Hacker News: eXpl0it3r

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "OpenLogi"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:39:05 +0000

If the device renderings are fetched from assets.openlogi.org, it's technically not telemetry free, though I guess we can trust the author to not track every call?

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "AI-Generated GitHub Copilot “Autofix” Allowed Compromise of Snowflake's Jira"

eXpl0it3r — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 11:31:33 +0000

A local runner would certainly help, but only to some extend. When you need to support multiple OS (Windows, Linux, macOS) and architecture (x64, arm64), not everything can be tested locally.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:17:24 +0000

Hardly anything malicious ... yet and even that's debatable.

Yes, when you proxy anything through Cloudflare (CF) you give up on having your contents encrypted as CF terminates the TLS endpoints, but going from this to changing the content of the served site and injecting JavaScript is quite a big step and likely not what a lot of people would want nor expect. Your JavaScript-free site becomes a site that ships JavaScript without you knowing or having done anything.

Additionally, this introduces additional tracking of users, which a lot of people don't want.

And finally, there's the slippery slope. Today it's RUM, tomorrow it's ads or something else? Once CF starts modifying the user's content, what's stopping them from doing it more and more?

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:10:00 +0000

If you navigate to the domain itself, then to Analytics > Web Analytics there's a Quick Action for the RUM Settings.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "New serious vulnerabilities spiked around release of Claude Mythos Preview"

eXpl0it3r — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 17:51:32 +0000

Are CVE really a good thing for open source projects?

No doubt is it a good thing to have issues reported and fixed, but CVE feels a bit like blackmailing maintainers - either you fix the issue or we get your project flagged with "security scanners".

I guess, my distaste mostly originates from randomly assigned high CVE numbers that don't reflect the actual threat. And the fact that it gives the companies which use the code "AS IS" an imaginary stick to hit open source maintainers, until they fix the issues for the company (for free of course).

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:57:59 +0000

Despite the "Gold-suite" comparison, when looking at the KaTeX and RaTeX output [1], the KaTeX output is consistently better. RaTeX has either a lot of aliasing going on or appears blurry.

But the native and library nature of RaTeX is very interesting, especially with the provided C ABI.

[1] https://ratex.lites.dev/demo/support-table

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024)"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 09:23:07 +0000

If it's an open source project that has been used by others, please consider giving out maintainer access to others (now or later).

It's sad, when projects are abandoned and a whole bunch of users would be willing to (partially) maintain it, but the key holder implicitly or explicitly decided that nobody else should have access.

Forks are not he same: It's very hard to get enough traction with existing users and the discoverability is terrible.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SFML 3.1 Is Released"

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 13:27:47 +0000

As maintainer I won't be able to give you an unbiased response. The biggest difference is, that SFML is a C++ library.

What motivates me to work on SFML is, that we're building something separate from SDL. I don't think, we - as in the general developer world - do anyone a favor in consolidating everything into one library (why use X, when Y does the same?). Additionally, I think it's a very interesting "field" of trying to provide a common API across different OS; and sadly it seems to be an area where few resources exist and fewer developer actually understand it, as "everyone" just uses SDL. Finally, I really like the open and welcoming community we've built over the years and at the same time, I'm happy we're not getting as much attention/pressure as SDL.

SFML 3.1 Is Released

eXpl0it3r — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 20:20:29 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/SFML/SFML/releases/tag/3.1.0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47798971

Points: 9

# Comments: 5

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "A Tiny Camera Revealed a Hidden Passage in the Great Pyramid"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:59:42 +0000

The Nature paper from last year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-91115-8

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 13:59:26 +0000

Yeah, then again most people haven't experienced this and are happy to just enable "track changes" in Word and send the document back and forth, maybe if you're lucky, it's hosted on SharePoint or OneDrive.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:38:40 +0000

OnlyOffice, Nextcloud OPffice, Collabora might all have free offerings to a degree, but you'll end up at the mercy of the companies behind those tools and OnlyOffice comes with Enterprise offering that does also cost money.

Costing money isn't necessarily bad, but it's also hard to beat free & libre.

Open Collective Europe Is Becoming Open Source Europe

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:53:34 +0000

Article URL: https://opencollective.com/europe/updates/were-becoming-open-source-europe-and-we-want-to-build-this-with-you

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47038722

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Show HN: ManasPDF – GPU-accelerated PDF renderer built from scratch in C++"

eXpl0it3r — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 06:11:30 +0000

Since this uses Direct2D, is this Windows-only?

How much of the code was vibe-coded?

Ubisoft Veteran Says He Was Suspended for Criticizing Return-to-Office Policy

eXpl0it3r — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:45:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/ubisoft-veteran-says-he-was-suspended-for-criticizing-its-return-to-office-policy/1100-6537747/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46823815

Points: 21

# Comments: 2

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SVG Path Editor"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 12:02:15 +0000

I'm in the opposite camp. Give me some local tool that does disappear when the maintainer moves to the next thing.

Well and I can eat the cake as well, make it some native app that has proper performance.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 06:06:10 +0000

I still have two active accounts and neither of those were in the breach of the 20% of accounts.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

eXpl0it3r — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:16:27 +0000

The discussion requirement is often to prevent disappointment, waste of time, and anger, when maintainers simple close PRs, because it's not the direction they want the project to go. A lot of people will take this very personally, so it's much better to have a conversation about it beforehand.

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "I'll pass on your zoom call"

eXpl0it3r — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:29:33 +0000

Except for investors who couldn't figure out the right "Zoom" to buy shares from [1].

[1] https://www.ft.com/content/98635c63-b4ab-49a3-9c18-1de6819d6...

New comment by eXpl0it3r in "Can you slim macOS down?"

eXpl0it3r — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 10:10:26 +0000

A lot of users still like the mix of a good UI for most tasks, while being able to do a lot of power user stuff without an added layer. Plus many will choose macOS also for the hardware, which support for new chipsets is still rather WIP under Linux.