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kryogen1c

3,671 karma · joined June 7, 2018

I was in the US nuclear navy, now I work in IT.
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kryogen1c··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
Is it possible SpaceX is not massively overvalued and delaying its index approval unnecessarily slows its economic output by needlessly restricting its access to funding, harming us all collectively?
kryogen1c··on The seed oil panic is hurting my cardiac patients
>Does the author (a purported dietician) not know this him/herself?

FTA: First, “seed oils” is a marketing term, not a nutritional category. What we’re actually talking about are vegetable oils high in polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fats

kryogen1c··on Apparently Google hates us now
Upon further review, I was not in fact lazy. I've been DDG the whole time.

Makes sense!

kryogen1c··on Apparently Google hates us now
This has me absolutely howling.

I use Bing at work for no other reason than sheer laziness, really. You've inspired me to return to DDG.

Keep on keepin on, yegg.

kryogen1c··on Security researcher says Microsoft built a Bitlocker backdoor, releases exploit
From: https://infosec.exchange/@wdormann/116565129854382214

>In a normal WinRE session, you have a X:\Windows\System32 directory that has a winpeshl.ini file in it

>However, with the YellowKey exploit, it looks like Transactional NTFS bits on a USB Drive are able to delete the winpeshl.ini file on ANOTHER DRIVE

Interesting. I dont know about this environment - some kind of naive file handle contructing/passing? But then, why require a key press during winre reboot?

I wonder how patachable this is. The thousands of winre thumb drives are certainly out of reach; maybe the bitlocker side update the access permissions? Would it require unenc/reenc?

Seems like lots more to follow

kryogen1c··on Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers
Everyone's making a lot of good points about game theory and economic motivations, but there is a much more important and self-serving point: when you pay a ransom, hackers come after your shit x10.

Paying a ransom signals 3 things: 1) you are vulnerable to attack 2) you cannot recover from an attack 3) you've got cash

The result is that you get attacked much, much more. You could ask me how I know, but I wouldn't tell you :)

kryogen1c··on Show HN: Site Mogging
Maybe im not in the target audience, but i had to look up what mogging is because its not explained anywhere
kryogen1c··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Sorry this is totally unrelated but it caused me to have an epiphany:

Google is not a software, hardware, or SaaS company. They are an ad-funded moonshot R&D incubator, searching only for billion dollar lightning strikes.

Every part of their business exists only to broker and sell ads or capture more market share to show ads to or to collect and trade data/Metadata for better ad targeting.

kryogen1c··on Ramp's Sheets AI Exfiltrates Financials
(Well-regulated) free markets are sort of built on the principle of educated consumerism. Your choice matters; its not up to the government to make illegal every non-optimal product. However, we do expect some minimum level of safety.

What does that mean for llms? Their nondeterminism does seem to incline them toward a legal safety requirement. Can you buy a fire extinguisher that 1/1000 times burns your house down? Or can your car brakes instead increase acceleration in rare cases?

Im using llms much more than i used to, but i still cant shake the fundamental stochastic nature of the technology.

kryogen1c··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
> It’s grown in a way that degraded it

Im an outsider and a layman, so this might be totally off base, but...

The way I hear people talking about github reliability doesnt sound like scaling problems to me. If you drive 20 miles every day but then decide to drive 2000 miles and run out of gas, thats a problem of scale. If you drive 2000 miles and your engine explodes, thats a problem of design.

Maybe their design problems are being made evident because of sudden scale, but they're still design problems.

kryogen1c··on ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips
>> nuclear sub

>aircraft carrier

Having served on both, this is actually a pretty interesting comparison (at least to me).

Carriers are simply larger, so they likely win by scale, but im not sure on a more per-(sub)system basis.

Carriers have a lot of aircraft handling systems that subs dont, elevators and hangers. Also the carrier has group c&c stuff.

Subs have a lot of stealth systems carriers don't, being that they're visible from space. Lots of dive related stuff, o2/co2 handlers.

They both have weapons systems, hvac, propulsion, distillation, steam generators, reactors, air compressor, many others.

Not obvious to me which one is more complex!

kryogen1c··on Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs
> their intentions have become much more clear

The hunter Biden laptop story was censored - including in private messages - and Charlie Kirk was shown being shot in the neck to death to children.

There's nothing else to say.

kryogen1c··on Acetaminophen vs. ibuprofen
>Pain a warning signal from the body

Hard agree, same with fevers. Heat helps kill many diseases, dont blunt your body's defenses.

There are exceptions to both rules, but many people forget which part is the exception and which part is the rule.

kryogen1c··on We gave an AI a 3 year retail lease and asked it to make a profit
The submitter appears to be a co-founder of the company the article is about (omitted from the HN account bio), and the article is misleading to the point of lying.

This company now has strong a strong negative reputation in my mind that I will gladly share with others.

kryogen1c··on Meta told to pay $375M for misleading users over child safety
>Meta is like one giant cancer

Cancer is a great metaphor because its a perversion of natural, healthy processes. So called social media is nearly that, but actually grotesquely unhealthy.

People are dramatically unwell when they are not social, but that unregulated process is also negative up to and including being lethal.

kryogen1c··on US private credit defaults hit record 9.2% in 2025, Fitch says
> liquidity crisis in the former to cause a crisis of confidence in the latter

Wait what? Your thesis is the GFC was caused by a liquidity crunch/bank run? Isn't that... not true?

Isn't the proximal to distal chain of events government encouraged subprime loans -> inaacurately valued MBS -> exponential, unregulated derivative instruments -> leveraged contagion. What does market confidence have to do with any of that?

kryogen1c··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Im certainly sympathetic to #2 being one of the greatest unconstitutional practices of the modern US government, but is its genesis really the civil rights movement? There were many settled cases about interstate commerce before the Civil rights act, like Gibbons v. Ogden.

https://www.britannica.com/money/commerce-clause/Interpretat...

kryogen1c··on Personal Statement of a CIA Analyst
> As we walked across the lobby, I thought I was going to faint.

I sort of detest people who always ask if things are ai slop, but... is this real? This guy has been working with a clearance for years - i think decades - and taken multiple polygraph, including failures, and is gonna pass out on his way to an interview regarding somewhere he no longer works?

Maybe hes just on the spectrum, but this article is weird.

kryogen1c··on Facebook is cooked
Lol! "Facebook's not bad, you're just a loser"
kryogen1c··on UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
To play devils advocate (i know nothing about discords use of data), isnt it trivial for any corporate counsel make legal statements like this that are not truthful? For example: we dont sell your data... we freely give it to our sister company with a common owner that sells your data.
kryogen1c··on News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
If your soc2 or hipaa references the internet archive, you probably deserve to fail.
kryogen1c··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Well, deleted my discord. It was the only social media I had, if it can be considered as such.

Shouldn't have been using a free product anyway. Committed the crime of convenience and paid with my telemetry. At least I stopped.

HN, you my only fren.

kryogen1c··on Slop Terrifies Me
It should also be noted that most companies that make high quality (last decades) low volume goods go out of business; people vote with their dollars and dont want the capex.

Put another way, who here wants a car that costs more than their house? Or shoes that cost 2000$?

kryogen1c··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
> Wild speculation detached from reality which destroys personal fortunes are not "a desirable feature."

This is not the definition of a bubble, and is specifically contrary to what i said.

A good bubble, like the automobile industry in the example I linked, paves the way for a whole new economic modalit - but value was still destroyed when that bubble popped and the market corrected.

You may think its better to not have bubbles and limit the maximum economic rate of change (and you may be right), but the current system is not obviously wrong and has benefits.

kryogen1c··on The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else
The question is not "is it a bubble". Bubbles are a desirable feature of the American experiment. The question is "will this bubble lay the foundation for growth and destroy some value when it pops, or will it only destroy value"

https://www.oaktreecapital.com/insights/memo/is-it-a-bubble

kryogen1c··on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession
I've always heard market forces and policies dont take effect until the following presidency.
kryogen1c··on Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is running into problems
The wild thing is, the business prop is so clear - an llm built into your corporate data, with the same security, guard rails, grc auditing stack that protects the rest of your data. Why integrate and exfiltrate to an outside company?

But copilot is fucking terrible. Sometimes I ask it powershell questions about microsoft products and it hallucinates answers. Get your shit together microsoft, why would I use this product for any reason if it doesnt work squarely inside your own stack

kryogen1c··on US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
> The Trump regime murdered a guy for protesting them today

I dont know what youre talking about, I dont follow politics. And even if I did, I dont know what relevance that could have on our conversation.

> I'm not interested in engaging [...] I won't waste my time talking

Then I agree, commenting on a public forum is not the right place for you

> Rules are rules and violence is violence

Laws (not sure why you switched to taking about rules) are explicity - not implicitly - backed by state violence. Unsure where the confusion is.

kryogen1c··on US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
> the default of giving babies Hepatitis B vaccine even if there is no possible vector for them to get the disease

Yeah absolutely. Another example, which is tangential since its not a vaccine but is a default medicine for some reason, is antibiotic eye ointment on literal hours-old infants. Im not concerned we have gonorrhea thanks, ill listen to your talks and sign your waiver.

Fwiw, the hep b recommendation just changed like a month ago :) sensibility wins out, sometimes eventually.

kryogen1c··on US Vaccine Panel Chair Says Polio and Other Shots Should Be Optional
> What "state-sponsored violence" are you referring to?

Not referring to a status quo, but to the implication of the parent, and yours after the fact, that we should consider mandating vaccines.

> deadly communicable disease

If you think this is the only thing on the US vaccination schedule, you should do a little research.

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