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New comment by lemagedurage in "Prove you're human by winning a claw machine"

lemagedurage — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:01:12 +0000

They should make it more clear that it's a concept.

I could see a real version that sends the inputs to the backend where some analysis is done, but right now an adversary can just run the onVerify callback as "bypass".

New comment by lemagedurage in "Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]"

lemagedurage — Wed, 20 May 2026 04:33:21 +0000

Inflated egress costs might make this prohibitively expensive, $80 per TB at GCP and AWS

New comment by lemagedurage in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

lemagedurage — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 02:20:51 +0000

My gripe is that, if some additional authentication is then not required for deployments or SSH access, that whoever has access to the admin UI will still be able to access the box and extract all secrets, just with extra steps. There's usually no real security boundary between "admin UI controls the box" and "box requires secrets in plain text".

I still like the approach, but I'm afraid that it feels more secure than it is, and people should be aware of that.

New comment by lemagedurage in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

lemagedurage — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:37:49 +0000

That works on a single persistent box, but unfortunately, that means giving up on autoscaling, which is not so nice for cloud applications.

New comment by lemagedurage in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

lemagedurage — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:57:14 +0000

But the encrypted API key doesn't work, it needs to be decrypted first. Let's give the server access to the private key so it can decrypt the API key. We can do this by putting the private key in an env var. But now the private key is unencrypted. Ah, it doesn't work.

New comment by lemagedurage in "A Roblox cheat and one AI tool brought down Vercel's platform"

lemagedurage — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 09:29:36 +0000

Theoretically maybe, but there's no indication that a quantum-resistant algorithm can't encrypt something that's secure for the coming million+ years.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Slop Cop"

lemagedurage — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 01:02:03 +0000

It looks like tricolon is about specifically three parallel elements, while staccato is about short consecutive sentences, so staccato would be the appropriate name here.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Slop Cop"

lemagedurage — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:35:09 +0000

Yeah, "don't overuse these patterns" is the right attitude for tools like this, not "fix all mistakes". And that's OK?

New comment by lemagedurage in "Starfling: A one-tap endless orbital slingshot game in a single HTML file"

lemagedurage — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 05:59:13 +0000

Yes, you have to imagine a much bigger star beneath the viewport.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Working on Products People Hate"

lemagedurage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:35:35 +0000

Don't attach your pride to how well a product you work on is received. You can still take pride in improving a poorly received product, or even in just trying.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Working on Products People Hate"

lemagedurage — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 08:28:10 +0000

And another lesson: we define business success by how much money they make, not by how beneficial they are to society.

New comment by lemagedurage in "A Faster Alternative to Jq"

lemagedurage — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:13:43 +0000

True. I feel like the main way a tool could differentiate from jq is having more intuitive syntax and many real world examples to show off the syntax.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

lemagedurage — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 01:07:36 +0000

Steam runtime already gives developers a single target rather than having to support different distros individually.

If Steam Deck, the new Steam Machine etc take a significant part of market share, I think it will be more enticing for game developer to release a native version for Linux. Providing a native version should still be more robust and performant.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Show HN: GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB)"

lemagedurage — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 04:12:22 +0000

Wow, that feels quite restrictive. "Classic for Git" would be allowed, but it doesn't quite have the same ring to it.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

lemagedurage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:45:19 +0000

I have noticed this in GitHub issues too. Where many long paragraphs used to indicate high quality, now it's the opposite.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

lemagedurage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:38:24 +0000

Yes, the more personal the context, the more the humanity aspect / being relatable matters.

New comment by lemagedurage in "Allow me to get to know you, mistakes and all"

lemagedurage — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 08:33:44 +0000

To me the rhythm of the text makes it clear whether I'm reading something AI generated or not, usually.

Otherwise, not using em dashes, adding some mistakes and writing more like how you think/talk helps :)

New comment by lemagedurage in "Apple cuts China App Store commission fees after government pressure"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:27:36 +0000

Good on them. Platforms taking more than 10% feels unjustified and monopolish.

New comment by lemagedurage in "I gave an AI $50 and full autonomy for one day. Here's what it built"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:21:52 +0000

Did you ask it to make money?

New comment by lemagedurage in "Project Naawi"

lemagedurage — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 16:19:03 +0000

Would love to hear from the human behind this AI stuff. What are you making and why?