Hacker News: pinevale

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

pinevale — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:25:11 +0000

> In one of Sean Carroll's AMA's, he once said something along the lines of "entropy favors the attacker over the defender."

Eh, kinda. The defenders have the advantage of playing on the home turf. They know their infrastructure, can have sensors and traps everywhere. The bad guys are stumbling in the dark. They have no idea what's real and what's a honeypot, what signals you're watching, etc.

The problem is that almost no one takes this advantage seriously. If you're not paying attention to your infra, yeah, you're gonna get owned.

New comment by pinevale in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"

pinevale — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:26:16 +0000

We had another person vibecode a very similar thing few weeks back: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50036864

Both are similarly unplayable, but I guess it's the thought that counts.

New comment by pinevale in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

pinevale — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 17:54:23 +0000

And my point is that they don't want to punish scammers, they want to get money from businesses. In that view, the limit is not absurd, it's pretty carefully calibrated to make sure that every business with an active Facebook Page needs to pay (but not before they get set up).

New comment by pinevale in "Facebook Pages require paid subscription to post more than two links per month"

pinevale — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:59:40 +0000

> The chosen thresholds are a bit absurd

The threshold isn't for your grandpa, it's for Facebook Pages, which are basically landing pages for businesses on Facebook. And I think it's chosen very deliberately: so that you can set up your page for free, promote it, and then realize you need to pay to keep it alive.

New comment by pinevale in "Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs"

pinevale — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 16:42:38 +0000

The fact that AI can be duped more easily than a human while sounding more authoritative and being entrusted with more and more critical tasks is really not something you should feel compelled to defend or relativize. It's a problem and the industry doesn't seem to have a good fix.