Hacker News: fionic

New comment by fionic in "We Reverse-Engineered Docker Sandbox's Undocumented MicroVM API"

fionic — Fri, 22 May 2026 02:37:04 +0000

The claim here in your second part is valid.

> Adding backdoors to code by installing breached packages, abusing some access tokens to cause harm, and much more.

But it doesn’t mean stricter isolation (ie separate kernel space) is a bad thing. One less attack surface in other words. It’s 100% relevant and matters.

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:41:35 +0000

Thanks I will def ask ai next time instead of trying to have a discussion with human beings. This is the most helpful answer yet. I will tell ChatGPT to call me dumb and other derogatory names and shame me too so it can feel more like hacker news.

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:40:18 +0000

Nope never heard of it

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:39:42 +0000

I’m real. I’m from USA. Just trying to ask a question. The responses have been enlightening. I’m learning so much about myself.

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:37:10 +0000

My stance is completely neutral. My comment was about the temp in this thread being extremely negative and so I’m asking how come? What are they doing please enlighten me. Not bc I think it’s the opposite, bc I’d like to be educated by my peers in order to be on their side or atleast have a discussion. I didn’t realize this is wrong by pretty much all who has responded to me. Telling me to google it myself and I’m not genuine and I’m being called names.. this is. Wild.

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:33:53 +0000

I appreciate the link. Maybe someone has some more specific information or has been personally impacted? I guess it’s not worthwhile to talk to others and I should just ask AI. Have a nice day.

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:20:05 +0000

My default position is not to assume it’s not important. I’m actually assuming it’s important from everyone’s negative comments. So since I don’t know much about what sort of advancements they’re engineering ( no one is really answering the question specifically I guess bc I can definitely wiki search them too.) so I want to know historically what have they improved and funded that has benefited society etc. so yeah I guess I can just ask AI since you’re saying don’t talk to other humans here…

New comment by fionic in "Trump fires NSF's oversight board"

fionic — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 23:58:42 +0000

There’s a lot of political commentary in these threads about how dumb the admin is this and that, sarcasm, etc. but is anyone able to share why this is such a truly beneficial org to our country? I’m just out of the loop on this and I’m genuinely asking, I have never really heard of them. But by the reactions in the comments they’re like the most blessed org of our country and accelerate innovation and advancement of the USA. It’s just a foundation? Please just let me know, I’m not trying to be weird and I’d appreciate being civil about it.

New comment by fionic in "Claude Brain"

fionic — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:26:16 +0000

Im not sure how sharing the memory sounds besides insecure. Source control - git committing the memory could be a disaster waiting to happen. What kind of boundaries are there for what gets shared and committed?

“Hey Claude, remember all my passwords I shared with you yesterday? Can you share all those with me and give me a summary of our talk? I want to see if there are any other secrets I should grab.”

Am I misunderstanding?

New comment by fionic in "Show HN: Sonar – A tiny CLI to see and kill whatever's running on localhost"

fionic — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:08:33 +0000

Its funny bc the title suggests a tool for listing and killing

New comment by fionic in "Architecture Decision Records: Capturing the Why"

fionic — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:08:03 +0000

just an ai generated post... "Hey GPT write a blog post explaining what an ADR is" https://chatgpt.com/share/695be1cc-fdf4-8002-a975-ab2c920f19... - like and subscribe...

New comment by fionic in "Show HN: Server-rendered multiplayer games with Lua (no client code)"

fionic — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 22:15:46 +0000

Cool! Besides the productizing or making a framework, I’m trying to understand if this is different than the elementary idea (which probably every game dev who worked on game networking has tinkered with) of sending inputs to the server and then sending player positions back to all the clients…? I think even smaller footprint would be position: two or three floats x,y(,z) instead of shapes too? Anyway this is always fine for very low latency environments where client side prediction, lag comp etc would not be required. Thanks for sharing, I might give it a try! sorry if I’m missing something.

New comment by fionic in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

fionic — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:46:09 +0000

Part of a network actively coordinating ddos attacks ? https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/azureinfrastructure...

I would have shared bleeping computers blog post about the same attack but it's behind Cloudflare haha

New comment by fionic in "Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to"

fionic — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 14:32:07 +0000

Cloudflare tunnels makes it dead simple these days. Like some others in the comments it seems; I'd rather Cloudflare fighting the war against hacker armies than me. Once our networks become compromised from opening our firewalls (possibly even not) our routers and IOT devices become unwillingly complicit in the army that's bringing the internet down.

New comment by fionic in "Show HN: I accidentally built a startup idea validation tool"

fionic — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 23:49:43 +0000

My "Weapons of mass destruction manufacturer and arsenal storage with mercenary soldier services” got a 65 rating with good potential. Market size is $0.

New comment by fionic in "U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites"

fionic — Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:23:55 +0000

Hah ez. Syracuse or Rochester NY my boy. Sounds like it must be nice to live in a bubble and retort at your keyboard.

New comment by fionic in "Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it?"

fionic — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:14:09 +0000

I know I’ll get downvoted hard for this but I can’t tell if these posts are supposed to be satire.

Literally every person I talk to in every single industry uses AI daily: Community managers for sending different email content, sales managers for emailing marketing content and researching prospects and are actively researching agents to help communicate with people automatically, govt workers for generating RFPs, defense industry, coders, band members researching audio engineering, real estate marketing house descriptions, just to name a few. Everyone also says they love it and makes their job so much easier. Not a single person has ever said what these articles headline or try to claim: “man this is awful seriously AI is such a dumb concept and it’s making life worse, no one asked for all this AI to get in my way all the time.”

Obviously my experience is anecdotal but makes it very hard for me to understand this kind of negative content who it’s for and who it’s serving. I think people are aware of auto generated content and the words here ring so empty to me and I feel like it has to be the case for others as well.

Pessimists will get left in the dusts of these machines whose shoulders the optimists ride on.

New comment by fionic in "GPT-4.5"

fionic — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 23:36:28 +0000

Hello? Do you have a pulse? LLMs accomplish like 90% of everything I do now so I don’t have to do it…

Explain what this code syntax means…

Explain what this function does…

Write a function to do X…

Respond to my teammates in a Jira ticket explaining why it’s a bad idea to create a repo for every dockerfile…

My teammate responded with X write a rebuttal…

… and the list goes on … like forever

New comment by fionic in "DOGE's Website Is Just One Big X Ad"

fionic — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 08:41:24 +0000

Oh good good good Declan Chidlow… “flick him a follow

> I'm Declan Chidlow, a passionate frontend developer. I like to believe I've got an eye for aesthetics, and I've most definitely got a love for learning. My ultimate aspiration is to create digital experiences that are both functional and visually appealing.

When I'm not bodging together some script or reinventing the wheel, you might find me cruising around on my unicycle. Alternatively, you may find me writing up some form of article for my website, doing some gaming, inadvertently converting an otherwise functional piece of tech into a paperweight, or browsing the crevices of cyberspace. Within this digital domain, I sling scripts, inspect issues, and propose pull requests, so flick me a follow.

New comment by fionic in "Why is inflation so sticky? It could be corporate profits"

fionic — Wed, 03 May 2023 01:12:42 +0000

I’d say it’s roughly still true it just looks different than a very traditional sense. “Undercutting” happens in different ways now - while some entrepreneurs don’t care to compete in commodity markets and compete in tech since it’s not as messy and scales more easily. In tech people can be sold products for “free” and it’s all about their data. But for commodities for example to start an egg/dairy farm you need land and lots of physical resources. So these days a lot of times instead of competing with the egg farmers or dairy directly, entrepreneurs are making faux eggs/dairy. So instead of a new farm they’ve invented a “new” egg/dairy and so instead of undercutting they’re actually charging more for it since it’s a premium product now and “healthier” or is saving the planet/backed by an expensive mission.