mac3n's comments

On: How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.

[mac3n]

> "Our hope is that our model can play a role in a thoughtful data-driven conversation about one of the most societally and personally important decisions any person can make,” he says.

good luck with that!

On: Review HN

[mac3n]

Unisea Inn in Dutch Harbor AK

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g30980-d112936-Revi...

On: Ask HN: Why can we compare Python to Go, but we can't compare apples to oranges?

[mac3n]

http://knuthlab.org/courses/2025/AdvancedPhysicsLab/resource...

On: Fake ChatGPT installers on GitHub are dropping Deno RATs

[mac3n]

who could have forseen this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48086082#48087331

On: Why 'Smart' Products Have Started to Look Like the Dumb Choice

[mac3n]

only started?

On: What happens when you post a real Monet and say it's AI?

[mac3n]

the story goes, when the first Edison wax cylinder recording came out, they were indistinguishable from a live performance. these days we can hear the noise, crackles, and lack of dynamic range.

On: Anduril raises $5B in Series H

[mac3n]

cool! maybe they can use it to find a point to Operation Epstein Fury

On: Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES

[mac3n]

good thing I don't use npm or pip, just the recommended

    curl ... | bash

[fragmede → mac3n]

It's curl | sudo bash.

Amateur.

[raesene9 → fragmede]

So old school, now we get install lines like Tell Opencode to "Fetch and follow instructions from https://raw.githubusercontent.com/obra/superpowers/refs/head..."

From a real repo, with 186K stars... https://github.com/obra/superpowers

[fmbb → fragmede]

I always sudo curl to be extra sure.

[naruhodo → fragmede]

Weak sauce.

curl | sudo dd of=/dev/sda

[walrus01 → fragmede]

To be really sure it downloads, curl -k | sudo bash

[scrollaway → walrus01]

`curl -k | sudo bash | yes` for good measure, otherwise it might hang.

[somebudyelse → scrollaway]

If you really want to make sure that it's the right thing (because piping to sudo bash is risky), make sure the URL starts with "pastebin", or ends in ".tk", or is an IP address.

[walrus01 → somebudyelse]

To be absolutely positively certain, be sure that the IP address is also in the same /24 as the same net blocks and hosted on the same AS that appear in every DNS based mail RBL possible.

On: Someone allegedly used a hairdryer to rig Polymarket weather bets

[mac3n]

is this what the cryptobros are doing now?

On: Ask HN: What book have you given as a gift?

[mac3n]

"Proto" - Laura Spinney. Proto-Indoeuropean. https://www.powells.com/book/proto-how-one-ancient-language-...

before that

"The Horse the Wheel & Language". David Anthony. Proto-Indoeuropeans. https://www.powells.com/book/horse-the-wheel-language-how-br...