Hacker News: huang_chung

New comment by huang_chung in "Happy 20th Birthday, Y Combinator"

huang_chung — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:22:56 +0000

> That is why most of the successes are skewed early like Reddit and a bunch of other companies which defined the internet.

Reddit rode the wave with zero innovation. Really what is Reddit? Message boards predated Reddit, which was predated by Usenet, predated by BBS. Somewhere in there were Yahoo! chat forums.

All they did was colocate message boards in one place, and allowed freewheeling moderation. That's it. They got lucky, made millions with zero new ideas. People connected the same way on AOL 15 years before.

Like most Silicon Valley innovations, you just reuse an existing idea or resell polished turds as new.

Remembering Juicero, the Ultimate Silicon Valley Flop (2022)

huang_chung — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 17:09:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thetakeout.com/juicero-press-top-silicon-valley-tech-startup-failure-1849832429/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43334695

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by huang_chung in "NASA closes offices, lays off staff, prepares for larger workforce reductions"

huang_chung — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:12:59 +0000

> middle managers with no direct reports

No actual engineers performing real work were harmed in this exercise.

New comment by huang_chung in "Dryers in the US consume ~3% of residential energy budget, 6x washing machines"

huang_chung — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:11:42 +0000

Not strangely, it is regional preference. Go to Lowes or HD and see what housewife in that area prefer; there will be 20 models of one kind and 2 of other kind.

New comment by huang_chung in "Dryers in the US consume ~3% of residential energy budget, 6x washing machines"

huang_chung — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:08:31 +0000

Good luck fixing it when it breaks and thus creating more e-waste.

Electric dryers, especially older models, are very simple appliances, you can easily repair yourself and keep them running forever. Can't say the same about heat pump or gas dryer

New comment by huang_chung in "NASA closes offices, lays off staff, prepares for larger workforce reductions"

huang_chung — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 20:01:10 +0000

Total clickbait after you read details:

> NASA announced March 10 that it was closing the Office of Technology, Policy, and Strategy; the Office of the Chief Scientist; and the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Branch of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. The employees of those offices, 23 in total, will be laid off.

So 23 DEI architects and middle managers with no direct reports were sent packing by means of re-org. Good riddance!

No physical offices being closed as implied by misleading title.

New comment by huang_chung in "Layoffs Don't Work"

huang_chung — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 19:41:04 +0000

Two years is more typical.

New comment by huang_chung in "Layoffs Don't Work"

huang_chung — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 17:02:44 +0000

Well, getting fucked out of your 401k money 6 months before it vests stings some.

New comment by huang_chung in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

huang_chung — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 18:08:33 +0000

> If I run `nc -l 31337 | sh` that puts my system into a remotely exploitable state

Quick, before someone posts this to Mastodon and gives presentation at security conference with title:

Living off the Land: the Hidden Threat Within

New comment by huang_chung in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

huang_chung — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:25:36 +0000

> In theory, the attacker could then use the undocumented commands to scan, spoof, or otherwise attack any near by bluetooth devices.

So? Device is 0wned. Did you think Bluetooth chip is magic protection device for rest of the network?

How would you stop physical external actor? Do you have "No ESP32 permitted on this property" signs on windows?

New comment by huang_chung in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

huang_chung — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:18:10 +0000

After reading it really seems much ado about nothing.

Wait until they learn you can rewrite disk drive firmware from inside OS with root access.

New comment by huang_chung in "Undocumented backdoor found in Bluetooth chip used by a billion devices"

huang_chung — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:12:23 +0000

> "Buy this super cheap home automation product” turns into installing an APT in your network.

If that was intention, no need to hide code in the Bluetooth, just write it in the firmware. The device itself it the trojan horse.

China announces retaliatory tariffs on some Canada farm, food products

huang_chung — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 02:08:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/markets/china-announces-retaliatory-tariffs-some-canada-farm-food-products-2025-03-08/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43296895

Points: 8

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New comment by huang_chung in "WB offers replacements, but no refunds, for DVDs rotting prematurely"

huang_chung — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:24:21 +0000

Costco abusers.

New comment by huang_chung in "Ontario Premier Doug Ford Cancels $100M Starlink Contract"

huang_chung — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 21:24:31 +0000

Yes, he is going to deploy Ricky from Trailer Park Boys to climb trees with some hubcaps.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford Cancels $100M Starlink Contract

huang_chung — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 20:17:22 +0000

Article URL: https://betakit.com/its-done-its-gone-ontario-premier-doug-ford-cancels-100-million-starlink-contract-in-tariff-response/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43284674

Points: 13

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New comment by huang_chung in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

huang_chung — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:52:31 +0000

You likely have network misconfiguration like MTU issue. Don't blame Samba if you cannot configure properly.

New comment by huang_chung in "Tailscale is pretty useful"

huang_chung — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:51:15 +0000

This is just wrong. Tuned properly SMB is much faster than SFTP.

New comment by huang_chung in "MacBook Air M4"

huang_chung — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:42:05 +0000

> My 4-year old Dell XPS 15 is up for replacement, but somehow no manufacturer aside from Apple is making laptop with decent specs nowadays?

Panasonic Let's Note. Your welcome.

It's repairable, upgradable, and has a *removable battery* (unheard of in 2025).

Panasonic Let's Note FV4

huang_chung — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 19:40:33 +0000

Article URL: https://connect.na.panasonic.com/lets-note/commercial-computers/lets-note-fv4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43271264

Points: 2

# Comments: 2