Hacker News: vehementi

New comment by vehementi in "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI"

vehementi — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:42:08 +0000

Nothing you wrote seems to support what you said at the start there. Why is the importance of code quality decreasing?

New comment by vehementi in "Iran targeted Amazon data centers"

vehementi — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 04:14:33 +0000

Is the DC one of the availability zones of an AWS region?

New comment by vehementi in "Show HN: FilmLink – The Wiki Game for Movies (Daily Puzzle and Multiplayer Beta)"

vehementi — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 18:03:10 +0000

Played a run through, would be nice to be able to play more than 1 puzzle (if there's nobody to queue with quickly in multiplayer). Maybe let me play yesterday's puzzle or something, especially if I just figured out the ropes?

New comment by vehementi in "What Every Experimenter Must Know About Randomization"

vehementi — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 05:37:09 +0000

I read this and came away a bit sheepish not really grasping the significance of extreme focus on PRNG and entropy for basic things. Glad to see the rest of the comments agreeing. "What every experimenter must know"...

New comment by vehementi in "Today is when the Amazon brain drain sent AWS down the spout"

vehementi — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 02:53:57 +0000

Mere hours into the incident, before there's any RCA, someone rushes to discredit themselves with a simplistic explanation

New comment by vehementi in "Discord hack shows risks of online age checks"

vehementi — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 20:49:23 +0000

Check out Defense in Depth as a security concept

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 16:15:31 +0000

Be that as it may, it's missing the illogical point the other person raised. If your $300 painting was worth $10k when it got stolen from you, but 7 years later the market value is $1M, you don't say "I was robbed of a million"

New comment by vehementi in "Scream cipher"

vehementi — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 15:52:14 +0000

Finally we can talk to the bomb dudes in Serious Sam

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:36:42 +0000

Yes, that is how I read it as well. Email was just for fun, and the code came by a different channel (of course). The email the scammer sent wouldn't contain a code they can use to take over his account (of course).

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:34:45 +0000

On obvious spoofs I see "legal@gmail.com ". I think he means that it didn't indicate the latter. And if gmail phone app didn't fail to display headers he could have looked

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:29:19 +0000

Your analogy is different. They bought for X, then when it was stolen it was worth 80k, and at this random time today, it's worth $120k and he's saying he lost $120k.

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:26:50 +0000

> Who knows what hell can be unleashed on one's emotions nowadays with AI

This is key. I would "never" fall for a scam like this. But who knows for sure? I would also never cheat on my partner, but can I say with 100% certainty that some insane situation can't possibly ever come up where my many layered defenses are compromised? Can some sufficiently charismatic individual deliver a perfect AI script to me based on info from 5 other breaches, in my brother's voice, to make me give up a 2fa token in an emergency? Maybe! So just never answer the phone, ever

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:12:01 +0000

It's honestly irresponsible to pick up phone calls at this point. Phishers are really good, and every human has some weakness, so you can't guarantee you wouldn't fall for something -- perhaps one day a new vulnerability comes out and your old guidance is no longer perfect. Answering the phone at all is just putting yourself at risk

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:10:46 +0000

They're not saying they can't get the headers, the point is that if you're using iOS you don't have access to the headers to validate

New comment by vehementi in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

vehementi — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:08:30 +0000

Justifiable in a vacuum, but the end result is grandma knows "sometimes it's OK to give the code to the person on the phone"

New comment by vehementi in "Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?"

vehementi — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 02:27:11 +0000

> It's the only messaging app where messages are stored on the cloud

Unreal. Please share how you came to this world view.

New comment by vehementi in "Shopify is acquiring the Threads team"

vehementi — Fri, 07 Jun 2024 03:54:20 +0000

Jesus it even mentions Instagram Threads in it

New comment by vehementi in "How Safe Is SF?"

vehementi — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:08:56 +0000

Yes, they don't actually answer the question of how safe SF is. They say that some areas are more safe than others. Is the worst area in SF unsafe at all, or are the absolute numbers (and per capita) actually low? How unsafe? Who should be concerned about doing what, and when?

New comment by vehementi in "US drug control agency will move to reclassify marijuana"

vehementi — Wed, 01 May 2024 01:51:31 +0000

Not to go all Godwin but a lot of people have the same reaction to news about Trump -- for some reason, people see the need to lie about and misrepresent Trump. "If he's so bad, surely people could just list off his crimes without having to try to trick me right? Must not be so bad, it couldn't hurt to give him a turn as president."

New comment by vehementi in "The darker side of being a doctor (2017)"

vehementi — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 22:16:14 +0000

I wonder why this guy has a plug for that home doctor book which looks reeeeally sketchy. I went looking for reviews of it and reddit is filled by spam from just one reddit user