Hacker News: RedShift1

New comment by RedShift1 in "Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel"

RedShift1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:27:36 +0000

List of affected packages: https://github.com/RedHatInsights/javascript-clients/issues/...

Red Hat packages backdoored through its official NPM channel

RedShift1 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 06:27:11 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/06/dozens-of-red-hat-packages-backdoored-through-its-offical-npm-channel/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48366744

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by RedShift1 in "Bijou64: A variable-length integer encoding"

RedShift1 — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:44:22 +0000

This seems quite convoluted just to avoid the "0 can be represented in more than one way" problem.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Vivaldi 8.0"

RedShift1 — Thu, 21 May 2026 10:31:58 +0000

Which is not Firefox's fault. It's up to the operating system to provide a stable API to make things like this work.

New comment by RedShift1 in "The greatest shot in television: James Burke had one chance to nail this scene (2024)"

RedShift1 — Mon, 11 May 2026 09:32:29 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCJh5D0FCZk with the correct aspect ratio

New comment by RedShift1 in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

RedShift1 — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:08:42 +0000

By the time you're so big you need all of that, there will be other people at the table to "hack that in".

New comment by RedShift1 in "Removable batteries in smartphones will be mandatory in the EU starting in 2027"

RedShift1 — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:50:52 +0000

And 4 years old... I wouldn't buy this new

New comment by RedShift1 in "Trademark violation: Fake Notepad++ for Mac"

RedShift1 — Mon, 04 May 2026 10:18:09 +0000

Is notepad++ a registered trademark?

New comment by RedShift1 in "中文 Literacy Speedrun II: Character Cyclotron"

RedShift1 — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 17:37:17 +0000

Anything similar to that for Japanese?

New comment by RedShift1 in "5NF and Database Design"

RedShift1 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:47:17 +0000

Me still using bigints... Which haven't given me any problems. Wouldn't use it for client generated IDs but that is not what most applications require anyway.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Microsoft hasn't had a coherent GUI strategy since Petzold"

RedShift1 — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 07:34:57 +0000

Does it need it?

New comment by RedShift1 in "IPv6 address, as a sentence you can remember"

RedShift1 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:49:50 +0000

I don't understand how the mapping works. An address has 8 parts and produces 16 words, so each part consists of 2 words. If we take the example 2a02, that gets encoded to "how atop", but I don't see how that text helps me that "how atop" means 2a02? Am I suppose to memorize both? How does that help?

New comment by RedShift1 in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

RedShift1 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:17:11 +0000

Definitely in the "they didn't stop to think if they should" category.

New comment by RedShift1 in "DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit"

RedShift1 — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 19:05:19 +0000

About 15 years ago I gave some networking courses at a local education center, it was all young kids (18-20 years old). When I told them that the speed we got back in the day was 4 kilobytes per second (56k on a good day), they didn't believe me at all.

Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes in 2026

RedShift1 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:20:37 +0000

Article URL: https://thedecipherist.com/articles/docker_swarm_vs_kubernetes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47039073

Points: 27

# Comments: 28

New comment by RedShift1 in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

RedShift1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:07:12 +0000

Forged under blue moon light for perfect electron alignment inside the wires.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Audiophiles can't distinguish audio sent through copper, banana or mud"

RedShift1 — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:05:14 +0000

I remember Technics used to advertise with amplifiers that used bamboo somewhere in the capacitors? Always wondered if there was actual bamboo in there somewhere and what the electrical effects were...

New comment by RedShift1 in "The world heard JD Vance being booed at the Olympics. Except for viewers in USA"

RedShift1 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 07:09:47 +0000

These american news companies are so goddamn spineless.

New comment by RedShift1 in "Netbird – Open Source Zero Trust Networking"

RedShift1 — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 11:03:39 +0000

I'm really missing something like Cisco DMVPN. A VPN mesh between different routers where all routers have a connection to each other, so that all traffic doesn't have to pass through the hub. And that runs on a router, because all these solutions only run on a regular computer with a complete OS.

New comment by RedShift1 in "DECwindows Motif"

RedShift1 — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 08:55:43 +0000

points finger you son of a bitch, I'm in.