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New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Ask HN: How do you defend against supply chain attacks today?"

ggeorgovassilis — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:44:07 +0000

On two levels: architecture and understanding. Architecture: I divide the solution components of my architecture into two groups: the ones where a security breach spills over their scope and the ones where it doesn't. For the first category (eg. network- or user-facing), dependencies will be limited as much as possible, meaning I'll forgo convenience and features. I'll pick LTS or older versions with no known vulnerabilities. The second category is locked up in containers with minimal connectivity, with on-demand run-time schedules. Understanding: depending on risk and importance, I actually check out a dependency's source code and have an AI review it. Then rebuild and self-host.

Edit: this approach sounds like it could be bundled into a couple of agents.

I Printed a Microchip That Runs on Air [video]

ggeorgovassilis — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 11:33:21 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJdBp5dGrww

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47729684

Points: 1

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VS Code: whitelisting AI agent terminal commands

ggeorgovassilis — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:54:00 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2026/03/14/restricting-vs-code-terminal-commands-to-an-approved-commands-list/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47375732

Points: 3

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SleepSort O(n)

ggeorgovassilis — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 07:06:21 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/programminghorror/comments/lgsd18/i_present_sleepsort/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47271902

Points: 1

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Brooks on the System 360 and adoption of the 8 bit byte [video]

ggeorgovassilis — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 06:37:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oOCrAePJMs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46665345

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Paul G. Allen School YT channel"

ggeorgovassilis — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:32:24 +0000

The Paul G. Allen School YouTube channel has over 10 years of scientific lectures on advanced research topics, but has only 24k subscribers.

I just watched Michael Abrash [1] (of Graphics Programming Black Book fame) talk about the history and future of VR.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5AwlNbAvCo

Paul G. Allen School YT channel

ggeorgovassilis — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 21:32:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfSiYryINctnCaKe-jilVeA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46662316

Points: 1

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New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too"

ggeorgovassilis — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 12:04:37 +0000

Many are playable with Steam on Linux, each game in the store states whether that's supported or not. Even non-supported games allow an override. I've tried that for a few with varying success. Steam has so far refunded purchases that didn't run on Linux. Then there's Lutris which runs many old games fine.

Staying ahead of censors in 2025

ggeorgovassilis — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 05:47:40 +0000

Article URL: https://forum.torproject.org/t/staying-ahead-of-censors-in-2025-what-weve-learned-from-fighting-censorship-in-iran-and-russia/20898

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46417844

Points: 249

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New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Ask HN: What does it take to dodge the cloud?"

ggeorgovassilis — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:20:51 +0000

tbh you can go pretty far with just cloud VMs and virtual networks.

New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Ask HN: What does it take to dodge the cloud?"

ggeorgovassilis — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 08:01:08 +0000

The company I currently work for employs several mid-level software developers who've never worked with "the cloud". Their focus is software design, not operations (which is what the cloud is mostly about). The contact point with operations is container technologies. Their applications do REST, connect to databases etc. like they would do in a bare metal data centre. I occasionally need to remind them of low instance uptime guarantees, the need to plan for horizontal scaling, data replication and disaster recovery (I basically have to design the application architecture for them) but apart from that there's no friction in the day-to-day work.

A piece of unsolicited career advice: at the work place, continue being enthusiastic about software technologies and keep opinions on infrastructure close to your vest.

New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Self-hosted RSS reader with Docker and HTTPS"

ggeorgovassilis — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:18:52 +0000

I miss Google reader. Easily self-host the next best thing, FreshRSS, with docker, a web interface and secure HTTPS.

Self-hosted RSS reader with Docker and HTTPS

ggeorgovassilis — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 12:18:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/ggeorgovassilis/selfhosted-reader

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46172752

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Minimising Screen Brightness with Ubuntu

ggeorgovassilis — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:11:10 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.georgovassilis.com/2025/12/03/minimising-screen-brightness-in-ubuntu/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46138612

Points: 3

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New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "CES Munich Lectures Economics: AI and the Work of the Future [video]"

ggeorgovassilis — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:29:48 +0000

Will epochal advances in Artificial Intelligence complement human expertise, thereby increasing its value, or render it increasingly unnecessary? During both the industrial and computer revolutions, the forms of expertise rewarded by the labor market changed substantially, with vastly uneven consequences for workers in different occupations and possessing different education levels. These forces will play out differently again in the AI era. While the future is a design problem not a forecasting exercise, David Autor will discuss the challenges that AI poses for the labor market, as well as some of the novel opportunities it offers.

CES Munich Lectures in Economics 2025 Expertise, Artificial Intelligence, and the Work of the Future David Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, MIT Economics, USA

CES Munich Lectures Economics: AI and the Work of the Future [video]

ggeorgovassilis — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 07:29:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4P7BTBhnrY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45989921

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Setun, a Soviet ternary logic computer [video]

ggeorgovassilis — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 19:00:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vwOJE0Dq38

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45956761

Points: 11

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New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Grok 4 Fast now has 2M context window"

ggeorgovassilis — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 05:11:49 +0000

I came here just to complain about that :-) All LLMs I used seem to give more weight to things at the beginning of the context window and omit many details. Eg. I tried this simple thing: pasted a friend's and my CV into Gemini and asked it to recommend topics for a joint conference presentation. Results depended greatly on the order of CVs pasted in.

New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "First recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks (2022)"

ggeorgovassilis — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 07:45:43 +0000

> they areare mystical or part of their mental work.

In ancient Greece, epilepsy was called the "holy disease" and it was believed that gods speak through the patient during a seizure.

New comment by ggeorgovassilis in "Chip Hall of Fame: Intel 8088 Microprocessor (2017)"

ggeorgovassilis — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 13:01:22 +0000

2017