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New comment by mukmuk in "Cloudflare to cut about 20% of its workforce"

mukmuk — Fri, 08 May 2026 04:57:03 +0000

Isn’t this illegal?

New comment by mukmuk in "ChatGPT for Excel"

mukmuk — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 09:52:46 +0000

From my experience, LLM performance in these areas is being massively oversold. I have repeatedly tried using Claude to modify a range of models typical of investment banking / private equity / sellside research contexts, and the results have been generally disastrous. On multiple occasions, the xlsx would no longer open.

New comment by mukmuk in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

mukmuk — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:58:31 +0000

Our country is currently enforcing a blockade that is murdering children in Cuba. It is all so sickening.

New comment by mukmuk in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

mukmuk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:09:00 +0000

the word general in italics was intended to read as “in contrast to this”...

New comment by mukmuk in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

mukmuk — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 05:24:19 +0000

Somewhat relatedly, there is a pretty plausible theory that some “find the Yeti” expeditions were in fact cover for operations by my country’s intelligence services to sabotage China. See e.g., https://topsecretumbra.substack.com/p/the-secret-history-of-...

(Btw the general idea that there are animals that we don’t know about is not remotely far-fetched. A new possum genus was discovered like a month ago.)

New comment by mukmuk in "What's driving rising business costs?"

mukmuk — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:04:44 +0000

That is no longer true. What we have historically referred to as “health insurance” companies responded to ACA margin limits by becoming sprawling behemoths whose rampant self-dealing makes such profit margin calculations meaningless.

New comment by mukmuk in "I may have found a way to spot U.S. at-sea strikes before they're announced"

mukmuk — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 01:11:10 +0000

Our country has a long and sickening history of interdiction theater e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Peru_Cessna_185_shootdown

New comment by mukmuk in "The Wire retracts its Meta stories"

mukmuk — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 15:06:12 +0000

I would recommend Garbage Day’s coverage of this:

https://www.garbageday.email/p/a-big-confusing-game-of-inter...

Also, for contextualizing the social media reactions (including on HN) I would recommend this recent New Yorker article:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/17/when-the-hindu...

New comment by mukmuk in "Verizon Up offers rewards in exchange for customers’ personal information"

mukmuk — Tue, 05 Sep 2017 17:25:26 +0000

Apple Pay does not generate a unique card number for every purchase. One number is generated when the card is added to Wallet. This seems to be a common misconception.

New comment by mukmuk in "Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons"

mukmuk — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 18:38:19 +0000

Thank you. I disagree that it's "just the same thing", but it is an interesting precedent to consider and one that I was not familiar with.

New comment by mukmuk in "Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons"

mukmuk — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:09:14 +0000

I am also somewhat uncomfortable that his sponsorship was kept secret for so long, and that it easily could have stayed secret indefinitely.

New comment by mukmuk in "Thiel shows why tech billionaires are the new robber barons"

mukmuk — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:06:02 +0000

Can you point me to some examples where an individual financed litigation against a media outlet or journalist? I don't doubt they exist, but I can't think of any specifically.

Google End-to-End: Any update?

mukmuk — Wed, 23 Dec 2015 13:32:57 +0000

It's been a year since Google posted this update[1] on their end-to-end project and a month since the last commit.[2]

Yahoo announced a forked end-to-end extension in March[3] and while commits have been more frequent[4], they haven't released either.

Does anyone have any update on these?

[1] https://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2014/12/an-update-to-end-to-end.html

[2] https://github.com/google/end-to-end/commits/master

[3] http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/113708033335/user-focused-security-end-to-end-encryption

[4] https://github.com/yahoo/end-to-end/commits/master

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10783156

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by mukmuk in "Walmart Pay"

mukmuk — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:37:16 +0000

I think this is a common misperception regarding Apple Pay - it actually does not use disposable credit card numbers. Apple Pay generates a Device Account Number (DAN) once when you add a card to your phone's wallet. Thereafter, the same DAN is reused on that device for all transactions with that card.

So it actually does not do much to defeat merchant tracking, assuming you consistently use Apple Pay where it is available.

New comment by mukmuk in "React.Component vs. React.createClass"

mukmuk — Fri, 07 Aug 2015 14:12:22 +0000

If you are using ES6 class syntax, then I would think you would also be using const / let; and if you are using const / let, then FlowTypes is, for me anyway, borderline unusable because it still does not support them (although there is apparently a fork with pseudo-support, if you want to deal with that):

https://github.com/facebook/flow/pull/431

New comment by mukmuk in "New Chrome for iOS scans for beacons broadcasting URLs"

mukmuk — Sat, 25 Jul 2015 02:47:40 +0000

It actually doesn't in most cases, last I heard:

http://blog.airtightnetworks.com/ios8-mac-randomization-anal...

Ask HN: TrueCrypt audit status?

mukmuk — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 16:24:27 +0000

After raising over $70,000 from the community in October 2013, progress on the TrueCrypt audit has been fitful at best. The last update on http://istruecryptauditedyet.com was April 14, 2014.

Two key contributors, Matthew Green (https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green) and Kenn White (https://twitter.com/kennwhite) remain active on Twitter.

I am aware of VeraCrypt and CipherShed but these appear orthogonal to the original audit.

Does anyone know what the heck is going on?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9069295

Points: 185

# Comments: 157

New comment by mukmuk in "Flux Comparison by Example"

mukmuk — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 16:48:37 +0000

@prottmann alluded to it, but it might be useful to add Marty as well (http://martyjs.org) (no affiliation).

It's just behind Reflux on the superficial metrics (stars, contributors, npm downloads) so is likely to be on most short-lists.

I've had a good experience with Marty so far but remain curious about the others. Reflux worries me a bit because of its minor divergences from the Flux design decisions.

Ask HN: Status of Google's End-to-End Project?

mukmuk — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 14:20:56 +0000

Google's OpenPGP-based End-to-End project was kicked off with considerable fanfare in June:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7842233

Following a period of steady development, progress seemed to grind to a halt. There has not been a commit since October 6:

https://code.google.com/p/end-to-end/source/list

About 90 minutes ago, the wiki was edited to replace issue reporting links with a generic 'Under Construction - Please hold on!' message.

Does anyone know what's going on?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8757194

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mukmuk in "Disable sharing of Spotlight searches with Apple"

mukmuk — Fri, 17 Oct 2014 23:02:51 +0000

Good thought, but I disabled that too. Edit: Twitter discussion regarding one of these issues. Note that Spotlight is doing this despite all relevant settings disabled (spotlight suggestions, bing, privacy, and logging).

https://twitter.com/marczak/status/481818945318428673