Hacker News: Ysx

New comment by Ysx in "What happened after 2k people tried to hack my AI assistant"

Ysx — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 06:07:03 +0000

#2 was noted:

> When the first few emails in a batch were obvious prompt injections, the agent became more suspicious of everything that followed. I had to change the setup so that each email was processed in a fresh context.

New comment by Ysx in "Tell HN: Happy Fathers Day"

Ysx — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 17:37:21 +0000

I don't care about 90% of the posts on this site, but enough are relevant to make it worthwhile.

It'd be silly to reply to the threads that don't interest me.

New comment by Ysx in "London Mayor Blocks Palantir"

Ysx — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:29:18 +0000

Less than 1000 employees in London, they're not a big deal in that sense.

New comment by Ysx in "Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers"

Ysx — Tue, 12 May 2026 18:00:30 +0000

> Each individual company is probably better off paying the ransom, but everyone would be better off if no one paid a ransom.

You're then a target known to be vulnerable and pay ransoms, so best focus on security.

New comment by Ysx in "Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech"

Ysx — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:12:25 +0000

> Because social media already has the age info exactly?

Then it shouldn't be difficult to comply.

New comment by Ysx in "Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022)"

Ysx — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 18:21:43 +0000

> Yes, I know which “major computer manufacturer” it is, and no, I’m not telling. This is consistent with longstanding blog policy that companies are not identified in stories, because the point of the story to teach something, not to call out companies for derision.

From the follow-up post: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220920-00/?p=10...

New comment by Ysx in "We reduced a container image from 800GB to 2GB"

Ysx — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:24:38 +0000

> For stuff like security keys you should typically add them as build args, not as content in the image.

Build args are content in the image: https://docs.docker.com/reference/build-checks/secrets-used-...

New comment by Ysx in "'Do not trust your eyes': AI generates surge in expense fraud"

Ysx — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:32:43 +0000

https://archive.is/K2DFE

New comment by Ysx in "Ask HN: Is GitHub down?"

Ysx — Thu, 29 Jun 2023 18:10:13 +0000

They added a second token on Tuesday: https://github.blog/changelog/2023-06-27-github-actions-upda...

New comment by Ysx in "Synth pioneer and maker of ‘Popcorn’, Gershon Kingsley (2019)"

Ysx — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 15:28:04 +0000

For me it was Trollie Wallie on the C64, watching my dad play: https://youtu.be/wUYFslnvT6k?t=162

New comment by Ysx in "Ask HN: I've Built a DHT Torrent Sniffer and Search Engine. Should I Release?"

Ysx — Sun, 23 Oct 2022 12:50:41 +0000

DHT has existed for 17 years - the cat's out of the bag. The anti-piracy companies have built their own crawlers.

New comment by Ysx in "Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)"

Ysx — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 17:15:19 +0000

It's only suction's caramalized onion pasta sauce if it comes from the self-loathing region of France. Otherwise it's just sparking onion sauce.

New comment by Ysx in "It is 2018 and this error message is a mistake from 1974"

Ysx — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 08:26:25 +0000

Perhaps you are not the centre of the universe.

New comment by Ysx in "Reddit user fixes Cyberpunk 2077 steam controller input bug through decompiling"

Ysx — Sat, 12 Dec 2020 20:43:51 +0000

> Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

New comment by Ysx in "Ask HN: 1Password vs. LastPass vs. Bitwarden for teams ?"

Ysx — Thu, 03 Dec 2020 21:32:43 +0000

It might be this issue, fixed 10th October: https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs/issues/1162

New comment by Ysx in "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You"

Ysx — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 08:06:10 +0000

Bitnami broke their MongoDB Helm chart. We're careful to pin versions, and hadn't anticipated someone would re-write history and break published code.

Can't get too upset, we don't pay them anything. Not in a rush to use them again though.

New comment by Ysx in "People work longer and different hours under lockdown"

Ysx — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 16:10:02 +0000

I think that's more applicable to remote work generally.

Lockdown is a different and and new scenario, more akin to Groundhog Day. Work can be a relief.

New comment by Ysx in "Build an Air Quality Monitor with InfluxDB, Grafana and Docker on a Raspberry Pi"

Ysx — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 10:47:20 +0000

I'd have solved it same way as the article, as they're tools I'm familiar with - feels like overkill though. How would you have managed it?

New comment by Ysx in "Chrome “clear cookies on exit” feature does not work"

Ysx — Sun, 24 Mar 2019 12:55:17 +0000

That's interesting... does it behave much differently to private windows?

New comment by Ysx in "W3C approves WebAuthn as the web standard for password-free logins"

Ysx — Mon, 04 Mar 2019 16:14:09 +0000

It's probably not the .NET you're thinking of: "By 2003, however, the .NET strategy had dwindled into a failed branding campaign"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_.NET_strategy