Hacker News: sybercecurity

New comment by sybercecurity in "US sanctions Italian hosting provider Autistici Inventati"

sybercecurity — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:08:44 +0000

Declaring a group of "hackers" as global terrorists? Mark off that spot on your Cyberpunk Dystopia Bingo cards.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Tim Curry has died"

sybercecurity — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:28:30 +0000

Dang, forgot about her. That makes the rule of thumb. Well, until we notice another pattern that isn't there...

New comment by sybercecurity in "Tim Curry has died"

sybercecurity — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 16:14:49 +0000

Tim Curry, Dolly Parton, who is number 3?

New comment by sybercecurity in "Why people aren't buying Mark Zuckerberg's AI future"

sybercecurity — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:01:47 +0000

Aren't buying? It's all we're talking about in the metaverse!

New comment by sybercecurity in "U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’"

sybercecurity — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:10:07 +0000

A few years ago, there was a mini-trend of showboating about how many universities that accepted you. It is not difficult to apply to dozens of schools, with the assumption that you are not going to attend, but only to post that you got accepted on social media. Type A parents encourage this since it reflects on them as well (must be a good parent if the kid got accepted to 20+ universities).

Universities have caught on to this trend, and use other heuristics for acceptance like "has this person ever emailed us or visited the campus?" and not just taking applications as the only input. So acceptance rates have started to reflect this. Sorting through 1000's of throw away applications to find those who might actually want to attend.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Would you trust your boss with data about your brain?"

sybercecurity — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 13:54:07 +0000

That isn't the first question. The first question is: "How many people in the organization besides your boss has access?"

New comment by sybercecurity in "Flood warning: How citizens' AI agents will swamp public services"

sybercecurity — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:35:12 +0000

A subset of problems would be "how to differentiate citizen's agents from scammers/DoS attacks".

New comment by sybercecurity in "Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]"

sybercecurity — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:29:38 +0000

Sales pitch for a rocket company.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Why Substack Is Collapsing: Subscription Model Has Maxed Out"

sybercecurity — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:30:03 +0000

Wonder if "internet content subscriptions" could be an indicator of overall economic health. When people see their budgets being stretched, many look to cut expenses and unread newsletter subscriptions would be high on the list. Paid subscriptions its own isn't a good indicator, but maybe something worth looking into. Is also translating to other sites and services?

New comment by sybercecurity in "The Red Cross plans to extend its protection to cyberspace"

sybercecurity — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:12:17 +0000

Was following this work for the past few years. There were several proposals on how to do this from DNS RRs, to HTTP headers and TLS extensions. I appreciate the effort, but wonder if it will actually accomplish anything. Maybe state sponsored/managed campaigns will take emblems into consideration but I doubt criminals will. Plus if there is shared infrastructure, they may be caught in the blast radius anyway. Like attacking satellites (e.g. Starlink) to disrupt communications may also impact NGO operations nearby also using the service.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Cookware Got Worse on Purpose: Who Owns Pyrex and All-Clad Now"

sybercecurity — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 05:58:06 +0000

Yes, but it would require lawmakers and regulators to put reforms in place to move away from financializing-all-the-things to something different. Right now, the money is in financializing-all-the-things, so that isn't going to stop. Most can't even articulate with the something different could be - reindustrialization with stronger labor laws? Anti-monopoly moves to break up big corporations into smaller ones and prevent M&As?

The ultimate check is some form of socialist revolution, which then ends up swinging to the extreme the other way. There never seems to be a balance.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Usps.com and All Subdomains Down"

sybercecurity — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:57:49 +0000

Getting timeouts from dig, but the gTLD servers still show the delegation. So it's a problem with the usps.com auth zone servers.

New comment by sybercecurity in "I'm just so bored of AI"

sybercecurity — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:18:49 +0000

I am starting to believe the theory that the IT industry (well, the Silicon Valley part) is just chasing the dragon to try and relive the glory days of the early Internet boom. So it's trying to will the next big thing into existence.

Blockchain wasn't it, crypto became a haven for scams so normal people avoided it. AI is just the latest tech to be artificially pumped to make it appear "Silicon Valley" still has the magic.

New comment by sybercecurity in "A.I. Doomaxxing Is Bad for Our Economy"

sybercecurity — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 14:54:34 +0000

I think the term someone coined is "Doomtrolling" - the tendency to oversell AI as fundamentally upending IT, security, the economy, social order, etc. Both sides (pro and anti AI) do it.

New comment by sybercecurity in "The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. It May Not Be Possible"

sybercecurity — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:48:35 +0000

It likely isn't: https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.10100

Feels like the days when SQL injection was seen all the time. We learned mixing instructions and data is a bad idea and a constant game of whack-a-mole. Now a new generation gets to learn this lesson.

New comment by sybercecurity in "The Slate Truck's price may have leaked, starts at $24,950"

sybercecurity — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:45:16 +0000

Having a light truck really comes in handy, this might fill that need. Range wouldn't be an issue most of the time. Just depends on how big the market is with these groups:

Young people: affordable, useful for moving (dorm, apartments, etc.), outdoor activities.

Wealthier w/ land: cheap enough to be a 3rd (4th?) vehicle useful when running to Home Depot or Ikea to get stuff.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Our politicians fear engineers so much that they risk high treason charges"

sybercecurity — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 12:34:24 +0000

Fear or ignorance? I've had similar discussions back in the day and there were two themes in all the arguments:

1. Major cloud providers are professionals (implying you somehow aren't). They do this so well people pay them, so they must be better at it than anyone else on earth.

2. Perceived ease of use: management has been using Gmail/MS Office for so long they naturally assume there is no alternative. Why switch from something that works? Plus when something goes wrong they have a full team fixing it instead of the local IT guys (back to argument 1).

New comment by sybercecurity in "Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security"

sybercecurity — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:39:20 +0000

Because it's an EO, which is not a law. EOs can only direct how the executive branch functions. Sometimes it could include calls for regulation if there are pre-existing regulatory powers.

New comment by sybercecurity in "Meta asks users to pay for WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook"

sybercecurity — Fri, 29 May 2026 12:32:23 +0000

This looks aimed at influencers at first. The only feature touted is more data about viewers and followers.

If it were a non-horrible version of social media, maybe. I get the feeling it will be just the same with more data to target your herd (sorry, "followers").

New comment by sybercecurity in "Ask HN: Is the future of CS mostly applied and mostly in biology?"

sybercecurity — Thu, 28 May 2026 13:39:21 +0000

Or lean into the "science" part of CS. There is a lot to examine about how complex systems actually operate. Like what does "typical" network traffic look like? Is there even such a thing that can be broken down into categories like "enterprise", "home", etc.? It's been hard to create a tool to mimic or create synthetic traffic loads for testing.