Hacker News: smurda

New comment by smurda in "Patrick Stewart has died"

smurda — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 20:29:42 +0000

I have very few holiday traditions, but one is I listen to his one man show reading of a Christmas Carol. It's a great 1 hr and 45 min spent during the holidays: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000JCE3CU

In China, the AI bubble has burst

smurda — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:44:20 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/analysis-china-ai-bubble-already-120038616.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265525

Points: 14

# Comments: 3

Anduril Partners with Qualcomm to Build Laptops on US Soil

smurda — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 20:20:39 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/military-drone-outfit-anduril-partners-with-qualcomm-to-build-laptops-on-us-soil-with-new-bluechip-venture-defense-contractor-targets-a-100-percent-domestic-supply-chain-in-the-future

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50265225

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

Google's privacy policy to use info shared through Personal Intelligence for ads

smurda — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 19:43:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.androidauthority.com/google-personal-intelligence-privacy-3727111/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50235338

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Technical details of php2shell discovered 2 years ago

smurda — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 20:22:45 +0000

Article URL: https://tolmo.com/blog/faster-than-anyone-can-fix-them/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50200495

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Why governments pulled websites offline over the decades-old PHP language

smurda — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/10/22/php2shell-vulnerability-what-is-it-and-is-your-data-at-risk.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50199203

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

A Chicago-area college told Flock to remove its cameras. The company refused

smurda — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:54:31 +0000

Article URL: https://chicago.suntimes.com/education/2026/10/09/to-protect-immigrant-students-a-chicago-area-college-told-flock-to-remove-its-cameras-the-company-refused

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50048861

Points: 54

# Comments: 9

Physicists identify 'octupolar' magnetism, with implications for quantum tech

smurda — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 06:08:52 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2026-09-physicists-octupolar-magnetism-implications-quantum.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49951130

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New Mexico wants Meta to pay $40B in penalties after data privacy trial

smurda — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 04:13:15 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/media-advertising/articles/mexico-wants-meta-pay-40-231305611.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49941293

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Microsoft anoints Rust as a 'Tier 1' internal language

smurda — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 19:50:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/devops/2026/09/11/microsoft-anoints-rust-as-a-tier-1-internal-language/5295732

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49759308

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Bug Bounty Operating Principles

smurda — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:12:21 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@JasonPuglisi/bug-bounty-principles-c379a2062614

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49721998

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Security Engineering: The Craft Has Changed

smurda — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:44:47 +0000

Article URL: https://alexanderschroll.com/blog/the-craft-has-changed/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719283

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Building an Application Security Program That Works

smurda — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 01:36:35 +0000

Article URL: https://collinsthoughts.substack.com/p/building-an-application-security

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49706648

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by smurda in "Japan's book scene is quietly moving from bookstores to libraries"

smurda — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:29:05 +0000

"Until recently, oh, maybe still now… libraries have been boring and uncool place for most Japanese people."

This is the perception of libraries in many places. Libraries are a tremendous public good that is underutilized. If we can make them "cool" people would take advantage of this resource.

This is even a challenge for bookstores. In the UK, James Daunt successfully built Daunt Books, an independent bookshop in the age of Amazon by making it "cool" and personalized. Most recently, he became the CEO of Barnes and Noble to make that large chain bookstore a place people want to be. https://www.modernretail.co/operations/barnes-noble-ceo-jame...

I very much want libraries and bookstores to be a part of our society, so I'm a huge fan of "making them cool" so that more people will use them and they will continue to exist, and thrive, in our society.

New comment by smurda in "Genius AI Detector"

smurda — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 02:31:17 +0000

" The text is AI-generated. Here's how we know: Contains em-dash. Since the dawn of written language, no genuine human text has ever contained an em-dash. The evaluated text contains at least one, so you can be 100% sure that it was generated by AI."

I used to love an em-dash. Now it gets categorized as AI slop, sadly.

New comment by smurda in "Pre-auth RCE on MikroTik: exploited before the patch, rebuilt in three hours"

smurda — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:56:53 +0000

“Exploitation started three days before the public advisory”

I think bug bounty programs are completely overwhelmed right now. Idk how people keep up with them.

U.S. auto companies call for ban on Chinese-made cars

smurda — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 17:20:21 +0000

Article URL: https://thehill.com/policy/transportation/6070614-auto-companies-congress-letter-chinese-car-ban/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49567461

Points: 5

# Comments: 7

Sonos Has New Devices, a New OS, and Yes, a New App

smurda — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:25:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/sonos-has-new-devices-a-new-os-and-yes-a-new-app/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49536755

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by smurda in "An investigation into the state of corvid–human relations"

smurda — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:46:42 +0000

Crows can remember a dangerous person and tell their friends about it. From "Social learning spreads knowledge about dangerous humans among American crows" (https://faculty.washington.edu/wirsinga/Cornell2011.pdf)

We exposed wild crows to a novel ‘dangerous face’ by wearing a unique mask as we trapped, banded and released 7 –15 birds at five study sites near Seattle, WA, USA. An immediate scolding response to the dangerous mask after trapping by previously captured crows demonstrates individual learning, while an immediate response by crows that were not captured probably represents conditioning to the trapping scene by the mob of birds that assembled during the capture. Later recognition of dangerous masks by lone crows that were never captured is consistent with horizontal social learning. Independent scolding by young crows, whose parents had conditioned them to scold the dangerous mask, demonstrates vertical social learning.

Microsoft gives Task Manager another task: Watching AI workloads

smurda — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 11:16:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/08/20/microsoft-gives-task-manager-another-task-watching-ai-workloads/5290448

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49386447

Points: 3

# Comments: 0