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New comment by eat in "MAI-Cyber-1-Flash inside MDASH"

eat — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:49:43 +0000

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New comment by eat in ""AI-first" is the new Return To Office"

eat — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:23:27 +0000

You can see this on perplexity now ;)

New comment by eat in "Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?"

eat — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:18:44 +0000

DNS enumeration (brute force) with a good wordlist, zone transfer, or leaking the name through a certificate served when accessing your host via IP address are all possibilities.

The name "userfileupload" is far from not-obvious, so that would be my guess.

New comment by eat in "Who's Afraid of Peter Thiel? A New Biography Suggests We All Should Be (2021)"

eat — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 17:49:20 +0000

> Also, at least in the US, it's the side that spent a lot less money that won. Just like in 2016.

I'm sorry, which side purchased Twitter?

New comment by eat in "Speedrunners are vulnerability researchers, they just don't know it yet"

eat — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:28:42 +0000

The important distinction, and where the comparison might fall short as the job-advertisement purpose of this post, is motivation. Speedrunners enjoy games because games are fun. Speedrunners get to actually use these vulnerabilities in a way that is meaningful in their lives, whereas vulnerability researchers typically don't.

This is an observation about cyber security in general, but in my experience, bug hunting and reverse engineering require a lot of tenacity at a level that writing software and other areas of IT do not. I think tenacity is a difficult thing to summon if your only tangible motivation is a salary, the target software is intrinsically boring, and you know that you'll be rewarded whether or not you find the bugs.

New comment by eat in "404: Job Not Found – Chronicles from the Post Apocalyptic Job Market in 2025"

eat — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 18:06:52 +0000

Forgive me if, in the current political climate, I feel a very large amount of skepticism at an opening paragraph where an anonymous woman of color expresses that she's always had it easy in the tech industry because of "DEI".

New comment by eat in "[dead]"

eat — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 03:11:06 +0000

Slowly?

New comment by eat in "Best Buy stores to stop selling DVDs, Blu-ray in 2024"

eat — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:45:21 +0000

To me it looks more like a continuation of the decline of brick and mortar retail. Even if I want to watch films on blue-ray, why would I ever want to drive to a Best Buy to purchase them?

New comment by eat in "Driver hits woman in SF, then Cruise driverless car runs her over"

eat — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 15:52:35 +0000

Wow, how disruptive!

New comment by eat in "TSMC Arizona chip plant will be a paperweight"

eat — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 18:00:31 +0000

Yes you're probably right. The governor of Arizona doesn't realize what the most important issue in her state is right now, but you do.

New comment by eat in "Tesla on track to smash targets after producing almost a million EVs in 6 months"

eat — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:40:38 +0000

The only thing motivated here is your implication that the answer must be one of these two reductive answers, while so many commenters have given very reasonable and valid reasons for their opinion.

New comment by eat in "Ask HN: Is Moore's Law over, or not?"

eat — Fri, 19 May 2023 17:40:58 +0000

I don't understand the part about the market accepting the price, or rather, I find it hard to believe that it's sustainable. I've played PC games my whole life and used to enjoy building and re-building my gaming PC every so often. Paying 2k for a single piece of hardware just doesn't seem like the right choice anymore. Makes more sense to buy a console (or two) these days.

New comment by eat in "Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research"

eat — Thu, 11 May 2023 15:47:17 +0000

That's the whole point.

New comment by eat in "Incompetent but Nice"

eat — Wed, 29 Mar 2023 00:07:09 +0000

There are many factors that contribute to being good to your job, or I think more accurately, being perceived as being good at your job. Impossible deadlines, unrealistic client expectations, bad organizational policies and procedures... the list goes on. I'd argue that being nice to people is always your choice, whereas being perceived as competent is not always up to you.

Measuring performance is also not entirely straightforward and objective as we want it to be, and the two axes may blend into each other when it comes time for reviews. In a peer review scenario, that nice colleague gets a boost.

There are also varying degrees and types of incompetence. If someone is willing to learn, that's a lot different than someone who is knowingly slacking off and relying on others to pick up the slack. I'd argue that the latter is not exactly "nice" behavior.

New comment by eat in "When Will AI Take Your Job?"

eat — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 18:59:47 +0000

The same sorts of things we do while on PTO or on the weekends, but every day.

New comment by eat in "I would love to have enough time and money to go to an office to work all day"

eat — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:44:04 +0000

> Honestly, Americans are getting hard. They were soft when they allowed themselves to be pushed around, jobs outsourced, sign 4 year non-competes and non-disparage agreements, and put up with crappy bosses with no cost of living increases, and sexually harassed in the office by their boss.

Couldn't agree more. It's almost comical how these owners and managers are resorting to juvenile, schoolyard bully tactics against workers who are finally standing up for themselves and demanding more.

"Aw, you won't eat that bug? It's because you're scared isn't it? Wow, I didn't know you were so such a scaredey-cat!"

"Aw, 2 hours a day is too much to commute? Sounds like you don't even wanna work. Wow, I didn't know you were so lazy!"

New comment by eat in "US Police raids home; sues homeowner over CCTV footage of raid"

eat — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 22:04:45 +0000

I'm curious to know why you believe these additional details make the headline deceptive or change the story in any way.

New comment by eat in "Nearly 40% of software engineers will only work remotely"

eat — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 16:27:45 +0000

What continues to amuse me is that this is still being framed as an ongoing debate. It's really not a debate; this is outdated leadership fighting against social and technological progress, while demanding that their employees give up the personal freedom they've enjoyed for the past few years.

Unless you're one of a handful of massive, highly desirable tech employers, it's probably time to adapt. If you're a city relying on a massive pool of office workers doing a thing workers don't need to do anymore, it's probably time to adapt as well.

New comment by eat in "4-day workweek trial"

eat — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:56:51 +0000

It seems silly to make this argument specifically regarding time when we've structured our society in such a way that certain people's time and labor is more valuable than other peoples'. Why not apply this logic to say restaurant workers, nurses, retail employees etc. deserve to make as much money as software engineers?

Not that I'd disagree with that. Personally, I think it's absurd that someone writing JavaScript for an advertising company for a few hours a day should make more money than a nurse.

New comment by eat in "Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?"

eat — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 21:00:27 +0000

> The more you contribute, the more you sacrifice by joining a coop. The less you contribute, the more you gain.

You could say the same thing to describe working for any corporation.