Hacker News: abofh

New comment by abofh in "Asynchronous I/O in DuckDB: Work, Thread, Work"

abofh — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:17:05 +0000

Do they have SSL updates yet? Signing is great, but using https means not fighting firewalls to start a job

New comment by abofh in ""That's not SOC 2 compliant""

abofh — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:35:40 +0000

Youre required to have a policy. That policy may be throwing bananas at the wall, but if it's documented and you follow it, you're compliant with policy.

New comment by abofh in "I close SSH port 22 (and what I use instead)"

abofh — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 05:27:10 +0000

You run ssh?

New comment by abofh in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

abofh — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 02:46:17 +0000

Largely the line was if you could write code. In the old days it was assumed, but for much of the late 90s/early aughts, it wasn't an obligation to admin, but was for devops

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

abofh — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 03:03:32 +0000

It got the executives it paid for

New comment by abofh in "Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open"

abofh — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:19:01 +0000

You've joined an accelerator, not gone public, of course you're not ready to rug pull

New comment by abofh in "GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability"

abofh — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:42:46 +0000

They couldn't handle sending webhooks for eight hours. That seems more than reasonable to expect.

New comment by abofh in "Does Speaking to Agents Like Cavemen Save 65% of Tokens? We Test"

abofh — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 03:27:03 +0000

If you just want a smaller vocabulary, use French? If your goal is to communicate to an LLM, maybe saving tokens isn't the all in win, unless you like reading assert gronkHitThing(true)

New comment by abofh in "Delayed Gratification – Proud to Be 'Last to Breaking News'"

abofh — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:24:31 +0000

I would love to pay a penny an article read by me my AI or whatever to a host of services provided they could prove the value first. These days I'm told which thousand companies my clicks will be sold to any time I visit an article, and that's before I've gotten value.

The industry got it wrong when it digitized

New comment by abofh in "Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat"

abofh — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:08:59 +0000

Anonymous packets are a national security threat!

New comment by abofh in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

abofh — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:58:54 +0000

Indeed, but should he say his real code was one digit swap off, could you prove intent? Color matters, but you can't paint with only one

New comment by abofh in "Claude Opus 5"

abofh — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 01:19:59 +0000

It's a binary rule at our firm. We trust bedrock but not mantle for similar reasons

New comment by abofh in "Lobste.rs is now running on SQLite"

abofh — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 22:11:39 +0000

I hope it's profitable, because this feels like engineering for engineering sake and not actually improving the product in a way that draws customers.

New comment by abofh in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

abofh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:18:41 +0000

To an extent that's fair, but you do understand that "ive not heard of a vulnerability older than me" begs credulity? Especially with the fifteen years experience comment? I'm all for not being snarky (I'm not), but this was bait

New comment by abofh in "GhostLock, a stack-UAF that has existed in all Linux distributions for 15 years"

abofh — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:01:55 +0000

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New comment by abofh in "98% isn't much"

abofh — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 14:15:50 +0000

I remember years ago when websites would have buttons "best viewed in Internet explorer 4.0". We're past those days, but only because it's implied "use chrome, maybe webkit, we didn't test on Firefox"

New comment by abofh in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

abofh — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 03:34:36 +0000

Somebody figured out how to make the trial profitable!

I don't really feel bad about anyone here, they were subsidizing to get people hooked, someone turned the subsidies into profit when they got selective pricing mode enabled, it was always going to be arbitrage.

But the winner is the guy in the middle in a jurisdiction that will likely be judgement proof, because everything they capture, both input and out, and if available, thinking tokens -- are gonna be for sale as soon as you cut off their other revenue.

Zero knowledge was a commitment Anthropic took seriously, until it got inconvenient.

So, people reselling their leftover plan crumbs? Probably a bad idea for a lot of reasons, but it's civil, and I wish Anthropics lawyers actually closing Streisand's LLM

New comment by abofh in "In praise of memcached"

abofh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:46:46 +0000

So many it's not X it's Y. It might have been polished, but it was claude

New comment by abofh in "Finding the best dog treat with statistics"

abofh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:37:19 +0000

This just feels like an excuse to give your dog a statically significant amount of treats

New comment by abofh in "In praise of memcached"

abofh — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 02:13:17 +0000

Oh God I'm tired of ai written thought pieces