Hacker News: jackdecker

New comment by jackdecker in "Show HN: Kloak, A secret manager that keeps K8s workload away from secrets"

jackdecker — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 02:26:32 +0000

Was just talking about this the other day - although more in-line with a custom controller to replace _all_ secrets / env variables used at runtime automatically (LD_PRELOAD get_env ?). Recognize this serves a different use case - I was trying to only decrypt KMS encrypted secrets in-memory / in-flight so that an attacker would have a harder time reading secrets in-cluster or in pod shell.

Such a sick idea, and incredibly useful. Would be nice if it integrated directly with secrets managers RE: ESO

New comment by jackdecker in "Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024)"

jackdecker — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:54:51 +0000

Really enjoyed the way you put this - I’m going to use these axes going forward as I’ve had a hard time putting words to these

New comment by jackdecker in "Tell HN: Merry Christmas"

jackdecker — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 02:36:20 +0000

Merry Christmas HN!

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New comment by jackdecker in "TSA to charge $18 fee for travelers without Real ID or passport"

jackdecker — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:24:49 +0000

While I don’t feel one way or another about this w.r.t. charging this fee to people without a Real ID who show up with a normal ID, as someone who has just lost their ID entirely, or shown up accidentally to the airport without it -

This totally makes sense.

The amount of effort it takes for a TSA agent (granted, this is mostly entirely fabricated effort, this seems like a more solved problem, but I digress) to verify my identity the few times this had happened is well worth $18.

It’s not a quick phone call to an external agency and you rattle off your social; it’s a whole shebang.

“Did you live at x? Who else lived at that address with you?” “What was your sisters last address before her current” “What was the second address you lived at in [city]”

To be entirely honest, the whole thing was super entertaining. I think part of it was just it made me feel like some super spy.

Anyway - good on them for charging a few bucks. Don’t forget your ID or get your ID updated.

(Sidenote: this line of questioning wasn’t this interesting every time. Sometimes it is more like a one and done question, but I am at my most impressed with TSA when it seems like they actually do give a fuck, and the times it’s been an in-depth line of questioning has stuck with me)

New comment by jackdecker in "Yet another year with Decker"

jackdecker — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:23:04 +0000

Best platform name of all time - had no idea this existed, this is awesome

New comment by jackdecker in "I reverse engineered TikTok's login wall to watch any video without the app"

jackdecker — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 11:40:29 +0000

I actually made a shortcut on my phone to do this. Maybe I’m missing some complexity here, but my running assumption is that TikTok only forces you to the app when opening a shared link. If you remove the entirety of the query string in the url (match everything before the ?: ^.*?(?=\?)) it opens fine.

If someone sends me a link, I copy it, and click on the icon on my Home Screen - here’s the link to that shortcut (iOS specific):

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/6d62250b944d40f292142d1cdcf...

Show HN: CivMD – CivitAI model downloader in your terminal

jackdecker — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:41:30 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/jackowfish/civitai-downloader

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45048441

Points: 2

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New comment by jackdecker in "I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer"

jackdecker — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 12:59:46 +0000

I was thinking the same thing - Went back and re-read it though, and I think it’s more that the author wrote a first draft and then had AI to help spice some stuff up. He either:

1. Used AI to help and doesn’t care if it sounds a little AI generated / actually likes it 2. Didn’t use AI but reads enough AI slop that his writing style is directly influenced by it (scary) 3. Used AI but doesn’t use AI enough to immediately recognize when language sounds like it was generated by ChatGPT and didn’t bother correcting (this is my guess)

There’s a few times I got tripped up because it went from pretty human writing to “holy shit shit that’s ChatGPT I’m going to stop reading,” yet the author would save it with human writing right after.

This is kind of a ramble, but it actually was one of those pieces of writing that I felt was genuine and improved by some of the ChatGPT language rather than just clickbait garbage - I could tell the author was just trying to make it worthwhile and interesting to read, and I honestly really enjoyed it.

New comment by jackdecker in "DuckDuckGo was down"

jackdecker — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 15:38:14 +0000

All I know is that I would not want to be the one who had last committed to production.