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New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Cloudflare OHTTP gateway"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:44:58 +0000

Is the DHS story not widely known?

    Five years later Mr Prince was doing a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Harvard Business School, and the project was far from his mind, when he got an unexpected phone call from the US Department of Homeland Security asking him about the information he had gathered on attacks.
    
    Mr Prince recalls: "They said 'do you have any idea how valuable the data you have is? Is there any way you would sell us that data?'.

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37348016

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Footguns with Postgres “at time zone 'UTC'”"

1a527dd5 — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 11:46:28 +0000

My bible: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Don't_Do_This

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 07:44:30 +0000

Empty toilet rolls. That way I can see the connectors and quickly find what cable I need.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

1a527dd5 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:02:38 +0000

There used to be an account on Twitter that was heavily involved in this industry. Every now and then I'd glean some slightly useful information from their posts. My favourite one being "the name verification isn't a thing - you can enter anything". So I've been doing that ever since and it's _always_ passed.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Quantum battery upends the rules of charging"

1a527dd5 — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:55:07 +0000

I think all of us have read tangentially related battery articles over the last decade. All of them promise new and magically. None have upturned the market.

I remain sceptical.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Buz – A fork of Bun using modern Zig, with sub-1s incremental builds"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:47:31 +0000

This is what I like to call performative performance programming. I _LOVE_ performance as much as the next guy. And build times should be as close to 0 seconds as possible.

But this is approaching diminishing returns and I guarantee that your CURRENT bottleneck is not build times.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Count Binface"

1a527dd5 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:41:29 +0000

If you are interested in a pretty good political discussion - this is worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kV5E2UYwUkk

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "But Nothing Has Changed on Our Side"

1a527dd5 — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 16:28:50 +0000

Something I've noticed a lot is the how quickly people jump to complicated answers.

I've seen this a lot.

A few examples:-

- this code isn't logging -> is logging broke -> code was never deployed - 500s are being thrown -> it's definitely not my code -> revert code 500s cliff face

Literally, every week there is a version of that. I have no idea why or how to tackle it but it is highly prevalent across skill set and roles.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "LastPass notifies users of yet another data breach"

1a527dd5 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:46:28 +0000

I'm so glad we migrated away from LastPass (to BitWarden). It was a breach that caused us to move in the first instance.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

1a527dd5 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 07:24:01 +0000

"Hypocrisy, thy name is you"

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Show HN: Make PDFs look scanned (CLI or in the browser via WASM)"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 22:32:35 +0000

Yeah I don't want to rain on OPs parade; but this is already a solved problem:

From my bookmarks (found on HN originally!)

https://gist.github.com/andyrbell/25c8632e15d17c83a54602f6ac...

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Caddy compatibility for zeroserve: 3x throughput and 70% lower latency"

1a527dd5 — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:07:41 +0000

Anyone else got a really weird Chorme pop-up asking which cert to use for su3.io:443?

Very bizarre, never seen that before.

Thumbprints:

  - 60949a09aab8677f87a0b9eda7099a03ca510fb3
  - 1b146798f0dc93773247e86312f1b730c4eeebb3

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Did Claude increase bugs in rsync?"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 23:40:18 +0000

I'm amazed that this is still being discussed.

It's open source, no one is forcing you to use it.

If you don't trust the newer versions; use the old versions.

If you no longer like the maintainer because of reasons, fork it/start your own.

It's not that hard.

Storm in a teacup.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Accenture to acquire Ookla"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 30 May 2026 21:38:50 +0000

Big fan of https://speedtest.aa.net.uk

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "We reduced a real Node.js production Docker image from 1.2GB to 78MB"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 23 May 2026 22:51:57 +0000

Surely this is ripped content?

https://sandeepbansod.medium.com/why-your-docker-container-i...

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"

1a527dd5 — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:19:10 +0000

I feel like if you've done any kind of investigation work then this is the normal baseline.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

1a527dd5 — Wed, 13 May 2026 14:19:26 +0000

I mean you can argue the same about Telsa, but look at BYD now.

Just because you are first to do x, doesn't mean you are going to be the winner.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Local AI needs to be the norm"

1a527dd5 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:50:21 +0000

Consumer/private needs to be local.

Work? I don't want it local at all. I want it all cloud agent.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Maybe you shouldn't install new software for a bit"

1a527dd5 — Fri, 08 May 2026 07:32:50 +0000

This applies to much more than just software, in fact it applies to almost everything.

I don't remember where I read it, but it basically boils down to need vs want.

I've used that rule for deciding between a new car or used. A fancy vacuum or basic.

A shiny new gadget.

Bringing new things into the tech stack.

Picking a new tech stack.

New comment by 1a527dd5 in "Mythos is the best cybersecurity news in a decade"

1a527dd5 — Wed, 06 May 2026 22:28:14 +0000

Mythos has been a boon for "look busy" work. My global corp org has been on a bender upgrading everything, patching everything. There is a giant dashboard that shows green/red for everything we have.

I think it's a total overreaction. But the edict was passed down, and here we are go.