Hacker News: alpb

New comment by alpb in "Dead.Letter (CVE-2026-45185) – How XBOW found an unauthenticated RCE on Exim"

alpb — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:26:38 +0000

Never heard of Exim, I'm just realizing what it is:

> Exim is an open-source Mail Transfer Agent (MTA) designed for Unix-like systems to receive, route, and deliver email.

what's the significance of this? do people use this in production systems?

New comment by alpb in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

alpb — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:01:34 +0000

this is a good explainer video that talks about why Polymarket maintains a Panama HQ instead of a US one and why it has two different sites (.us vs .com). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seNwZhK4UdA

New comment by alpb in "Days Without GitHub Incidents"

alpb — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:42:52 +0000

it already is. re-read?

Google Spanner On-Prem (Spanner Omni)

alpb — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:05:48 +0000

Article URL: https://cloud.google.com/products/spanner/omni

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47905927

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by alpb in "Claude Design"

alpb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:44:05 +0000

This largely appears to be a HTML generator at its core, not necessarily what Figma does with layers/canvases etc. There's no collaborative nature to it either.

It feels like a lightly designed product that moves claude CLI to their backend, generates the HTMLs and renders them in browser on claude.ai website for you. Sure, it accepts your design system as an input from you or imports from your repo, but you could feed the same into claude CLI as well?

I'm curious what exactly it gives besides having claude CLI + prompting it well with your design system + skills.

New comment by alpb in "Claude Design"

alpb — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:40:51 +0000

It's rolling out progressively throughout the day.

New comment by alpb in "Shall I implement it? No"

alpb — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:09:04 +0000

I see on a daily basis that I prevent Claude Code from running a particular command using PreToolUse hooks, and it proceeds to work around it by writing a bash script with the forbidden command and chmod+x and running it. /facepalm

New comment by alpb in "Agent Safehouse – macOS-native sandboxing for local agents"

alpb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 03:05:47 +0000

As I understand it, the problem nowadays doesn't seem to be so much that the agent is going to rm -rf / my host, it's more like it's going to connect to a production system that I'm authorized to on my machine or a database tool, and then it's going to run a potentially destructive command. There is a ton of value of running agents against production systems to troubleshoot things, but there are not enough guardrails to prevent destructive actions from the get-go. The solution seems to be specific to each system, and filesystem is just one aspect out of many.

New comment by alpb in "Clean-room implementation of Half-Life 2 on the Quake 1 engine"

alpb — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 19:19:52 +0000

How about the assets?

New comment by alpb in "OpenClaw is changing my life"

alpb — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:15:47 +0000

I'm sorry dude but your last post was also hyping up R1 which was a total disaster. Do you mind actually sharing your experience with OpenClaw, such as how are you orchestrating a project? How much does it cost? How do you prompt it? What tasks do you get done? How much does it actually take to execute on those tasks? What is your interaction with the agent?

New comment by alpb in "Things Unix can do atomically (2010)"

alpb — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:03:55 +0000

Nobody's saying you should deploy code with this, but symlinks are a very common filesystem locking method.

New comment by alpb in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

alpb — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:09:41 +0000

    censor from the Internet any sites a shadowy cabal
    of European media elites deemed against their interests

Has he recently gone full conspiracy theorist? (Also what's that cringy chatgpt picture supposed to tell us?) Who is the shadowy cabal of EU elites? If anything EU is purely politicians obedient to USA interests. I'm guessing this is what happens in tech when the tide starts to shift, because tech doesn't have morals, it's all just about money. Start praising the new administration no matter what they do, until they're not popular and start praising the next thing. Looking forward to his back-to-woke pivot in 2 years.

New comment by alpb in "A practical guide to converting YAML to JSON safely (with Kubernetes examples)"

alpb — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:45:31 +0000

Is there an actual guide? It seems you've mainly pasted something along the lines of a ChatGPT output to a Github Pages html.

New comment by alpb in "A practical guide to converting YAML to JSON safely (with Kubernetes examples)"

alpb — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 19:42:38 +0000

Have you tried:

    cat file.yaml | yq -ojson

New comment by alpb in "Show HN: Use Claude Code to Query 600 GB Indexes over Hacker News, ArXiv, etc."

alpb — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:40:17 +0000

It's literally the digital nomad heaven. What's dark about it?

New comment by alpb in "[dead]"

alpb — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:28:27 +0000

The site says "No signup required!" but then requires signup to actually generate anything. ("Cost 1 credits 0 generations remaining today".) Probably not going to hand out my email for that.

It's Not Your Codebase

alpb — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 00:26:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/not-your-codebase/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459862

Points: 6

# Comments: 2

New comment by alpb in "How I Left YouTube"

alpb — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 05:07:10 +0000

Having been at G and also getting denied promo several times consecutively, it's almost always a manager's fault. They're either not bringing the committee feedback to you properly or not representing your work well in that room. Either way it's a sign that they're unable to do better, and you're better off not reporting to the long term.

New comment by alpb in "Azure hit by 15 Tbps DDoS attack using 500k IP addresses"

alpb — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:00:06 +0000

Funny enough just got an error trying to reach to the blog

        Proxy Error
        The proxy server received an invalid response from an upstream server.
        The proxy server could not handle the request
        Reason: Error reading from remote server

Ask HN: How different is compute orchestration for AI?

alpb — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 23:31:01 +0000

If there are folks here that work on LLM providers on managing the compute server/workload orchestration on training or inference side, I'm curious what's the state of the art in this area is.

I understand Kubernetes has a fair amount of frameworks for training and serving, but I assume it's not the best tool for running large-scale GPU clusters (at least not out of the box). Many cloud providers started providing ultrascale but low-pod density Kubernetes clusters for this. I also assume there are still many orchestrators like Slurm still around for these kinds of job, and I remember Open AI trying to build their own orchestrator for training jobs.

I also assume spatial locality between servers, infiniband/RDMA also matter a lot more than Kubernetes provider native support for, and server health story must be completely different since GPUs fail a lot more often, and they have a lot more interesting metrics to monitor on top of standard OS metrics.

What are some articles or blogs to read in this space to come up to speed on how GPU/ML compute orchestration happens in the state of the art today?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45829491

Points: 1

# Comments: 0