danielvf (u/danielvf)

danielvf commented on Court records reveal Sig Sauer knew of pistol risks for years smokinggun.org/court-reco... · Posted by u/eoskx

danielvf · 10 days ago

So the important bit here is that the guns failed drop testing. And that's bad.

The rest of the article seems to misunderstand FMEA style "write down every conceivable bad scenario in the universe, how bad it is, and then what you have done to stop it", and then spins this as "look at all these horrible known issues they knew about". I hope a jury doesn't view it the same way, because it would be an epic bad for safety everywhere if engineers writing down a list of bad things to avoid and mitigate was forbidden by company lawyers.

danielvf commented on 60% of medal of honor recipients are Irish or Irish-American en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis... · Posted by u/physarum_salad

danielvf · 16 days ago

As others have pointed out, this is primarily due to the American Civil War when the Medal of Honors was given out much more freely than today.

Here's the breakdown on more recent conflicts:

WWII, 625 total recipients, 13 Irish, 2.1%.

In the Korean War, there were 152 Medal of Honors, 3 given to Irish, or 1.9%.

In the Vietnam War, there were 271 Medal of Honors, 13 given to Irish, or 4.8%.

There were 36 Medal of Honor medals given out in the wars in Iraq and Afganistan. Of these, 3 are marked as Irish on that page, or 10.7%.

danielvf commented on Show HN: Draw a fish and watch it swim with the others drawafish.com... · Posted by u/hallak

danielvf · 24 days ago

I carefully drew a lion fish. Turns out only 37% odds of being a fish. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionfish)

Fun idea, fun site!

danielvf commented on What Makes Europe Better Than America? thefp.com/p/what-makes-eu... · Posted by u/danielam

danielvf · 2 months ago

Don't be fooled by the headline - that's neither the authors words, nor his opinion, but an editor trying to bait viewers.

The article itself is good, and worth a read.

You can read the full article on the author's own substance here. https://walkingtheworld.substack.com/p/is-it-euro-poor-or-am...

danielvf commented on My experiment living in a tent in Hong Kong's jungle corentin.trebaol.com/Blog... · Posted by u/5mv2

danielvf · 3 months ago

For camping in humid summers, it's amazing how much difference a power bank and little fan can make. A little electricity goes a long way.

danielvf commented on Uber's new shuttles look suspiciously familiar to anyone who's taken a bus grist.org/transportation/... · Posted by u/Improvement

jplrssn · 3 months ago

How much cleaner, safer and faster would the actual public transit option be if everyone who was prepared to pay $13 each way for a 30-minute commute paid the same amount in taxes instead?

danielvf · 3 months ago

My guess is that the people who are paying $13 each way for a 30-minute commute are paying orders of magnitudes more than that in taxes already.

Also, given that this is not a huge number of people, relative to public transportation in NYC, it would probably not make much of a budget increase.

danielvf commented on The Problem with Teens Isn't Smartphones–It's Their Families grimoiremanor.substack.co... · Posted by u/illinx

danielvf · 3 months ago

As almost every other commenter here has said, this is just a bad article in practically every way. It's quite possible that the problem isn't smart phones, but this article completely fails to show this.

Even the suicide data that they decide is the proper measure of mental health, and according to them proves that teens don't have a problem, shows a 2x increase in teen girl suicide.

I'm going to so something I almost never do, and flag, since this is just bait. I would love to read a case for this with a better argument however.

danielvf commented on A crypto founder faked his death. We found him alive at his dad's house sfstandard.com/2025/05/08... · Posted by u/bathtub365

soared · 3 months ago

How do these scammers generate such big market caps for their coins? Offloading $1.4MM is a huge sum of money, more than 99.9% of people in the world would ever see at once.

danielvf · 3 months ago

Market cap doesn't equal what people have purchased.

See this classic from 2015:

https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/press-release-basecamp-val...

danielvf commented on Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help linkedin.com/posts/daniel... · Posted by u/indigodaddy

danielvf · 4 months ago

I handle reports for a one million dollar bug bounty program.

AI spam is bad. We've also never had a valid report from an by an LLM (that we could tell).

People using them will take any being told why a bug report is not valid, questions, or asks for clarification and run them back through the same confused LLM. The second pass through generates even deeper nonsense.

It's making even responding with anything but "closed as spam" not worth the time.

I believe that one day there will be great code examining security tools. But people believe in their hearts that that day is today, and that they are riding the backs of fire breathing hack dragons. It's the people that concern me. They cannot tell the difference between truth and garbage.

danielvf commented on We identified a North Korean hacker who tried to get a job blog.kraken.com/news/how-... · Posted by u/2bluesc

the_af · 4 months ago

I don't consider screenshots evidence of anything, so I'll completely disregard that bit.

I'm curious about your personal experience though. Did you try this tactic, and did it work? And how sure are you these weren't random hackers or trolls, but actual NK agents?

> many are amateurs

So basically this would only get rid of the amateurs, low hanging fruit that would have been caught soon enough anyway, and do a "natural selection" of only the non-stupid NK hackers to infiltrate your org?

danielvf · 4 months ago

> And how sure are you these weren't random hackers or trolls, but actual NK agents?

"Agents" is way too big of a word. Just cogs in a corporate theft machine.

There's a lot of reasons I'm sure, but the biggest is because before a hack they asked for help doing something simple with a crypto address that was later used to test run the 50 million dollar theft that was North Korea. And also trying to drop North Korean linked malware is another data point.

This also hits my point about both dangerous and amateurs. They pulled off pretty sophisticated heist but, had to ask for help, asked for help using a crypto address tied to the theft, and blew the cover on an identity they had been building up for a year.

Here's a twitter thread I put together of both my conversation and others with this particular account:

https://x.com/danielvf/status/1905642180749775189