Hacker News: richbell

New comment by richbell in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

richbell — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:57:08 +0000

I moderated a large Reddit community (circa 2014). She threatened to have articles written about how we were racist/misogynistic, unless we removed comments she didn't like.

Her being nasty elsewhere doesn't surprise me...

New comment by richbell in "SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75T, reports say"

richbell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:22:27 +0000

I suspect that he at least uses AI for scripts. He tends to repeat the same thing worded slightly differently a few times.

New comment by richbell in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

richbell — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:13:33 +0000

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...

New comment by richbell in "Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say"

richbell — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 01:15:53 +0000

Is the implication that someone can't dislike both?

New comment by richbell in "I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites"

richbell — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:31:53 +0000

If you find an exposed token in the wild, for a service supported by GitHub Secret Scanning, uploading it to a Gist will either immediately revoke it or notify the owner.

New comment by richbell in "I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites"

richbell — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:20:22 +0000

How is reminding people that they can safely revoke exposed API keys not informative? Why are you being so combative?

New comment by richbell in "You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?"

richbell — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:15:07 +0000

AWS sends me an invoice for $0.01 every month.

New comment by richbell in "What canceled my Go context?"

richbell — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:25:04 +0000

Kotlin Coroutine's structured concurrency. Cancelling a parent automatically cancels child jobs, unless explicitly handled not to. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html

New comment by richbell in "Bun v1.3.9"

richbell — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 18:10:47 +0000

Parallel and Series makes sense to me; it's also the terminology used for electrical circuits.

New comment by richbell in "Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server"

richbell — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:43:10 +0000

The purpose of command and control servers is to send and receive data to victims devices.

A secondary goal is to do so while evading detection. This is why many threat actors piggy-back off of legitimate services, it disguises the malware communications and avoids directly exposing the upstream C2 instance.

New comment by richbell in "PGlite – Embeddable Postgres"

richbell — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 17:47:46 +0000

The main use case, in my opinion, is for tests/CI. SQLite has traditionally been used to quickly run tests, however, if your actual infra uses PostgreSQL then the value is limited.

New comment by richbell in "Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera"

richbell — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:34:15 +0000

That is what "end-to-end encryption" has come to mean in marketing. In the same way that every single product is "natural."

New comment by richbell in "GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France"

richbell — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 22:41:58 +0000

One highly publicized incident was https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13s7mv3/why_...

New comment by richbell in "Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)"

richbell — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 00:49:01 +0000

Uber's business model is to be a loss leader to hamper competition, then jack up rider rates and lower drive rates. This is technically a 'working' business model, but hardly one that benefits the people.

New comment by richbell in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

richbell — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 14:51:48 +0000

> Hang on a minute. How do you square your claim that it's as it should be that train drivers can be paid as much as airline pilots, with your claim that everyone else is underpaid, including, presumably, airline pilots

What is inconsistent about those two things?

You can simultaneously believe that train drivers and airline pilots deserve to be paid more.

New comment by richbell in "American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks"

richbell — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:39:22 +0000

> He said that his team had hoped for it to become a prescription medicine dosed at 500 mcg, because anything higher gave paradoxical effects and actually made sleep worse.

Tangentially, I'm reminded of this interview around ~31m.

TL;DR they found something that promoted deeper sleep, but people didnt necessary feel "well rested", and so it was shelved for something that subjectively improved sleep but actually reduced the quality of sleep.

https://youtu.be/UWhk2LMDwCc?t=31m

New comment by richbell in "Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors"

richbell — Sat, 01 Nov 2025 20:51:06 +0000

There are a number of products and open source tools that do this. Look up "secret scanning".

Security Update: Red Hat Consulting GitLab Incident

richbell — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 20:00:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/security-update-incident-related-red-hat-consulting-gitlab-instance

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45454762

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by richbell in "Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry"

richbell — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:05:29 +0000

> in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security...

The claims made by DOGE were highly misleading (i.e., lack of death date does not mean a 150 year old is receiving money).

Moreover, it wasn't a novel discovery. It had already been identified and published in a 2023 audit: https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

New comment by richbell in "One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone"

richbell — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 15:51:50 +0000

The modern Internet is a privacy nightmare in large part due to advertisers. Having every aspect of your life surveiled, packaged, and sold is not a trivial issue.