Hacker News: Icathian

New comment by Icathian in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

Icathian — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:04:17 +0000

Kimwoolf and Aisuru kind of make my point better than yours, I think?

New comment by Icathian in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

Icathian — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:20:59 +0000

Yeah, I'm reminded of 15 years ago being told Linux was super secure because people were popping Windows all the time. Turns out it was mostly just a function of effort pointed at the target, and I don't have any reason to believe that's not the case here too.

New comment by Icathian in "Mullvad exit IPs are surprisingly identifying"

Icathian — Fri, 15 May 2026 13:17:27 +0000

I deeply appreciate Mullvad's thorough approach to privacy and ethics. In this day and age, you all are an absolute breath of fresh air. Thanks for that.

New comment by Icathian in "Pgrx: Build Postgres Extensions with Rust"

Icathian — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:28:28 +0000

Postgresml closed up shop, the guy you're replying to was one of the key players there. Pgrx is trucking right along, and gaining speed at the moment.

New comment by Icathian in "Capability-Based Security for Redox: Namespace and CWD as Capabilities"

Icathian — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:56:13 +0000

Cloudflare's developer platform uses them. That's what their "bindings" are.

New comment by Icathian in "Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026"

Icathian — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:33:02 +0000

It is not. They went about 5 years without one of these, and had a handful over the last 6 months. They're really going to need to figure out what's going wrong and clean up shop.

Real-Time Data with Materialized Views in Turso

Icathian — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 13:08:02 +0000

Article URL: https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-real-time-data-with-materialized-views-in-turso

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45538579

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Icathian in "Everything that's wrong with Google Search in one image"

Icathian — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:29:21 +0000

Nope. The slope has been slippery, but way back at the top of it there were zero ads on the page.

New comment by Icathian in "Shai-Hulud malware attack: Tinycolor and over 40 NPM packages compromised"

Icathian — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:37:53 +0000

Go sits at about the same level of abstraction as Python or Java, just with less OO baked in. I'm not sure where go's reputation as "low-level" comes from. I'd be curious to hear why that's the category you think of it in?

New comment by Icathian in "Bcachefs Goes to "Externally Maintained""

Icathian — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 12:13:25 +0000

I happen to work at a company that uses a ton of capnp internally and this is the first time I've seen it mentioned much outside of here. Would you mind describing what about it you think would make it a good fit for something like bcachefs?

New comment by Icathian in "GPT-5"

Icathian — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 21:13:19 +0000

Anyone who still takes predictive statements from leadership at AI companies as anything other than meaningless noise isn't even trying.

New comment by Icathian in "AMD CEO sees chips from TSMC's US plant costing 5%-20% more"

Icathian — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 22:49:50 +0000

I think you're mistaking the name of a cardinal direction for a cohesive set of political ideologies.

New comment by Icathian in "Zig's New Async I/O"

Icathian — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 12:41:33 +0000

> a change in a leaf function in a little file in a random helper module could introduce asynchronocity which propagates all the way up to your `pub fn main`

If this doesn't make the argument that Zig has certainly not defeated function coloring, I don't know what would.

The fact that this change to how my program runs is hidden away in the compiler instead of somewhere visible is not an improvement.

New comment by Icathian in "Figma Slides Is a Beautiful Disaster"

Icathian — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:28:16 +0000

If information is important enough to bother someone asking for a copy of it, but not important enough to spend an hour ingesting, I'm not sure what to tell you.

New comment by Icathian in "Databricks and Neon"

Icathian — Wed, 14 May 2025 18:28:25 +0000

Hosting and operating the autoscaling of the various services (compute, pageserver, safekeeper, storage broker) that it takes to make all that work is complex enough that most folks would rather not. Same as any other "managed X" service.

New comment by Icathian in "Zig, the Ideal C Replacement Or?"

Icathian — Sun, 11 May 2025 15:14:42 +0000

That's reasonable. I think major restrictions that cause you to need to refactor your code when going from debug to release are a footgun and a half, but that'd at least be defensible.

New comment by Icathian in "Zig: A new direction for low-level programming?"

Icathian — Sun, 11 May 2025 13:21:56 +0000

This is the exact same attitude as people who threw tantrums about seatbelt laws in the 90s. It was wrong then, and it's wrong now. For mostly the same reasons.

New comment by Icathian in "Less Slow C++"

Icathian — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:58:27 +0000

I would pay some real money for the rust equivalent of this kind of material. Anyone got a book or repo they like and would recommend?

New comment by Icathian in "TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale"

Icathian — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:05:19 +0000

Yeah, 100% with you on that.

New comment by Icathian in "TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale"

Icathian — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:43:39 +0000

This is completely wrong. Kids can easily learn to read at age 5. A child who is working on "basic reading proficiency" at 8 is very behind and has not been well-served by the people responsible for raising them.