Hacker News: alexjurkiewicz

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "The Australian Government to Require SMS/MMS Sender ID Registraion"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:15:06 +0000

Showing overseas based workers of Microsoft as another company name on caller ID is a phishing risk.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 03:04:43 +0000

It might take a large org several years to migrate off core systems like VMWare. If you think the customer is likely to churn within a few years anyway it makes economic sense to hike their fee.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

alexjurkiewicz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:36:30 +0000

As the article mentions towards the end, AWS EKS, GCP GKE, and other competitors have made k8s setup turnkey. You can deploy a new cluster with all the controllers you mentioned in a single click / Terraform.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "What job interviews taught me about Kubernetes"

alexjurkiewicz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 08:35:23 +0000

AWS ECS and GCP Cloud Run are this. Run a container on abstract compute. But they aren't "without all that complexity" because it turns out all that complexity is required for even simple use-cases. Load balancing with SSl certs, cloud API keys, deployment pipelines, sidecars, etc.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:55:03 +0000

If the real credentials owner was running the agent, why do it from a new GitHub account?

Someone's bug tracker account was hacked.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 03:20:00 +0000

Firstly, none of this post is the contract people are signing. So it's merely a summary.

Secondly, like all contracts I'm sure there will be exceptions for holding data longer than 30 days with reasonable cause, eg a legal hold.

The C++ Standard Library Has Been Walking Itself Back for Fifteen Years

alexjurkiewicz — Sun, 24 May 2026 04:34:46 +0000

Article URL: https://hftuniversity.com/post/the-c-standard-library-has-been-walking-itself-back-for-fifteen-years-and-the-receipts-are-public

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48254401

Points: 32

# Comments: 21

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise"

alexjurkiewicz — Tue, 12 May 2026 00:43:28 +0000

NPM is getting all the attacks and attention because it is the biggest. But there's nothing language specific to this class of attacks.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Finding the differences in a series of power supplies"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 07 May 2026 02:59:30 +0000

Nice. It would have been interesting to dive into the exact differences in components. Are higher wattage PSUs in a series just using higher rated components or does the quality go up too?

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Agent Skills"

alexjurkiewicz — Tue, 05 May 2026 00:43:43 +0000

I agree that many skills are overblown and unnecessary. But there's a lot of value in giving AI the right process. See how much more effective Claude can be for moderate or large changes when using the superpowers skill.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "OpenWarp"

alexjurkiewicz — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:09:18 +0000

There can be problems with open source projects run by for-profit companies, but this fork seems a little premature.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Slop Cop"

alexjurkiewicz — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:12:21 +0000

And it's unnecessarily rude. Grammarly and Hemingway can identify the same sort of issues without "you are a stupid robot" vibes.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:50:09 +0000

If Finney and Back were working together, why does Finney post a lot as himself through Satoshi's existence while Back does not?

That implies it's just Back who was the Satoshi poster. And if so, you don't have any evidence Finney is a technical co-founder.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Subscription bombing and how to mitigate it"

alexjurkiewicz — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:30:11 +0000

Doesn't that break password manager autofill?

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Anthropic Subprocessor Changes"

alexjurkiewicz — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:04:26 +0000

"I'm trying to do something illegal and Anthropic are aware. Why do they keep banning me??"

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Push events into a running session with channels"

alexjurkiewicz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:39:00 +0000

Claude is leaning into the idea of a local "session" being the host where everything connects.

I guess this makes sense for now. You can build integrations leveraging the user's personal access credentials. Later, once Claude takes over the world, they can move sessions to live in their own walled garden.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Ubuntu 26.04 ends a 40-year old sudo tradition"

alexjurkiewicz — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:25:52 +0000

I wish sudo-rs and all projects being used in production would suck it up and release a major version v1. Seeing v0.xxx on a program used by Ubuntu as a base system utility is ridiculous. You don't have to try and contort the version numbers of a user-facing utility to fit into the semver API spec, but at least bump to v1.0.0 and continue from there!

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Choose Your Fictions Well (2010)"

alexjurkiewicz — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 13:36:58 +0000

I enjoyed reading this as a reflection on the 90s/00s MMO era, which has been slowly dying ever since. Game designers do seem to have learned the lessons of this time. Well, at least they are no longer building games where 'multiple fictions' are on offer. The idea of developers supporting player-generated content (remember 'UGC'?!) is also dead.

What remains in MMOs place are massively singleplayer/co-op experiences. ARC Online, Helldivers, etc.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Vouch"

alexjurkiewicz — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 04:36:57 +0000

The Web of Trust failed for PGP 30 years ago. Why will it work here?

For a single organisation, a list of vouched users sounds great. GitHub permissions already support this.

My concern is with the "web" part. Once you have orgs trusting the vouch lists of other orgs, you end up with the classic problems of decentralised trust:

1. The level of trust is only as high as the lax-est person in your network 2. Nobody is particularly interested in vetting new users 3. Updating trust rarely happens

There _is_ a problem with AI Slop overrunning public repositories. But WoT has failed once, we don't need to try it again.

New comment by alexjurkiewicz in "Gas Town Decoded"

alexjurkiewicz — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:47:36 +0000

His latest post is endorsing a crypto exchange because they paid him $50k.

https://steve-yegge.medium.com/bags-and-the-creator-economy-...