Hacker News: rtehfm

New comment by rtehfm in "U.S. investors, Trump close in on TikTok deal with China"

rtehfm — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 19:34:07 +0000

As part of Project Texas[1], they've already been using Oracle's infrastructure.

> The central feature of Project Texas is our work with Oracle to isolate the TikTok services serving U.S. users within Oracle’s U.S. cloud environment as an additional safeguard. Although gateways to the storage infrastructure are strictly monitored and controlled, U.S. users of the TikTok platform can still communicate and interact with global users for a cohesive global experience.

[1]https://usds.tiktok.com/usds-about

New comment by rtehfm in "Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI"

rtehfm — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 19:19:09 +0000

True, but the original Steam was created for managing updates to Counter Strike and their anti-cheap system (VAC if memory serves me right). Also back when having a low WON ID (now SteamID) was a badge of honor (like having a low Slashdot account ID).

New comment by rtehfm in "ZenHammer: Rowhammer attacks on AMD Zen-based platforms"

rtehfm — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:25:26 +0000

Sounds like a recipe to become to the next Ted Kaczynski.

New comment by rtehfm in "Microsoft is discontinuing Visual Studio for Mac after major overhaul"

rtehfm — Wed, 30 Aug 2023 19:30:43 +0000

VS Code isn't being discontinued for Mac - just Visual Studio.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-fo...

New comment by rtehfm in "Windy.com: global weather website with live filters"

rtehfm — Sat, 19 Aug 2023 15:34:46 +0000

What do you use now that Dark Sky's APIs support has ended? Tomorrow.io's APIs seem interesting.

https://www.tomorrow.io/weather-api/

New comment by rtehfm in "The Sourdough Framework"

rtehfm — Tue, 16 May 2023 19:26:46 +0000

From a security perspective, as someone who enjoys cooking as a hobby, I thought it would be interesting to use a tactic-by-technique perspective. You could visualize the tactics and techniques as a matrix of cooking techniques grouped by tactics moving from researching menus, procuring ingredients, preparing ingredients, to cutting/trimming techniques, to cooking/grilling/sauteing, to plating/presenting.

New comment by rtehfm in "Malvertising on Google Ads"

rtehfm — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 22:51:47 +0000

I mean they _do_ have VirusTotal to compare hashes to. It's obviously not fool-proof but it's an option.

New comment by rtehfm in "Support for U2F security keys"

rtehfm — Tue, 11 Jun 2019 16:15:24 +0000

Yubico makes a Yubikey with NFC, if you're interested.

https://www.yubico.com/products/yubikey-for-mobile/

New comment by rtehfm in "Goals vs. Systems (2013)"

rtehfm — Sun, 27 May 2018 17:24:47 +0000

Not that it matters, but this was the submission that garnered, I believe, the most traction.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6547912

On topic: I was just mentioned this book to a coworker last week. I highly suggest Scott Adams' book How to Fail at Almost Anything and Still Win Big.

New comment by rtehfm in "Thinning in brain regions important for memory linked to sedentary habits"

rtehfm — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 13:42:23 +0000

Apparently, there's no _true_ offset for extended hours of sitting[1]. There might be some science/studies behind smart watches urging you to stand for a couple of minutes every hour, however.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/08/the-new-e...

New comment by rtehfm in "COBINHOOD – Cryptocurrency Exchange without trading fees"

rtehfm — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:48:31 +0000

It's extremely suspicious. Their exchange rate for BTC-USD is $6200 USD[1][2]? Yeah, I'll pass.

Well hey, on a side note, at least they have an, albeit likely fake, web trading platform that's publicly accessible before Robinhood. Lol.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/OQJDi [2] https://cobinhood.com/trade/BTC-USD

New comment by rtehfm in "Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics Made Simple (2012)"

rtehfm — Mon, 20 Nov 2017 01:06:52 +0000

Thanks. I was about to buy the book on Amazon for ~$90 but at least now I can give it a read first to see if it's worth, for me at least, buying.

New comment by rtehfm in "Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone"

rtehfm — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:29:22 +0000

Or 1) planting evidence (no need for extended wire taps, 2) voice recognition software for access control, and 3) nearly any other fraud that will exploit the acceptance/authorization of verbal consent.

New comment by rtehfm in "Amazon wins streaming rights for Thursday Night Football"

rtehfm — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 12:13:03 +0000

>> then the FCC gave the cable companies a special exemption to allow them to start Encrypting the signal that is when they started to screw people over on the Box fees

Admittedly, I don't mind this because it has drastically improved service availability and quality in my area by stopping people from stealing cable.

New comment by rtehfm in "Txt.fyi"

rtehfm — Thu, 23 Feb 2017 20:55:27 +0000

And then there's http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/

New comment by rtehfm in "Why Are America's Most Innovative Companies Still Stuck in 1950s Suburbia?"

rtehfm — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 03:42:01 +0000

That's hardly why suburbs became popular across the world. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suburb#Origins_of_the_modern_s...

New comment by rtehfm in "Machine Learning 101: An Intro to Utilizing Decision Trees"

rtehfm — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 11:09:55 +0000

Honest question - I have several machine learning with Python books that I'm about to dive into but before doing so, which resources would you recommend a complete beginner in ML to read?

New comment by rtehfm in "A majority of millennials now reject capitalism"

rtehfm — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:43:16 +0000

Washington Post also published an article about how millennials prefer socialism until they get jobs and it comes out of their pocket.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2016/03/24/...

New comment by rtehfm in "Heroku Kafka"

rtehfm — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:37:10 +0000

What are your thoughts on Kafka vs Flume?

New comment by rtehfm in "A majority of millennials now reject capitalism"

rtehfm — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:29:59 +0000

You don't think that Google search enjoys being on hundreds of million devices?

Remember 1999-2001 when Google unseated Yahoo from the king of search? It was a feat that seemed impossible when you had established search engines like Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Excite, DogPile, etc. all competing in the space.

As with most industries and its enterprises, you'll always have an event horizon and then singularity until markets are saturated and the industry becomes irrelevant to the consumer.