Hacker News: cbisnett

New comment by cbisnett in "Scientists discover beer bottle in the Mariana Trench (2024)"

cbisnett — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 17:16:51 +0000

What’s the chance this was dropped off one of the research vessels at some point? It seems unlikely to drift given it sank to the bottom.

New comment by cbisnett in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

cbisnett — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 18:04:47 +0000

Ahh yes, 4D chess

New comment by cbisnett in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

cbisnett — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:53:14 +0000

Windows doesn’t have application permissions like Mac, iOS, and Android. An app doesn’t specify what it need to be able to do, it inherits the permissions of the user that launched it. Not a great permissions model, but it’s legacy all the way back to the earliest versions of Windows.

New comment by cbisnett in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

cbisnett — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:35:40 +0000

It’s not that we’re spying on users for fun. We’re analyzing the browser history so determine if the history contains any sites that are associated with malicious activity. We definitely don’t care about your pr0n

New comment by cbisnett in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

cbisnett — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:30:58 +0000

Thanks for the feedback on not understanding what we sell from the homepage. We sell an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) product that we manage with our 24/7 SOC. To perform the investigations on potentially malicious activity, we can fetch files from the endpoint and review them. We log all of this activity and make it available to our customers. We are an extension of their security team, which means they trust us with this access. We’ve been doing this for more than 10 years and have built up a pretty good reputation, but I can see how that would freak some folks out. We also sell to businesses, so this is something that would be installed on a work computer.

New comment by cbisnett in "An attacker’s blunder gave us a look into their operations"

cbisnett — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 17:27:16 +0000

Actually we just thought it was interesting that an attacker installed our EDR agent on the machine they use to attack their victims. That’s really bad operational security and we were able to learn a lot from that access.

New comment by cbisnett in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

cbisnett — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:10:25 +0000

It’s only GUI, but you can have it perform the edits over SSH. So it appears to be all local for you, but the files are actually modified on the remote host.

https://zed.dev/blog/remote-development

New comment by cbisnett in "Trying out Zed after more than a decade of Vim/Neovim"

cbisnett — Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:08:38 +0000

I’ve been using Sublime Text for more than a decade and I gave Zed a try recently. I don’t have good reasons like the author, but I kinda wanted to see what the hype was about.

I really liked everything about it including the much better LSP support and the base key map for Sublime Text was very close so I felt at home quickly.

Then I tried actually writing code in my usual workflow and this is where things started to fall apart. I’ve been writing in Ruby for almost 10 years now and when I type things like `def` I’m used to Sublime filling in the snippet and allowing me to quickly enter and tab through the components. Same for a bunch of really common Ruby concepts like blocks. I found this to be very limited and even though I created custom snippets they never would render with the correct indentation. I think the Ruby language extension just needs some additional work and probably doesn’t get much attention. For me I didn’t have time to figure it out and contribute so I went back to Sublime Text.

I will definitely continue to play with Zed and see if it gets better because of the native AI integration. I’m not an AI fanboi and I usually avoid it, but being able to supply the open and existing files as context when asking the assistant to generate things like tests performed much better with context than without and were much closer to how we write and format tests.

New comment by cbisnett in "Hacker’s Delight (2012)"

cbisnett — Sun, 07 Aug 2022 14:29:24 +0000

This is a really great book for anyone interested in compiler development, JIT compilation of higher-level languages, reverse engineering, or anything that involves understanding or generating assembly instructions. This is not a book about hacking from the perspective of breaking into systems or finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in software. The term Hacker in the title is a reference to an early meaning of the word that referred to someone who liked to tinker and understand how things worked.

When I was doing a lot of reverse engineering and vulnerability research work this book gave some really great insight into some of the compiler optimizations that I would come across. Highly recommended for anyone trying to take their skills to the next level.

Looking ahead at PostgreSQL 15

cbisnett — Sat, 16 Jul 2022 01:05:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.slideshare.net/jkatz05/looking-ahead-at-postgresql-15

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32114391

Points: 7

# Comments: 1

New comment by cbisnett in "Show HN: Tecktok – Triplebyte for Singaporean, Indonesian and Indian Engineers"

cbisnett — Fri, 06 Nov 2020 11:36:01 +0000

Just my opinion, but you may want to consider renaming the company. Hearing someone say “tecktok” is likely to have potential users searching for “techtalk” or similar. Not to mention it’s very close to tiktok, which I’m sure you know is banned in India.

New comment by cbisnett in "Y Combinator Failed Startups"

cbisnett — Fri, 09 Oct 2020 20:26:50 +0000

This article says Atrium ran out of money, but I feel like Justin Kan’s blog post said they gave tens of millions back to investors when they shut down.

New comment by cbisnett in "Datto S-1"

cbisnett — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:47:44 +0000

Direct link that renders outside of the SEC website frame: https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-20-257812/d36878ds1.h...

Datto S-1

cbisnett — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 22:45:44 +0000

Article URL: https://sec.report/Document/0001193125-20-257812/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24633960

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by cbisnett in "The SaaS website content you need to close sales"

cbisnett — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 01:36:50 +0000

Really solid article. I enjoyed the examples of known successful companies embracing, instead of ignoring, the comparisons to competition.

> ...prospective buyers are going to discover your competitors, anyway.

Stripe workers who relocate get $20K and pay cut

cbisnett — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 21:38:04 +0000

Article URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/stripe-employees-relocate-20-000-182219744.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24498279

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

PostgreSQL: How to convert 2B rows to bigint

cbisnett — Wed, 01 Jul 2020 14:10:51 +0000

Article URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-database-for-postgresql/postgres-tips-how-to-convert-2-billion-rows-to-bigint-with-citus/ba-p/1490128

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23701483

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Now that's what I call a Hacker

cbisnett — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 18:29:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jitbit.com/alexblog/249-now-thats-what-i-call-a-hacker/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23693167

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by cbisnett in "Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?"

cbisnett — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 21:04:35 +0000

We are also in the invite queue for the Stripe Corporate Card, but decided to make a switch as we didn't know how long the wait would be. Brex is working on features for expense reporting and authorization is what were were told. While I don't think it's on par with Expensify, maybe one day in the future it will be which will mean one less service for us to manage.

Ask HN: Best Bank for Startups?

cbisnett — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 20:32:20 +0000

We've been using Silicon Valley Bank for the last 4 years and while their services generally "work", they aren't the best. We've been working with SVB to setup a line-of-credit just to have in case we need it, and we recently talked with them about their Innovators card. Unfortunately their sales people cannot show you any kind of demo so that you can see how it works or what the UI looks like even. This is a tough ask as the only way to see it is to sign up for an account and start issuing cards. We also talked with Brex about their solution and even looked into Expensify's card.

Brex was able to show us a demo and as part of the trial we attached our SVB account which causes a $0.01 deposit and withdrawal. After doing this we received an email from our SVB sales rep acknowledging the transaction: "It looks like I see a penny test from Brex on June 3rd so it may be that you just set something up." I'm not sure what's buried in the SVB ToS, but SVB sales reps looking into our transactions didn't sit quite right with me. Then we told them that we decided to go with Brex because we liked the solution and not being able to get a demo from SVB made it basically a non-starter. A couple days later we get a call from a Managing Director and he tells us that the line-of-credit will need to be venture debt and backed by equity or warrants, which we're not interested in since this is only a rainy-day LoC and we've got plenty of money in our SVB account. Fast forward to today and they tell us that they won't give us the LoC anymore unless we also agree to use their Innovator card.

Basically I'm looking for other banks that are great to work with and understand how startups work and the needs they have. I've looked at Mercury, and we have an account there, but I was hesitant to move too much away from SVB because it "just worked", but obviously now I'm reconsidering. Hopefully HackerNews has some good advice and recommendations.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23682511

Points: 101

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