Hacker News: dlgeek

Pentagon says Grok used to launch missiles at Iran

dlgeek — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:12:04 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/newsletters/technology/5929290-pentagon-grok-iran-missiles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48580292

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

DOJ claims xAI's gas turbines are a matter of 'national and energy security'

dlgeek — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:42:02 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/16/doj-claims-xais-unpermitted-gas-turbines-are-a-matter-of-national-economic-and-energy-security/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565429

Points: 90

# Comments: 83

New comment by dlgeek in "Astronauts told to return to ISS after sheltering over air leak repairs"

dlgeek — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:42:09 +0000

Made by Chrysler. They had plenty of failures with the Juno I and Juno II launchers.

New comment by dlgeek in "Microsoft 0-day feud escalates as researcher threatens another exploit dump"

dlgeek — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:45:53 +0000

Yes.

Some modern CPUs have moved the TPM inside the CPU itself. But traditionally, TPMs were attached via the LPC (low pin-count) bus, and you could absolutely sniff them or de-solder them and arbitrarily MiTM.

New comment by dlgeek in "AWS reportedly to tuck Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand"

dlgeek — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:38:09 +0000

Meh? First, demand isn't necessarily zero despite the author's assertion based on the exhaustive data survey of asking "a couple of other people". For instance, SpaceXAI was convincing all the banks who wanted to work on the SpaceX IP to purchase Grok.

Second, AWS's goal is clearly to make Bedrock be the place to go for all the models - they're pushing for completeness, and that includes Grok.

Would I use it? No. Am I at all surprised that AWS is adding it to Bedrock? Also no.

New comment by dlgeek in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

dlgeek — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 23:06:42 +0000

Nope. I previously worked at a very big tech company (not Google) and they definitely had guidance like that in the social media policy.

New comment by dlgeek in "Tindie store under "scheduled maintenance" for days"

dlgeek — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:58:17 +0000

It's like Etsy for small-scale electronics - if you build a cool, niche electronic device as an individual, Tindie is a marketplace to sell in low volume (possibly as a kit).

New comment by dlgeek in "Ransomware Is Growing Three Times Faster Than the Spending Meant to Stop It"

dlgeek — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:27:32 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1200/

New comment by dlgeek in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

dlgeek — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 01:11:39 +0000

Wouldn't it be 75 cents then? (The cut would come out of higher pricing, since the payout is always a dollar).

New comment by dlgeek in "US appeals court declares 158-year-old home distilling ban unconstitutional"

dlgeek — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 23:32:14 +0000

(Not the poster you're replying to)

Pretty sure they were pointing out the absurdity of Gonzales v. Raich (545 U.S. 1)... But that really is the holding of the US Supreme Court in that case.

New comment by dlgeek in "Anthropic acquires Bun"

dlgeek — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:42:50 +0000

You want those people specifically. To get them, you need to hire them for a lot more money than you pay your current folks. That causes a lot of resentment with folks and messes up things like salary bands, etc.

But since they own equity in the current company, you can give them a ton of money by buying out that equity/paying acquisition bonuses that are conditional on staying for specific amounts of time, etc. And your current staff doesn't feel left out because "it's an acquisition" the way they would if you just paid some engineers 10x or 100x what you pay them.

New comment by dlgeek in "Go Cryptography State of the Union"

dlgeek — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 18:07:20 +0000

Correctness to spec ensures interop works when everyone is on the same spec.

New comment by dlgeek in "Go Cryptography State of the Union"

dlgeek — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 22:25:31 +0000

Yeah, there's a ton of correctness testing involved. That's mostly at the algorithm, rather than the module level, so it'll fall under CAVP/ACVP rather than CMVP.

Jeff Bezos reportedly launches new AI startup with himself as CEO

dlgeek — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 17:19:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/nov/17/jeff-bezos-ai-startup-project-prometheus

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45955695

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by dlgeek in "YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm'"

dlgeek — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:45:56 +0000

I mean... documenting the details of the investigation to support the first decision and relying on the documented details the second time would easily explain that.

New comment by dlgeek in "Norway reviews cybersecurity after remote-access feature found in Chinese buses"

dlgeek — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 17:35:32 +0000

Whatever happened with the Polish trains that had all the backdoors that were discovered?

New comment by dlgeek in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

dlgeek — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:50:18 +0000

Nerdsniped: You're describing a IEC 60320 C13 cable - they're technically only spec'd for 10A, which means you're looking at ~1200W, not 1800.

(However, UL will list them for the full 15A -> 1800W, and I'm sure plenty carry that. And for that matter, I suppose you can get twice that in Europe on 240v...)

New comment by dlgeek in "Foreign hackers breached a US nuclear weapons plant via SharePoint flaws"

dlgeek — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:30:21 +0000

Microsoft was a thing before email.

Microsoft was founded in 1975. The standard for SMTP wasn't published in 1981. Most early predecessors were the late 70s.

New comment by dlgeek in "ADS-B Exposed"

dlgeek — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 03:15:10 +0000

Could be airlines that have a bias towards one or the other manufacturer, which results in a m'fr bias towards different origin/destination airports.

New comment by dlgeek in "What if I don't want videos of my hobby time available to the world?"

dlgeek — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:11:59 +0000

I'll continue in the "not an expert" chain, but my understanding is that ITAR's prohibitions include communicating the information to a non-US person (a US person is a citizen or permanent resident), even if that is done on US soil.