Hacker News: davidshepherd7

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "DeepSWE: A contamination-free benchmark for long-horizon coding agents"

davidshepherd7 — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:15:04 +0000

Did you try Opus-4.7 on a lower reasoning level? Looks like on `max` it's using far more tokens than the other frontier models.

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Molly guard in reverse"

davidshepherd7 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 06:28:48 +0000

That page is copied verbatim from https://unsung.aresluna.org/molly-guard-in-reverse/ (which is linked at the top). The original page also has much better formatting.

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Agents that run while I sleep"

davidshepherd7 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:23:15 +0000

On the off chance that the author reads this: can you enable an RSS feed please?

I want to subscribe, but I never end up reading newsletters if they land in my email inbox.

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI"

davidshepherd7 — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 08:58:01 +0000

A mirror that worked for me: https://skyview.social/?url=https://bsky.app/profile/robpike...

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Pocket Casts, you altered the deal, so I will alter your app"

davidshepherd7 — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:01:18 +0000

This is a perfect replacement for me, thanks for recommending it.

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Pnpm has a new setting to stave off supply chain attacks"

davidshepherd7 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 06:04:07 +0000

IIUC chainguard is this, but only for python, java, and docker images so far. https://www.chainguard.dev/libraries

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "PyPI Blog: Project Quarantine"

davidshepherd7 — Sun, 05 Jan 2025 09:14:05 +0000

Could you give some examples of more secure solutions?

A one-line X11 keylogger (2016)

davidshepherd7 — Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:35:48 +0000

Article URL: http://techtrickery.net/keyloggers.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40590265

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language"

davidshepherd7 — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:56:13 +0000

In case it's useful to anyone: another implementation of this idea is Weeve https://shop.weeve.ie I bought one of their books (a study in scarlet) but it wasn't great. Lots of mistranslation, especially later on in the book. The general idea seemed to work well though, with better implementation I think it could really help my french.

I'll give this one a try, being able to add my own books is particularly exciting.

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Jeff Lawson steps down as CEO of Twilio"

davidshepherd7 — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 19:16:01 +0000

Does anyone have a list of which products are in which business units?

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "How I Made a Heap Overflow in Curl"

davidshepherd7 — Wed, 11 Oct 2023 12:45:16 +0000

Yeah I think this is correct with the edit.

I guess this is mostly relevant for software that runs on shared infra, sends requests to a url provided by an attacker (e.g. webhooks), and uses a SOCKS5 proxy?

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Modern Transactional Stack"

davidshepherd7 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 06:36:43 +0000

The article was too vague for me to really understand, but I think it's suggesting something like Brandur's deeply-integrated idempotency keys design [1] except that the infra is provided by a saas company? Also somehow it supports rollbacks?

Does anyone know of any other more concrete explanation of how these kinds of systems could work?

[1] https://brandur.org/idempotency-keys

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Remote code execution vulnerability in Google they are not willing to fix"

davidshepherd7 — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 04:58:20 +0000

This sounds really interesting! Can you explain or link to an explanation of the technical defenses that Google has?

(Or, is this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35585453 complete and accurate?)

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Modules, not microservices"

davidshepherd7 — Tue, 03 Jan 2023 15:18:13 +0000

They actually use a python monolith unless it's changed recently. See e.g. https://instagram-engineering.com/static-analysis-at-scale-a...

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Ask HN: What is the most impactful thing you've built?"

davidshepherd7 — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:06:49 +0000

The company I work for has saved people and businesses in West Africa roughly $1B in banking fees this year.

It's a big company but I'm really proud to have done my part towards this.

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Python is Actually Portable"

davidshepherd7 — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 07:16:20 +0000

Any use of OS features by calling functions in the standard library should work though, right?

I think it's only dependencies that contain C code that would need further changes. I think you would have to recompile then with cosmopolitan libc.

Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972)

davidshepherd7 — Sun, 15 May 2022 03:41:33 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/r4Lkz4tK7CmPoXQfK/peter-singer-famine-affluence-and-morality

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31385082

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "Springing People from the Poverty Trap"

davidshepherd7 — Sat, 14 May 2022 03:58:46 +0000

I'm curious how this relates to givedirectly's research https://www.givedirectly.org/research-at-give-directly/

As far as I know givedirectly have found that cash transfers are effective at improving people's long term wealth. But I've never heard anything about them moving people from the poor to the "less poor" mode of a bimodal wealth distribution. Maybe the difference is that this experiment was run in a place that has a clear bimodal distribution, which allowed them to observe this more easily?

Wish I could read the paper but it's behind a paywall and not on scihub.

Ethylene for Fun and Profit and Produce

davidshepherd7 — Fri, 13 May 2022 08:52:21 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.net/ethylene/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31364936

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by davidshepherd7 in "How we upgraded our 4TB Postgres database"

davidshepherd7 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:38:44 +0000

I'm probably missing something, but it sounds like using Warp has a bunch of downsides vs "just" creating a read only replica using logical replication and then failing over. Did you choose Warp only because of Azure's limitations or were there other reasons?