Hacker News: d0ublespeak

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story"

d0ublespeak — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 02:34:43 +0000

Hashes or it didn’t happen.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Ask HN: What are tools you have made for yourself since the advent of AI?"

d0ublespeak — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:50:11 +0000

Heaps, most recent is just a little applet that stops my Mac from going to sleep with the lid closed: https://transitivedev.gumroad.com/l/doppio-app

Bunch of security tools: Some are at https://diffsec.dev others:

https://github.com/diffsec/quokka

https://github.com/ihavespoons/hooksy

Show HN: My little Mac applet that keeps your agents going with your lid closed

d0ublespeak — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:46:27 +0000

Hey I am Ben :wave:

I've mostly moved to a remote agent solution but I do still run agents on my device sometimes. Wake up apps generally work great but I wanted to make my own and have it work when the lid is closed.

It's $4 AUD and its yours to own. No catches. No DRM. Just an app that works and I will endeavour to keep up to date.

I appreciate you taking a look and I hope its useful to you.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48446118

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by d0ublespeak in "We X-Rayed a Suspicious FTDI USB Cable"

d0ublespeak — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:36:26 +0000

This is such a nothing burger corporate ad. They purchased a cheap cable and it sucks. So let’s X-ray it and make a thought piece post about implants…

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Ask HN: Share your personal website"

d0ublespeak — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:33:46 +0000

https://offendedsecurity.net

New comment by d0ublespeak in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

d0ublespeak — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:45:31 +0000

It can be less/more than 2 percent too dependent on income. But yes we are extremely blessed in this country with a healthcare system that isn’t perfect but is extremely affordable.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

d0ublespeak — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:43:42 +0000

With seeing a doctor we have two main systems that you can use and each will have a different waiting time. Bulk-billing and the fully public option has longer waiting times because there aren’t enough clinics/specialists or doctors, The reasons for this are complex but they stem from an unwillingness from prior governments to raise the amount the government pays for each service to adequately to support this system meaning less doctors and practices being willing to support it.

You’ve then got practices/specialists etc… that charge copays and they tend to have less waiting times because less people are willing to pay copays. A lot of these practices will also do outright private billing which is what you’re experiencing.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "My dad could still be alive, but he's not"

d0ublespeak — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 04:38:47 +0000

This isn’t an inherent flaw of public health care. A lot of the health care problems in this country (Australia) stem from a continued disinvestment in the public system after a decade (prior to the current government) of conservative mismanagement. Most state funding here comes from the federal governments standard sales tax. They intentionally gimped our public system to fund a private system that isn’t financially viable. Reversing that is going to take time. The problem exists it’s just important to attribute it to the correct sources. Medicare (our public insurer) is an incredible privilege that we should protect and hold our leaders accountable for managing.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "User ban controversy reveals Bluesky’s decentralized aspiration isn’t reality"

d0ublespeak — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 23:14:27 +0000

I just don’t see why Joe Public will ever care about decentralisation as a concept.

We tend to hand wring about principles within the tech sphere, when the bulk of people just want a place that won’t make them feel immediately (longer term doesn’t matter) crappy when they use it, whatever that means for them. That tends towards centralisation because decentralised services have awful moderation and tend to create an even stronger strain of groupthink.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Harness GitOps on Linux for Seamless Git-First Infrastructure Management"

d0ublespeak — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 11:52:03 +0000

Is this new? I’m a bit confused. It’s just… GitOps… like how a lot of reasonably sized businesses do DevOps.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "The AI bubble argument misunderstands both bubbles and AI"

d0ublespeak — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 22:11:05 +0000

This article feels self defeating. It’s rewriting the meaning of the word bubble itself. There is a speculative asset bubble. Whilst I think there is some correctness in saying that drawing parallels with the Dotcom boom/bust is intellectually lazy I still think this acts as a notable precedent. Is there potential for AI usefulness long term? Yes, will it take exactly the same form as now or do the products and services exist now? No. So there is some utility in comparing the two. Either way this article reads like a bit of cope.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "An Academic Archive Became a Tech Juggernaut"

d0ublespeak — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 23:32:27 +0000

Shameless puff piece

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Ask HN: Hackathons feel fake now"

d0ublespeak — Mon, 05 May 2025 00:16:39 +0000

Yeah CTFs are definitely a big part of our culture in security. We’re blessed with unending material in the form of vulnerabilities and mis configurations :)

I will say (as someone that runs, organises and builds CTFs) organising meaningful CTFs is becoming slightly challenging though, a lot of challenges are highly treaded ground where one very mature team just comes along and clears the table.

That and generative AI can solve a lot of CTF problems with enough prodding if it’s at all derivative.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Action-control – open-source GitHub Actions security tool"

d0ublespeak — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:27:05 +0000

I put together a little tool for people (it’s me, I’m people) that helps identify GitHub actions in use across the organisation.

It’s currently early days and I’m planning to expand it, but at the moment it: - runs across either a single repository or an entire GitHub Org - provides a list of actions in use per repo as well as a list of most commonly used ones (currently this list isn’t perfect I am working on improving this) - can be run as a GitHub Action that enforces a deny or allow list of actions

Coming up: - integration with GitHub Security Scanning API - GitHub App - static analysis for actions quality and safety - analysis of action pinning and enforcement (similar to ratchet) - a potential blacklist of malicious versions - maybe some cool stuff around immmutable actions.

Action-control – open-source GitHub Actions security tool

d0ublespeak — Tue, 22 Apr 2025 05:27:05 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ihavespoons/action-control

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43759301

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?"

d0ublespeak — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 23:04:56 +0000

Famous chemists, physicists and computer scientists. Turing, Bernoulli, Lovelace etc… with a rough association between the namesake and function.

Prior to that was using Jupiter and its moons but ran out of named ones.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Show HN: A virtual Yubikey device for 2FA/WebAuthN"

d0ublespeak — Sun, 18 Sep 2022 07:11:41 +0000

I think this is really cool and a smart way to approach this problem. That being said, the physical isolation of the YubiKey is what makes it useful. Having to physically press a button is the real isolating factor, the interaction is physical and not determined by a piece of software.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "MIT-0 License"

d0ublespeak — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 10:18:00 +0000

Imagine AWS wanting to get rid of attribution. Sounds like something that isn’t the slightest bit disingenuous.

New comment by d0ublespeak in "Ask HN: Recommend one book I need to read this summer?"

d0ublespeak — Tue, 02 Jul 2019 06:36:53 +0000

The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells - super eye opening.