Hacker News: micah94

New comment by micah94 in "Former CIA spy: agency's tools can takeover your phone, TV, and even your car"

micah94 — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 18:10:34 +0000

Remember...sometimes the target doesn't have a smart phone or watch much TV so those people around a target become at risk. That could be YOU. https://theintercept.com/document/hunt-sys-admins/

New comment by micah94 in "Wanted to spy on my dog, ended up spying on TP-Link"

micah94 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:17:59 +0000

So we're at the point that finding hardcoded admin passwords is no big deal.

New comment by micah94 in "Decide Now; We Won't Know More Later Re UFOs"

micah94 — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 22:55:14 +0000

I don't think we will ever understand what you saw if we continue to cling to our view of what reality actually is. I think it's unlikely whatever it is originated in some distant galaxy far far away (aliens, little-green men, spacecraft, etc). I think it's something fundamental and it's here on this planet and I don't think that sits well with people. Like many things, we have to look within rather than what's out there.

New comment by micah94 in "Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything"

micah94 — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:10:28 +0000

That's frightening. And we want these things driving our cars?

New comment by micah94 in "A criminal enterprise run by monkeys"

micah94 — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 02:16:15 +0000

Do you think WSJ is doing this deliberately? Leaving out the part about how it's actually humans behind it. I've heard of this a long time ago, but I see this is a new story. Probably a hundred generations of monkeys have learned this behavior and they don't need any training or handling at this point!

New comment by micah94 in "James Webb, Hubble space telescopes face reduction in operations"

micah94 — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 03:10:32 +0000

I think like they said, it's people. The JWST has "17 different modes" (yeah, I wish I knew what that meant exactly), but it sounds complicated. For all our tech, the bottom line is it requires humans to calibrate this thing and keep it that way (or one of 17 different ways) depending on the science that needs done.

New comment by micah94 in "Sam Altman and Jony Ive Will Force A.I. Into Your Life"

micah94 — Fri, 30 May 2025 01:34:13 +0000

I totally see this happening. Doesn't sound sarcastic at all.

New comment by micah94 in "Standard Chartered apologizes for $120K Bitcoin price call, 'may be too low'"

micah94 — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:03:20 +0000

This is pretty much where we are. I wish it weren't so. But Wall Street has their claws firmly around BTC et al. They will never let go. There's no room for any kind of "innovation". They will suck retail dry and then move on.

New comment by micah94 in "Hackers stole billions in crypto to keep North Korea’s regime afloat"

micah94 — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 19:11:53 +0000

They work for a government that can help with the threats, bribery and social engineering required to get access to employees of exchanges.

New comment by micah94 in "Banned Books: Analysis of Censorship on Amazon.com (2024)"

micah94 — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 00:09:21 +0000

Here's an example: Gekaufte Journalisten (Bought Journalists)

New comment by micah94 in "Nezha 2 becomes highest-grossing animated film globally"

micah94 — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:36:54 +0000

I found it streaming for free on VUDU.com / Fandango

New comment by micah94 in "What 5 Megabytes of Data Looked Like in 1966 (62,500 punched cards)"

micah94 — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 15:19:06 +0000

Looks like they would have cost hundreds of thousands (or you could lease for a few grand a month). Back in the 60s... Might as well have been a billion zillion dollars.

New comment by micah94 in "Show HN: HN as TikTok, welcome to HN hell"

micah94 — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:15:30 +0000

It requires too many brain calories.

New comment by micah94 in "Synapse still can't find its money"

micah94 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:42:53 +0000

All banks suck. But there's a lot to be said for longevity and experience. Also the number of program banks that actually work with Fidelity is pretty long: https://accountopening.fidelity.com/ftgw/aong/aongapp/fdicBa...

New comment by micah94 in "Synapse still can't find its money"

micah94 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:31:52 +0000

I know it wasn't a traditional bank, but when they start talking about "winning" $10 million and "picking your numbers", it sounds sooo sketchy... I can't imagine putting money into something like that. (excuse me while I go buy more DOGE coin...)

New comment by micah94 in "Synapse still can't find its money"

micah94 — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 05:28:23 +0000

Doesn't ACH still use FTP?

New comment by micah94 in "Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79"

micah94 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 20:59:09 +0000

that ep is so memorable... it was like a mix of bewitched, 6million dollar man, I dream of jeannie, mission impossible, and of course star trek all rolled into one.

New comment by micah94 in "Bankrupt Fisker says it can't migrate its EVs to a new owner's server"

micah94 — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:51:21 +0000

They hardcoded IP addresses, didn't they? /s

New comment by micah94 in "Microsoft confirms that Windows 11 Recall AI is not optional"

micah94 — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 17:14:12 +0000

Inflation is (was originally) the increase in monetary supply (when the Fed buys treasuries and prints money). That absolutely happened big time. And we're no where near back to 2020 levels. See: https://www.federalreserve.gov/monetarypolicy/bst_recenttren...

Notice how the level of inflation kind of matches the balance sheet curve if you assume the peak was that 9% (~June 2022)...now we're back down to ~3%.

But the Fed is talking about lowering rates, not increasing them further (because we're just magically on some 'glide path' back down to 2% I guess). I suppose you'll call that price gouging as well when inflation flares up again? Some of what's being "disguised" here are the definitions of words.

Just saying there are other factors at play. It's not all about the big bad corporations.

New comment by micah94 in "Japan's Public Didn't Buy Fumio Kishida's New Capitalism"

micah94 — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:57:57 +0000

I think Japan has grown considerably beyond this by exporting their Yen through extremely low interest rates. But even that too has a ceiling. Stretching to the obscene in 100 years, the Japanese people may go extinct, but the Yen will live on continuing to prop up financial markets across the world. The way the US dollar was taken off the gold standard, the Yen has been taken off the Japanese people standard...