Hacker News: zaltekk

New comment by zaltekk in "The relay market powering token resellers and fraud"

zaltekk — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 16:11:37 +0000

I think this was very poorly worded. I believe they’re trying to say you pay the reseller $0.13 to get what costs $1 at the upstream provider.

Apple Withdraws iOS 18 Security Updates

zaltekk — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 17:27:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/12/27/apples-iphone-upgrade-hundreds-of-millions-of-users-must-act-now/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46577635

Points: 40

# Comments: 24

New comment by zaltekk in "Amazon Web Services cuts jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group"

zaltekk — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:03:33 +0000

Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its [Amazon Fresh] Grocery Stores

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39908579

Amazon Web Services cuts jobs in sales, training, and physical stores tech group

zaltekk — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.geekwire.com/2024/amazon-web-services-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs-in-sales-training-and-physical-stores-technology/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39916882

Points: 13

# Comments: 1

New comment by zaltekk in "How I got scammed on Facebook Marketplace (2023)"

zaltekk — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 18:29:47 +0000

I wonder if the scammer is using emails and passwords from a breach against Facebook to access "reputable" accounts and then posting marketplace listings.

Hacking a Smart Home Device (ESP32 Smart Device –> HomeAssistant)

zaltekk — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:59:18 +0000

Article URL: https://jmswrnr.com/blog/hacking-a-smart-home-device

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39265365

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaltekk in "Attack of the Week: Airdrop Tracing"

zaltekk — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 19:18:24 +0000

I believe what they changed is the ability for "everyone" to discover you to a 10 minute toggle. It defaults to always being discoverable to your contacts.

I assume that it still broadcasts your hashes even in the contacts-only mode, so you'd need to turn receiving off to stop that. Or go a step further and disable Bluetooth entirely* when you don't need it.

* If you disable Bluetooth in the Control Center pulldown it won't actually disable Bluetooth or beacons. It just won't connect to devices. You need to go into Settings to actually disable Bluetooth.

New comment by zaltekk in "Amazon lays off 500 Twitch employees, hundreds more at MGM and Prime Video"

zaltekk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 20:36:54 +0000

Twitch public announcement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939866

CNBC Prime Video and MGM Studios article (has the internal email at the end): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939871

New comment by zaltekk in "A Difficult Update about our Workforce"

zaltekk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:47:51 +0000

Amazon also announced layoffs at Prime Video and MGM Studios today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939871

New comment by zaltekk in "Amazon Cuts Jobs in Prime Video and MGM Studios"

zaltekk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:47:14 +0000

Amazon also announced layoffs at Twitch today:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939866

Amazon Cuts Jobs in Prime Video and MGM Studios

zaltekk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/10/amazon-layoffs-hundreds-of-jobs-cut-in-prime-video-and-mgm-studios.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939871

Points: 6

# Comments: 1

A Difficult Update about our Workforce

zaltekk — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 15:45:40 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2024/01/10/a-difficult-update-about-our-workforce/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38939866

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Dropbox is sharing your files with AI partners without opt-in

zaltekk — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 14:23:04 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/nixcraft/status/1734935222519758986

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38627751

Points: 48

# Comments: 1

New comment by zaltekk in "GraalOS: Containerless instant-on cloud functions for Java"

zaltekk — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 13:18:54 +0000

The best I could tell is that it just makes a Docker image for you to deploy to EKS. I’m struggling to see why it’s got OS tacked on the end… it would still seem you’re running Linux and possibly they’ve changed some of the userland?

At first I thought this was going to be a unikernel model like MirageOS[1] is for OCaml, and now I’m disappointed[2].

[1] https://mirageos.org/

[2] Let’s be fair, I was going to be disappointed because of needing an Oracle license anyway.

New comment by zaltekk in "Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla"

zaltekk — Sat, 09 Sep 2023 12:34:50 +0000

If only that was the case! Cars have their own cellular modems and ship off your data without any end user involvement.

New comment by zaltekk in "We reported a security issue in AWS CDK’s eks.Cluster component"

zaltekk — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 16:33:38 +0000

I'm not sure if I'm reading this correctly. The statements below are my understanding, but it'd be great if you can confirm to provide more color.

The pre-patch setup would just make the implicit trust policy explicit, meaning any user or role in the account with `sts:AssumeRole` on `*` could assume the role (which is still the default when not trust policy is specified).

This change improves the posture by adding a trust policy to the role that prevents any roles other than those two listed from assuming the role. So this is purely a defense in depth measure, and not really a security vulnerability (unless we say the default, implicit trust policy is a security vulnerability itself :P).

Cookie Bugs – Smuggling and Injection

zaltekk — Sun, 07 May 2023 12:40:55 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.ankursundara.com/cookie-bugs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35850873

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Development of a Universal Radio Test Instrument

zaltekk — Fri, 05 May 2023 00:12:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.greatscottgadgets.com/2023/05-04-development-of-a-universal-radio-test-instrument/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35823824

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by zaltekk in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)"

zaltekk — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 17:26:42 +0000

Can you share a bit more about how open these roles are to remote candidates?

You list office locations and don't say remote, but then imply remote in the first paragraph. Anecdotally I've heard of people being remote on Apple security teams in the Seattle area, but every time I look at roles on jobs.apple.com they all appears as in office only.

New comment by zaltekk in "The American Diet Has a Sandwich Problem"

zaltekk — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:04:41 +0000

You could be sued for doing something that was potentially considered unsafe by some studies. Business wise it's better to just "play it safe" here with low sodium meals.