Hacker News: wiskinator

New comment by wiskinator in "TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8"

wiskinator — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 19:58:08 +0000

> Anthropic says Claude wrote the exploit "after initial prompting," that it runs "arbitrary commands as root, without any credentials or user interaction" on servers with a multipath TCP listener, and that in its proof of concept "it takes 48 minutes to leak a kernel pointer and another five minutes to reach the shell command execution."

This is wild. I'm a firmware nerd, not a backend nerd, what percentage of TCP/IP servers are 'multipath'?

Also, since IPv6 isn't affected, wouldn't it be funny if this is what it took to get everyone to switch.

New comment by wiskinator in "Missouri governor orders guardrails on Flock cameras and ALPRs"

wiskinator — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 19:47:39 +0000

should also mandate that the license plate data that constitutes a 'hit' must be sent and stored at rest encrypted so that someone can't break into a camera and see who's beeing searched for.

New comment by wiskinator in "216M Spy TVs – The LG Smart TV Problem [video]"

wiskinator — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 18:04:03 +0000

Anyone have an LG TV, access to ghidra and a desire to dig in and release open firmware? Because I have have everything but the TV

New comment by wiskinator in "Drivers Are Taking Extreme Measures to Avoid New Car Technology"

wiskinator — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 20:57:53 +0000

A good friend of mine (we'll call him G) worked at an auto body shop. An older client came in and was bitching about how his brand new Mazda (IIRC) kept freaking out when he changed lanes, and asked G if he could disable the lane departure warnings. G showed him how and said, BTW, these are supposed to be a backup for if you fall asleep - they don't go off if you use your blinker.

Dude bro politely asked G to turn the lane departure warning back on.

New comment by wiskinator in "Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey"

wiskinator — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:04:08 +0000

I don't have the citations to back this up anymore than you did, but it was also passed because of the rise in Black Power movements walking around with guns.

I used to be an obnoxious gun control advocate until I learned that California's gun control legislation was brought about in response to the Black Panther's patrolling predominantly black neighborhoods while armed to protect the people of the neighborhood from state sponsored (police) violence.

Reference to start from: https://www.kcra.com/article/liberty-limits-black-panther-pa...

This topic is full of subtlty so recommend reading the sources from that article and so on.

New comment by wiskinator in "Ghost Font: A font that humans can read but AI cannot"

wiskinator — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:54:45 +0000

I guess I must be an AI because I could not read that to save my life.

I wonder if this is like the “rotate an apple” problem.

New comment by wiskinator in "The Disappearance of the Public Bench"

wiskinator — Fri, 08 May 2026 01:45:23 +0000

Yes, I don't think that arresting people for the crime of not having money is a good idea.

We also cannot seem to fund any actual drug programs, because US citizens hate the idea of anyone getting something for free.

New comment by wiskinator in "Chest Fridge (2009)"

wiskinator — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 03:46:40 +0000

Ohhh the links at the bottom of this guys site are wild and good reading.

https://thiaoouba.com/

Please note I am disputing his science on the efficacy of a vertical fridge.

New comment by wiskinator in "Seeing Like a Sedan"

wiskinator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:51:16 +0000

I’m interested in comparing the ratio of (accidents / miles driven) between the two.

Tesla seems like it has an engineering culture built around shipping whatever version of product they have at the date Elon announces, regardless of the quality (based on the engineers I have met who have worked there).

New comment by wiskinator in "Addressing Antigravity Bans and Reinstating Access"

wiskinator — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:39:21 +0000

Without the context of “Antigravity” being a product name this headline is science fiction gold.

New comment by wiskinator in "Banned in California"

wiskinator — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:06:09 +0000

The site would be better if it linked to the actual regulation that prohibits each type of business instead of just making the claim “0 new factories of this type have been built”.

New comment by wiskinator in "Our babies were taken after 'biased' parenting test"

wiskinator — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 23:10:18 +0000

Oh hey, it’s the history of Indigenous people in North America (especially Canada and the USA) repeating itself in Greenland.

Make a biased test, call it impartial, then use it to ruin the lives of people who don’t meet some perceived standard.

Tell me how does reciting the alphabet backwards in a foreign language tongue mean one is a good parent?

New comment by wiskinator in "A Fond Farewell"

wiskinator — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:22:23 +0000

Dang. This is one of those annoying cases of finding out something that I would clearly love exists only as it leaves.

I would have subscribed if I knew that the Farmer's Almanac still existed :(

New comment by wiskinator in "ABC yanks Jimmy Kimmel’s show ‘indefinitely’ after threat from FCC chair"

wiskinator — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 23:14:53 +0000

We are in so much trouble as a society.

The real danger here is that ABC did it before the White House ordered or told them too.

Fascists rise in power the more scared we are to speak.

New comment by wiskinator in "Difficult Employees (and How to Handle Them)"

wiskinator — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 16:22:54 +0000

The first sentence tells you what you need to know. The leader assumes the worker is making a “web of lies” to get out of responsibility. This leader is trash. You need to listen to your employees and respond to their needs. If deadlines are being missed there is likely something wrong with the company; whether it be resourcing, time expectation from above or even just working conditions.

New comment by wiskinator in "NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders"

wiskinator — Fri, 31 Jan 2025 18:58:48 +0000

The NsF shouldn’t be rolling over to do what this new dictator in the US wants.

This goes way beyond DEI; that’s just the trap to get insecure white men to agree with it.

The NSF is “reviewing anything that goes against the stated national interest”. What does that even mean.

New comment by wiskinator in "Why do small children in Japan ride the subway alone?"

wiskinator — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 04:15:57 +0000

Article is paywalled but I think inverting the question is fun.

Why don’t small kids in other western countries ride the subway alone?

New comment by wiskinator in "Apple opposes investor calls to end its DEI efforts"

wiskinator — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 05:18:16 +0000

Good on them. I truly don’t understand how people can be against furthering diversity in a mostly homogeneous sector of society (corporate tech).

New comment by wiskinator in "An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk, then its maker refused repairs"

wiskinator — Fri, 11 Oct 2024 21:34:59 +0000

And this is why right to repair laws are a thing.

Also, genuinely I’d be interested in helping this guy hack his exoskeleton to let it work again.

New comment by wiskinator in "Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws"

wiskinator — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:36:41 +0000

Or. And I’m just spit balling here. Plant super long lived trees. Redwoods live for >200 years. Eucalyptus grow very quickly and might be a good option too.