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New comment by gatreddi in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

gatreddi — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 03:16:56 +0000

Detection is still the weak link, that part is true. But the equation is shifting. Surveys like NASA’s NEOWISE mission and the upcoming NEO Surveyor mission are specifically aimed at finding those missing near-Earth objects earlier.

The point of DART mission wasn’t that we can deflect every asteroid tomorrow. It was to prove that physics and guidance actually work in space. Now the playbook is clearer: detect earlier, then nudge early.

If you get even a few years of warning, a tiny velocity change compounds into a huge miss distance. That’s the real takeaway.

New comment by gatreddi in "Iran-backed hackers claim wiper attack on medtech firm Stryker"

gatreddi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:27:54 +0000

If Intune wiped personal devices that’s a serious failure. BYOD setups are supposed to wipe only the work container, not the whole phone. Either those devices were fully enrolled in MDM without people realizing or someone pushed the wrong wipe policy during incident response. Would be good to see confirmation from affected employees.

New comment by gatreddi in "NASA's DART spacecraft changed an asteroid's orbit around the sun"

gatreddi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:33:17 +0000

Wild that we went from "can we even deflect an asteroid" to measurably changing a solar orbit. 150 milliseconds sounds tiny until you realize compounding over decades makes that a meaningful trajectory shift. The engineering confidence this gives for actual planetary defense is massive.

New comment by gatreddi in "Why enterprise deals stall at security review"

gatreddi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 10:30:44 +0000

Exactly. And the answer is almost always the same nobody thinks about it until a deal is on the line. By then, you're scrambling to find evidence that should've been collected months ago. The teams that don't stall are the ones that treated compliance as a revenue unlock early, not a checkbox after the fact.

New comment by gatreddi in "Why enterprise deals stall at security review"

gatreddi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:25:08 +0000

Fair point. If you already have SOC 2 or a solid security posture ready to go, it doesn't. The stall mostly hits teams that get asked for the first time and aren't prepared. Curious did you get certified before or after your first enterprise ask?

Why enterprise deals stall at security review

gatreddi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:20:11 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47347509

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New comment by gatreddi in "BrowseComp: The Benchmark That Tests What AI Agents Can Find"

gatreddi — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:19:15 +0000

I work in compliance, and we see this daily. "Do you have an incident response plan?" is trivially easy to verify. But actually finding and assembling that evidence across AWS, Google Docs, Jira, and Slack? That's the hard part nobody benchmarks for.

Curious if BrowseComp accounts for domain-specific retrieval or if it's mostly general web search.