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Oracle lays off employees as it curbs costs during AI buildout

tastroder — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:10:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/oracle-layoffs-employees-costs-ai-buildout-job-cuts-2026-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587657

Points: 2

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New comment by tastroder in "Thinking Fast, Slow, and Artificial: How AI Is Reshaping Human Reasoning"

tastroder — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 08:53:10 +0000

SSRN is a preprint server and that is the only published version.

New comment by tastroder in "Is this cyberwarfare simulator at all realistic – or just for fun?"

tastroder — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 20:27:40 +0000

I clicked on a few red team "scenarios" if you want to call them that, a few of the tiles look like output of regular tools vaguely related to each but the rest - including the main "terminal" thing - seems more on the fictional side to the point I don't see this being educational.

There's plenty of training material out there these days actually using these tools in contained but realistic environments, if education is the goal just go for those.

New comment by tastroder in "Surion GmbH: New AI Consulting and Academy Focused on Real-World Application"

tastroder — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 13:52:46 +0000

How are you tackling users that don't read AI generated output before posting it somewhere?

New comment by tastroder in "'Impossible-to-hack' security turns out to be no security"

tastroder — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:02:06 +0000

> Would he have not disclosed it if they offered hush money? We won’t know, for his case I hope not. In any case - what was he expecting?

A bog-standard responsible disclosure that any tech CEO should either be familiar with or have someone at hand that is, as is clearly communicated in that e-mail.

Both e-mails are OP reaching out to help this company out, the first fixing the vulnerability, the second giving them a chance for compliance / potential regulatory aspects they might want to follow. It's not on random people reporting security vulnerabilities to tutor random companies on this and both behaviors (non-responsiveness, then hostility) of this CEO, despite being sadly common, are actively harmful if you want to get productive security reports in the future. (And the company unilaterally signing up for bug bounty programs is rather irrelevant for independent researchers as well if they have no interest in participating in those.)

New comment by tastroder in "Germany's 49-euro ticket resulted in significant shift from road to rail"

tastroder — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:06:23 +0000

Their accompanying website [0] says mobile phone data comes from teralytix while car movement data is sourced through inrix [1], which appears to gather data through navigation apps of some sort (vague as can be expected but the linked paper [2] claims that).

[0] https://mcc-berlin-ariadne.shinyapps.io/dticket-tracker/

[1] https://inrix.com/

[2] https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4526796

New comment by tastroder in "Wigle.net: All the networks, found by everyone"

tastroder — Tue, 08 Oct 2024 06:17:31 +0000

As far as I'm aware this type of data does not meet the requirements [0] for a GDPR violation and there was a bit of initial litigation around Google's street view data gathering which left this part out as well (e.g. [1] for a somewhat recent discussion).

[0] https://academic.oup.com/idpl/article/1/3/149/688705

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517547

New comment by tastroder in "Ask HN: Can you roast my landing page?"

tastroder — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 12:04:29 +0000

In terms of landing page it certainly worked, got me to check out the linked demos until I hit the signup nudge. Some of them don't seem to be available in English which might be a negative depending on your target audience.

Loading those exposes the e-mail of the account used to create the application (in [0], data->userInfo->email) and those "blocks" downloads contain the entirety of the prompts / applications, which is nice I guess but surely those are only required on the serverside?

[0] https://docs.trickle.so/api/nge/public/tao/objects/-/associa...

New comment by tastroder in "AI Helped Me Build My DIY App – DIY-It"

tastroder — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 05:33:21 +0000

This is exclusively other people's content that's badly credited (if at all) to push Amazon affiliate links.

New comment by tastroder in "make dist using git archive"

tastroder — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 07:44:19 +0000

related https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41232621 "The new PostgreSQL 17 make dist" 3 points, no comments

New comment by tastroder in "[dead]"

tastroder — Sun, 04 Aug 2024 13:39:11 +0000

Nothing, the whole repo and that post are spam intended to drive people to that e-book repository linked in the readme (which in turn is just a bunch of fake updates and likely engagement as well).

New comment by tastroder in "Show HN: I built a free voice test that spots dementia signs via AI"

tastroder — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 13:47:50 +0000

Maybe add a reference to DementiaBank as required by the dataset.

New comment by tastroder in "Global Tech Outage Grounds Flights and Hits Businesses"

tastroder — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:17:20 +0000

"Crowdstrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002195 1260 points, 1008 comments

New comment by tastroder in "Ask HN: What is in C-00000291*.sys?"

tastroder — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:07:22 +0000

The Linux version of CS sensor defaults to being installed as a kernel module as well.

New comment by tastroder in "[dead]"

tastroder — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 10:02:26 +0000

There's no such thing as a best language that only depends on what year it is, what do you want to do with it and are you proficient with any language ecosystems already?

New comment by tastroder in "Show HN: Upload your PDF and get a shareable link"

tastroder — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 06:20:41 +0000

Not sure what the e-mail confirmation flow does but your upload leaks the fileId that can be used to construct the target URI without it.

New comment by tastroder in "Show HN: I made a email attachment scanner to avoid malware"

tastroder — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 07:45:42 +0000

Since my test e-mails from a throwaway don't seem to go through: What checks does this perform? Since the policy pages don't name third parties like virustotal I assume it runs some OSS tools on your side?

Regarding the privacy policy and ToS: How do you see people using this in a corporate setting vs. something local? Most suspicious e-mail I encounter can't just be sent to random third parties.

sidenote: Some of the text is gray on gray and barely visible, e.g. on the main overview page when logged in and your policy pages.

New comment by tastroder in "Ask HN: What's the best paid translation API?"

tastroder — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 08:51:21 +0000

That depends on the language pair(s) and sometimes the domain of texts you're translating.

Assuming you want to stick with the big cloud providers just sign up and test them on your content, they all have straightforward libraries.

New comment by tastroder in "Tell HN: How would you solve my telecom problem?"

tastroder — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 15:53:23 +0000

Terribly sorry to harp on what the others in this thread have said but it seems like you've either been negligently briefed (due to the implausible scenarios you're describing and that you're posting this tied to your real identity, their first name on your website - assuming that's more real than the ChatGPT Ph.D. and other random entries there -, and your previous HN submission) or you're being lied to.

New comment by tastroder in "Tell HN: How would you solve my telecom problem?"

tastroder — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 07:58:58 +0000

I meant your website and resume that you linked there. If this is not some weird thought scenario, pointing her to the public forum you use to discuss alternatives to her simply talking to whoever's responsible for her comsec doesn't seem like the greatest idea. If this is an actual problem it's not yours to solve and certainly has solutions that aren't this... convoluted.