Hacker News: tatersolid

New comment by tatersolid in "Queueing Requests Queues Your Capacity Problems, Too"

tatersolid — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 10:00:17 +0000

I’ve observed airlines will do this as well if they have maintenance or gate queues. They will sacrifice 1-2 flights (hours late or even cancelled) to keep many other flights near on-time. Fewer angry customers, better reported average “on-time” metrics.

New comment by tatersolid in "Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

tatersolid — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 06:02:01 +0000

Concur. My kids and watched a “small” Falcon 9 launch from the mainland park nearest the pad at Cape Canaveral. The noise alone was astonishing; bring binoculars to see detail.

New comment by tatersolid in "WolfGuard: WireGuard with FIPS 140-3 cryptography"

tatersolid — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:24:52 +0000

FIPS-140 allowed encryption using 3DES up until Jan 1 2024, and allowed certification of modules containing SHA-1 through the end of 2025. There is some transition-timeline nuance involved, but those examples are in general pretty horrible from a security perspective.

New comment by tatersolid in "Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia"

tatersolid — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 13:03:39 +0000

The shortage of ATC staff dates back to the Clinton Administration. It’s just hard to attract people into a 5+ year training program for a very stressful job where you might get bounced near the end with no payout and no transferrable job skills.

Feds Disrupt IoT Botnets Behind DDoS Attacks

tatersolid — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 11:53:11 +0000

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/feds-disrupt-iot-botnets-behind-huge-ddos-attacks/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47453311

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by tatersolid in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"

tatersolid — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:20:44 +0000

> Unlike in sports/stocks there are no rules / punishment for insider trading.

Wouldn’t the good old-fashioned fraud laws present in basically every jurisdiction apply?

SMTP on the Edge

tatersolid — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 17:45:32 +0000

Article URL: https://dbushell.com/2026/03/17/smtp-on-the-edge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402257

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by tatersolid in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

tatersolid — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:39:12 +0000

This article states higher per-capita horse deaths in 1900 New York City than automobile deaths in 2023. This stat does not account for the significant disease caused by all that manure mixing with water supplies. Its unclear if automobile pollution is overall worse from a public health standpoint than mountains of horse poo.

https://horse-canada.com/horses-and-history/the-poo-conferen...

New comment by tatersolid in "Innocent woman jailed after being misidentified using AI facial recognition"

tatersolid — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:19:39 +0000

> Before the introduction of cars, “poor road engineering practices” wouldn’t result in those deaths.

Death by adverse horse encounter was very common before the 1920s. Not sure how many of those deaths can be blamed on poor quality road engineering. But putting a bunch of humans, carts, and excitable half-ton animals in the same crowded streets seems like poor engineering practice.

New comment by tatersolid in "Privacy-preserving age and identity verification via anonymous credentials"

tatersolid — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 09:38:40 +0000

Title has been modified by this submission. Actual title of article is Anonymous credentials: an illustrated primer.

New comment by tatersolid in "Meta Deployed AI and It Is Killing Our Agency"

tatersolid — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 12:55:11 +0000

This same scenario happened to me as well, and my “appeal” was instantly automatically denied.

New comment by tatersolid in "MuMu Player (NetEase) silently runs 17 reconnaissance commands every 30 minutes"

tatersolid — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:18:37 +0000

[citation needed]

Please stop with the hyperbole. Shit is bad enough; more fake news from any direction doesn’t help.

Please Don't Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters

tatersolid — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 10:39:43 +0000

Article URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/02/please-dont-feed-the-scattered-lapsus-shiny-hunters/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46957872

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tatersolid in "Italy Railways Sabotaged"

tatersolid — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 19:37:15 +0000

Perhaps it was actually an authorized drone?

Here in the USA quad-copter drones are used to inspect powerlines and other infrastructure; I see them a few times per year in my area. I don’t see why they wouldn’t use drones to visually inspect train tracks as well. Very cost effective and energy efficient alternative to manual inspection in a vehicle of some kind.

MaliciousCorgi: AI Extensions send your code to China

tatersolid — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 12:59:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.koi.ai/blog/maliciouscorgi-the-cute-looking-ai-extensions-leaking-code-from-1-5-million-developers

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46855527

Points: 91

# Comments: 89

New comment by tatersolid in "US trade deficit widens by the most in nearly 34 years in November"

tatersolid — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 14:00:11 +0000

Liquids are heavy. A large chunk of the retail cost in bottled drinks of all types is transport and distribution.

The same is true of liquid detergents and soaps and anything else you buy that is mostly water - even fresh produce.

New comment by tatersolid in "Automating Image Compression"

tatersolid — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 13:51:54 +0000

Where do you store high quality original images in case future edits or recompression with better codecs are needed? Generation loss is a thing.

I view the high-quality originals as “source” and resized+optimized images as “compiled” binaries. You generally want source in Git, not your compiled binaries.

Building Cryptographic Agility into Sigstore

tatersolid — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 02:54:12 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/01/29/building-cryptographic-agility-into-sigstore/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46820022

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tatersolid in "Microsoft gave FBI set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops"

tatersolid — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 12:35:02 +0000

> you can just enable either scx_lavd or scx_bpfland from the kernel settings

So Linux is still nowhere near an option for non technical users.

New comment by tatersolid in "MTOTP: Wouldn't it be nice if you were the 2FA device?"

tatersolid — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 11:41:40 +0000

You’ve never had a concussion, gone under anesthesia, or gotten older? Memory based passwords are not durable; I personally forgot my Google account password after a surgery.