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bannableon Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database

> as well as their families being bankrupted permanently

No one thinks bills of attainder are a good idea.

Depending on the timeline, it could be that they're not allowed to access Mythos because of something like non-US citizens on the team or the lack of some way for them to meet the constraint DOD has them under.

bannableon Anthropic employees accuse Trump administration of targeting them

This is not an opinion piece, which is clear as soon as you open the article.

bannableon How memory safety CVEs differ between Rust and C/C++

What is the "LLVM provenance bug"?

bannableon Minnesota becomes first state to ban prediction markets

When something has negative outcomes, the thing requires justification.

bannableon Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait

Why would anyone post this comment?

bannableon Google broke its promise to me – now ICE has my data

fta

> In September 2024, Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data.

bannableon We were right about Havana syndrome

I'd think the decline of CTS is better explained by improvements in our material design: our interfaces with the physical world are much less hostile today than in '90 and cause us less harm. For example, consider the NES/N64 controllers versus a modern PS5 controller.

bannableon Tesla's Global Vehicle Deliveries Sank 13% in First Quarter

Earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43556443

bannableon Kansas tuberculosis outbreak is America's largest recorded since the 1950s

"Since 2024" means from the beginning of 2025, not "during 2024".

bannableon The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper

What do you mean by "package managers not taking source from the right place"?

bannableon Tesla strike widens as Swedish union expands blockade

Did you reply to the wrong comment? This doesn't answer anything about the average the OP asked about.

bannableon NSA, NIST, and post-quantum crypto: my second lawsuit against the US government

Rijndael was selected over Serpent for performance reasons.

bannableon Tauri – Electron alternative written in Rust

Games at that size are not clocking in because of their models and textures. It's from use of lossless, uncompressed audio files, and shipping multiple language files.

The issue is most common on games that release on consoles, but also for ones that want to support older hardware: the audio formats they use are designed to minimize the amount of decompression necessary for play, and so reduce resource requirements in exchange for storage space.

bannableon Apple sues NSO Group to curb the abuse of state-sponsored spyware

Case law, not truth. Judges do not decide fact.

bannableon Lessons from the history of attacks on secure hash functions (2019)

Boomerang attacks on SHA-0 have a complexity on the order of 2^33.

bannableon Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

Except that we do have a massive number of recorded temperatures across a massive number of locations in the last 100 years. Climate models, some dating back to the 1970s, have correctly predicted global temperature changes in the 50 years since based on this data.

The measurements are real, and there is an established history of the models being generally correct (if not in specific details) by now. Climate study is not the new science you seem to think it is.

bannableon Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

Climate models as far back as the 1970s have predicted the temperature changes in the time from then to now -- those are not predictions that are coming from hindsight, but rather predictions where their effects were observed over the last 50 years.

If you are unfamiliar with climate sensitivity, this is a good place to start: https://skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity.htm

bannableon Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

The current consensus on the impact of climate is NOT "something that might not happen".

Climate change is happening right now, with effects that are observable as trends across the globe. Even the most optimistic model is predicting widespread catastrophe.

bannableon Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

Yes, weather is climate. But that isn't what OP said.

bannableon Climate models are running red hot, and scientists don’t know why

Are you claiming that it is not possible to find a trend in a mean temperature of a great many points across the globe, over a long period of time?

What makes such a measurement an "invalid form"?

bannableon Many games are held together by duct tape

Rendering is likely blocked on mouse interrupts.

bannableon Intel vulnerabilities costing 25% CPU performance loss to a cloud provider

I don't think this is correct. The timing attacks here all require extremely high resolution timers, and network + I/O latency would obscure the variance entirely.

bannableon 55% of the US National Debt Is the Result of Repaying Debt with More Debt

Take another look at the table - the values are denominated in millions of dollars, and that second symbol is a comma, not a period, so it's 19 million million.