Hacker News: andyroid

New comment by andyroid in "Claude Sonnet 5"

andyroid — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 03:32:10 +0000

> We replaced all the commercial products our clients and ourselves used with our own

You’ll never guess what product your clients are looking to replace with their own next.

New comment by andyroid in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

andyroid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 02:19:28 +0000

You’re not wrong, but what an IDE does when opening a project directory is an issue with that tool, and not one directly addressable by the maintainers of the dependency management tool.

The more direct comparison would be whatever the equivalence of “npm install” is for a given language, and what it allows to run. Sounds like they’re making good progress to fix that, but it’s certainly more than a popularity issue.

New comment by andyroid in "A backdoor in a LinkedIn job offer"

andyroid — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 01:58:44 +0000

Free as in being trapped in Russia for life.

Thieves used a stolen card to buy a $523,000 lottery ticket

andyroid — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 09:45:48 +0000

Article URL: https://apnews.com/article/france-lottery-ticket-stolen-card-thieves-50a0fa5a3fb22baac08899e5100dc1db

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43148111

Points: 20

# Comments: 5

New comment by andyroid in "Kim Dotcom's extradition to the U.S. given green light by New Zealand"

andyroid — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 03:06:19 +0000

> never heard anyone suggest the best sports teams should stop competing when they've won enough, or that the best inventors should stop, or the best artists

While they want you to believe that, there’s no correlation between being rich and being best, or even good, at anything. You’re not the best athlete because your mom and dad were the best athletes. But if your parents were wealthy, you’re wealthy.

If they want standards to be applied ”consistently”, great. They can start by paying their taxes.

New comment by andyroid in "Cure for male pattern baldness given boost by sugar discovery"

andyroid — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 10:50:34 +0000

Does a hair transplant really count as a cure though? It’s more akin to a pricey baseball cap.

New comment by andyroid in "Open Policy Agent"

andyroid — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 08:20:08 +0000

Not sure why that matters, but OpenFGA is an implementation of Zanzibar, which isn't exactly new. There are many similar implementations to choose from should one want to model authorization via a graph database.

New comment by andyroid in "Open Policy Agent"

andyroid — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 22:56:27 +0000

Bundle servers provide a centralized "data plane" decoupled from the distributed component (OPA). You don't need to rebuild your policy any time data changes. Just push a new bundle with the data that changed, and OPA will fetch it as configured — either periodically or directly if long polling is configured.

https://www.openpolicyagent.org/docs/latest/management-bundl...

New comment by andyroid in "Web3 doesn’t care about privacy"

andyroid — Sun, 06 Feb 2022 13:30:26 +0000

Where a company is founded is irrelevant with regards to the GDPR. If they have users in the EU, GDPR applies.

New comment by andyroid in "Show HN: Infracost (YC W21) – Open-source cloud cost policies"

andyroid — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 17:57:53 +0000

Looks great! Love the OPA integration.

New comment by andyroid in "Go’ing Insane: Endless Error Handling"

andyroid — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 10:43:52 +0000

They should have just named it errlang.

New comment by andyroid in "Docker Desktop no longer free for large companies"

andyroid — Tue, 31 Aug 2021 19:51:14 +0000

How about the fact that not all, or even most, dev machines run Linux, which is the only platform podman supports?

Apple keeps shutting down employee-run surveys on pay equity

andyroid — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 21:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/9/22609687/apple-pay-equity-employee-surveys-protected-activity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122468

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by andyroid in "It’s not a self-driving car unless you can sleep in it"

andyroid — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:22:19 +0000

> That's cool, until you realise that the majority of the cities outside of the USA doesn't look like Miami Beach. I highly doubt that any "self-driving" car could travel through Munich today without killing at least a couple of pedestrians or cyclists.

Yeah, simply stating that they aren't yet at GA status seems pretty uncontroversial. Gotta start somewhere though :)

> BTW, only because sometimes I feel safe enough to ride my bike without hands on, it doesn't means I have a self-riding-bike.

Right, that was pretty much the point of the article.

New comment by andyroid in "Show HN: Side Quest – An aggregator for not full-time tech jobs"

andyroid — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 20:03:52 +0000

Yeah. It's also used in some RPG games to denote quests which are done independently of the main quest.

New comment by andyroid in "Online, mug shots are forever – some states want to change that"

andyroid — Sat, 15 May 2021 01:21:19 +0000

> This is a good reason to make it mandatory to publish mugshots.

Is it really though? Doesn’t seem like a necessary practice anywhere else in the world.

New comment by andyroid in "Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System (2019)"

andyroid — Thu, 29 Apr 2021 17:48:50 +0000

Certainly! Application and microservice authorization is probably one of the more common use cases for OPA, and there's definitely benefits in having a unified policy engine in an organization or company.

CNCF announces Open Policy Agent graduation

andyroid — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 19:06:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cncf.io/announcements/2021/02/04/cloud-native-computing-foundation-announces-open-policy-agent-graduation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26028643

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by andyroid in "Many use cases don’t require Kafka (2019)"

andyroid — Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:06:24 +0000

You could inject a custom authorizer and use something like OPA for fine grained access control. See https://github.com/Bisnode/opa-kafka-plugin for an example.

New comment by andyroid in "Starting January 4 Google will block sign-ins from embedded browser frameworks"

andyroid — Fri, 20 Nov 2020 00:04:48 +0000

> Non-actionable warnings are meaningless.

Agreed. Yet that’s exactly what they’re trying to make use of here.

“The browser must not try to impersonate another browser like Chrome or Firefox.”