Hacker News: jacquesm submitted

Trump says 'a whole civilization will die tonight' if Iran does not make a deal

jacquesm — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:31:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/trump-says-a-whole-civilization-will-die-tonight-if-iran-does-not-make-deal-2026-04-07/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47674286

Points: 257

# Comments: 163

Tell HN: Slow Down

jacquesm — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 12:05:01 +0000

The number of supply chain attacks and the blast radius as a result of these is ever increasing. The big culprits are languages that are not just languages but whole eco-systems, where stuff that should be 'batteries included' ends up in a massive stack of libraries and modules that nobody can be bothered to review.

This doesn't scale. Reviewing all of this code by all of the potential users is just asking for it, the bulk of them did not have the resource to write the module/library in the first place so they most likely will not have the resources to review everything they ingest.

I'm trying to imagine Linux with not one distribution but several thousand each of which could become malicious at the drop of a hat. In the longer term this will not work. All of these systems can only work in a world where there are no bad actors and where you implicitly trust the source.

Please improve curation. The next supply chain bug may well be 'the big one' and I'm pretty sure that various nation states are aiming to achieve that kind of capability now that there are ample proofs of concept out there. We need fewer points of distribution with better curation and far stricter review before inclusion, something along the lines of the Linux Kernel.

We do not need these crazy high release speeds with daily updates all over the stack, then you should just slow down and do better QA.

Reliability comes from the ability to invest the time review and increase understanding, not from the ability to release at breakneck speed, use your downstream as QA and then to fix things when you get them wrong. If it was coded today the world does not need it until tomorrow or even the day after tomorrow. Having a 'hot path' from your development environment to release that is fast also has the potential to export any compromise of your environment to your releases. More so if you accept external contributions to your code.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47516232

Points: 15

# Comments: 7

Time Nuts

jacquesm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 21:57:19 +0000

Article URL: http://leapsecond.com/time-nuts.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471888

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Delve (YC W24) Faked 494 Compliance Reports

jacquesm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:59:31 +0000

Article URL: https://systima.ai/blog/delve-compliance-fraud-eu-ai-act-conformity-assessment

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466247

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

St. Francis Dam Collapse

jacquesm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 11:53:50 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Francis_Dam

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47466208

Points: 2

# Comments: 3

Traces of Evil

jacquesm — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:54:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tracesofevil.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47462915

Points: 17

# Comments: 2

Cuban Oil Blockade: Man Powers His Polski Fiat with Coal [video]

jacquesm — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:41:00 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibkLrAJnepo

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47454362

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

'I'm not political': Tim Cook resp to backlash ag. relationship w. Trump admin

jacquesm — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:09:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/tim-cook-response-trump-relationship-criticism-2026-3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47432025

Points: 15

# Comments: 8

Gaia-GIC-1: An Evolving Catastrophic Planetesimal Collision Candidate

jacquesm — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:11:42 +0000

Article URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae3ddc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47418384

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Chinese Optical Clock Accurate to Within 1 Second over 30B Years

jacquesm — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:05:28 +0000

Article URL: https://english.cas.cn/newsroom/cas-in-media/202603/t20260309_1152046.shtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47402534

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Trump Adviser Warns of Possible Israel Nuclear Escalation in Iran Conflict

jacquesm — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 22:29:19 +0000

Article URL: https://www.newsweek.com/david-sacks-trump-administration-israel-nuclear-escalation-iran-war-11678063

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47381977

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

NIS2 non-compliance, managers held liable

jacquesm — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:42:58 +0000

Article URL: https://nis2directive.eu/nis2-fines/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379743

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Device 32620: Stimme Speech/Morse generator

jacquesm — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 02:46:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cryptomuseum.com/spy/owvl/32620/index.htm

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47345755

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Meta drops appeal against ruling requiring non-algorithmic social media timeline

jacquesm — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:16:04 +0000

Article URL: https://nltimes.nl/2026/01/26/meta-drops-appeal-court-ruling-requiring-non-algorithmic-social-media-timelines

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47322185

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Tell HN: Bugbrain.app is spamming HN profile email addresses

jacquesm — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:32:17 +0000

Warning, there is a character that calls themselves 'Dave' from 'Bugbrain.app' that is spamming addresses and names harvested from HN profiles on the flimsiest of pretexts. Suggest adding them to the spamfilters and to blacklist them from posting or other participation on HN.

"""Hey Jacques,

Saw your comments on HN about bug tracking—you clearly care about catching issues before they hit users. bugbrain does the heavy lifting by analyzing your codebase and test runs to surface bugs your tests miss. It's like having a second set of eyes that actually knows what it's looking for.

Worth a look if you're tired of firefighting in production.

https://bugbrain.app

Dave"""

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47291199

Points: 2

# Comments: 0