Hacker News: driftnet

New comment by driftnet in "Git for the US Code"

driftnet — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 14:21:53 +0000

If you maintain your canonical resume in Markdown this is easy. Branches for tailoring are a good idea. Modular blocks are not.

New comment by driftnet in "Show HN: Freehire, open-source search 3M+ tech jobs from company career boards"

driftnet — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:23 +0000

Did you have to get agreements from the employers or their platforms to permit crawling these? Many companies forbid this in legal terms on their sites, or through robots.txt or Cloudflare challenges, etc.

New comment by driftnet in "Ask HN: Anyone else tired of brands discontinuing your favorite everyday items?"

driftnet — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:51:51 +0000

There is a marketing demographic of people who like products that fail in the market. I'm pretty sure I'm in it and you probably are, too.

New comment by driftnet in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

driftnet — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:20:03 +0000

All of the meaningful users are on GFE and will never encounter this. I can get a new DoD PKI certificate for a server in 10 minutes and everyone hitting the server will seamlessly validate it and have no problem logging in with their smart card. I'm not saying that this failure is excusable. But there is a lot of misinformation in the comments here from people who aren't familiar with the systems involved and how they work, and the real impact of this issue.

New comment by driftnet in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

driftnet — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:00:18 +0000

The requirements for vendors are based on NIST standards and frameworks. They do not have to apply DISA STIGs to their own systems. And the mandatory annual cybersecurity awareness training for anyone with a CAC does include teaching users not to click through these warnings. DoD users wouldn't typically see this page at all.

New comment by driftnet in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

driftnet — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:31:17 +0000

Inexcusable but should clarify that cyber.mil and public.cyber.mil are actually different things. Most people downloading from the site are not using public.cyber.mil, so maybe they care less? This is still one of those highly-visible things that is going to bring down the heat quickly, so it's just dumb to let it happen.

New comment by driftnet in "Super Micro Shares Plunge 25% After Co-Founder Charged in $2.5B Smuggling Plot"

driftnet — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:12:39 +0000

Most of these assets are not super spies. They have access to one particular type of information and the adversary squeezes all they can until all the juice is gone. Sophisticated espionage and double agents only exist in le Carre novels now.

New comment by driftnet in "OpenAI is walking away from expanding its Stargate data center with Oracle"

driftnet — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:37:56 +0000

"The North Korea of the computer industry" indeed

New comment by driftnet in "What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports"

driftnet — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:30:56 +0000

LSD showed good efficacy in anxiety with no signals of "lifetime of mental health issues" or other safety concerns, so isn't it possible that the problems you describe are really caused by contamination or adulteration of substances purchased on the black market rather than the drug itself?

Perhaps, rather than casting aspersions based on anecdotes on an entire category of potentially useful drugs, we should credit actual data generated in the clinic. Or maybe your warning should be about the fact that extra-legally obtained substances might contain almost anything regardless of what they're sold as.

New comment by driftnet in "What do people see when they're tripping? Analyzing Erowid's trip reports"

driftnet — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:06:31 +0000

Ketamine is that but it's not just that. One enantiomer (esketamine) is FDA-approved (as Spravato) for acute suicidality. It's dosed as an intranasal spray.

New comment by driftnet in "SSDs have become fast, except in the cloud"

driftnet — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 15:32:19 +0000

Clouds are water vapor, not droplets.