Hacker News: spydum

New comment by spydum in "AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol"

spydum — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 01:17:43 +0000

That was mostly Bayesian probability filters, followed by SPF and more recently DKIM.. Maybe you could consider the Bayesian filter databases being trained as ML, but I feel it's a far way from our typical AI/LLM surge

New comment by spydum in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

spydum — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:31:31 +0000

I have bad news if you think banks are the pinnacle of cyber security practices...

Maybe some rare few are, but by and large they generally stink.

They tend to give that impression because they hire tons of auditors and panjandrum, to hassle their suppliers, but internally they are winging it like the rest of us.

New comment by spydum in "TLS certificates for internal services done right"

spydum — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:34:29 +0000

this is all fine and good, if you are okay broadcasting your internal hostnames. I suppose it's a trade off some might make.

New comment by spydum in "Factoring "short-sleeve" RSA keys with polynomials"

spydum — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:20:23 +0000

Kind of reminds me of https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00...

Interesting they could not figure out pattern 1? Wonder if there is any additional metadata to point at a vendor or provider..

New comment by spydum in "Ask HN: How to be SOC2 Type 2 compliant as a solo-entreprenuer?"

spydum — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:03:56 +0000

Fully agree, the only downside is without a SOC2 you will be asked to fill out an insane 200+ questionnaire. Good news is you have all these great LLM tools you can do this work for you, and just check it over.

New comment by spydum in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

spydum — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:07:31 +0000

We are replacing those with AI agents anyways. It'll be AI agents all the way down!

New comment by spydum in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

spydum — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:24:35 +0000

You could place a prediction bet probably.

New comment by spydum in "5,200 holes carved into a Peruvian mountain left by an ancient economy"

spydum — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:11:10 +0000

really? I feel absolutely assured that every ugly temporary code fix I put in place, will persist for eternity..

New comment by spydum in "Reverse engineering Lyft Bikes for fun (and profit?)"

spydum — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:32:17 +0000

Believe it or not, straight to jail! Just kidding, great writeup. I know it's not groundbreaking, but does surprise me how many products don't bother with rate limiting controls.

New comment by spydum in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (January 2026)"

spydum — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 13:06:17 +0000

Fascinating to see an outsized increase in "game" development compare to a year ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43154065 (I'm sure someone could throw this into some llm analysis and prove it out, but a quick and dirty count of "game" between then two shows a 2x increase on roughly the same comment count).

I suspect has to do with having agentic coding assist for folks who would otherwise not have the means to develop a game, but now do.

New comment by spydum in "Comparing AI agents to cybersecurity professionals in real-world pen testing"

spydum — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 12:39:20 +0000

In fact: https://wilgibbs.com/blog/defcon-finals-mcp/

Which makes me think: yes, llms can solve some of this, but still only some. It's more than a research tool, when you combine tools and agentic workflows. I don't see a reason it should slow down.

New comment by spydum in "Honda: 2 years of ml vs 1 month of prompting - heres what we learned"

spydum — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 21:04:01 +0000

Ah ha! But now the complete lack of emdash and bullet pointed lists from antislop will be the tell! Riposte!

New comment by spydum in "Steam Machine"

spydum — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 12:52:36 +0000

seconding this. I bought a SteamDeck OLED -- and it blows my mind more people havent heard about these. it's essentially a bad ass handheld laptop. yes it plays games great, but the OS side when you boot into desktop mode is quite capable - I spend more time on it than my home pc these days

New comment by spydum in "How much Anthropic and Cursor spend on Amazon Web Services"

spydum — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 16:25:51 +0000

specific clarification: That was only Cursor's AWS bill. If they are using other providers, wasn't clear.

New comment by spydum in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

spydum — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:02:21 +0000

2038 will be more significant

New comment by spydum in "YouTube seems to be down"

spydum — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 00:10:23 +0000

I've never heard that, I think you may be thinking of Netflix and their edge storage appliances.

New comment by spydum in "UTF-8 is a brilliant design"

spydum — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 20:08:19 +0000

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/X3.4-...

Looks to me like serendipity - they thought 8 bits would be wasteful, they didnt have a need for that many characters.

New comment by spydum in "Kerberoasting"

spydum — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 21:57:51 +0000

Yes you can enable specific encryption types for users. It's not super common, but it can be done.

New comment by spydum in "YouTube is a mysterious monopoly"

spydum — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 00:19:21 +0000

My pet theory is the war on ad blocking aka manifestv2 deprecation: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate...

New comment by spydum in "Job mismatch and early career success"

spydum — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 20:00:26 +0000

that is wild! I could certainly see this as an attempt to eliminate hiring bias maybe? that was super popular in that time frame, but never heard anybody taking it that far.