Hacker News: occamsrazorwit

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "John Giannandrea to retire from Apple"

occamsrazorwit — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 05:44:29 +0000

"15 years ago" is funny, because Siri couldn't even do either of those functions on desktop 7 years ago [1]. It's crazy how they've managed to do nothing with a winning hand.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/9q7ugf/it_is_truly_absur...

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Becoming a compiler engineer"

occamsrazorwit — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:20:24 +0000

> Perhaps there is more damning evidence.

Do you consider the announcement from her publisher that she admitted that she plagiarized passages as a damning response or damning evidence?

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "A venture capitalist goes to extremes to punish her surrogate"

occamsrazorwit — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 21:34:45 +0000

It's also not just her wealth but her personality. For better or for worse, someone as headstrong as her attracts a certain type of person, and the article showed that even her own husband was afraid of getting involved...

> Bi’s husband focused on stabilizing the family, a move he credits with saving their marriage. He blamed the hospital, not Smith, but told me that the litigation is “her grieving process.” He tried to stay out of the legal stuff so that Bi couldn’t blame him too.

I honestly feel bad for the family, because I've heard many stories about this type of familial dynamic from children who grew up inside them...

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

occamsrazorwit — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 01:56:19 +0000

It doesn't have to be the whole world, just their inner circle. If people are that reluctant to admit fault (50 times!), then that's a dismal statement on how often we see truth in society overall.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Ask HN: How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

occamsrazorwit — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:15:13 +0000

Cluely should reach out to him for a sponsorship deal.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?"

occamsrazorwit — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 01:13:03 +0000

Yeah, I'm surprised someone who's been working at over 50 companies in only 3 years wasn't caught sooner. Some of the stories are wild enough that they had to have been shared with others at the time.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Mozilla to shut down Pocket and Fakespot"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:59:08 +0000

I've always been suspicious about how many brand-name products that I wouldn't give a second thought about in a store were marked as D or F.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Trump Threatens 25% Tariffs on Apple If iPhones Not Made in US"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:54:30 +0000

10+9

He's 7.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "How to live on $432 a month in America"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:53:27 +0000

How would you describe the local cultural opportunities in your area?

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

occamsrazorwit — Thu, 15 May 2025 23:07:11 +0000

I don't want to sound like I'm victim-blaming here, but the reality is there's no free lunch. Investments are not risk-free, and, as you've discovered, there's a reason you got these properties at such a low cost. It seems like your real estate situation can't go on like this forever, right?

> selling my properties would be a ruinous move letting go of my most valuable assets that are the only toe hold I have in this economy, and may threaten my ability to become a homeowner potentially ever again, depending on how this economic future plays out.

Despite these negatives, it's possible that selling is the financially-smart thing to do. Keeping your properties may also be a ruinous move that could cost your ability to become a homeowner ever again. It's unfortunate, but it sounds like you need to choose whichever is the lesser of two evils and stick with it.

> If i was bestowed some gift of capital, I could complete the renovations and make the house income-producing.

As an alternative, if this is actually true, then you'd be the perfect candidate for a loan against your house. People commonly get emotional around housing and debt, but there's no room for that when you're struggling to survive.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Here's how to get ChatGPT to stop being an overly flattering yes man"

occamsrazorwit — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 20:13:27 +0000

I know someone in the Bay Area AI-adjacent community who went through that exact rapidly-escalating psychotic break in a highly visible and well-documented fashion. This started last year, and he's now in jail. The risk only increases from here :/

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

occamsrazorwit — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 18:04:57 +0000

The news reports are saying a lot of explosions happened at hospitals. Considering that pagers are still in common use by Western doctors, I'm wondering if they considered hospital staff to be acceptable casualties.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Twitter kills its San Francisco headquarters, will relocate to South Bay"

occamsrazorwit — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 21:52:54 +0000

While this is true, it's also funny to note that Apple was only founded in South Bay because Jobs and Wozniak wanted to be close to their families. There was already talent in the region, but the origin of that talent started the same way. Shockley (of Shockley Semiconductor and traitorous eight fame) moved the company from LA to South Bay to take care of his mother [1]. Silicon Valley is only Silicon Valley because of "I want to be with my parents" decisions.

[1] https://community.cadence.com/cadence_blogs_8/b/breakfast-by...

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:57:49 +0000

In a way, this might end up being a blessing in disguise. It's an emergency drill for something potentially catastrophic (e.g. massive cyberattack, solar flare), and it's a large enough wake-up call that society can't just ignore it.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 07:30:53 +0000

This is literally a black swan event that'll be memorialized in textbooks, and that's not even considering the actual fallout that will follow.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

occamsrazorwit — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 07:01:35 +0000

Whoops, I linked the wrong comment. I meant to link this one [1]. Anyway, seems like there's potentially a whole trail of compromised and fake accounts [2]. Someone in a government agency somewhere is pretty disappointed right now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39867593

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39866936

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:20:16 +0000

Someone named "John is good" claims they aren't a malicious actor... You're trying real hard to convince us, huh.

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 22:02:30 +0000

What type of confirmation do you want? The documents aren't going to be declassified in the next couple of decades, if ever.

I've never heard anyone claim that Dual_EC_DRBG is most likely not intentionally backdoored, but there's literally no way to confirm because of how its written. If we can't analyze intention from the code, we can look at the broader context for clues. The NSA spent an unusual amount of effort trying to push forward an algorithm that kept getting shot down because it was slower than similar algorithms with no additional benefits (the $10 million deal specified it as a requirement [1]). If you give the NSA the benefit of the doubt, they spent a lot of time and money to... intentionally slow down random number generation?!

As an American, I'd prefer a competent NSA than an incompetent NSA that spends my tax dollars to make technology worse for literally no benefit...

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security-rsa-idUSBRE9...

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

occamsrazorwit — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 21:47:27 +0000

Given the details from another comment [1], it sounds like both maintainers are suspicious. Lasse's behavior has changed recently, and he's been pushing to get Jia Tan's changes into the Linux kernel. It's possible both accounts aren't even run by the original Lasse Collin and Jia Tan anymore.

Edit: Also, Github has suspended both accounts. Perhaps they know something we don't.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39865810#39866275

New comment by occamsrazorwit in "Reddit S1"

occamsrazorwit — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:38:51 +0000

WSB has more actual discussion, while people mostly see /r/pics on their feed (because it's a default subreddit) or scroll through really quickly (because it's easily-consumable content).