Hacker News: bobbyraduloff

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "We Still Use Paper"

bobbyraduloff — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 11:53:58 +0000

Sounds like an interesting take. Is it public?

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Fire at Starlink site in Bulgaria after suspected sabotage in Poland"

bobbyraduloff — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:43:12 +0000

Demerdzhiev, Radev and their entire cabinet in general just avoid blaming Russia for some “unknown” reason as a blanket policy. Yesterday, Russia bombed two Ukrainian ships super close to Bulgaria’s waters in the Black Sea, 11 civilians died, and the PM still says we can’t make any conclusions about the perpetrators when questioned in parliament today.

I’m trying to say that the logical conclusion is to shift the responsibility explicitly to SpaceX, since otherwise you have to admit the attacks are state sponsored and you have to name the perpetrator.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Arena Allocators in C"

bobbyraduloff — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:42:28 +0000

Using the structs for return values with `[[nodiscard]]` looks so clean.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Pirate Site Blocking Is Legally Impossible in Bulgaria, Supreme Court Ruled"

bobbyraduloff — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:28:15 +0000

We had an incredible run with Zamund, RARBG and Arena. I’m still salty because I spent 15 years building up my ratio by repurposing old PCs as seed boxes even when I was a kid living with my parents. Too bad our govt is focused on piracy instead of the plethora of other cybercrimes that Bulgarians fall victim to on the daily.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "AI won't use as much electricity as we are told (2024)"

bobbyraduloff — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:54:12 +0000

> But far from demanding more electricity personal computers have become more efficient with laptops mostly replacing large standalone boxes, and software improvements reducing waste.

If only it was true, I reckon we’re using multiple-orders of magnitude more computational per $ of business objectives simply because of the crazy abstractions. For example, I know of multiple small HFT firms that are crypto market makers with their trading bots in Python. Many banks in my country have excel macros on top of SQL extensions on top of COBOL. We’ve not reduced waste in software but rather quite the opposite.

I don’t think this is super relevant to the articles point but I think it’s an under discussed topic.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Vanishing from Hyundai’s data network"

bobbyraduloff — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 06:13:00 +0000

It’s quite upsetting that if you want a modern car so that you utilise the newest advances in safety, you have to consent to constant tracking, enshitification, subscription services, etc. It would be really cool if you could get something like a ‘67 impala that doesn’t make ‘67 emissions and has actual seatbelts and airbags…

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Abusing Entra OAuth for fun and access to internal Microsoft applications"

bobbyraduloff — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 07:11:13 +0000

$0 in rewards for RCE on the Windows build servers is crazy. I understand he didn’t find an actual zero-day, only a configuration issue, but still. Imagine the global havoc you can cause if you can pollute the build environment with backdoored DLLs…

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Ask HN: What clever tools/scripts do you use to manage development environments?"

bobbyraduloff — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 09:53:02 +0000

I’m ashamed to admit we have a discord channel for each project and we dump secrets there with access control to the channels based on who works on the project.

It’s peak startup opsec.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall"

bobbyraduloff — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:51:17 +0000

The README itself is also very much in the style of ChatGPT. It loves the to overuse rhetorical questions.

What I find most interesting is that it apparently didn’t trigger their content filters which, at least previously, were also blocking piracy stuff.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "EBAF – eBPF Based Ad Firewall"

bobbyraduloff — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 17:48:59 +0000

Kernel level packet filtering to avoid Spotify ads is about the same level of mental gymnastics as the GPT-generated “we’re not pirates” argument in their README.

While Spotify is obviously an immoral company, you, the person reading this, are not entitled to free 24/7 cloud-streamed music on demand. They are a business and they don’t owe that service to you on principle.

If you don’t like them as a company, there’s way to purchase the music directly (remember how we all used the iTunes Store back in the day) and there are other streaming services whose morals you might find more acceptable.

To be clear, I’m not making some grand “piracy is evil” argument, but I’m saying that to publish software enabling piracy with the justification that a business’ free service is not good enough value for you is a bit out there.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Australians to face age checks from search engines"

bobbyraduloff — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 05:41:01 +0000

Taken straight from the new regulation: “Providers of internet search engine services are not required to implement age assurance measures for end-users who are not account holders.”

How can you argue any of this is NOT in the interest of centralised surveillance and advertising identities for ADULTS when there’s such an easy way to bypass the regulation if you’re a child?

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Show HN: PyDoll – Async Python scraping engine with native CAPTCHA bypass"

bobbyraduloff — Tue, 10 Jun 2025 15:39:51 +0000

Is there a write up on how you deal with the captchas?

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Zod 4"

bobbyraduloff — Mon, 19 May 2025 19:53:53 +0000

great job on zod. it’s an incredible library. also really excited about the locale errors. finally I can push the zod errors directly to the frontend. would love to take responsibility for the BG locale.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Lock-Free Rust: How to Build a Rollercoaster While It's on Fire"

bobbyraduloff — Fri, 16 May 2025 06:06:41 +0000

at the very least that article was definitely edited with ChatGPT. i had someone on my team write “edgy” copy with ChatGPT last week and it sounded exactly the same. short paragraphs and overuse of bullet points are also a dead giveaway. i don’t think it’s super noticeable if you don’t use ChatGPT a lot but for the people that use these systems daily, it’s still very easy to spot.

my suggestion to OP: this was interesting material, ChatGPT made it had to read. use your own words to explain it. most people interested in this deeply technical content would rather read your prompt than the output.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Launch HN: Miyagi (YC W25) turns YouTube videos into online, interactive courses"

bobbyraduloff — Wed, 14 May 2025 12:11:59 +0000

I’m not sure how the solution to “LLMs lie” is “more LLM”. I’ve personally had o3 tell me stuff like: “I ran this query against version 0.10 of DuckDB and verified that it works” when the query contains functions that don’t exist in DuckDB or “this version gets better PageSpeed Insights results” when I know it can’t check those. It happens surprisingly often and it’s super obvious. However, it’s made me seriously wary of the information that it gives which I can’t verify purely based on logic.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "The Epochalypse Project"

bobbyraduloff — Sun, 11 May 2025 10:40:58 +0000

Born too early for Y2K, but just in time for the Epochalypse lol

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Where did the false "equal transit-time" explanation of lift originate from?"

bobbyraduloff — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:19:02 +0000

If you google “how does a plane generate lift”, the first result you get is a link from nasa.gov which claims that lift is generated this way. Kind of funny considering the SE question includes a screenshot of another NASA resource claiming this is false.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym"

bobbyraduloff — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:05:33 +0000

Very good article. I try to (respectfully) push my coworkers in this direction but it’s a bit of a lost cause.

I work mostly on small codebases and you can smell unchecked AI codegen from a mile away. Even small changes become giant refactors.

People who push this have never had to work in such codebases. God forbid your requirements change mid project. Rarely does the sum of separate prompts without full context result in something maintainable and modifiable. You’re cooked.

New comment by bobbyraduloff in "Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym"

bobbyraduloff — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 13:01:22 +0000

This is an absolutely false equivalency. There’s no decision making, design consideration, architecture, real problem solving, etc. when doing long multiplication.

MCP in production: the good, the bad and the ugly

bobbyraduloff — Fri, 11 Apr 2025 15:01:08 +0000

Article URL: https://raduloff.dev/blog/2025-04-11-mcp-in-production-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43654569

Points: 13

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