Hacker News: tomesco

New comment by tomesco in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

tomesco — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 02:23:59 +0000

Information won’t sway someone who’s views aren’t based on information.

New comment by tomesco in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

tomesco — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:28:19 +0000

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773812

New comment by tomesco in "US SEC preparing to scrap quarterly reporting requirement"

tomesco — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:41:51 +0000

Rather, trading periods are for a limited time after reports are released. Before employees accrue too much non public information.

New comment by tomesco in "Don't Fear Self-Driving Cars. They Save Lives."

tomesco — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 16:21:30 +0000

Non-paywalled gift article.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/self-driving-cars...

New comment by tomesco in "Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud"

tomesco — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 01:39:14 +0000

There exist certain classes of prime numbers that should not be used for some cryptographic operations because algorithms exist that reduce the computation required for factoring attacks. This more often applies to cases where smaller primes are applied. Sources for this king of knowledge are mathematics or cryptography textbooks.

For other cryptographic operations, almost any sufficiently large prime can be used. Even a 50% reduction on a computation that will take trillions of years, has no practical impact.

New comment by tomesco in "The Soul of an Old Machine: Revisiting the Timeless von Neumann Architecture"

tomesco — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 17:43:18 +0000

The definition of organ in this article is closest to the body part definition. The use of organ here relies on a less common definition: roughly a constituent part of some larger whole that performs a specific function.

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

tomesco — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 11:11:16 +0000

It likely contains a bug but is an uncorrupted file. Corrupted to me means the file was changed or modified in a way from it's intended state and likely won't run anymore.

Boy, 13, Is Believed to Be the First to 'Beat' Tetris

tomesco — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:02:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/03/arts/tetris-beat-blue-scuti.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38857309

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by tomesco in "GraphCast: AI model for weather forecasting"

tomesco — Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:35:22 +0000

Yes, driven by local data collection. More tightly packed ground stations and the availability of atmospheric measurement at various altitudes will improve accuracy.

New comment by tomesco in "What researchers found when they tested Fiji Water against tap water"

tomesco — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 15:36:18 +0000

The article discusses the length of the bottles placed end to end. Although I agree the title isn't clear.

New comment by tomesco in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

tomesco — Sat, 11 Nov 2023 20:49:49 +0000

Lyft likely cost customers' funds though a poor process like this in the past.

One could create an account, hail rides and add their own payment method while still being associated with someone else's email. Ride recipes would then be sent to someone else's email where the receiving party could add or increase a tip through an unauthenticated link and have it charged to the riders credit card.

New comment by tomesco in "Launch HN: Play.ht (YC W23) – Generate and clone voices from 20 seconds of audio"

tomesco — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 19:19:41 +0000

If law enforcement ever busts a scammer and discovers a tool like this was essential to the scam, that would generate lawsuits.

New comment by tomesco in "Silicon Valley Bank unmasks the hypocrisy of libertarian tech bros"

tomesco — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:11:06 +0000

True. Expected to remain solvent would be more clear.

New comment by tomesco in "Git security vulnerabilities announced"

tomesco — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 22:56:49 +0000

What is the recommended upgrade path for macOS' system install of git?

I have upgraded my brew install, but am unsure of what to do with the vulnerable system install.

New comment by tomesco in "Twilio’s toll fraud problem"

tomesco — Thu, 05 Jan 2023 20:38:19 +0000

Couldn't Twilio also close and cease providing service to any accounts that initiate chargebacks?

New comment by tomesco in "Human Chess is a chess variant where playing the top engine move is forbidden"

tomesco — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 13:26:43 +0000

There must be a threshold above which making an engine move is allowed. Because if there's a checkmate move, it will be the best engine move and needs to be allowed.

State-sponsored hackers in China compromise certificate authority

tomesco — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 22:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/11/state-sponsored-hackers-in-china-compromise-certificate-authority/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33615864

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by tomesco in "Laws barring noncompete clauses spreading"

tomesco — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 19:54:46 +0000

Gardening leave.

New comment by tomesco in "How This Ends"

tomesco — Sun, 22 May 2022 15:04:41 +0000

Close. The federal reserve (or any central bank) will lend money to other banks at a rate just below the target rate, and it will borrow from other banks at a rate just above. Because banks can borrow and lend largely risk free at those two rates, banks will transact amongst themselves at a rate in between. This is how the federal reserve makes banks transact at the target rate.

New comment by tomesco in "Worldcoin"

tomesco — Thu, 21 Oct 2021 15:35:39 +0000

> The whole idea of a hash is that a tiny perturbation makes the output completely different.

That would be a cryptographic hash you are describing. Not all hash functions share that property. As long as arbitrary input is mapped to a fixed size output it is a hash function. For example see NeuralHash [1] which is a hash function designed to be "insensitive to small changes in the input image."

[1] https://towardsdatascience.com/apples-neuralhash-how-it-work...