Hacker News: sunk1st

New comment by sunk1st in "Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era"

sunk1st — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 12:52:39 +0000

My impression from the article is that it took $20,000 to perform all 1,000 runs.

New comment by sunk1st in "Pipelined State Machine Corruption"

sunk1st — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 23:50:35 +0000

> So now we rejected the MAIL FROM command and accepted the incorrectly addressed RCPT TO.

Which is the incorrectly addressed RCPT TO and why is it so?

New comment by sunk1st in "OpenAI's new reasoning AI models hallucinate more"

sunk1st — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 02:57:56 +0000

What does that mean? Smart?

New comment by sunk1st in "How to write blog posts that developers read"

sunk1st — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 14:04:14 +0000

Wouldn’t that be a regular pyramid? In what sense is it inverted?

New comment by sunk1st in "Why Does Integer Addition Approximate Float Multiplication?"

sunk1st — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 21:53:51 +0000

Is it acceptable to use the imperative? That is, to say: “Now, invert the element”. Or should it always be, “take the inverse of …”?

New comment by sunk1st in "Archivists work to save disappearing data.gov datasets"

sunk1st — Sat, 01 Feb 2025 17:36:12 +0000

I don’t see a list of the datasets that have gone missing. Is there a list?

New comment by sunk1st in "Accessing a DRM Framebuffer to display an image"

sunk1st — Sat, 07 Dec 2024 19:26:49 +0000

Can this be done on Mac OS?

New comment by sunk1st in "CRLF is obsolete and should be abolished"

sunk1st — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 21:43:27 +0000

> Nobody ever wants to be in the middle of a line, then move down to the next line and continue writing in the next column from where you left off. No real-world program ever wants to do that.

Is this true?

New comment by sunk1st in "Digital signatures and how to avoid them"

sunk1st — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 21:45:42 +0000

That doesn’t matter. The claim being made by the grandparent post is that the legal system isn’t well-equipped to deal with scenarios like, “yes the digital signature is valid but it was improperly authorized.”

New comment by sunk1st in "No Salt"

sunk1st — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 15:30:59 +0000

Time savings

New comment by sunk1st in "Astronauts take shelter in Starliner, other spacecraft after satellite breakup"

sunk1st — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:28:05 +0000

What makes the one spacecraft safer than the other?

New comment by sunk1st in "Timeliness without datagrams using QUIC"

sunk1st — Sun, 23 Jun 2024 16:51:51 +0000

It’s true that a stream-oriented abstraction puts constraints on the communication channel that don’t exist for a datagram oriented protocol.

New comment by sunk1st in "Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity"

sunk1st — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:03:17 +0000

45 divided by three is 15 is double digit.

New comment by sunk1st in "Attacking NIST SP 800-108 (Loss of Key Control Security)"

sunk1st — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 17:10:56 +0000

This appears to me similar to the attack against weak Fiat Shamir presented at RWC this year.

eBay to Stop Accepting Amex

sunk1st — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 21:41:05 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/ebay-american-express-payment-processing-merchant-fees-f04d01938e099b3d8043e91963426072

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590944

Points: 3

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New comment by sunk1st in "How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?"

sunk1st — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:55:10 +0000

Perhaps we should consider relaying the signal through a third satellite.

New comment by sunk1st in "How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?"

sunk1st — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 18:52:07 +0000

In so many words, Shannon gave a proof showing that in general the sample rate of a digital sensor puts an upper bound on the frequency of any signal that sensor is able to detect.

Unlike the Nyquist-Shannon theory, compressed sensing is not generally applicable: it requires a sparse signal.

As with many other optimization techniques, it’s a trade off between soundness and completeness.

New comment by sunk1st in "Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went"

sunk1st — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 20:42:45 +0000

Why those things specifically?

New comment by sunk1st in "Everything I Know About the XZ Backdoor"

sunk1st — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 00:25:35 +0000

I don’t think it was luck. I think some people are so in tune with their systems that investigating an anomaly like this is a frequent occurrence. This particular anomaly just happened to have an explosive ending.

New comment by sunk1st in "Disrupting malicious uses of AI by state-affiliated threat actors"

sunk1st — Wed, 14 Feb 2024 16:58:34 +0000

It’s silly that they do that. I doubt it matters, though. In my experience, querying ChatGPT for factual information like that is a mistake. It isn’t reliably accurate enough.