Hacker News: equinumerous

New comment by equinumerous in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

equinumerous — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:37:11 +0000

This is genius. Let's hope the hackers aren't reading this...

New comment by equinumerous in "Bucketsquatting is finally dead"

equinumerous — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 02:19:03 +0000

That was an amazing talk, thanks for sharing! I could see the writing on the wall as soon as I saw the bucket names were predictable. Bucket squatting + public buckets + time of check/time of use in the CloudFormation service = deploying resources in any AWS account with enough persistence. I'm surprised this existed in AWS for so long without being flagged by AWS Security.

New comment by equinumerous in "YouTube as Storage"

equinumerous — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:23:30 +0000

Mostly just noise. This is an example data video from the creator: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIRXaQWjiA8

(YouTube video for this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03Os5uwWmk)

New comment by equinumerous in "Reducing Dependabot Noise"

equinumerous — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:18:47 +0000

The "> Remove lockfiles from version control" got me as well.

> Reproducible builds sound nice in theory, but velocity matters more than determinism. Think of it as chaos engineering for your dependency tree.

Reproducible builds are nice in practice, too. :) In the Node.js ecosystem, if you have enough dependencies, even obeying semver your dependencies will break your code. Pinning to specific versions is critical.

New comment by equinumerous in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

equinumerous — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:14:09 +0000

As far as a scripting API, it looks like the devs beat me to it with a JS/TS plugin system: https://github.com/OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2/blob/develop/distributi...

New comment by equinumerous in "We put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon"

equinumerous — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:08:33 +0000

This is a cool idea. I wanted to do something like this by adding a Lua API to OpenRCT2 that allows you to manipulate and inspect the game world. Then, you could either provide an LLM agent the ability to write and run scripts in the game, or program a more classic AI using the Lua API. This AI would probably perform much better than an LLM - but an interesting experiment nonetheless to see how a language model can fare in a task it was not trained to do.

Qgrep Internals

equinumerous — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 01:42:44 +0000

Article URL: https://zeux.io/2019/04/20/qgrep-internals/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46507743

Points: 4

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