Hacker News: om42

New comment by om42 in "A 0-click exploit chain for the Pixel 10"

om42 — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:31:00 +0000

Another reason published CVEs isn't a great metric is that one of the largest contributors to the number of CVEs significantly increasing in the past couple years has been that the Linux kernel now submits almost all bugs as CVEs which wasn't the case before.

New comment by om42 in "Stryker Hit by Handala – Intune Managed Devices Wiped"

om42 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:57:48 +0000

And its being reported in major news outlets now including the Wall Street Journal. This seems widespread, impacting all their employees globally and manufacturing sites as well. Wonder what the impact at hospitals and clinical care is...

"Stryker was hit more than 4 hours ago, nearly at 12:30 EST. They have wiped multiple systems and pushed OS resets to personal phones with work profiles and computers. Many servers have been wiped clean, all their work apps are down, the entire company is in a complete stop. Also, the servers at the DataCenter are inaccessible. They accessed through Admin accounts and put their signature Handala artwork on every login page. They have also sent emails to multiple executives taking ownership of the attack."

New comment by om42 in "Google Antigravity"

om42 — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 16:56:48 +0000

Yes, its also failing on my workspace account but worked on my personal. Might be a bug or a delayed deployment for workspaces b/c it might need to be "enabled" by admins?

New comment by om42 in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2025)"

om42 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 23:55:38 +0000

Second this, it would be useful to have a "EU safe" label or similar to help me understand if 635.8 DEHP is a good thing or bad.

New comment by om42 in "Garum Masala"

om42 — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 00:02:42 +0000

Its been a while since I last went into a deep dive about this, but i think the term did exist before. Black pepper, other spices, as well as ginger or garlic can add "heat" to a dish without chili peppers.

New comment by om42 in "Remote work is starting to hit office rents"

om42 — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 22:44:21 +0000

Probably because of biotech, which similar to Boston also going up. And maybe defense.

New comment by om42 in "Amazon shuts newspaper and magazine subscriptions for Kindle and print"

om42 — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 18:27:26 +0000

Agreed, it also means no/less distractions and maybe that's what is happening. I get close to the words-on-paper immersive feeling when using e-ink style tablets (like supernote which tries really hard to not be more than a journal). But just knowing I can interact with it makes it less immersive. Something about words on paper are static and the information in front of me isn't changing makes it feel more immersive.

New comment by om42 in "Silicon Valley, once the underdog, is now too big to fail"

om42 — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 15:37:58 +0000

Outside of the Federal Reserve issue, isn't a core component here the 2018 bank deregulation laws that weakened the rules so they wouldn't apply to banks the size of SVB (less than $250B in assets)? Dodd-Frank was put in in place for a reason after 2008 and crawling it back in form of the 2018 bank deregulation laws was a glaring mistake.

New comment by om42 in "FDIC Takes over Silicon Valley Bank"

om42 — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 17:15:53 +0000

My finance-foo is quite weak, what does advance dividend mean in this context?

New comment by om42 in "Sanders calls for minimum salary of $60000 for public school teachers"

om42 — Wed, 15 Feb 2023 16:39:01 +0000

Doesn't that source point out they're still doing better than most other states?

New comment by om42 in "Meta lays off 11,000 people"

om42 — Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:54:46 +0000

We're hiring! Reach out to me via email, it's in my profile.

New comment by om42 in "Open Cybersecurity Schema Framework"

om42 — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:17:39 +0000

This AWS post has more info: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/aws-co-announces-relea...

Edit: Quote from the announcement...

Joining us in this announcement is an array of key security vendors, beginning with Splunk, the co-founder with AWS of the OCSF project, and also including Broadcom, Salesforce, Rapid7, Tanium, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, DTEX, CrowdStrike, IBM Security, JupiterOne, Zscaler, Sumo Logic, IronNet, Securonix, and Trend Micro

New comment by om42 in "Y Combinator's Message to Founders"

om42 — Thu, 19 May 2022 15:59:52 +0000

Is the internal Series A Milestones different than the Series A Guide: https://www.ycombinator.com/library/14-series-a-guide

New comment by om42 in "Google Domains blocking all Gitbook URLS: post-mortem"

om42 — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 16:29:09 +0000

gitbook.com is working but gitbook.io is having trouble redirecting.

New comment by om42 in "Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?"

om42 — Sat, 16 May 2020 18:19:34 +0000

Do you have a link to that thread where an anon google employee posted on why it occurred? Interested in what happened since I didn't realize it did.

New comment by om42 in "Tell HN: C Experts Panel – Ask us anything about C"

om42 — Tue, 14 Apr 2020 14:35:43 +0000

Not particular to the C language, but what are your opinions on build systems, particularly for the embedded space? There's a couple vendor specific embedded IDEs and toolchains and having to glue together make/cmake files to support all of them can be a pain.

New comment by om42 in "Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America"

om42 — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 15:42:02 +0000

Isn't this how Mint did/does it?

New comment by om42 in "Zoom iOS app sends data to Facebook even if you don’t have a Facebook account"

om42 — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 20:30:51 +0000

NextDNS is great, set it up on all my devices a few back when there was a post on here about it. Uninstalled a few apps just from seeing the number of requests they were sending even when I didn't use those apps frequently.

Like its mentioned in this discussion, using the FB SDK will result in apps sending requests to FB. Found a banking app I use was doing this...

New comment by om42 in "More bosses give four-day workweek a try"

om42 — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 19:41:34 +0000

9/80 schedules are more popular in defense, at least from what I've seen. There's some unintended consequences (to me) of it. PTO/holidays can get weird, do you get 9 hours of paid time? Do you get 8 and shift your hours? Its mostly a problem when teams have a mix systems and there isn't a standard.

When I was at LM a few years ago, some teams were on a different 9/80 pattern (different Fridays off), and some still on the regular 10/80 schedule. So on Fridays you basically had significantly less people in the office and it was never the person you needed to get work done. Basically made Monday to Thursday the regular working week with Friday being there if you really needed to get work done.

Think the different schedules was a combination of LM employees, employees that were in the union, and external contractors having different contract requirements.

New comment by om42 in "OpenSK: a fully open-source security key implementation"

om42 — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 15:45:14 +0000

Seems like they're not using the CryptoCell to drive crypto ops and have instead written the cypto algos in software in Rust... from the README (https://github.com/google/OpenSK):

We're currently still in the process on making the ARM® CryptoCell-310 embedded in the Nordic nRF52840 chip work to get hardware-accelerated cryptography. In the meantime we implemented the required cryptography algorithms (ECDSA, ECC secp256r1, HMAC-SHA256 and AES256) in Rust as a placeholder. Those implementations are research-quality code and haven't been reviewed. They don't provide constant-time guarantees and are not designed to be resistant against side-channel attacks.