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New comment by tatersolid in "A Post-Quantum Future for Let's Encrypt"

tatersolid — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:37:56 +0000

Clarification/correction:

The Nagasaki “Fat Man” bomb was the same plutonium implosion design tested at Trinity.

The Hiroshima “Little Boy” bomb was the uranium “gun” design that was never tested before combat use. The physics and engineering were comparably straightforward so the scientists were very sure it would work assuming the Urnaium enrichment was pure enough.

Twelve Ways to Be Wrong About AI-Assisted Coding

tatersolid — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 13:12:28 +0000

Article URL: https://third-bit.com/2026/05/20/twelve-ways-to-be-wrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48369834

Points: 2

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New comment by tatersolid in "Microsoft Office 2019 and 2021 for Mac view-only conversion"

tatersolid — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 15:00:40 +0000

Vena is one of the most popular enterprise budgeting/forecasting packages. It ships as a new-style Excel extension making Excel the UI for department heads contributing to a rolled up enterprise budget

New comment by tatersolid in "GitHub bans security researcher who posted zero-day Windows exploits"

tatersolid — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:37:40 +0000

The key is still in the TPM in that scenario it just requires a password to unlock it.

New comment by tatersolid in "Ferrari Luce"

tatersolid — Tue, 26 May 2026 12:57:42 +0000

Luxury goods are funny. No way an owner of this $650K car can stomach the same app as the peasant who owns a $250K Ferrari Amalfi.

New comment by tatersolid in "Browser-based file encryption tool using WebCrypto"

tatersolid — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:38:48 +0000

Purple-gray text on a black background is totally unreadable. Text zoom being overridden as well. Can’t use product with middle-aged eyes.

New comment by tatersolid in "California's Battery Array Is as Powerful as 12 Nuclear Power Plants"

tatersolid — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:02:38 +0000

One thing that gets neglected by policymakers is that our top priority for energy policy should be resiliency. That means distributed systems with varied generation sources, without dependence on foreign suppliers.

This requires regulation unfortunately as it is inherently less efficient and cost optimized than the 1-2 solutions the market will coalesce around.

Solar + batteries are great but if the panels and cells all come from China we can’t base our energy future on that. We’d just be trading the Strait of Hormuz for the Taiwan Strait.

I know the USA can build forests of wind turbines that stretch from horizon to horizon. I’ve seen it in central Indiana. But can we do the same with solar cells and batteries?

Ebola outbreak with uncommon strain erupts in Congo and Uganda; 65 deaths

tatersolid — Sat, 16 May 2026 04:43:19 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/05/ebola-outbreak-confirmed-in-congo-and-uganda-246-suspected-cases-65-deaths/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48156908

Points: 12

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New comment by tatersolid in "Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo"

tatersolid — Fri, 08 May 2026 15:25:26 +0000

Because “Page-cache write into any readable file” is a memory safety bug? All of these recent Linux LPEs are memory safety issues.

New comment by tatersolid in "Credit cards are vulnerable to brute force kind attacks"

tatersolid — Sat, 02 May 2026 15:24:19 +0000

Bitcoin has no dispute/chargeback mechanism in case of error or fraud. That inherent unsafety trumps just about all other safety concerns for a practical payment network.

New comment by tatersolid in "Rumor: Anthropic is going to buy Atlassian?"

tatersolid — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:22:18 +0000

Jira is justifiably derided, but Bamboo was truly Atlassian’s entry into the worst software of all time derby. Basically a random event generator masquerading as a CI/CD system.

Not sure what the appeal is for Anthropic.

Tired of waiting for your EV to charge up? Chinese company has a novel solution

tatersolid — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:39:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.npr.org/2026/04/18/nx-s1-5788990/ev-battery-charge-long-china-nio

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47816269

Points: 1

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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

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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

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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...