Hacker News: keyle

New comment by keyle in "Pac-Man, but you're the ghost"

keyle — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 07:03:53 +0000

Where did you quote this from?

New comment by keyle in "AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit"

keyle — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:06:36 +0000

More news is coming out about this:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Arch-Linux-AUR-400-Compromised

I toyed with the idea that someone should write a binary that simply emails, or alert you when it's been run... as a canary... and call that `npm`.

At this point, not renaming the npm binary is a big risk.

AUR packages compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit

keyle — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:59:39 +0000

Article URL: https://discourse.ifin.network/t/400-aur-packages-compromised-with-infostealer-and-rootkit/577

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48500447

Points: 298

# Comments: 224

New comment by keyle in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

keyle — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 01:59:52 +0000

I've been in those companies where "struggling departments" ended up getting all the praises and raise in budgets the following quarter because of the heroic saves they did, and raising awareness on how important they are... For stuff they totally caused on themselves.

Meanwhile, my perfectly purring department was struggling to keep the lights on.

It's a serious problem in this industry due to the disconnect between non-technical management (who understands how to double click) and engineering (who holds the company standing).

I'm not sure how we solve this, other than having management come from engineering.

New comment by keyle in "Show HN: FablePool – pool money behind a prompt, and Fable builds it in public"

keyle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:56:18 +0000

This is literally an idea by the primegean on his YouTube under predictions. Self prophecy really with his reach but credit where it's due?

New comment by keyle in "Web Browsers on Video Game Consoles"

keyle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:50:38 +0000

Well back in the day, if you wanted to provide some interactive experience worth having on the web, you did it Flash.

It fits entirely to be supported on consoles.

Static Types and Shovels

keyle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:30:44 +0000

Article URL: https://carefully.understood.systems/blog-2026-06-10-static-type-shovel.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48488153

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by keyle in "πFS"

keyle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:41:13 +0000

Note, this (2012)

New comment by keyle in "AI agent runs amok in Fedora and elsewhere"

keyle — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:30:02 +0000

There is a natural pace of humans requiring food, water and sleep. The main issue with suspicious AI agents is that they never sleep. So it will take extra-coordination between timezones to ensure we don't let them in.

Fundamentally, until we can really prove we're humans online, open-source has a real problem on its hands. Contributions from people from identities known and consistent before the AI-age are fine, everyone else is suspicious. LGTM is a big risk nowadays.

New comment by keyle in "Surprise, pay $1000"

keyle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 06:18:05 +0000

This doesn't seem like the right way to do business long terms. The off chance that someone actually take you up on it and pay your 'bill', you've destroyed a lot of goodwill and alerted the rest of the tech world of your scammy moves.

New comment by keyle in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

keyle — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:44:50 +0000

I'm surprised this is even a thing. After all, you go to Google not for the truth, but to search Google. Since when is truthiness the "guarantee of service"?

You're not even paying for a google service, search is free... You might be the product, and your data, but you didn't directly pay for a service and they didn't sell you a fake service.

I'm not taking Google's side, this isn't about whether it's right or wrong to rob websites of traffic, this is about AI's returning search metadata.

But I'm surprised that they lost this argument, and the line they took in the first place.

The Internet isn't made of fact checked data, it's crowd sourced. How can anyone be liable?

New comment by keyle in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

keyle — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:34:13 +0000

Thanks for reminding me, I appreciate it.

However there is justice for commenting poorly, there doesn't seem to be justice for posting lies and deceit, which is borderline a serial case here(?).

New comment by keyle in "Show HN: Gitdot – A better GitHub. Open-source, written in Rust"

keyle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:52:10 +0000

We've built a better SpaceX! says kid with cardboard rocket in the backyard. In Rust we trust!

Common man, you're not even 5% of a Github replacement. Don't act like one. You've built a Git web UI with accounts, the easy part.

> Building software is still hard

You don't say.

New comment by keyle in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

keyle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:13:52 +0000

Correct, but you get to see who leaked you.

New comment by keyle in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

keyle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 10:13:31 +0000

+1 for not giving those websites your email in the first place!

New comment by keyle in "1k Data Breaches Later, the Disclosure Lag Is Worse"

keyle — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:03:14 +0000

At this stage just expect that every accounts will get leaked or rooted, it's a matter of when, not if...

Use varying email `plus addressing` (john+am2604@foo.com), varying passwords or passkey and 2FA on anything remotely important (use of your identity, not just financials).

New comment by keyle in "LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do"

keyle — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:15:27 +0000

I sympathise with the author being in the same boat, largely.

I just want to emphasise a point... Calculators give 100% correct answers and yet we still hire accountants; for the simple fact that we don't want all to be accountants.

People will hire software engineers for the simple fact that they do not want to be software engineers.

The circus freaks of open source

keyle — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 04:57:02 +0000

Article URL: https://drewdevault.com/blog/Circus-freaks-of-FOSS/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48431952

Points: 122

# Comments: 44

New comment by keyle in "C++: The Documentary"

keyle — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:42:48 +0000

         +90% users in the past 3.5 years

huh? That is incredible growth. How is it even measured?

New comment by keyle in "Gaussian Point Splatting"

keyle — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 11:56:47 +0000

It will be interesting to see the first AAA game that uses these methods instead of rendering a 3D world. Even if made from CGI worlds, it would be a very interesting approach and with somewhat predictable performances.

Reminds me of Ecstatica [1], a 1994 game that had intense visuals with a very odd/different rendering engine made of 3D ellipsoids; in a way really crude splats in gouraud shading.

[1] https://ecstatica.fandom.com/wiki/Ecstatica