Hacker News: kngspook

New comment by kngspook in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

kngspook — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:26:30 +0000

My understand is the people behind passkeys are working on an import/export solution. Who knows when it'll happen though.

For now, when companies let me have multiple passkeys, that's sufficient for me. I put one on my Apple Keychain and one in 1Password.

New comment by kngspook in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

kngspook — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 22:24:31 +0000

Yeah, I hate these. It's also a very not-ergonomic was to sign in. I wish those companies would redirect those efforts to passkeys.

New comment by kngspook in "Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats"

kngspook — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 22:40:03 +0000

Does the hash end in ...e63f2 perchance, or is it a different dump?

New comment by kngspook in "Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission"

kngspook — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 08:49:55 +0000

I feel like someone should spin up a separate GCP account, make a pile of projects, and then spam-add every google engineer they can find. Curious to see what happens next…

New comment by kngspook in "Tell HN: Google Cloud lets anyone add you to a project without your permission"

kngspook — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 08:42:54 +0000

Google Takeout is actually reasonably robust. I create/download one of those fairly regularly.

New comment by kngspook in "Ask HN: Let's discuss Python type hints guidelines"

kngspook — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 20:23:22 +0000

For me, a big part of the value of typehints isn’t just the legibility, it’s also helping the interpreter to help me. I can have the interpreter tell me that a string got passed into a function instead of the list of strings that I was expecting, or I can have have my code output a single letter instead of a whole word from the array access call in my code.

I’ll figure out the bug eventually either way, but having the compiler give me the clearer warning earlier in the development process (sometimes even from pure static analysis) is a significantly more pleasurable development experience and a potential time saver

And 50X that, especially the time saved, if I’m integrating with code you didn’t author.

Ask HN: Going for my first eng manager interview – advice/expectations?

kngspook — Tue, 21 May 2019 22:47:58 +0000

Hi,

So I've been an eng manager before, but I got given the responsibilities over time. For the first time, I'm about to be interviewed as an engineering manager at a medium-size public Silicon Valley tech company.

Having rarely interviewed and never hired an eng manager, I'm not 100% sure how to prepare or exactly what qualities will be being searched for (I know what I would value in an eng manager, and I think that's a decent guideline, but it's only one data point).

Can anyone share their experiences, either of hiring eng managers or being the hired eng manager? I'm looking for both strategic advice (big picture what should I try to emphasize and convey) and tactical advice (what are your go-to questions to ask prospective eng managers, what does the interview slate usually look like, etc.).

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19975913

Points: 5

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Ask HN: Why is Facebook not having a harder time hiring?

kngspook — Thu, 25 Apr 2019 17:46:52 +0000

With all repeated issues the company is suffering with their product strategy, software quality, privacy issues, executive retention, etc., why are people still eager to join the company?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19750652

Points: 25

# Comments: 46

New comment by kngspook in "Ask HN: What do you use for personal email?"

kngspook — Fri, 08 Mar 2019 06:58:38 +0000

Gmail I believe is technically encrypted at rest, just they also happen to have the keys.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:41:32 +0000

I mean, it was Bing not too long ago...

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:38:36 +0000

Google blocks domains from Chrome all the time, for the same reason as Apple blocked Google: it was deemed malicious.

https://safebrowsing.google.com/

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:36:03 +0000

Google (or any company) wouldn't have a single point of failure for alerts like that. :P Those alerts would hit email, phone, etc. all at the same time.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:31:03 +0000

No, Facebook/Google internal apps fall into two categories:

- Utilities that are only useful to employees of those companies (cafeteria menus, shuttle schedules, resources for salespeople on the go, etc.).

- Pre-release/testing (aka dogfood) versions of the apps they distribute to the public, for employees to use and find bugs on before they make it out to normal users.

Neither of those are pools that Apple wants to play in.

...and I guess there's a third category:

- Apps used gain "competitive intelligence" and spy on users.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:28:30 +0000

I don't think it's about remind them who's boss. Apple will revoke the certs for as long as is necessary to protect their users, but I don't think they'll stay revoked for punitive purposes. I expect it'll be a period measured in double-digit hours, not weeks.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:26:23 +0000

> The whole point of enterprise certificates was to allow creation of internal apps that even Apple shouldn't know about.

I think most/all of the companies in the program would say it's about controlling the distribution of their apps, since putting them on the App Store would expose them to the public, and less about hiding from Apple...

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:23:11 +0000

Sure, and Facebook solely controls the messaging ability and photo storage for a significant percentage of their 2B+ users.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:21:54 +0000

No, that's not necessarily for loading an app on to your device. It's only necessary for broader distribution.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:21:10 +0000

From what I understand, it actually is a public app:

https://www.tripshot.com/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tripshot/id1007192056?mt=8

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:13:06 +0000

>Ah, but you say: I must have signed a contract to use the app store... Except, no, I didn't do that either.

Do you have an Apple ID? You need an Apple ID to download apps from the App Store, and when you create the Apple ID, you accept their ToS. So, yeah, I think you did.

Though that ToS has absolutely nothing to do with anything we're discussing -- the ToS that matters here is the one between Apple and Google/Facebook.

> ...and that must constrain me to honor the terms of the app that I downloaded...

I don't think Apple's ToS with you constrains you to honors the terms of the app you downloaded. That seems strangely indirect. I think the app may or may not have their own ToS that they make you agree to at some point before permitting you to use their services.

New comment by kngspook in "Apple blocks Google from running its internal iOS apps"

kngspook — Fri, 01 Feb 2019 05:07:25 +0000

You can. Just give people the code, and they can load it on their device.