Hacker News: exabrial

New comment by exabrial in "Claude reveals ECDSA curve origins"

exabrial — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:45:13 +0000

Dont tell that to the EDDSA people... they've tried to make their mark in history riding on "p256 is a government plant"

New comment by exabrial in "Meta confirms smart glasses were recording without being activated"

exabrial — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 03:39:26 +0000

what creeps are actually buying these things

New comment by exabrial in "Meta’s new commercial terms will allow the scraping of news sites: experts"

exabrial — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:58:53 +0000

if (zuck) {

  printf(fakeNews);

} else {

  goOnWithLife():

}

New comment by exabrial in "Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts"

exabrial — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:52:34 +0000

Our corporate policy doesn't allow personal phones to be linked to corp accounts, for obvious reasons. We have no idea what kind of security your personal phone number has setup, nor do we compensate employees for their personal phones, nor do we want corporate communications happening on your personal device (work/life separation).

If the vendor is unable to comply, all we're using them for is email. Time to look elsewhere.

New comment by exabrial in "Creating a Garmin "MCP""

exabrial — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:17:39 +0000

doesn’t Garmin support completely local synchronization with their devices still?

New comment by exabrial in "Show HN: How random are you?"

exabrial — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 03:04:07 +0000

I'm reminded of the Dilbert Comic with Accounting's Random Generator.

I tried it. Several 9s later, it figured me out.

New comment by exabrial in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

exabrial — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 21:06:53 +0000

>Changes merged to our monorepo

> monorepo

Well, there's your problem.

New comment by exabrial in "NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect"

exabrial — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:50:34 +0000

Passing this at the city level is dumb. It's political showboating. If you're reading this you are educated enough to realize it's practically impossible to enforce.

New comment by exabrial in "Fingerprints are the new cookies"

exabrial — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:49:08 +0000

I can't wait for the new EU law for more useless fkin popups

New comment by exabrial in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

exabrial — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:13:48 +0000

>but I’ve never seen it to be true.

it's been true 100% of the places I've worked. I can't name names on the internet.

New comment by exabrial in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

exabrial — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:16:47 +0000

I know the administration is controversial, but this is the correct thing to do for a lot of reasons.

The biggest one is the program itself is racist as hell. Microsoft is literally bringing in foreigners, paying them much less to do the same damn job.

New comment by exabrial in "The technology to eradicate mosquito-borne disease exists"

exabrial — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 15:21:09 +0000

>It shouldn’t have to take fifteen years to deploy effective products that can save lives.

I completely disagree. This is a reasonable and responsible timeline to look for unintended consequences. Some things, you simply cannot undo.

What if the bacteria (somehow) jumped to monarch butterflies and killed them off? Controlled releases and multi-year environmental studies are the correct and responsible course of action. In fact, when the injected insects are released into an area, the entire thing should be monitored carefully, as each ecosystem might respond differently.

All of that being said, excited to see this adopted more broadly. It's time these fuckwit insects die.

New comment by exabrial in "Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente"

exabrial — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:11:40 +0000

Thats exactly right. Flock cameras allegedly listen for these sensors.

New comment by exabrial in "Florida weighs ditching property taxes and sticking Canadians with the bill"

exabrial — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:50:40 +0000

Property taxes are the worst kind of taxes. Nobody should be fined just for owning something. Once it's taxed once, it should never be taxed again.

New comment by exabrial in "Car is a smartphone on wheels. Here's who's listening"

exabrial — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 17:48:21 +0000

It doesn't need to be or should be though.

New comment by exabrial in "So you think you could be an electrician?"

exabrial — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 04:51:10 +0000

The article literally admits is first point was misleading.

My carpenter buddy sets his own schedule, spends his time pulling his camper, works extra when he wants to, floats in and out of his union asks (exploiting their rigidity).

He’s been at it for years, so he’s a qualified instructor for anything he can get his hands on, even esoteric stuff like pouring concrete for nuclear facilities.

His job is hardly comparable to an Amazon driver, like this article conflates. Bro makes more than an equiv exper and age software dev, but with no glass ceiling.

New comment by exabrial in "Ban Flock Act Proposed in the US Sente"

exabrial — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 01:42:47 +0000

What about reading (federally mandated, unencrypted) TPMS sensors

New comment by exabrial in "California AB 2047 (3D Printer law) enacted"

exabrial — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 23:00:33 +0000

> California Firearm Printing Prevention Act, establishes a framework to regulate the sale of three-dimensional (3D) printers in the state by requiring them to include built-in "firearm blocking technology"

This is so obnoxiously impossible.

New comment by exabrial in "Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028"

exabrial — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:15:25 +0000

/s/execpt/create/

New comment by exabrial in "Several vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Linux kernel"

exabrial — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 04:35:15 +0000

I instructed it to not violate any robots.txt or cause any sort of floods. As such it did a general sweep without pulling the full texts or doing a complete analysis. I’d use it as a rough guide.

My take is that we didn’t see 1000+ easily exploitable RCEs.