, you're all fired.

New comment by dfedbeef in "Why the smart home bubble popped"

dfedbeef — Tue, 26 May 2026 04:32:09 +0000

Also the devices don't fucking work and all require their own dumb app most of the time.

New comment by dfedbeef in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

dfedbeef — Fri, 22 May 2026 16:47:01 +0000

Can you expand on what's new post 2010?

New comment by dfedbeef in "MIT: 20% drop in incoming graduate students"

dfedbeef — Thu, 14 May 2026 16:00:39 +0000

I certainly am

New comment by dfedbeef in "Claude for Small Business"

dfedbeef — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:45:27 +0000

What do you think a transistor is

New comment by dfedbeef in "Plain text has been around for decades and it’s here to stay"

dfedbeef — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 17:06:05 +0000

Plain text has been around for thousands of years, it just wasn't digital.