Hacker News: mikehotel

New comment by mikehotel in "US and Iran agree to provisional ceasefire"

mikehotel — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:42:44 +0000

What if Iran refuses payment in USD? For reparations, tolls, or for future sale of oil?

New comment by mikehotel in "Wikipedia deprecates Archive.today, starts removing archive links"

mikehotel — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 22:44:29 +0000

aka Jimbo Wales

New comment by mikehotel in "Show HN: A MitM proxy to see what your LLM tools are sending"

mikehotel — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 01:44:14 +0000

Addon to mitmproxy: https://docs.mitmproxy.org/stable/addons/overview/

New comment by mikehotel in "Firehound is a repository of App Store apps exposing data from users"

mikehotel — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:02:46 +0000

An effort led by security research lab CovertLabs is actively uncovering troves of (mostly) AI-related App Store apps that leak and expose user data, including names, emails, and chat history.

Most apps on Firehound appear to expose data via improperly secured databases or cloud storage, and many listings disclose the underlying data schemas and record counts.

Firehound is a repository of App Store apps exposing data from users

mikehotel — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 03:02:46 +0000

Article URL: https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/19/firehound-huge-repository-of-app-store-apps-exposing-data-from-millions-of-users/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46687419

Points: 2

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New comment by mikehotel in "A decentralized peer-to-peer messaging application that operates over Bluetooth"

mikehotel — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 12:30:50 +0000

Apple/Google have the financial brawn to push a disrupting technology into more common use. And this is not encumbered by any restrictive licenses.

New comment by mikehotel in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

mikehotel — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:40:00 +0000

If your threat model includes the TLA types, then backup to a physical server you control in a location geographically isolated from your main location. Or to a local set of drives that you physically rotate to remote locations.

New comment by mikehotel in "Fire destroys S. Korean government's cloud storage system, no backups available"

mikehotel — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:35:56 +0000

Decryption is not usually an issue if you encrypt locally.

Tools like Kopia, Borg and Restic handle this and also include deduplication and other advanced features.

Really no excuse for large orgs or even small businesses and somewhat tech literate public.

New comment by mikehotel in "Russinovich: From Blue Screens to Orange Crabs: Microsoft's Rusty Revolution [video]"

mikehotel — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 01:10:54 +0000

Thanks for posting. Love to see rust as strategic direction for MS and how they are using it in core OS, Azure and security areas, and much of it open source.

I still use https://sysinternals.com (though not via their live channel).

New comment by mikehotel in "Automerge 3.0"

mikehotel — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 18:38:29 +0000

The performance improvements are impressive:

> In Automerge 3.0, we've rearchitected the library so that it also uses the compressed representation at runtime. This has achieved huge memory savings. For example, pasting Moby Dick into an Automerge 2 document consumes 700Mb of memory, in Automerge 3 it only consumes 1.3Mb!

> Finally, for documents with large histories load times can be much much faster (we recently had an example of a document which hadn't loaded after 17 hours loading in 9 seconds!).

New comment by mikehotel in "Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist"

mikehotel — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:39:20 +0000

- single binary file deployment

- TUI based configuration

- API endpoints

New comment by mikehotel in "WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices"

mikehotel — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:51:36 +0000

See https://archive.ph/oXYXe for more info about TeleMessage version of Signal approved for use by government offices.

New comment by mikehotel in "Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot"

mikehotel — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:39:05 +0000

If you don’t mind supervised mode, this can help prevent this bypass: https://www.techlockdown.com/blog/prevent-turning-off-wifi-i...

New comment by mikehotel in "Show HN: Whenish – Plan Group Events in iMessages"

mikehotel — Thu, 22 May 2025 17:32:34 +0000

Congrats on publishing!

It seems like a very polished and better integrated version of https://www.when2meet.com/.

You say you do not collect info. Are you saving the meeting details and availability in a database?

New comment by mikehotel in "Google is winning on every AI front"

mikehotel — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 11:01:09 +0000

From the terms of use:

To help with quality and improve our products, human reviewers may read, annotate, and process your API input and output. Google takes steps to protect your privacy as part of this process. This includes disconnecting this data from your Google Account, API key, and Cloud project before reviewers see or annotate it. Do not submit sensitive, confidential, or personal information to the Unpaid Services.

https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/terms#data-use-unpaid

New comment by mikehotel in "Federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE"

mikehotel — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 19:11:18 +0000

Thank you for your service!

How many from USDS are left after this group of resignations?

New comment by mikehotel in "TikTok is back in the App Store"

mikehotel — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 07:31:48 +0000

By the majority in Congress voting to block any attempts to challenge the executive branch.

Judges are acting to stay executive orders, but judicial processes are deliberately slow and the current administration seated several current Supreme Court judges.

Civil disobedience and mass unrest seems inevitable when the rule of law and balance of powers is systemically undermined.

New comment by mikehotel in "The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter"

mikehotel — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:57:42 +0000

Physical cards also allow you to practice shuffling and card handling in general improving dexterity.

Electronic cards would allow you to play more widely (presumably we all don’t walk around with a deck in our pockets). But I don’t often get into spontaneous card games. They are usually planned and at a location with easy access to decks.

New comment by mikehotel in "The Deck: An open-source cross-platform multiplayer card game engine in Flutter"

mikehotel — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 16:52:47 +0000

This is a good point. We are easily distracted, especially when waiting for people to take their turn. The device based distractions can be stopped by using Guided Access. It can temporarily lock a device to one app, and block notifications from popping up.

New comment by mikehotel in "Show HN: Myphotos.site – Make a gallery website from Google Photos"

mikehotel — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 15:15:27 +0000

Most likely they are trying to degoogle.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeGoogle