Hacker News: SEJeff

New comment by SEJeff in "OpenCV 5 Is Here: The Biggest Leap in Years for Computer Vision"

SEJeff — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 04:22:22 +0000

You win the internet friend

New comment by SEJeff in "Go Experiments Explained"

SEJeff — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 01:39:06 +0000

I’m 42, never went to college (I joined the army) and am now a Principal Security Engineer at a serious computer security firm. I’ve got a background in Linux high performance computing and software engineering.

If I can do this, anyone can. I believe in you internet friend. In tech, every day’s a school. Embrace it and learn something new daily, or get left behind. You’ve got this

New comment by SEJeff in "Go Experiments Explained"

SEJeff — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:09:31 +0000

Pick a problem you’re interested in and just work on solving it, in go. The best way to learn is to hit the rough edges and just keep going.

If an oldie like me can learn go well so can you

New comment by SEJeff in "Love systemd timers"

SEJeff — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:49:54 +0000

Oh yes, because the well documented clean syntax of sys v init shell scripts was so nice.

If I never recall hacking in ulimit calls in the top of buggy shell scripts for crappy old services that done respect pam_limits it won’t be soon enough.

New comment by SEJeff in "A successful Japanese trial of a ramjet engine designed for Mach‑5 aircraft"

SEJeff — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:30:21 +0000

This is why Ukraine is so excited to get up to 150 Gripens (with Meteor loadout) from the Swedes.

The Queen's Duck

SEJeff — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:49:41 +0000

Article URL: https://bwiggs.com/notebook/queens-duck/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48138752

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

LavaMoat – securing JavaScript supply chains

SEJeff — Wed, 13 May 2026 05:03:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LavaMoat/LavaMoat/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48118048

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by SEJeff in "Static Analysis for GitHub Actions"

SEJeff — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:26:20 +0000

Their action is also super handy: https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor-action

Use pinact (you can brew install it) to pin it by checksum: https://github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/pinact

Static Analysis for GitHub Actions

SEJeff — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:25:42 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48109713

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by SEJeff in "DNSSEC disruption affecting .de domains – Resolved"

SEJeff — Tue, 05 May 2026 23:14:14 +0000

Just gonna leave this absolute gem from Thomas Ptacek on DNSSEC here:

https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2015/01/15/against-dnssec/

New comment by SEJeff in "Zed 1.0"

SEJeff — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:26:47 +0000

https://graphify.net and trail of bits’s trail mark https://github.com/trailofbits/trailmark

Both use treesitter and create knowledge graphs for llm use. It results in way less tokens spent as well.

I won a championship that doesn't exist

SEJeff — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:38:21 +0000

Article URL: https://ron.stoner.com/How_I_Won_a_Championship_That_Doesnt_Exist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47940389

Points: 232

# Comments: 132

New comment by SEJeff in "NIST scientists create 'any wavelength' lasers"

SEJeff — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:56:56 +0000

The US Navy has been working on their idea of a holy grail they have deemed the free electron laser[1]

[1] https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2010-03-18-Boeing-Completes-Pre...

New comment by SEJeff in "Claude Opus 4.7"

SEJeff — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:14:21 +0000

I believe tools like graphify cut down the tokens in thinking dramatically. It makes a knowledge graph and dumps it into markdown that is honestly awesome. Then it has stubs that pretend to be some tools like grep that read from the knowledge graph first so it does less work. Easy to setup and use too. I like it.

https://graphify.net/

New comment by SEJeff in "LibreOffice – Let's put an end to the speculation"

SEJeff — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:00:49 +0000

Michael Meek’s referenced blog post. The irony is I remember him championing openness for OpenOffice and I remember how transparent he was when he helped found libreoffice and TDF. What a shame we have devolved to this situation.

https://www.collaboraonline.com/blog/tdf-ejects-its-core-dev...

New comment by SEJeff in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

SEJeff — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 01:22:16 +0000

https://docs.npmjs.com/trusted-publishers/#recommended-restr... This helps mitigate spear phished privileges employees pushing hacked npm packages entirely.

New comment by SEJeff in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

SEJeff — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 01:41:29 +0000

Palantir maven uses Claude. This is not misinformation, but fact.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/palantir-faces-challenge-...

New comment by SEJeff in "Judge blocks Pentagon effort to 'punish' Anthropic with supply chain risk label"

SEJeff — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:54:43 +0000

Fun fact: Palantir is powered entirely by Claude and was what was used for the Venezuela operation and for targeting for the Iranian operation.

New comment by SEJeff in "OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha"

SEJeff — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:52:04 +0000

It definitely has profiling client libraries https://grafana.com/docs/pyroscope/latest/configure-client/l...

New comment by SEJeff in "OpenTelemetry profiles enters public alpha"

SEJeff — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:25:28 +0000

I wonder how this compares to grafana pyroscope, which is really good for this sort of thing and already quite mature:

https://grafana.com/oss/pyroscope/

https://github.com/grafana/pyroscope