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ackbar03··on The $6.3B Binance hack was pulled off in just 20 minutes
There's a very good BBC podcast about the north Korean and Russian hacking teams by BBC, one in Lazarus and one on evil Corp or something. Shoudnlt be hard to search for if interested.
ackbar03··on Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
Maybe I should clarify a bit what I meant. I'm not one of those "oh Steve jobs is a horrible person, he's so mean Yada Yada".

What I meant was he made some really horrible _business_ decisions while at NeXT, things that would be considered obvious today, like constant opinion changing on whim, constant product delays, product decisions that for the most part seemed to make the product more expensive and less functional, skipping important business meetings because oh-I'm-so-important when they really needed the sales etc. Granted I got all this from a podcast and didn't dig into the details myself, but I think for the large part he did objectively make some pretty horrible decisions in the early days at NeXT, although in the end it seems that he did seem to learn from them and turn things around, and arguably made him the guy he is more known for today.

Again, my amazement mostly stems from how he even had the chance to turn things around given the way the company was going and how he clearly still had some pretty talented people stick through the whole ordeal and end up producing valuable products through all that was going on.

ackbar03··on Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office
I was listening to a podcast about Jobs in his role at Next and was surprised how terrible and disfunctional he was as a CEO, at least in the initial phases. I still find it incredible that the company managed to actually make something valuable in the end and have enough runway for him to figure out how to do the job properly. Like seriously, how did he even manage to retain any talent at all at the company, I still find it incredible.
ackbar03··on World Labs is Joining AMD
Is it? how so?
ackbar03··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Sorry if this seems naive but do students in America actually work that hard these days? Modern television and social media seem to suggest they are all on drugs and doing God knows what
ackbar03··on OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining
How do I get on this gravy train
ackbar03··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
I have a feeling this might negatively impact Isomorphic as well since they also fall under Alphabet
ackbar03··on The shady world of IP leasing
this guy most dangerous motherf* man, so edgy, what do you expect
ackbar03··on XBOW, an autonomous penetration tester, has reached the top spot on HackerOne
> The market for bounties is a circus, breadcrumbs for free work from people trying to 'make it'. > The number of CVSS vulns with a score above 8 that have floated across the front page of HN in the past year without anyone getting paid tells you that much.

You make it sound like there's a ton of people going around who can just dig up CVSS vulns above 8 and is making me all confused. Is that really happening? I have a single bounty on H1 just to show I could do it, and that still took ages and was a shitty bug.

ackbar03··on Google Restricts Android Sideloading–What It Means for User Autonomy and Freedom
A lot of Chinese apps still do. Mostly cause I guess they don't allow Google play store in China (? I think it's blocked, can't quite remember for sure)
ackbar03··on What do wealthy people buy, that ordinary people know nothing about? (2015)
I'm curious about this though, does a rich man actually wear the same pair of boots for 10 years?

That being said, I've noticed that a lot of clothes that I bought 10 years ago or so are of pretty high quality compared to today, (and no, they are not rich man's clothes). Some of them I actually have been wearing for more than 10 years now.

ackbar03··on Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries
That's stock speculation for you, everything you do is wrong in retrospect
ackbar03··on The Guardian flourishes without a paywall
From the way they keep asking for donations, I thought they were constantly about to go out of business. Props to them though, good journalism is important
ackbar03··on Finding Signal in the Noise: Machine Learning and the Markets (Jane Street)
Oof. Interesting take.
ackbar03··on D-Wave quantum annealers solve problems classical algorithms struggle with
When you check the results change
ackbar03··on Ask HN: How did the internet discover my subdomain?
yea was gonna mention this as well lol
ackbar03··on The Demoralization is just Beginning
Huh. I didn't know geohot commented on geopolitics
ackbar03··on Decades of Research Misconduct Stalled an Alzheimer's Cure
Any chance could talk to you directly? See my profile for email
ackbar03··on Woman who had pioneering cancer treatment 18 years ago still in remission
Problem with CAR-T is still too expensive to use...

people should be investing a lot more in early stage drug discovery biotechs! A lot more!!! (I'm doing an early stage drug discovery biotech)

ackbar03··on US government struggles to rehire nuclear safety staff it laid off days ago
I was going to mention this as well. This is pretty standard musk, delete large swaiths of stuff, see what breaks, and put the essential pieces back. It's supposed to be much faster than meticulous planning.
ackbar03··on Mystery brain disease patients in New Brunswick say they welcome investigation
They break into people's houses in that show?
ackbar03··on Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living
I see a merger in the works
ackbar03··on Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat
What are off the shelf tools/methods people use now? Ida was pretty standard goto when I was into RE
ackbar03··on I have made the decision to disband Hindenburg Research
He only uses that one when he's getting short squeezed
ackbar03··on Estimates of plant CO2 uptake rise by nearly one third
We should get prisoners to just randomly dig holes in the sand, a shovels length in diameter
ackbar03··on Ask HN: Books about people who did hard things
If you want more entrepreneurial type stories.

When the heavens went on sale, by Ashly Vance, is pretty good. It details the early days of the space start-ups other than spaceX

The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley is also pretty good, describes the crazy days of early paypal.

Someone already mentioned Liftoff by Erig Berger. Starting a private space company is probably as hard as things get, and it describes the early days pretty well

ackbar03··on Annual 'winners' for most egregious US healthcare profiteering announced
What are they trying to do? Put out a hit list?
ackbar03··on Yotta Bank and the Problem with Fintech (Patrick Boyle) [video]
I've got a casino you can deposit your life savings with if you want
ackbar03··on A solution to The Onion problem of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt (2021)
You want even cuts you throw it into a blender
ackbar03··on Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti
Did the Italians greenlight this?
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