Hacker News: andsens

New comment by andsens in "Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions"

andsens — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 18:10:42 +0000

That's not a move of a company that thinks it can still grow. That's a Netflix "we have 90% of the market, let's squeeze them" move. This is the beginning. We have all seen this pattern over the last 5+ years. You know their next few moves.

New comment by andsens in "The Deletion of Docker.io/Bitnami"

andsens — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 09:17:59 +0000

100% agreed. I don’t understand the point of throwing all conventions out the window and building their own brittle scripts on top of it. All their images require docs to configure because none of the upstream documentation applies.

New comment by andsens in "[dead]"

andsens — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 15:13:04 +0000

As someone watching and following all this from across the pond in Europe: This looks like a fucking coup alright.

New comment by andsens in "Routine dental X-rays are not backed by evidence"

andsens — Tue, 15 Oct 2024 10:29:38 +0000

Here’s a good answer that tracks with what my parents, who are dentists, told me: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/s/H4MsnWKatM

> For the longest time, surgeons, dentists and optometrists weren't part of the medical profession. You'd have a barber who could give you a shave or pull your teeth, or a butcher who could cut up a hog, or cut off your gangrenous leg. Optometrists were craftsmen who made the spectacles in their shop. Doctors were University educated in Latin and Greek to read ancient medical texts and despised the uncouth yokels.

> Surgeons muscled their way into the medical profession, originally with the help of the Royal Navy, who only had space for one or two people in charge of both cutting off legs and looking after crew health on their ships.

> Dentists and optometrists never did, so they started their own universities, certification boards, etc. By the time they became respectable enough for people to try to merge them with the medical establishment, in the 1920s, they had no desire to give up their independence.

> The first insurance policies were private contracts with groups of doctors and the system developed from there.

Details vary from country to country of course, but the gist of it generally holds true.

New comment by andsens in "Teenage hacker became a legend attacking companies, then his rivals attacked him"

andsens — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:21:37 +0000

The reason the average age is so young is because they are the ones getting caught.

New comment by andsens in "Bop Spotter"

andsens — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:39:37 +0000

Agree with all the positive takes in here. Just wanted to add that the graphic design is chef's kiss. Especially the image transformation of the album art! Some of them are hard to parse and it almost becomes a game, and then there are others where it's clear as day that e.g. the band is posing for a picture. Also just recognizing covers that you know is fun.

New comment by andsens in "LG TVs Start Showing Ads on Screensavers"

andsens — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 09:14:46 +0000

EU market regulators: "Hold my beer" *cracks knuckles

New comment by andsens in "Git-absorb: Git commit –fixup, but automatic"

andsens — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 08:05:30 +0000

7 lines into the README buddy: > The command essentially looks at the lines that were modified, finds a changeset modifying those lines, and amends that changeset to include your uncommitted changes.

New comment by andsens in "New ways to catch gravitational waves"

andsens — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 13:47:17 +0000

Now that’s the kind of clickbait title I can get behind!

New comment by andsens in "310-mile automated cargo conveyor will replace 25,000 trucks in Japan"

andsens — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 11:50:42 +0000

This is satire. Right? Right?!?

New comment by andsens in "Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job"

andsens — Fri, 03 May 2024 16:31:41 +0000

The fact that it is even legal to ask patients to sign away their right to privacy boggles the mind.

New comment by andsens in "Sequential and parallel execution of long-running shell commands"

andsens — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 16:27:41 +0000

> Pueue is considered feature-complete

Oh that is sweet sweet music to my ears!

New comment by andsens in "The hunt for the missing data type"

andsens — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:11:44 +0000

devils advocate: Is this maybe a case of discarding an 80% solution because you can’t do the last 20%?

I understand the constraints, but imagine how legible you could make code by replacing some key parts with a graph type that everybody knows. I honestly think that having a type that supports a small subset of possibilities and only has the simplest algorithms implemented would go a long way.

New comment by andsens in "K8s Service Meshes: The Bill Comes Due"

andsens — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 10:11:05 +0000

I never understood the appeal of service meshes. Half of their reason to exist is covered by vanilla kubernetes, the rest is inter-node VPN (e.g. wireguard) and tracing (cilium hubble). Unless I’m missing something encrypting intra-node traffic is pretty silly.

K8S has service routing rules, network policies, access policies, and can be extended up the wazoo with whatever CNI you choose.

It’s similar to Helm, in that Helm puts a DSL (values.yaml) on top of a DSL (go templates) on top of a DSL (k8s yaml), just that it is routing, authentication, and encryption on top.. well, routing (service route keys), authentication (netpols), and encryption.

It boggles the mind!

New comment by andsens in "Relative shell script includes with realpath on FreeBSD"

andsens — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 11:29:08 +0000

In that case whoever is linking the script is “breaking” it, I’d say. There’s stuff that is simply outside the responsibilities of the script/maintainer. If you start worrying about that for “simple” scripts, the logic for handling that is quickly going to outgrow the initial logic itself.

New comment by andsens in "Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board"

andsens — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 07:09:51 +0000

https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1442

New comment by andsens in "In the 'Wild West' of geometry, mathematicians redefine the sphere"

andsens — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:01:41 +0000

Well aaakshualy *nudges glasses up the nose

Heh, kooky bastards

New comment by andsens in "1Password detects "suspicious activity" in its internal Okta account"

andsens — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 21:58:50 +0000

> The files the threat actor obtained in the Okta compromise comprised HTTP archive, or HAR, files, which Okta support personnel use to replicate customer browser activity during troubleshooting sessions. Among the sensitive information they store are authentication cookies and session tokens, which malicious actors can use to impersonate valid users.

I know that troubleshooting for pwms is hard, but leaving unencrypted files to access accounts on a server that’s not governed by the same threat-model seems very negligent to me.

New comment by andsens in "Nadella tells a court that Bing is worse than Google – and Apple could fix it"

andsens — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 22:24:19 +0000

Get your employer to pay for Kagi. It has honestly saved me several days in search time over the last 1,5 years.

The most prominent feature for me is that it only shows 0 or maybe 2 search results when there really isn’t more to find. It’s freeing, honestly.

I used to verify it with a Google search like you, only to be confirmed every time. I haven’t been doing that for a while now :-)

New comment by andsens in "Shortening the Let's Encrypt chain of trust"

andsens — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 11:35:34 +0000

When talking about security updates it most certainly is. You can’t blame LE for that. That responsibilty lies squarely on manufacturers who are not even maintaining the bare minimum of security patching like an up-to-date root cert list.