Hacker News: smurda

Security checklist for AI startup CTOs

smurda — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:47:15 +0000

Article URL: https://tolmo.com/resources/ai-cto-checklist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48672548

Points: 3

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New comment by smurda in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

smurda — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:46:37 +0000

Or the early days of video uploads, YouTube's most watched videos were "pirated" clips from popular shows (e.g. SpongeBob, The Daily Show) and part of the reason I went to YouTube instead of other video hosting sites (e.g. DailyMotion).

Viacom sued YouTube, while CBS and Universal ended up licensing their content.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2007/03/viacom-v-google-invest...

NASA's Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Arrives in Florida

smurda — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 13:19:53 +0000

Article URL: https://spaceflightnow.com/2026/06/22/nasas-nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope-arrives-in-florida/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48644572

Points: 2

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Kansas City's push for facial recognition on public buses sparks privacy debate

smurda — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 14:02:32 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/kansas-city-facial-recognition-ai-cameras-privacy-87847f57c94b6c2a9e22a7b3a222e703

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48619085

Points: 7

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New methodology for ranking VC firms and individual investors by Stanford prof

smurda — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:51:24 +0000

Article URL: https://ilyastrebulaev.substack.com/p/ranking-venture-investor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48569762

Points: 4

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New comment by smurda in "Last.fm is now independent"

smurda — Wed, 27 May 2026 22:08:51 +0000

I love last.fm but never understood the URL structure naming convention. Why use a "+" instead of a "-" for every band page (e.g. https://www.last.fm/music/The+Beatles).

I thought Kebab-case is usually the norm, and I don't think I've seen the "+" in any other URL paths that aren't query strings. Any ideas why they formatted it like this?

New comment by smurda in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

smurda — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:57:35 +0000

The "Don't be evil" Google feels long gone

Party of None: Inside Stanford's War on Fun

smurda — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:22:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/stanford-war-on-fun

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48186608

Points: 29

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Steven Soderbergh defends using AI in a documentary about John Lennon

smurda — Mon, 18 May 2026 14:22:02 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/john-lennon-steven-soderbergh-ai-cannes-documentary-7794a4344ed455cae4c5780fa6610860

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48180326

Points: 2

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Princeton will supervise exams for first time in 133 years because of AI

smurda — Fri, 15 May 2026 01:11:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/princeton-proctor-exams-ai-b2976111.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48143304

Points: 2

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Harvard Votes on Limiting "A" Grades

smurda — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:17:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2026/05/11/harvard-faculty-vote-grade-inflation-cap-a-grades-ivy-league

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48126924

Points: 3

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The Post-Mortem Problem

smurda — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:19:41 +0000

Article URL: https://incident.io/blog/the-post-mortem-problem

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116313

Points: 4

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Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students' stolen data

smurda — Tue, 12 May 2026 23:54:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdepzg83x87o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48116118

Points: 3

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New comment by smurda in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"

smurda — Mon, 11 May 2026 19:21:33 +0000

How much time is required to spend with someone to become friends with them?

If you assume 20 hours, that's 5-10 hangout sessions with someone. During a working life, that might take over a year. University life offers large windows of disposable time to forge those friendships. In work life, we don't have as much disposable time to spend building friendships.

Rassvet, Russia's Answer to Starlink

smurda — Mon, 11 May 2026 17:22:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wired.com/story/meet-rassvet-russias-answer-to-starlink/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48097865

Points: 3

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New comment by smurda in "Canvas (Instructure) LMS Down in Ongoing Ransomware Attack"

smurda — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:13:51 +0000

Blackboard, the Canvas predecessor, was so unstable that we called it BlackOutBoard

Researcher Finds Microsoft Edge Stored Passwords Load in Plaintext

smurda — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:31:20 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pcmag.com/news/researcher-finds-microsoft-edge-stored-passwords-load-in-plaintext

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48051393

Points: 1

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New comment by smurda in "Show HN: I indexed 8,643 BSides talks across 227 chapters and 6 continents"

smurda — Tue, 05 May 2026 15:03:00 +0000

This is actually super useful! I find much more useful current and tactical information at BSides than I do at RSA/BlackHat.

New comment by smurda in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

smurda — Sat, 02 May 2026 05:25:41 +0000

In “Why We Sleep” by Harvard sleep researcher Matthew Walker, he says that during REM sleep your brain revisits emotional experiences but in a chemically safe environment. Stress-related chemicals like noradrenaline are greatly reduced so you can replay difficult or painful memories but without the full emotional intensity you felt at the time. The brain can process and “defuse” those emotions.

TLDR, sleeping on it works.

U.S. senators ban themselves from prediction markets trading

smurda — Fri, 01 May 2026 14:35:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/30/senate-prediction-markets-trading-ban-kalshi-polymarket.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47975281

Points: 5

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