Hacker News: leftcenterright

New comment by leftcenterright in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2025)"

leftcenterright — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:57:58 +0000

In the title you have written 'Remote (Worldwide)" while on the jobs page it says "Remote (United States)" https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway/6ddcfe47-6cce-469b-ba6d-4f0... and the same for https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/Railway/b8072f95-043f-404d-a313-f0b...

New comment by leftcenterright in "Ask HN: Anyone working on bringing software back from US clouds?"

leftcenterright — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 07:40:18 +0000

but you use Cloudflare yourselves?

New comment by leftcenterright in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

leftcenterright — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 10:41:04 +0000

WOW! clealry you have no understanding of thoughts that might make their way to teenage minds or to children' minds in general. seriously, WOW!

Do you believe there exists such a thing as depression?

New comment by leftcenterright in "Grok 4 Launch [video]"

leftcenterright — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 10:36:50 +0000

Can it finally make 10 sentences that end with a "w" or "p" or "o"? /s

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43782477

New comment by leftcenterright in "Fei-Fei Li: Spatial intelligence is the next frontier in AI [video]"

leftcenterright — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 09:27:42 +0000

She says "there is no language in nature" which does not seem accurate. Even though she might mean something else or a particular form of language but even then, bees and birds still use sound and something similar to language.

Is it just me?

for e.g. the form of communication used by bees is very well known now, it involves not just spatial movements but also "buzzing" which is totally similar tot he sounds we make, they just lack vocal cords.

https://www.noemamag.com/how-to-speak-honeybee/

New comment by leftcenterright in "Is mathematics mostly chaos or mostly order?"

leftcenterright — Tue, 24 Jun 2025 10:47:00 +0000

What makes you consider it a "discovery" instead of a creation of us humans?

I am more on the side of seeing maths as a precision language we utilize and extend as needed, especially because it can describe physically non-existent things e.g. perfect circles.

Ask HN: Has ChatGPT been trained on Hacker News comments?

leftcenterright — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 08:13:58 +0000

I was curious to see if HN comments are something ChatGPT also has access to. Apparently it does.

Prompt 1:

who said this on hackernews: For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software. (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224)

Prompt 2:

"Meta is dangerous" so a safe meta-language within a language will have "fences" to protect.

Who said it? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11941131)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189517

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by leftcenterright in "Ask HN: How do you store private keys?"

leftcenterright — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:02:57 +0000

In the stars: https://writingshapeless.substack.com/p/stellar-passphrase-s...

New comment by leftcenterright in "What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)"

leftcenterright — Sun, 18 May 2025 17:02:14 +0000

So, no wealthy person is buying a physics lecture or investing in experiments to better understand the nature of this universe we live in? /s

btw does anyone know if places like Fermi lab, CERN receive donations from the super-wealthy?

New comment by leftcenterright in "Actory AI – Autonomous QA for Fast-Moving Dev Teams"

leftcenterright — Sat, 17 May 2025 20:03:54 +0000

What sort of access level / integration would you need to the businesses (repositories, CI systems, mobile app source repositories, Github admin) seeking to use Actory?

New comment by leftcenterright in "X Blocks Jailed Istanbul Mayor Imamoglu's Account"

leftcenterright — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:57:22 +0000

Despite modern VPNs, global CDNs, impractical technical level ban on any web service: how come X and others simply do what the government tells them?

Is it the fear of fines? That never deters them from collecting more data though.

Background talk with Byron Tau: How intelligence agencies are buying data (2024)

leftcenterright — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:50:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.interface-eu.org/events/background-talk-with-byron-tau-how-intelligence-agencies-are-buying-data

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43924033

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by leftcenterright in "NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)"

leftcenterright — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:48:58 +0000

Here is a nice talk by Byron Tau who has also written a book titled "Means of Control" detailing some of these flows covering ad tech companies, data brokers and how government contractors use them and serve as a key player to provide services to intelligence agencies.

- https://www.interface-eu.org/events/background-talk-with-byr...

New comment by leftcenterright in "NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)"

leftcenterright — Thu, 08 May 2025 07:26:28 +0000

I think they definitely knew that they are embedding code from US based ad agencies who might either be selling it to the NSA or just doing it in an insecure manner (plaintext protocols).

Mostly in such cases, direct involvement and paying dollars is a clear no-go for the intelligence agencies. They could instead be paying the ad agencies.

Also note that we are talking pre-Let's encrypt and TLS everywhere world, a lot of this traffic was also just plain text making it much easier to harvest.

Some interesting insights from this piece: https://web.archive.org/web/20180719081149/https://theinterc...

New comment by leftcenterright in "NSA spied through Angry Birds, other apps: report (2014)"

leftcenterright — Thu, 08 May 2025 06:42:11 +0000

from an intelligence perspective, this is business as usual.

- Rovio sold data to ad companies (ad companies primarily based in the US)

- They used AWS (to which of course NSA has legal access)

- Data is not end to end encrypted, all metadata sits on servers in plain text and within AWS even moves from server to server in plain text

How much insight metadata can grant to someone like NSA is still wildly underrated.

- https://www.propublica.org/article/spy-agencies-probe-angry-...

New comment by leftcenterright in "Show HN: TextQuery – Query CSV, JSON, XLSX Files with SQL"

leftcenterright — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:07:08 +0000

does that also work with xlsx files without much pain?

New comment by leftcenterright in "How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?"

leftcenterright — Mon, 05 May 2025 18:03:39 +0000

could someone with legal/data-privacy expertise comment if this would be something they have to disclose under data breach disclosure laws?

Technically it might not be a "data leak", but it very well could result in one if arbitrary content (including js?) can be uploaded to these webpages?

New comment by leftcenterright in "How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?"

leftcenterright — Mon, 05 May 2025 17:02:40 +0000

> Norton, Kaspersky, Zscaler, F-secure, NordVPN, Virustotal, Palo Alto: all of them marked these links as safe.

This is sad to see, these tools are forced down so many companies in name of "compliance" while totally not worth the maintenance and cost overhead. Apparently they haven't got any better in the last decade.

New comment by leftcenterright in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)"

leftcenterright — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:33:51 +0000

https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/soundcloud71/jobs/793367300...

> Strong proficiency in Go or Scala. Familiarity with Ruby and JavaScript is a plus

New comment by leftcenterright in "Ask HN: Is archive.today/is/md/etc. compromised?"

leftcenterright — Mon, 05 May 2025 16:07:18 +0000

works for me, would be interesting to see what IP addresses it is redirecting for you, hopefully you are not using a malicious/compromised DNS server?