Hacker News: laurent123456

New comment by laurent123456 in "GPT Image 1.5"

laurent123456 — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 22:30:39 +0000

There are ways to tell if an image is real, if it's been signed cryptographically by the camera for example, but increasingly it probably won't be possible to tell if something is fake. Even if there's some kind of hidden watermark embedded in the pixels, you can process it with img2img in another tool and get rid of the watermark. Exif data, etc is irrelevant, you can get rid of it easily or fake it.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Cloudflare was down"

laurent123456 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 10:48:34 +0000

I understand there are nuances here, and I may be oversimplifying, but if part of the contract effectively says "You must act as a proxy for npmjs.com" yet the site has been returning 500 Cloudflare errors across all regions several times within a few weeks while still reporting a shining 99.99% uptime, something doesn't quite add up. Still, I'm aware I don't know much about these agreements, and I'm assuming the people involved aren't idiots and have already considered all of this.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Cloudflare was down"

laurent123456 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:16:05 +0000

This is weird - at this level contracts are supposed to be rock solid so why wouldn't they require accurate status reporting? That's trivial to implement, and you can even require to have it on a neutral third-party like UptimeRobot and be done with it.

I'm sure there are gray areas in such contracts but something being down or not is pretty black and white.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Paris had a moving sidewalk in 1900, and a Thomas Edison film captured it (2020)"

laurent123456 — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 11:00:21 +0000

Maybe because in airports people are sometimes required to walk long distances to go from one point to another, while in a city there are public transport, bicycles, taxis, etc. plenty of other options so walking long distances is usually not required.

Show HN: Biniou – a local, event-driven job scheduler and automation framework

laurent123456 — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 13:22:19 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/laurent22/biniou

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45301401

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Official Google Cloud NPM package includes malware via a dependency

laurent123456 — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 09:23:08 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/googleapis/google-cloud-node/issues/6510

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44623313

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by laurent123456 in "Show HN: Sync-in – Secure, open-source platform for file collaboration and sync"

laurent123456 — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 12:58:43 +0000

Congratulations on the release Johan! We definitely need alternatives to Nextcloud and looks like Sync-in could do that job and more. Does it currently support plugins, or is it planned?

New comment by laurent123456 in "WhatsApp introduces ads in its app"

laurent123456 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 14:04:39 +0000

As always network effect will be the problem. I know plenty of people on WhatsApp and almost nobody on Signal

New comment by laurent123456 in "Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust"

laurent123456 — Thu, 29 May 2025 10:00:53 +0000

Is that macOS and Apple Silicon only? In this case indeed it's a no-brainer not to use Electron (why even use it in the first place?). If you ever want to support Intel processors, Linux and its many variants and Windows that will be a different story.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Show HN: Protect your links with a password"

laurent123456 — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 17:26:13 +0000

Would be more interesting if the link was encrypted client-side using the provided key. That wouldn't change the UX much and it means you can guarantee that the shared URL will remain private.

But anyway I'd expect if someone is naive enough to use this website they would also share the URL and password using a single channel, which would be the same as not "hiding" the URL at all.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Polyfill supply chain attack hits 100K+ sites"

laurent123456 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 22:31:15 +0000

I can't find the reference now, but I think I read somewhere it only redirects when the user got there by clicking on an ad. In that case it would make a bit more sense - the script essentially swaps the intended ad target to that sport gambling website. Could work if the original target was a gaming or sport link.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Thunderbird.net Has a New Look"

laurent123456 — Fri, 17 May 2024 15:47:59 +0000

One example is the calendar that keeps getting worse release after release, so much that I had to switch to macOS calendar.

Global Inbox also got broken several years ago and never fixed, since it seems all their energy goes into making things prettier at the expense of making things work.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Show HN: Roast my SQLite encryption at-rest"

laurent123456 — Wed, 01 May 2024 17:36:26 +0000

I don't know if that's his use case, but we had many users tell us they share their account with other users so they want the data to be encrypted even when logged in.

Of course if they share their computer, someone could install a keylogger and wait for them to type their passwords, but I guess that's an extra layer of security that may help a bit.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Redis is forked"

laurent123456 — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 17:43:47 +0000

If AWS and other cloud providers gave if only 0.1% of the profit they generate out of these open source projects back to the developers we probably wouldn't have this problem. Unfortunately they don't and it's only fair that eventually those developers take it in their own hands. It's not a great situation but it's certainly understandable.

New comment by laurent123456 in "I accidentally made my link shortener into a malware honeypot"

laurent123456 — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 01:45:30 +0000

Getting a chargeback in Stripe is costly. As soon as a dispute is started there's a fixed $25 that won't be refunded even if you win the dispute.

So for a service at $4 a month which is likely to get a lot of fraudulent payments I wonder if it's really viable.

One thing he should do is immediately cancel accounts and refund subscriptions when there's an early fraud warning. They are usually accurate and help avoiding those fees.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Meta will start collecting "anonymized" data about Quest headset usage"

laurent123456 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:58:58 +0000

> "Your audio data"

> "Certain data" about hand, body, and eye tracking

> Fitness-related information

> "Information about your physical environment and its dimensions"

> "Voice interactions"

That kind of data can 100% be matched back to a Facebook profile. There should be a legal definition of "anonymous data" so that companies like Facebook cannot have the opportunity to pretend they care about their user's privacy.

Meta will start collecting "anonymized" data about Quest headset usage

laurent123456 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:46:55 +0000

Article URL: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2024/02/meta-will-start-collecting-anonymized-data-about-quest-headset-usage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39527035

Points: 48

# Comments: 25

New comment by laurent123456 in "DOOM rendered via console.log() in a web browser (2021)"

laurent123456 — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 11:54:25 +0000

Shouldn't use the term "web browser" when it's Chrome-only.

New comment by laurent123456 in "Dark UX doesn't work in the long run"

laurent123456 — Sun, 18 Feb 2024 12:12:57 +0000

Not really, there's a lot of "perhaps" and "maybe" in those sentences unlike in the title. And indeed there's no reason to think dark UX patterns do not work in the long run - Google, Microsoft, Facebook and many more have been doing that for decades and there's still around and striving.

New comment by laurent123456 in "In loving memory of square checkbox"

laurent123456 — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 08:12:29 +0000

> The better UI would be for the circles to be visually connected somehow to illustrate that only one selection is possible like you have in physical switches with more than two positions

Normally they are within a radio button group so that they are visually connected: https://i.stack.imgur.com/03p3T.jpg