<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cynicalsecurity</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cynicalsecurity</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 09:29:49 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cynicalsecurity" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Show HN: GNU grep as a PHP extension"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Interesting project, writing a useful PHP extension is an every web developer's dream.<p>However, the licence choice is weird. It's really asking to be MIT. Any company bigger than 2 people pays attention to that. Most web projects are proprietary. GPL‑v3-or-later is not appropriate for proprietary/closed-source.<p>Also, the README is lacking a nicely looking comparison chart, motivating people why they should use your project instead of just running grep in shell_exec. I'm very unlikely to run the benchmarking scripts myself. You have to convince me why your project is better than the established industry practice.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:19:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783903</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783903</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47783903</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "jj – the CLI for Jujutsu"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I'm sorry, it's hard to say anything good about a project that brings nothing new to the table while desperately trying to replace a well-established industry standard. Such attempts look annoying at best and irritating at most. At the very least the person behind the project could have been more humble in pushing it, and instead of presenting it as a "git killer" causing everyone only headache he could have had 1) polished it 2) pointed out precisely what "problems" with git his project solves. None of those were clearly stated; instead, the shared page is simply a shameless plug for wasting everyone's time.<p>Okay, next time I'm simply going to ignore it, but allowing this kind of posting only works against the HN. I'm not sure if you've noticed, but even the original post title was annoying enough that someone from the moderators had to replace it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 01:44:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773703</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773703</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47773703</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Paraphrasing the classic, it's not AI that people are unhappy with, it's their life around AI. The world generally appears to have become a harsher and more dangerous place - even though it hasn't. But people and especially tabloid press like finding scapegoats and participating in mass hysteria. The anti-AI hysteria is going to go away soon while AI isn't. It's just another tool, like cars or factories. Granted, it brings some danger, but at the same time it brings overwhelmingly more good.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:52:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758318</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758318</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47758318</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Who's Been Impersonating This ProPublica Reporter?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If the impersonator was asking about Ukraine, rest assured that was a Russian spy. Ukraine is kicking Russia's ass pretty well right now with UAVs, so that's why they are trying to get information on them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:09:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757846</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757846</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47757846</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Google removes "Doki Doki Literature Club" from Google Play"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Soviet Union collapsed, bit its cause lives on, now unexpectedly in the West.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 22:34:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745250</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745250</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47745250</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "The End of Eleventy"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What a horrible mess. One "project" created after another one and eventually ditched in favour of creating something else from scratch. No one wants it, they are pissed and they blame Gmail for this. What a shit-show.<p>I don't want to learn your project, thank you very much. If anything, I'll create my own. Nowadays, it's super easy to do it with AI, but even before AI, I would have still prefered creating my own stuff instead od using yours. I don't want you as a dependency, I don't want you to become the master of my work, I don't want to try to understand how your pitiful "project" works since it would be 10 times easier for me to write the functionality I need from scratch myself. I don't want to do a security audit for your stuff and try to understand how it works while creating my own will always negate this problem entirely. I don't want to work for your "resume" so you could proudly put your turd "project" there seeking better employment. Not at my expense, not at the expense of my time and nerves.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:02:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736856</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736856</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47736856</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Vive la France !</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 11:24:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716447</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716447</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47716447</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "The AI Great Leap Forward"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Oh god, don't get me started on this. The article goes full opera-level tragedy, like we're all marching into some corporate gulag where AI eats our souls and the lights go out forever. "The famine comes later" my ass. It's peak doomer porn, written to make you feel like the sky is falling instead of just another round of executive circle jerking.<p>The corporate world has always been 80% lies, fake KPIs and theatre. "Synergies", "disruptive innovation" "digital transformation", same shit since the 90s. Managers don't give a flying fuck about your clever moat. They wake up one day, get a spreadsheet from McKinsey saying "cut 15%" and boom - your undocumented wizardry gets deleted along with your badge. Nothing personal, just Excel doing what Excel does.<p>Yes, the corporate bullshitry has been turbocharged with AI now. But it's nothing new and nothing that much tragic. At the very least the same AI can help me finally release personal projects that have been collecting dust for years. Who knows what the future will bring. I'd be much more worried of oil supply chokehold than of AI turbo circus in the corporate world. No oil means not having enough food tomorrow; or medical supplies. My child might die because of this. But AI temporarily causing perturbations at work is just another round of corporate theatre. Been there many times.<p>Employment danger is real, but not apocalyptic. Some jobs will evaporate, sure. But even as the same articles states, now once thing ("AI know-how") replaced another thing ("domain knowledge siloing"). The corporate machine still needs warm bodies for the messy human parts: sales, talking to customers (customers hate talking to a robot, what a fucking surprise), covering ass. I would say, covering ass is the most important one, along with delegating the project management to someone else below on the corporate hierarchy, so upper management wouldn't have to work and would only keep asking for status updates. They would always need someone to type the actual AI requests. It's not like top management or VP would ever do that, neither they would ever run it automatically, since AI can delete production (happened many times), and they don't want to be the scapegoats.<p>So yeah, the article is overdramatic trash for clicks. AI is just another round of that circus. The "famine" won't be real, it'll be a bunch of overpromises, just as usual. Same as it ever has been.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:47:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696699</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696699</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47696699</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Git commands I run before reading any code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not interested, thank you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:42:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695273</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695273</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47695273</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Veracrypt project update"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you use Veracrypt on Windows then you have no idea what you are doing. Windows is not safe. Use Linux only.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:12:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691352</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691352</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691352</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Zooming UIs in 2026: Prezi, impress.js, and why I built something different"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Doesn't work correctly in Firefox.<p>Feels sluggish, but maybe this could be fixed by reducing the transition time.<p>But why? People usually don't notice such transition effects and it doesn't affect user experience in any meaningful positive way. It feels absolutely unnecessary.<p>Maybe you could re-use it as a mod for some game engine. This feels appropriate for video games; not for web-sites.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:52:55 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666069</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666069</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47666069</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "UK intelligence censored report on global warming and homeland security"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Smells like Soviet censorship.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:32:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654628</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654628</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47654628</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Reaffirming our commitment to child safety in the face of EuropeanUnion inaction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thank you, but no. We don't want mass spying. The "child safety" argument is simply lies and manipulation.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653549</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653549</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47653549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "German men 18-45 need military permit for extended stays abroad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's unenforceable in the EU that has no borders.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:47:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640745</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47640745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spoiler alert: Brits were not sending the EU 350 million pounds a week. That was a bullshit number made up by Brexiteers. Crazy, I know.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 04 Apr 2026 02:11:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634937</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634937</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47634937</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "NHS staff refusing to use FDP over Palantir ethical concerns"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Brits: left EU, drifted to US that treats them like crap. A wise choice, what can I say.<p>"We send the EU 350 million pounds a week. Why not send it to Palantir instead?"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2026 13:10:01 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626282</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47626282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "You Do Not, in Fact, Have to Hand It to Them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Automation is bad. Bring back hard manual labour.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2026 14:29:45 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554940</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554940</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47554940</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Why so many control rooms were seafoam green (2025)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>TL;DR: because mid-20th-century designers believed soft green reduced eye strain and improved focus.<p>Basically the same nonsensical belief as in regard the dark mode nowadays.<p>I don't even believe it's true. Green is just an army colour, that's pretty much it. Army uses army colours. Mystery solved.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:11:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534414</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534414</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47534414</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "End of "Chat Control": EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A big W, for now.<p>Until we meet again.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:08:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531449</link><dc:creator>cynicalsecurity</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531449</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47531449</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cynicalsecurity in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I've never seen Meta advertising themselves as a kindergarten or a playground for kids. They have always been perceived as public square or forum. It's wild to leave your child alone in public place and expect safety.</p>
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