Hacker News: Sytten

New comment by Sytten in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

Sytten — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:02:09 +0000

The Canadian oil is always 10-20% cheaper right now because it only has one buyer, if anything the price will just track the global market more

New comment by Sytten in "Canada fast-tracks Pacific oil pipeline to reduce US dependence"

Sytten — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 17:00:13 +0000

Carney has quite a unique opportunity for massive public spending that would have never been popular in any other case. The US always kept Canada well enough that the economy was "good enough" with declining infrastructure and underinvestment (capital fleeing to better return in the states).

Now that he can claim to have no choice and people are really mad, then he can even force retirement funds to invest massively here through those "nationnaly important projects". If successful that would seriously boost our stagnant productivity and economy.

New comment by Sytten in "I could've accessed 17T Microsoft records"

Sytten — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 03:52:30 +0000

Always happy when I see software I built being used to hack cool targets. Very nice finding!

New comment by Sytten in "OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue"

Sytten — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 17:14:32 +0000

Agreed we should ban the term rogue for agents. This implies a moral compass that is not there. They were directed to find data without guardrails or limits, it is not rogue it is intended.

New comment by Sytten in "Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI"

Sytten — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 11:37:30 +0000

This was discussed a lot on the news here. Couple of authors feed their pre AI books to pangram and also got false positive. Maybe it is AI, maybe not. But using AI to accuse someone else of using AI is ironic.

New comment by Sytten in "We got admin access to Baseten's production GitHub"

Sytten — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 02:33:42 +0000

They are a great team! You will defacto also use Caido if you add it to your stack

New comment by Sytten in "Homebrew 7.0.0"

Sytten — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:02:32 +0000

I found that Mise handles all my needs for development and it is scoped so it doesn't try to update Python and break all my virtual env when I install something new /shrug

New comment by Sytten in "What Happened to HackerOne?"

Sytten — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:56:37 +0000

I am in this space. The reality is that the margins for a Bug Bounty Hunting platform are not good, triage is very expensive specially with all the AI slop that gets submitted now. You can hide it for a long time with VC money, but they need to diversify their product line to continue growing and compete against the AI pentest compagnies (which themselves will also diversify as AI pentest becomes a feature and not the whole product).

New comment by Sytten in "Superlogical"

Sytten — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 16:40:40 +0000

I am guessing Ghosty will become closer to Warp.

New comment by Sytten in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

Sytten — Fri, 29 May 2026 11:49:37 +0000

You sure about that? Visa/Mastercars certainly are selling at least aggregated data if not more.

New comment by Sytten in "Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors"

Sytten — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:24:59 +0000

AWS runs a lot of ARM server and they are pushed heavily since they are cheaper and faster. And with Apple running ARM it is just easier to fully transition now.

New comment by Sytten in "Canada’s Bill C-22 Is a Repackaged Version of Last Year’s Surveillance Nightmare"

Sytten — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:48:14 +0000

If someone from the EFF is reading this, could we get a French translation of that article so I can send it to my MP and share around to friends and family. We need a mass movement on that to block it.

New comment by Sytten in "Warp is now open-source"

Sytten — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 20:56:49 +0000

Great terminal, annoying that everytime it updates I have to go back to the settings to disable new AI features or layout changes.

New comment by Sytten in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

Sytten — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:10:47 +0000

You are inferring your own perception based on my comment, no need to be an asshole here. Like I said elsewhere we do both and they serve different purpose. We also make is very clear and easy to disable in the onboarding. I hope you try to build a business sometimes and open up your perspectives that maybe just maybe you don't have all the answers.

New comment by Sytten in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

Sytten — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 14:00:56 +0000

We do both and they yield different learnings. They are complementary. We also have an issue tracking board with upvotes. I would say to your point that you can't improve what you don't measure.

New comment by Sytten in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

Sytten — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:57:47 +0000

Respectfully I think your argument defeats itself. If you can only speak to your users once every 10-12 months it means your process doesn't scale by definition. Good analytics (not useless vanity metrics) should allow you to spot a problem days after it was launched not wait 3 quarters for a user to air their grievances.

New comment by Sytten in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

Sytten — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:54:01 +0000

That is just poor analytics IMO, if you have a good harness you can definitely tell if a feature is not well designed. You have to optimize for things like number of clicks to perform an operation not time spent in app.

New comment by Sytten in "GitHub CLI now collects pseudoanonymous telemetry"

Sytten — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:51:18 +0000

I used to believe that it was not necessary until I started building my own startup. If you dont have analytics you are flying blind. You don't know what your users actually care about and how to optimize a successful user journey. The difference between what people tell you when asked directly and how they actually use your software is actually shocking.

New comment by Sytten in "Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs"

Sytten — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 22:20:06 +0000

We are in Rust so our options are more limited. Make sense the golang ecosystem is pretty good for that.

New comment by Sytten in "Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs"

Sytten — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:38:01 +0000

Interesting product (Caido co-founder here). It is very hard to nail auth, probably the most underlooked aspect by end users. We are working on something similar for PoC reproduction of vulnerabilities.

Fingerprinting is also a hard thing to match perfectly, I would be curious to know what your strategy is on that. My experience has been that unless you bundle multiple TLS lib it is almost impossible to do at 100% because none of the lib cover all the TLS extensions.