Hacker News: alper

New comment by alper in "sshole"

alper — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 08:42:53 +0000

At this point we should all agree that software engineering is an elaborate well paid joke.

New comment by alper in "Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues"

alper — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:10:46 +0000

Same old same old.

What were the 60'000 people exiting Microsoft doing if not improving Github?

Software Can Be Finished

alper — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 12:02:45 +0000

Article URL: https://alper.nl/posts/18943/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50207618

Points: 1

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New comment by alper in "Would you let an AI agent fix things on your servers?"

alper — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 10:00:26 +0000

We're looking into the AI SRE category and I feel most existing setups are kinda far off from being able to do this. For anything you are starting to build now, I think you should start things off from the beginning to work like this.

Even then… if your engineering is good, there aren't that many trivial things that these things can do anyway and for the non-trivial things you need to have a human in the loop.

New comment by alper in "Jank – The native Clojure dialect with seamless C++ interop"

alper — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 09:34:01 +0000

Is this like Janet?

New comment by alper in "PHP 8.2.35"

alper — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:02:04 +0000

Wordpress is a toxic property.

New comment by alper in "Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening security"

alper — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 09:01:33 +0000

The best thing they can do to strengthen security would be to sunset PHP.

There's no need for that many web languages, programming language is not a relevant factor anymore and even it was nobody can seriously argue that writing PHP "makes their heart sing" or some shit.

New comment by alper in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"

alper — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:58:45 +0000

In those cases this exploit is a blessing because it makes the choice clear: turn it off or get owned

New comment by alper in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"

alper — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 08:57:54 +0000

The slop machine can then also port your stuff to Go and you don't worry about this stuff as much anymore.

New comment by alper in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"

alper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:31:03 +0000

The marketing around the response I would bet is the main reason why they couldn't keep it secret.

New comment by alper in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"

alper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:23:30 +0000

This isn't a security incident as much as it is a marketing opportunity for all these companies.

New comment by alper in "Patch the Planet: global response coordination as agents uncover vulnerabilities"

alper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:22:43 +0000

> How can we help identify and fix vulnerabilities in downstream packages while upstream fixes are pending, or backport fixes to older versions that no longer receive security updates?

Is the company selling a magical code generation machine really asking how it can backport a fix to an older version of the same software?

Is this for real?

New comment by alper in "PHP 8.2.35"

alper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:16:09 +0000

Do they consider this an example of a "good" response?

New comment by alper in "PHP 8.2.35"

alper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 15:15:22 +0000

They have to backport this fix or else leave a large part of the internet broken.

New comment by alper in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

alper — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 08:58:03 +0000

Heap use after free?

No excuse whatsoever to not either rewrite your website of PHP or to rewrite PHP itself to Rust.

New comment by alper in "Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke"

alper — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 09:25:01 +0000

I thought the Anthropic project did read as a tall order to be completed inside a company from scratch.

New comment by alper in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

alper — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:39:31 +0000

What? He couldn't use their internal super powerful AI cyber weapons to create an exploit to hack into the firmware of the conference room device?

This is very bad marketing for OpenAI.

New comment by alper in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

alper — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:34:51 +0000

I read it and I knew it was going to be Russia.

New comment by alper in "Why Sweden is abandoning its cashless society"

alper — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:33:39 +0000

> the reality of disenfranchisement faced by the elderly, immigrants, the homeless and the unbanked for whom cash remains a lifeline

On the one hand the disenfranchisement is real. On the other hand many of these people are able to learn lots of new technologies if properly incentivized. It's generally an opt-out of society that's enabled by workarounds being available.

Should we forego on convenience because we have a bunch of naysayers?

Forget about cash, try living life in de Randstad area without a smartphone and half a dozen apps setup, configured and tuned for you life. It's definitely possible, but you will be living at a different level of velocity than if you have all the tools at your disposal.

New comment by alper in "Passkeys are a trap"

alper — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 13:22:38 +0000

I learned lots of things about how messed up Passkeys are and there's a well known advocate online for them who keeps going on about how you can export them without ever mentioning that it's also possible for you not to be able to import them.

That's the kind of half assed communication that loses trust.