Hacker News: dlgeek

New comment by dlgeek in "Jensen Huang resigns"

dlgeek — Thu, 12 Nov 2026 15:23:13 +0000

Don't forget:

- Relationships with subordinates is a violation of policy, demonstrating a lack of judgement and a willingness to break the rules

- Relationships with subordinates create legal liability for the company by enabling claims of sexual harassment, hostile workplace, coercion/abuse of authority

New comment by dlgeek in "Ask HN: Does anyone have a contact with Cleveland-area Ham club?"

dlgeek — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 05:31:07 +0000

I periodically (ha!) see these sorts of lots appear on Craigslist/Facebook marketplace. Is this the type of thing I can drop you a note pointing to the listing and you could reach out to the seller?

Compromised EMudhra Intermediate Certificates

dlgeek — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:50:54 +0000

Article URL: https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/0R3XLJL6FuE

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50166435

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by dlgeek in "A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare"

dlgeek — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 15:01:14 +0000

Or maybe the sonde continued transmitting and they have data on where the guy took it which would help ID him.

New comment by dlgeek in "FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it"

dlgeek — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:42:33 +0000

FedRAMP actually has a bunch of workarounds for the problems of FIPS.

In the "FedRAMP Policy for Cryptographic Module Selection and Use" (https://www.fedramp.gov/resources/documents/FedRAMP_Policy_f...), there are a ton of gems that make it clear that the FedRAMP folks are fed up with the CMVP process backlog. The most explicit is:

"FRR9: CSPs shall determine if updating to a newer version of the software, whether or not its cryptographic modules are FIPS validated, would eliminate the vulnerabilities; if it would, CSPs shall promptly update if that is feasible."

New comment by dlgeek in "Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge"

dlgeek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:55:49 +0000

You're right about Quantum. I just went and checked my router config. (I switched from CL to Q about 6 months ago).

CenturyLink did use a full PPPoE stack though.

New comment by dlgeek in "Show HN: We Fixed UniFi's Slow PPPoE Performance with PPPoE Half-Bridge"

dlgeek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 15:09:08 +0000

Some of AT&T's fiber acquisitions still use PPPoE including CenturyLink and Quantum's fiber offerings (acquired from Lumen).

New comment by dlgeek in "Show HN: ssh ssh.place"

dlgeek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 03:52:00 +0000

Not OP, but agent forwarding is a significant concern.

New comment by dlgeek in "The tiny holdout building in the middle of Macy’s is back in view"

dlgeek — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 19:11:38 +0000

You nerd-snipped me into digging through court records.

The case was 655669/2021 in the New York County Supreme Court (the Supreme Court is the name for the first-tier courts in NY state).

Docket: https://iapps.courts.state.ny.us/nyscef/DocumentList?docketI...

The parties were in settlement talks and postponed the hearing on an injunction and then settled and dismissed.

New comment by dlgeek in "PennyLane is an open-source quantum software platform for quantum"

dlgeek — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:38:14 +0000

No, Penny Lane is in my ears and in my eyes....

No Shark Is Safe: Shark Vacuums Are Vulnerable to RCE

dlgeek — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:19:04 +0000

Article URL: https://tokay0.com/posts/millions-of-shark-vacuums-vulnerable-to-rce.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48941984

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by dlgeek in "Goes-19 weather satellite enters Safe Hold mode"

dlgeek — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:20:12 +0000

From the latest update (https://www.ospo.noaa.gov/operations/goes/status.html#datafi...), it looks like they're already restoring systems.

``` Update #3: DCS and SAR have returned to service as of 1630Z. Engineers will now work to restore ABI and expect imaging to resume by 1900Z. Image navigation may be slightly degraded for the first hour after imaging starts. The GOES-19 instruments will be restored in the following order:

    ABI
    GLM
    SUVI
    CCOR-1/EXIS/MAG/SEISS

The recovery process to return all GOES-19 instruments to normal operations is projected to take approximately 8 hours.

Update #2: The GOES-19 Safehold has been resolved and engineers are working to prepare for restart of the onboard instruments. More information on the recovery timeline will be provided when known. ```

New comment by dlgeek in "The 'absolute magic' of Morse code that still connects people globally"

dlgeek — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:37:08 +0000

I heard incoming audio after I keyed once.

New comment by dlgeek in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

dlgeek — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 18:45:20 +0000

He's not just the CEO, he's a co-owner... Meaning that the profits from the business acrue to him... and therefore enable this party.

So, it's a question of "am I ok paying for this service, knowing that a portion of that money will flow to this political party and how do I feel about the results of that funding?"

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.