Hacker News: barelysapient

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

barelysapient — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 23:47:17 +0000

Right, and that's a good question too. Since its a foundation, its probably fair to assume that a fair number of management are there due to financial contributions by their sponsoring corps.

When that's case, the priority might become on renewing financial support. Keeping the personality happy is seen as a way to keep the funding stream.

New comment by barelysapient in "Security Disclosure"

barelysapient — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:25:16 +0000

Ugh. Love Railway.

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

barelysapient — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 19:59:30 +0000

it's a good point. I wonder if we'll see a PHP fork and rewrite in rust. like tcrs. given the recently issues they would seem to benefit the most...

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

barelysapient — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 18:23:56 +0000

I wonder if that isn't a side effect of how its structured...

When a corporation sponsors the language, such as Java, Go, .Net, there's an inherent economic component which acts as a forcing function.

PHP being a foundation sounds nice. But consensus wasn't strong enough to affect the key outcomes.

New comment by barelysapient in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

barelysapient — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 03:22:34 +0000

This might be the nail in the coffin for php.

New comment by barelysapient in "America didn't lose its rare earth industry, it sold it"

barelysapient — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 21:22:40 +0000

Or corruption.

New comment by barelysapient in "Ask HN: Why do people say "I built it" when we should say "Claude built it"?"

barelysapient — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 13:06:40 +0000

We all stand on the shoulders of others work. Designers use fonts, engineers tools, etc.

To make an apple pie from scratch you must first invent the universe.

New comment by barelysapient in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

barelysapient — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 16:30:54 +0000

I wonder if they're paying less than the 70s?

New comment by barelysapient in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

barelysapient — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 15:21:54 +0000

I've been very happy with FireFox.

New comment by barelysapient in "Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?"

barelysapient — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:56:00 +0000

Yes.

New comment by barelysapient in "Apple is getting this wrong"

barelysapient — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:24:11 +0000

Poor judgement, open ai

New comment by barelysapient in "LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent"

barelysapient — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 23:13:52 +0000

Another reason to avoid windows.

New comment by barelysapient in "Bricks and Minifigs Stole a Man's $200k Lego Collection"

barelysapient — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:20:51 +0000

That remains to be seen. Individuals absolutely can be held to account. Corporations are not pass to behave illegally.

New comment by barelysapient in "DAG Workflow Engine"

barelysapient — Mon, 04 May 2026 17:16:56 +0000

My version of a similar tool; but written in Go with a compile time guarantee.

https://github.com/swetjen/daggo

New comment by barelysapient in "Microsoft offers buyouts up to 7% of US employees"

barelysapient — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:10:01 +0000

Microsoft isn’t known for great judgement.

New comment by barelysapient in "Cal.com is going closed source"

barelysapient — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 15:57:47 +0000

I hate how this sounds...but this reads to me "we lack the confidence in our code security so we're closing the source code to conceal vulnerabilities which may exist."

New comment by barelysapient in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

barelysapient — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 19:17:07 +0000

But we're not talking about speed cameras or a private entity with exclusive contract with the police to provide traffic enforcement.

We're talking about Flock. A company offering surveillance as a service. Per their website:

>Trusted by over 12,000 public safety customers including cities, towns, counties, and business partners.

If Flock's argument holds then most of the CCPA be circumvented this same way. All it takes is a few entities and clever contract language.

New comment by barelysapient in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

barelysapient — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:00:46 +0000

If that's a valid excuse than the CCPA isn't worth the paper its written on.

New comment by barelysapient in "I just want simple S3"

barelysapient — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 12:40:17 +0000

Unlike the author, I run SeaweedFS without issue locally and with acceptable transfer speeds.

New comment by barelysapient in "Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer"

barelysapient — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:31:31 +0000

Is it just me or does this describe most of Microsoft software at the moment? I tried to sign into my personal microsoft account to setup an oauth flow and I was greated by an infinity repeating error dialog about some internal service that had failed.

At work, I use outlook. The number of times I've gotten caught in an auth loop where I enter again and again my creds + tfa only for the screen to flicker and start all over again.

Complete garbage.