Hacker News: ghostoftiber

LexisNexis confirms data breach as hackers leak stolen files

ghostoftiber — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:23:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lexisnexis-confirms-data-breach-as-hackers-leak-stolen-files/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47234764

Points: 7

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New comment by ghostoftiber in "The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (Rags)"

ghostoftiber — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:43:07 +0000

This document specifies the standard protocol for handling and discarding low-effort, machine-generated contributions submitted to source code repositories, issue trackers, vulnerability reporting portals, and community forums, be they public open-source projects or internal corporate monoliths.

The Rejection of Artificially Generated Slop (Rags)

ghostoftiber — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 15:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://406.fail/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47153065

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by ghostoftiber in "‘Viking’ was a job, not a matter of heredity: ancient DNA study (2020)"

ghostoftiber — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 18:08:55 +0000

The answer is - it's both. There's also parallels in archers in Europe from the longbow period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow#Training You can tell who was a professional archer by looking at their skeleton, and so naturally families who had bodies with more readily adaptable skeletons typically became archers. This married the morphology of an archer to social status and family line.

New comment by ghostoftiber in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

ghostoftiber — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 14:12:58 +0000

....OK who signed a data sharing agreement without having the thought "who am I sharing the data with" when they were at the doctors?

NASA to Develop Lunar Reactor by 2030

ghostoftiber — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 18:53:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-department-of-energy-to-develop-lunar-surface-reactor-by-2030/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46620747

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

New comment by ghostoftiber in "The most banned books in U.S. schools"

ghostoftiber — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 19:31:39 +0000

"The most banned books in America and here's where you can purchase them using our affiliate links".

New comment by ghostoftiber in "PayByCar has suspended their services"

ghostoftiber — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:06:04 +0000

PayByCar is now showing a generic:

Our services are temporarily paused. We appreciate your understanding.

Which probably isn't anything nefarious, but I guess the turnpike was free this morning?

PayByCar has suspended their services

ghostoftiber — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 14:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://mypaybycar.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45811172

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

kaniko fork by Chainguard

ghostoftiber — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:51:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/chainguard-dev/kaniko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44239441

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ghostoftiber in "Open source projects could sell SBOM fragments"

ghostoftiber — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:11:35 +0000

The providence of the SBOM is important. If you can't say "I made this" in reference to the SBOM then it's pretty much worthless.

Or, flip the script, if you're concerned enough about supply chain security to mandate an SBOM, you probably don't trust the supplier anyway.

There's the "but I signed it" crowd, but the wheels fall off when they've signed compromised artifacts too.

I just don't see a scenario where an SBOM that cannot be inspected and verified would be useful. If you have the infrastructure to do it, you're generating SBOMs anyway.

New comment by ghostoftiber in "Testing the tests written to test your code"

ghostoftiber — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:45:20 +0000

To put it another way - PIT runs your unit tests against automatically modified versions of your application code. When the application code changes, it should produce different results and cause the unit tests to fail. If a unit test does not fail in this situation, it may indicate an issue with the test suite.

Testing the tests written to test your code

ghostoftiber — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 21:45:20 +0000

Article URL: https://pitest.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42704325

Points: 1

# Comments: 2

New comment by ghostoftiber in "Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement"

ghostoftiber — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:45:08 +0000

Laptop reseller Malibal who boasts laptops with Linux support has picked a fight with the coreboot project and blacklisted several countries and US states from receiving their laptops.

The "why don't you ship to" links in their KB are also lulzy: https://portal.malibal.com/kb/c2/payment-shipping/

Malibal and Coreboot Have a Disagreement

ghostoftiber — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 12:45:08 +0000

Article URL: https://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2024/10/29/response-to-blog-post-from-malibal/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41994223

Points: 18

# Comments: 7

New comment by ghostoftiber in "NASA spacecraft to probe possibility of life in Europa's salty ocean"

ghostoftiber — Wed, 25 Sep 2024 17:23:36 +0000

I missed the A and read E on the end of "europa" and was like "ah yes I see you have met the French".

New comment by ghostoftiber in "Leaving LinkedIn"

ghostoftiber — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 14:26:17 +0000

But I bet he still has his resume on LinkedIn. :)

New comment by ghostoftiber in "Slackbot supposedly sends automatic replies to whole org via batch update"

ghostoftiber — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:58:35 +0000

> We determined that the rollout of a fix for an older bug report pertaining to Slackbot responses not working in org-wide or multi-workspace channels, was the root cause.

I'm not trying to be paranoid here but I work for a very large company. We got slackbot responses that looked a lot like phishing URLs. We got slackbot responses with broken english, and emojis we never use. I find it very hard to believe that this wasn't a security incident.

Slackbot supposedly sends automatic replies to whole org via batch update

ghostoftiber — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:58:35 +0000

Article URL: https://status.slack.com/2024-01/166eb312bd134031

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39103331

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by ghostoftiber in "I worked in Amazon HR and was disgusted at what I was seeing with PIP plans"

ghostoftiber — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 19:24:05 +0000

The mechanism I'm trying to describe is when employers pay a base in X dollars and stock in Y dollars which takes Z years to mature. AWS sounds like they're being somewhat reasonable about it by giving an employee cash before their options mature, but I have interviewed at places (Envestnet in New York City) where I was offered a base comp which was meh and then options which were gonzo. The offer, if I remember correctly, was $105k/y base and then $100k/y in stock which took three years to vest. I passed on the offer because $105k/y in NYC was cutting it too close for me. They did not have a "cash float" mechanism.