Hacker News: mikeyouse

New comment by mikeyouse in "Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site"

mikeyouse — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:09:45 +0000

Not under this administration.. probably the closest is contributing to open source alternatives to services that were killed (like the IRS free tax filing that 18F helped to build and which was subsequently DOGE’d).

New comment by mikeyouse in "Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site"

mikeyouse — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:55:41 +0000

Yes, there’s some new design studio that’s replaced the design aspect of 18F. Doesn’t change the fact that 18F was eliminated - https://www.nextgov.com/people/2025/03/gsa-eliminates-18f/40...

(Ill note that this design studio is being led by newly proud white nationalist Joe gebbia who apparently blames illegal aliens and their ‘anchor babies’ for high housing costs apparently while unironically forgetting he cofounded airbnb: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!VCGY!,w_1272,c_limit... - I mean look at these posts back to back, I wonder why they’re unable to recruit anyone: https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ArmA!,w_1272,c_limit...)

New comment by mikeyouse in "Feds suspect ransom negotiator ran ShinyHunters extortion site"

mikeyouse — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 01:15:14 +0000

The vast majority of the competent people got DOGE’d. CISA lost like 40% of their staff including much of their red team specialty. 18F was completely eliminated (“Deleted” as Musk put it). If some specialist in the FBI who could have helped prevent the hack happened to have been assigned to work on the Classified Docs case, they were also fired because the most corrupt, incompetent group of morons is running things in DC for the next few years.

New comment by mikeyouse in "I built a drone with only one motor [video]"

mikeyouse — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 23:04:03 +0000

Likewise. Even companies like Saildrone where ~100% of the marketing before 2025 was about mapping the oceans and autonomous storm monitoring with their bright orange craft are now releasing videos with missile launching pods attached to navy gray versions: https://www.saildrone.com/news/us-navy-rimpac-lockheed-marti...

New comment by mikeyouse in "I built a drone with only one motor [video]"

mikeyouse — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:45:56 +0000

Love the little side project of building a high resolution high speed camera to investigate the flutter.

New comment by mikeyouse in "Amsterdam police confiscates server left-wing ISP A/I at American request"

mikeyouse — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:56:59 +0000

Figure 4 shows left-wing political violence completely flat with a 1 year decrease in right wing violence as the basis for your “flipped” narrative. Table 1 shows the last 10 years highlighting 152 right wing attacks causing 112 deaths and 35 left wing attacks causing 13 deaths…

New comment by mikeyouse in "Why Texas Is Making Data Centers Wait"

mikeyouse — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 04:58:46 +0000

The tech on the ISS is several decades old - modern versions of traditional radiators could dissipate about 1MW in a 3 metric ton package with a surface area of ~300m2. With advanced options like liquid droplet radiators, that weight could be cut in half.

https://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/spaceresvol2/thermalmana...

New comment by mikeyouse in "Bot traffic from Yandex"

mikeyouse — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:17:20 +0000

Google and Amazon abide by US sanctions - if these are Russian firms, it’ll take much longer to get bespoke approval to pay AWS or GCP.. my org is smaller than those and we just outright banned Russian companies after Ukraine was invaded. Too much of a headache and too risky.

New comment by mikeyouse in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

mikeyouse — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 13:45:39 +0000

Why would government services not be subject to the same cost pressures due to inflation as the rest of society?

New comment by mikeyouse in "Nearly 200 people under observation after Irkutsk lab worker dies from plague"

mikeyouse — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 06:13:57 +0000

It wasn’t the exact strain, the mutations were nothing like you’d expect them to make, and good lord people on HN need better news and science sources if this is still the level of discussion on the topic.

New comment by mikeyouse in "ASML says it sold 'absolutely nothing' in Europe in 2026"

mikeyouse — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:40:50 +0000

For better or worse, Ireland’s extremely lax tax rules resulted in a ton of multinational corporate cash ‘stuck’ there with companies having the option of spending there roughly tax free or repatriating back to the US at some rate higher than that. It also really helps sell the ‘of course an Irish subsidiary owns all of our IP’ tax claims if there is actual spending there, hence you got all the pharma investment and the capital projects from others like Intel and Apple.

New comment by mikeyouse in "Apple has added persistent 'ads' to iOS, and it's driving users crazy"

mikeyouse — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 14:46:23 +0000

I've always found it crazy that if you search for a brand name / trademarked name that it's legal for the search provider to shove a bunch of vaguely related shit above the results unless that brand pays for ad placement to be the top result. Sure, fine, put whatever ad pays the most at the top of the search for "best iOS game" - but when someone searches "Wordle" - that you can't rely on Wordle being the top result is a indictment of the whole ad-supported internet. (Sub 'Claude' or 'Discord' or whatever other search term and it's the same issue)

New comment by mikeyouse in "US military reveals it has weapons in space"

mikeyouse — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:11:10 +0000

I mean, true, but also, nobody is going to give up weapons while the US is kidnapping heads of state, launching decapitation strikes and invading a half dozen new countries.

New comment by mikeyouse in "Child Sexual Abuse Material Persists on X"

mikeyouse — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 17:31:44 +0000

They were using it in 2024..

https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2024-01-31_-_...

New comment by mikeyouse in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

mikeyouse — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:56:38 +0000

They’ve massively expanded into Lebanon and Gaza, settlements are continuing to grow at an alarming pace, the Saudis have little choice but to get massively more involved in fighting Iran and their proxies, A less feckless US campaign could have eliminated or greatly weakened Iran’s nuclear program, Bibi’s mostly consolidated all power in Israel… it hasn’t worked out that poorly for Israel.

New comment by mikeyouse in "My Mental Model of AI Broke on September 8"

mikeyouse — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:21:49 +0000

It isn't hard to conceive of things that plateau so perhaps OP thought that the 'intelligence' underlying these models would reach some mark and then level off. If instead they just keep getting smarter/better, that can really impact the highest potential use that people can imagine for them.

New comment by mikeyouse in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

mikeyouse — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 01:28:14 +0000

There is a lot of good analysis of the Appeals process on this specific point - the CFAA as written required unauthorized access:

Section 1030(a)(5)(A), covers anyone who

(5) intentionally accesses a Federal interest computer without authorization, and by means of one or more instances of such conduct alters, damages, or destroys information in any such Federal interest computer, or prevents authorized use of any such computer or information, and thereby

(A) causes loss to one or more others of a value aggregating $1,000 or more during any one year period; ... [emphasis added].

The District Court concluded that the intent requirement applied only to the accessing and not to the resulting damage. Judge Munson found recourse to legislative history unnecessary because he considered the statute clear and unambiguous. However, the Court observed that the legislative history supported its reading of section 1030(a)(5)(A).

I'm not sure how you could categorize the Morris Worm as lacking mens rea based on that statute..

https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=551386241451639...

New comment by mikeyouse in "QBittorrent breaks out of sandbox to commit crimes"

mikeyouse — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 17:49:52 +0000

Not remotely true. Mens rea is a necessary precondition to establish criminal culpability for tons of crimes. Well before sentencing is ever considered. The far opposite, ‘strict liability’, where you’re guilty of a crime purely due to some action or inaction (the actus reus) is exceedingly rare in the US justice system.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/mens_rea

New comment by mikeyouse in "Mom gets 6-month suspended sentence for letting 5-year-old walk to the pond"

mikeyouse — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 14:47:45 +0000

> We seem to be operating on the assumption that unsupervised children will immediately succumb to sudden and irrational urges to kill themselves in creative ways.

That’s like 90% of parenting until kids age out of it. That being said, my 2.5yo kid can swim well enough today that I’d have no qualms at all about them being at a neighborhood pond by themselves in a few years.

New comment by mikeyouse in "Our decision on Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX"

mikeyouse — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 03:56:35 +0000

They can skip the legalese because Musk had testified under oath that Grok was distilling OpenAI models while Elon was on the board of OpenAI.

https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/921546/e...