Hacker News: VladVladikoff

New comment by VladVladikoff in "I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 13:07:37 +0000

>Cloudflare, love you guys, but this needs to stop

Stockholm syndrome

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Probably check on your smart appliances"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:04:46 +0000

What gets me is how honestly horribly written most of these scrapers are. I found one ip in my logs recently that had 50,000 attempts at the same 404, over and over every few seconds.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 22:41:41 +0000

Where does the legality with this lie? I’ve read cases where someone was jailed just for changing the ID in a url parameter. If you are intercepting network requests and then replaying them (with modifications?) in you own custom code, I bet under some laws this is “hacking”. Personally I would be afraid to post publicly that I’ve done this, seems like it could be used as an admission of guilt in a trial.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 19:20:22 +0000

Love your username! Great book. It’s a shame he’s been cast into obscurity because of his personal life. You mean someone who writes lots of dark fiction is a deeply dark and troubled soul himself! Gasp!

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Codex scraped the ICM website and discovered 2026 Fields Medal winner list"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:58:36 +0000

Google uses data from chrome. If you visited it with chrome, google knows it exists.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:36:01 +0000

Right because that’s worked so well with gun control too!

New comment by VladVladikoff in "The infinite scroll may become endangered if controversial Calif. law passes"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 01:19:27 +0000

It’s the wrong fix to the problem. The correct fix is enforcing an infinite scroll limit (time), after which the app tells you to take a break (for some amount of time).

New comment by VladVladikoff in "The Graph That Should Be Front-Page News"

VladVladikoff — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:38:50 +0000

Yes I was wondering the same. Why is the mean using a different set of years than the total data set? There also seems to be a year where the swing was equally as extreme in the other direction, what year was this? Would be worth mentioning at least in the post.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Unauthenticated RCE in Motorola's MR2600 Router"

VladVladikoff — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 14:08:00 +0000

>42 hosts with remote management

>vender doesn’t want to fix it

Sometimes I wonder if the white hat hackers who find such a thing should just take it a step further and patch those hosts. Take the firmware, fix those bugs and update those 42 routers.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "AI 2040: Plan A"

VladVladikoff — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 12:49:30 +0000

>We already wrote a scenario about this, called AI 2027. It depicts takeoff happening in 2027 instead of 2030

So in less than 3 years, their exponential growth curve doomsday prediction has moved back 3 years. This seems to be the opposite of exponential growth.

Ask HN: Who is your startup using for insurance?

VladVladikoff — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:25:00 +0000

We have a small startup, with about 1/2 mil users, and roughly 15 staff. We have been struggeling to find a suitable insurance provider because everyone we speak too is expecting us to have fortune 500 structure with network engineering diagrams, 100s of policy documents, in house servers, physical access card systems, etc. We just don't have any of this stuff, so we keep striking out with these insurance companies. Is there anything more geared towards small shops?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48849432

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by VladVladikoff in "John Deere owners will get the right to repair equipment under FTC settlement"

VladVladikoff — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:19:52 +0000

I clicked on one, he was rambling about wearing sunglasses because of studio lights, seems like pointless drivel, so I stopped watching.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:41:18 +0000

Yes we allow in room multiple devices and casting to the room TV. The TVs exist in each rooms separate VLAN.

Inter room communication between group bookings is in the works but it’s complex to say the least.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 22:39:40 +0000

We push a QR code to their TV as well as send them an SMS after check in.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "GPT‑Live"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:21:41 +0000

I want to know this too, as I’m hoping to fabricobble up a “smart speaker” that communicates with my local AI assistant. Right now we do everything via iMessage but it would be nice to be able to tell it to add things to my grocery list by voice while my hands are busy in the kitchen. Also would love if anyone has any advice on what microphone & speaker to pick out, was planning on just reusing a raspberry pi I’ve got around for the brain part.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Decoding the obfuscated bash script on a Uniqlo t-shirt"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:29:12 +0000

I watched the link but I didn’t see where he talked about making it difficult to OCR? What exactly was done that made it difficult to OCR?

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Tenda firmware (multiple versions) contains hidden authentication backdoor"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:52:13 +0000

I’m working on a hotel right now. And I’ve gone to great lengths to make the wifi more secure. Everyone on their own VLAN. Separate PPSK for each room. Credentials are randomly generated and not some ridiculous pattern of last name and room number or similar. We built our own custom access control system, with what at the time was the strongest keycards we could find (mifare desfire ev3), I’m really trying to make a hotel who’s security isn’t such a joke.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "Is The Economist Always Wrong?"

VladVladikoff — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:33:18 +0000

Strange to eschew the only actual power they have. Interesting times.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "98% Isn't Much"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:57:12 +0000

That’s not actually possible with the example given in the article (dropping scss and moving to nested css), it’s all or nothing for many cases.

New comment by VladVladikoff in "98% Isn't Much"

VladVladikoff — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:54:07 +0000

With images specifically it’s a tradeoff. For image heavy sites like mine, the performance gains provided by webp for the 96% outweigh the potential degradation for the 4%. We get a fair amount of support tickets but not a single ticket has said “I can’t see your images on my X device” since switching to webp (~6months ago)