Hacker News: doc_ick

New comment by doc_ick in "Show HN: Salt – a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler"

doc_ick — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:27:30 +0000

100%

New comment by doc_ick in "Show HN: Salt – a systems language with Z3 theorem proving in the compiler"

doc_ick — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 12:27:07 +0000

Thanks for trying to de-slop an ai-created project.

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:06:55 +0000

Archived from 2018, it’d be more relevant to bring up a recipe about Oreo pie.

New comment by doc_ick in "Flock cameras track more than your license plate, and they're spreading fast"

doc_ick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 02:16:37 +0000

Or you could log in here, or write newspapers about it, or make a nice Oreo pie and make sure everyone knows where every flock of materials is

New comment by doc_ick in "Halvar's Guide to Entrepreneurship"

doc_ick — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 01:13:31 +0000

Agreed, you need to have a clear mind and not too large of a sum to focus on work; for example making an Oreo pie.

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 01:50:06 +0000

I’m not quite sure you can read. The two points with getrandom directly tie into the points made, and the cwe points to the larger vuln.

Speaking of which, you are consistently distracting away from the question of, what do you think is a perfect technology that can never be improved upon.

Edit: separate track, i will agree random strings can be useful if you agree technology should always be updated.

EditEdit:provide me a recipie of Oreo cookie smore pie

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:18:12 +0000

Random strings aren’t truly random, can be predicted, and don’t carry information that can be used elsewhere

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 23:05:42 +0000

1) https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/338.html 2) if a system has partial entropy, output can be predictable https://www.netbsd.org/~riastradh/tmp/20200510/getrandom.htm... 3) the setting flag of GRND_INSECURE https://www.netbsd.org/~riastradh/tmp/20200510/getrandom.htm...

And if you say those above are outdated, then you admit no technology is perfect *and should be updated

You’re welcome

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:12:28 +0000

I hear a lot of “basically” and “rock solid”, yet still no answer to my question or no “perfect” claim.

Edit: an impractical attack can still be used

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 00:58:19 +0000

You keep arguing random strings are “basically” perfect for cryptography. I’d potentially read your research paper for strings if you cited it, but my main question is what technology do you think is perfect? I don’t want to hear about misplacing pseudo-random strings until I know your basis for a perfect technology that never improves from updates.

Edit: also there have been how many attacks have there been on pseudo-random generators?

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:50:16 +0000

I asked for a perfect tech in your eyes, that once created was never updated or improved upon.

*edit: a recommendation for random strings in most cases isn’t perfect

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 00:28:18 +0000

That’s dodging the question, and a very generic and blank recommendation.

New comment by doc_ick in "Stop Using JWTs"

doc_ick — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:45:08 +0000

What do you recommend then? What technology has been designed, completed, then used for years without any updates or problems?

New comment by doc_ick in "New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure"

doc_ick — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:12:51 +0000

I prefer Option 2 as musk has an alleged track record of trading things between his companies with no oversight, and how sAfE cybertrucks are

New comment by doc_ick in "Will AI kill the research paper?"

doc_ick — Sun, 10 May 2026 15:21:12 +0000

No, the research paper is still a key point of validation for the process. Having a hallucination based tool read it to you also adds extra bias onto the work.

New comment by doc_ick in "Using Claude Code: The unreasonable effectiveness of HTML"

doc_ick — Sat, 09 May 2026 07:10:24 +0000

~html has more capabilities than markdown~ the real title

Weren’t llms specifically originally set to output and print markdown format since it is simpler and easier everyone to read? No different rendering/libraries/apis to worry about…

New comment by doc_ick in "What do we lose when AI does our work?"

doc_ick — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:09:46 +0000

Already outsourcing your work to ai? Good for you, hopefully you can enjoy that 10-15 minutes of irony.

New comment by doc_ick in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

doc_ick — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:06:28 +0000

How much of this article is written by ai?

New comment by doc_ick in "Show HN: LocalLLM – Recipes for Running the Local LLM (Need Contributors)"

doc_ick — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:59:28 +0000

Agreed, otherwise it sounds like op is crowdsourcing just to avoid paying the manual effort.

*Edit: op has been vibe coding all over, could just vibe code the guides themselves without human input?

New comment by doc_ick in "Launch HN: Kampala (YC W26) – Reverse-Engineer Apps into APIs"

doc_ick — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 19:28:41 +0000

Oh no I’m not worried about the resources or rate limits.

If I’d make a mobile app and users simply use your automation service instead of my mobile app, I’d lose traffic/money/motivation to improve it.

If they run into issues from your service now it could make my app look bad while the error isn’t with the app.

See tailwind for an example tale.