Hacker News: PenguinCoder

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Hormuz closure could trigger 'agrifood shock', price crisis within a year"

PenguinCoder — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:22:20 +0000

> None of these autocratic countries care about their own populations. Trump has said so explicitly many times.

Going to need a better source than a habitual liar.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Securing a DoD contractor: Finding a multi-tenant authorization vulnerability"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:04:33 +0000

> Yes. I know Andreessen-Horowitz and I don’t know a16z.

So the world needs to adapt to your knowledge instead of you learning to adapt to a often used, and well-known moniker?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "US special forces soldier arrested after allegedly winning $400k on Maduro raid"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:37:45 +0000

> are/were peace-loving good guys,

And the US is?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Scan your website to see how ready it is for AI agents"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:12:13 +0000

Isn't that the promise of AI??

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Employers use your personal data to figure out the lowest salary you'll accept"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:46:43 +0000

Mortgage loans and car loans in America also ask for your W-2 or proof of that said income. Can't prove it, they won't let you use your claimed income as basis for loan approvals.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Jensen Huang says Nvidia is pulling back from OpenAI and Anthropic"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 04:24:30 +0000

It is insanely stupid that '4B' with a B, is 'too small' of an operating space.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "New site design and philosophy for Stack Overflow"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 23:14:58 +0000

This will be the third death of SO, but likely way more permanent.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "US plans online portal to bypass content bans in Europe and elsewhere"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:07:15 +0000

While the most well known, there are other points of presence doing the same thing. Easy and trivial to duplicate traffic at line speed. It doesn't affect the traffic flow itself.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 01:03:43 +0000

Did the genetic genome tests from the biopsy, from a third party company. Helped guide the treatments.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Overall, the colorectal cancer story is encouraging"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 22:32:04 +0000

Interesting, I wasn't aware of that connection either. I was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, but was identified as 'genetic' and not caused by diet or lifestyle. I used to be a heavy runner too, done a few marathons, and plenty more 10k, 8ks etc. Wonder if that could be a correlation... Treatments have it contained/in maintenance so at least I have that going for me.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "GrapheneOS – Break Free from Google and Apple"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 13:17:10 +0000

Does NFC work with those digital payment apps on Graphene?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Ask HN: How do you verify cron jobs did what they were supposed to?"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 22:46:43 +0000

+1 for chronic. Very useful for knowing when a cron fails without needing to manually review every log run.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge"

PenguinCoder — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 22:31:07 +0000

> It allowed me to revamp my home lab in a weekend.

So, what did you learn from that project??

New comment by PenguinCoder in "/R/selfhosted limits vibecoded apps"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 19:39:18 +0000

IMO, it goes against 'self-hosted' too. Self-hosting for your own data, control of it, and handling of it. Self-hosting to learn new things and scratch your own itch for a niche product. AI vibe coding doesn't have any of that. Literally an _idea_ that someone else implements and you the 'coder' don't really have any control or understanding of.

Why would I want to take ownership of that for my own security?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Ask HN: Those who quit tech, moved back home, what do you do?"

PenguinCoder — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:52:53 +0000

Interesting. I was a LEO, moved gradually into infosec. I think the stresses are different, but LEO was way more actively stressful.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Ask HN: Anyone else finding it impossible to land a job?"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 21:23:58 +0000

Listing an active US security clearance on your LinkedIn or resume, is a sure fire way to get malicious actors trying to "hire" you; and makes you way more of a target. Especially combined with your technologies, company and time frame worked... It's just realy bad idea.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Fighting back against biometric surveillance at Wegmans"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 18:48:46 +0000

Exactly. Its only useful after the fact. I he shoplifting has already occurred. Cameras do not stop shoplifts. It creates a record after the fact.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "Play Aardwolf MUD"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:18:19 +0000

I have 'Create a MUD server' on my side project todo list. I Want to do it with golang too. I have some experience with C and SMAUG codebase; just tinkering around. What were your biggest challenges and wins with a Go based MUD server?

New comment by PenguinCoder in "I can't upgrade to Windows 11, now leave me alone"

PenguinCoder — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 01:02:34 +0000

I know it goes against the grain here; but so what. It's the users prerogative to do with their device, what the wish. Nag for security updates, sure. But automatic updates of anything is user hostile and should be abolished. Especially when those automatic updates remove features or introduce a shit ton of new bugs.

New comment by PenguinCoder in "We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack"

PenguinCoder — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 23:09:22 +0000

It isn't about the commonality of the bug, but the level of access it gets you on the type or massive scale of the target. This bug you your blog? Who cares. This bug on Discord or AWS? Much more attractive and lucrative.