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Little bit of an aside: Why do most infosec practitioners prefer conferences like BlackHat and RSA to Bsides and Def Con? The price differences are staggering.

[edit] I was uninformed, there is no delete option.

Today I got stopped out at level 5 of tptacek and patio11's excellent Jailbreak Challenge. I am a professional developer in my dayjob, and I am mostly proud of the systems that I'v…

Thank you. I understand why you wouldn't disclose the specific algorithms used, but perhaps issue a set of guidelines for not falling afoul of them? For instance, I always access H…

Apologies, I wasn't aware of the backlog. It wasn't intentionally snarky - if I ran a board as popular as this, prioritizing popular accounts would be sensible thing for me to do, …

Ok, yes, it seems nobody responds to the HN email address regarding issues like this. They likely filter out those not as popular as you.

At your suggestion, I did. I don't know what their typical response time is, but as of yet nothing.

Verified it with both a throwaway and a friend. Also, my 0 minute posts always end up near the bottom of the page, as if I had on the order of 10 karma.

What's never discussed is HN's "voting hellban". That is, you are permitted to upvote/downvote, but your votes don't ever actually count. This is the case with my account, but it's…

Hellbanning exists in a subtler form, though. For instance, my account. Top-level comments that are literally seconds old are typically posted about 2/3 down the page. None of my v…

Well, yes. The nominal standard here is whether the prejudice is against something the individual has choice over. One does not choose one's race, whereas once does choose one's ow…

It doesn't appear that the country is after an empire the same way the British had one 100 years ago US empire is defined more by squashing incipient threats to its global hegemony…

Default rates have just hit their lowest point in eight years: https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/chargeoff/delallsa.h... From this halcyon point, there's more downside risk t…

Not to get too conspiratorial, but Urbit's founder is not a very popular figure around here. Mass autoflagging of * urbit * would not be surprising.

Living in SF is a choice, for technologists. In addition to the absurd rent, there is also the lifestyle nominally associated with the choice to live in SF. The bars, the restauran…

Fructose is linked to liver problems, and also creates far more glycation end-products than glucose (which could very well be part of the atherosclerosis explanation). One problem …

A lot of comments here suggesting that encryption increases entropy. While true, it only adds the key's entropy to the plaintext's entropy. In most real-world cases, len(m) >> len(…

Predominantly white countries are not permitted self-determination due to innumerable arguments referencing Hitler and slavery. Protection of cultural integrity is permitted for ev…

If governments and supragovernmental bodies didn't wield so much power over our lives, the outcome of elections wouldn't matter nearly as much.

I'm sympathetic to Tom Murphy's analyses, as I used to be fairly doomer-minded as a result of reading them. But I think it's safe to say that he's been proven wrong. Alternative en…

Indeed. Their PCI-DSS compliance scanning service is completely useless. Service version fingerprinting only, regardless of binary patch level or actual vulns. Yet somehow, the PCI…

Are you now implying that Nadim is a monster, not merely someone with whom you have a personal beef?

I'm curious why this comment has been so aggressively down-voted. Do we now eschew fact-checking on HN?