Hacker News: aitchnyu

New comment by aitchnyu in "An AI Vibe Coding Horror Story"

aitchnyu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:53:56 +0000

Is there anybody making some framework where you declare the security intentions as code (for each CRUD action) and which agents can correctly do and unit test? I have seen a Lovable competitor's system prompt have 24 lines of "please consider security when generating select statements, please consider security when generating update statements..." since it expects to dump queries here and there.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

aitchnyu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 09:17:48 +0000

Umm, why didnt you find a GUI manager like Vorta (this one is Borg exclusive IIRC)?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Someone bought 30 WordPress plugins and planted a backdoor in all of them"

aitchnyu — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 08:02:24 +0000

Deno can whitelist outbound connections to certain hosts or refuse them altogether. If the average backend service is locked down this way, will the supply chain economy survive?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Seven countries now generate nearly all their electricity from renewables (2024)"

aitchnyu — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:53:24 +0000

Our rainy day production is still a fifth * of our peak in Kerala, India. Wish all inverters support 5x overprovisioning, current ones support 1.5x and suffer lower life. Seems 1.1x is the recommended provisioning guideline.

* UK internet stranger said he gets negligible output when it rains

New comment by aitchnyu in "DIY Soft Drinks"

aitchnyu — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:54:19 +0000

Disappointed there is no carbon dioxide injection. In the 90s till date in this corner of India, Mr Butler is a compact pure mechanical device which can make nose tickling strong sodas. If I were a soda fan, I would have DIYed and rejected the flat mop water that most commercial sodas have become.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Are sugar substitutes healthier than the real thing?"

aitchnyu — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:40:38 +0000

Tangential, are there any sweeteners which are confirmed to not affect intermittent fasting? Would love to sweeten my black coffee.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Are sugar substitutes healthier than the real thing?"

aitchnyu — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:39:03 +0000

Zookeepers determined modern fruits are harming their animals https://qz.com/1408469/humans-have-bred-fruits-to-be-so-high...

New comment by aitchnyu in "South Korea introduces universal basic mobile data access"

aitchnyu — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 15:38:41 +0000

Umm, was it more than an oppportunistic attack at net neurality?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Show HN: Stop paying for Dropbox/Google Drive, use your own S3 bucket instead"

aitchnyu — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:10:37 +0000

What happens if the server disappears permanently and only the bucket is up?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Mercor says it was hit by cyberattack tied to compromise LiteLLM"

aitchnyu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 11:19:43 +0000

Delve and Emdash. Are there more products or companies with similar names?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Solar panels at Lidl? Plug-in versions set to appear in shops"

aitchnyu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 14:49:07 +0000

Please tell your latitude or location.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Cohere Transcribe: Speech Recognition"

aitchnyu — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 10:54:44 +0000

You mean the ones designed to work on 64MB of RAM and CPU? I downloaded too many speech recognition and TTS shareware as a kid.

New comment by aitchnyu in "OkCupid gave 3M dating-app photos to facial recognition firm, FTC says"

aitchnyu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:27:19 +0000

Google GCP updates me with a list of third party subprocessors which potentially interact with my data. All end users of any service should be informed of direct and transitive subprocessors.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Fedware: Government apps that spy harder than the apps they ban"

aitchnyu — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:50:34 +0000

I put most of my apps into freezer (Realme phone) so they run only in foreground. Apparently my mobile operator uses their app to prevent sharing my mobile into a Wifi hotspot, my food delivery app pretended to be Amazon having an issue with a package etc.

New comment by aitchnyu in "Show HN: Sheet Ninja – Google Sheets as a CRUD Back End for Vibe Coders"

aitchnyu — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 18:54:02 +0000

Umm, does Google sheets let you fetch rows in O(log(n)) time or aggregate numbers?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Say No to Palantir in Europe"

aitchnyu — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:27:25 +0000

Did Helsing get its name from the fictional vampire hunter family?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Accidental eCall activation in cars lead to 75% false 112 calls in Nederland"

aitchnyu — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:48:24 +0000

My Samsung phone was very trigger happy about emergency calls, in India. Once, the call went through, and it seems the service provider prepared for people like me: it would proceed only if I press a number.

New comment by aitchnyu in "ICAO issued new power bank restriction on flight"

aitchnyu — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:41:40 +0000

Umm, did they mention the Joules (mAh) limit and combustibility?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Desk for people who work at home with a cat"

aitchnyu — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 09:32:28 +0000

Are they using some olfactory "palatant" on the boxes?

New comment by aitchnyu in "Scientists Just Broke the Solar Power Limit Everyone Thought Was Absolute"

aitchnyu — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 07:20:35 +0000

How did you calculate the radiation joules -> electricity joules efficiency when the scientists apparently did not?