Hacker News: mcfunley

Prompts aren’t Real

mcfunley — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:59:25 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49777111

Points: 96

# Comments: 45

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 17:41:00 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49768590

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 01:55:11 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49762555

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:33:25 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49712306

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 20:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49703333

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 15:32:41 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49685134

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:20:04 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49673223

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:10:54 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49667152

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:37:51 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49660238

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Prompts Aren't Real

mcfunley — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:50:40 +0000

Article URL: https://evaluation.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49643710

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by mcfunley in "Force-Fed by ICE"

mcfunley — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 16:26:12 +0000

Maybe take a few steps farther back

New comment by mcfunley in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

mcfunley — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:46:29 +0000

Yeah I agree, caveat emptor and all that. The blameful framing is bad work product though.

New comment by mcfunley in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

mcfunley — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:16:16 +0000

The point is really after working through remediations, there were pretty massive issues remaining that weren’t hard to find and were relatively vastly easier to exploit if the attacker is a Russian teen and not Bruce Lee. And the budget for such things was blown. Priorities, etc

New comment by mcfunley in "A man was gifted his dream car by Kevin Mitnick, who he helped put in prison"

mcfunley — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:22:42 +0000

I worked at a company that had hired Mitnick as a security consultant.

His report for a client that turned out to have been rife with SQL injection at the time was largely movie plot physical security stuff. Not wrong exactly, but not the center mass of the threat model they needed either.

He seemed to lack systems thinking, producing a report that focused on calling out specific employees as dumb or incompetent. Counterproductive at best. It seemed like his PR exceeded his utility by a great deal.

That trend continues beyond the grave, maybe.

New comment by mcfunley in "XOXO Festival Archive"

mcfunley — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:10:30 +0000

This was the best conference there ever was and I miss it a lot

New comment by mcfunley in "ICE protester says her Global Entry was revoked after agent scanned her face"

mcfunley — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 04:41:54 +0000

By the time this is all said and done we’re going to wind down the DHS in its entirety, bogus lists of political enemies included

New comment by mcfunley in "The pivot"

mcfunley — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 22:20:54 +0000

Did HN start automatically translating posts from their original German?

New comment by mcfunley in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

mcfunley — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 16:01:48 +0000

To your point, the thing that jumped out at me reading this book is how familiar the German characters are. People have loved to imagine that the Nazi era in Germany was so anomalous it could never happen again. But no, the Germans were just like us.

Fell in a Hole, Got Out

mcfunley — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 16:57:32 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/the-coach-life/fell-in-a-hole-got-out-381356ec8d7f

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44543320

Points: 35

# Comments: 3

New comment by mcfunley in "US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU"

mcfunley — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 21:33:06 +0000

Category error to think there's a strategy. Trump doesn't even know what a tariff is. People try to project a strategy because it's probably too discomfiting to believe that the greatest superpower the world has ever known elected a complete nimrod king.