HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

huerne

369 karma · joined January 18, 2022

submissionscomments
huerne··on We Rebuilt the Linux MicroVM Stack on Apple Silicon
VZ.framework is very limited, Hypervisor.framework is the better analogue to KVM
huerne··on Guideline has been acquired by Gusto
What specifically is violating policies?
huerne··on LD_PRELOAD, The Invisible Key Theft
The pattern across their repo is concerning: rebranding documented system features as "exploits."

Their GPU "hijacking" demo has the victim deliberately publish CUDA IPC handles to world-readable shared memory (0666), then calls normal CUDA IPC functionality an "attack."

Their eBPF paper on ArXiv lacks evaluation or performance metrics.

The company appears to be three people: the founder and his two teenage sons (10th and 8th grade) listed as paper co-authors. No customers, no team page, launched right before college application season. The technical work exists but reads like it's optimized for admissions committees rather than advancing security research.

LD_PRELOAD has been a standard Linux feature since the 90s. Calling it "The Invisible Key Theft" and pitching an eBPF product as the solution misrepresents both the threat model and what constitutes novel security research.

huerne··on Ask HN: Senior FAANG engineer, going back to school for PhD. Is it a bad idea?
A masters program isn’t typically focused on research. I don’t actually care about taking classes; I just want to do research. A thesis-based masters is just training for a PhD, so I would rather do the PhD.

I don’t know what’s next after the PhD. It could be another FAANG job, founding a startup, or really anything. A PhD definitely does not help get me there. It’s just a personal goal