Hacker News: nullpoint420

New comment by nullpoint420 in "The foundations of a provably secure operating system (PSOS) (1979) [pdf]"

nullpoint420 — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:58:40 +0000

Then make a userspace server to do that. If you want to see how this works in practice, macOS and iOS are great “pragmatic” implementations of this pattern. They use a Mach/BSD hybrid

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Fabricked: Misconfiguring Infinity Fabric to Break AMD SEV-SNP"

nullpoint420 — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:25:05 +0000

Yeah I mean sunk cost fallacy, right? If you’ve already hit critical mass in AWS of course you’re going continue investing in it.

If I were to be CTO of a brand new company today, I’d probably just colocate my own servers with K8S. Much cheaper and much lower latency. 2x 1TB RAM servers with 3x 8TB high speed U.2/U.3 drives each would last years.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Apple Is Holding My Pictures Hostage Until I Accept Their New Terms of Service"

nullpoint420 — Sat, 09 May 2026 20:38:47 +0000

As a Linux user… you have a good point

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

nullpoint420 — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:11:05 +0000

I’d be surprised if they had this amount of observability info.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

nullpoint420 — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:09:18 +0000

Makes you wonder if certain parties were tipped off early

New comment by nullpoint420 in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

nullpoint420 — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:03:29 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Triangulation

iirc this was a register level exploit. no software in iOS or macOS touched the undisclosed register, but when the right secret key was entered, you got full read/write primitives on the silicon

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Taking on CUDA with ROCm: 'One Step After Another'"

nullpoint420 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:32:40 +0000

I just don’t understand how they haven’t figured this out yet. I genuinely want to know the corporate structure and politics that have lead to their inability to execute.

Is it leadership? Something else?

New comment by nullpoint420 in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

nullpoint420 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:12:53 +0000

Why crack it when you have silicon level backdoors?

New comment by nullpoint420 in "How to turn anything into a router"

nullpoint420 — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 15:53:56 +0000

> but went back to a GUI as it turned out I wanted a pet and not start a farm.

This made me chuckle, I'm definitely going to quote this the next time our K8S cluster has issues

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

nullpoint420 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 01:14:47 +0000

I 100% agree when it comes to security issues. They would have to host it themselves on their intranet through AppleConnect.

I'm a bit removed from what software Apple uses nowadays. Back when I worked there ~2021 it was still a mix of native apps (Radar, Phantom) and self-hosted enterprise versions of popular development tools. (eg. GitHub)

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Using FireWire on a Raspberry Pi"

nullpoint420 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 07:32:26 +0000

Wouldn’t this be an unreliable CI though? I assume i586 and i686 cycle accurate emulators are hard to come by?

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

nullpoint420 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:31:36 +0000

Sheesh, you see suggestions here all the time. Just trying to be helpful

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Apple randomly closes bug reports unless you "verify" the bug remains unfixed"

nullpoint420 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 04:13:32 +0000

This is where a company that categorizes customer feedback like unwrap.ai or enterpret could help with volume and priority

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Western carmakers' retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance"

nullpoint420 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:20:18 +0000

That's exactly my point. I'd rather have those built outs to power entire cities.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

nullpoint420 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:19:04 +0000

Wdym? The reason is that people would oppose the TX and UT laws harder in California. Everyone is calm now in CA because "oh it's just an age dropdown guys!!"

But once the infrastructure is built give it a few years it's not going to be a dropdown. And it will not be able to be bypassed in the same way you can't bypass permissions on iOS and Android today.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "ARM AGI CPU: Specs and SKUs"

nullpoint420 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:14:55 +0000

Damn, no wonder Ampere stopped releasing chips. They were churning them out and then just crickets.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Miscellanea: The War in Iran"

nullpoint420 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:10:27 +0000

Yeah but at least the byproducts produce a solid that can last for years vs treating it as a consumable.

I'm fulling expecting someone will reply to me and say that making plastic wastes 75% of the oil or something during production, and that it's just as wasteful amortized across the lifespan of a wind turbine. I'm tired, man.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "Apple Can Create Smaller On-Device AI Models from Google's Gemini"

nullpoint420 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:21:46 +0000

I could 100% see this, and ironically it makes sense. I can totally envision an Apple exec announcing this at a keynote.

“We’re proud to announce that the iPhone 21 is our most performant iPhone yet - capable of running models of up to 20 billion parameters. That’s over 2x the amount on iPhone 20.”

Or something like that.

New comment by nullpoint420 in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

nullpoint420 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 23:27:47 +0000

Until CA matches the TX and UT laws. Boiling the frog

New comment by nullpoint420 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

nullpoint420 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 06:05:28 +0000

> while we laughed and discussed our stock options.

We? Sorry, I'm one of the "newer" engineers that joined the industry right before the AI bubble.

I didn't laugh or discuss my stock options. I accepted what jobs were available post-COVID crash.