Hacker News: memesarecool

New comment by memesarecool in "cURL removes bug bounties"

memesarecool — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 14:58:18 +0000

Hackerone (where cURL hosted their bounty program) tracks the reputation of bounty hunters. I don't understand why they are not taking advantage of this. Make a private program, invite only hackers who have proved themselves by submitting relevant reports.

New comment by memesarecool in "Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds "AI powered" earbuds"

memesarecool — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 16:02:13 +0000

Yes I meant simple as in "amateur mistakes". From the mistakes (and their excitement and response to the report) they are clueless about security. Which of course is bad. Hopefully they will take security more seriously on the future.

New comment by memesarecool in "Exploiting the IKKO Activebuds “AI powered” earbuds (2024)"

memesarecool — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 15:19:10 +0000

Cool post. One thing that rubbed me the wrong way: Their response was better than 98% of other companies when it comes to reporting vulnerabilities. Very welcoming and most of all they showed interest and addressed the issues. OP however seemed to show disdain and even combativeness towards them... which is a shame. And of course the usual sinophobia (e.g. everything Chinese is spying on you). Overall simple security design flaws but it's good to see a company that cares to fix them, even if they didn't take security seriously from the start.

Edit: typo

New comment by memesarecool in "Ask HN: Employees of Tesla and SpaceX, how do you feel after the inauguration?"

memesarecool — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:36:04 +0000

This reminds me of my teenage years, when I was considering going into aerospace engineering to work on military aircraft. But I was immensely conflicted between the feelings of "This is where all the coolest tech is" and "I would be building murdering machines".

The pacifist side won and decades later I feel good about the decision. I managed to find other work that stimulated my curiosity without having to be part of immense suffering.

New comment by memesarecool in "Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?"

memesarecool — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:24:52 +0000

That is a roman salute, yes. And a swastika is also a buddhist symbol.

New comment by memesarecool in "Ask HN: Employees of Tesla and SpaceX, how do you feel after the inauguration?"

memesarecool — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:18:10 +0000

Also curious to hear about their thoughts, specially from those employees who have a firm anti-fascist belief. I would 100% be considering my resignation if I were in their position.

New comment by memesarecool in "Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?"

memesarecool — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:16:57 +0000

Just to clarify: I'm OP of the post asking the question being discussed; I did not submit this question about censorship.

New comment by memesarecool in "Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?"

memesarecool — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:12:46 +0000

I'm not a left winger just anti-fascist; and I posted the question because I am curious about the thoughts of the employees. I don't want to discuss the gesture. There's a lot of discussion here about work environment and career decisions and this is what I was asking about. I think it was a valid question and a shame it got self-censored by part of the community.

edit: this was the OP btw https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42781509

New comment by memesarecool in "Ask HN: Is HN Censoring Posts?"

memesarecool — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:09:17 +0000

There's a lot of discussion here about work environment and startup culture and I thought it was a valid question to current SpaceX and Tesla employees. I am genuinely curious and thought HN would be the best place to ask this and get some genuine answers.

New comment by memesarecool in "How to find exploits in video games"

memesarecool — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:16:40 +0000

CheatEngine (80mb) is very widely used nowadays and does memory dumps and comparisons. A very useful tool not only for game reverse engineering.