Hacker News: matttah

Miasma Worm Hits Microsoft Again

matttah — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:37:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/miasma-worm-hits-microsoft-again-azure-functions-action-and-72-other-repositories-disabled-after-supply-chain-attack-targeting-ai-coding-agents

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48450543

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by matttah in "Geocoding APIs compared: Pricing, free tiers and terms of use"

matttah — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 12:16:47 +0000

Agreed, we use them for a number of things and find them very reasonably priced (especially, unlimited plan is very good if you are doing 5+ million).

Google Delays Post-Cookie Plan Again Amid Pressure from Ad Tech Industry

matttah — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 01:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://adage.com/article/digital-marketing-ad-tech-news/google-forced-delay-post-cookie-plan-again/2554751

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40139453

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

AutoSpill attack steals credentials from Android password managers

matttah — Sun, 10 Dec 2023 12:53:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/autospill-attack-steals-credentials-from-android-password-managers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38591205

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Archive.is Captcha Problems Lately?

matttah — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 15:02:18 +0000

Anyone else having problems lately with archive.is taking you to a captcha, you solve it and then it just keeps redirecting you back to the captcha over and over. Happens to me in chromium, a friend just tried in firefox and had same problem.

Today is happening to me on a link from another thread which was to https://archive.is/gwuFp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37077049

Points: 13

# Comments: 20

New comment by matttah in "Ask HN: What is something you built but never marketed?"

matttah — Sun, 14 Aug 2022 18:07:21 +0000

After getting tired of no way to easily follow news of AWS product updates for only ones I actually use we built Broadside. You can set which services you care about, how often you want to be notified and it sends you a digest of the updates.

https://getbroadside.com/

Gaggia Classic control project using microcontrollers

matttah — Mon, 30 May 2022 01:08:18 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Zer0-bit/gaggiuino

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31554514

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Snowflake Is Down

matttah — Wed, 30 Jun 2021 18:19:45 +0000

Article URL: https://status.snowflake.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27691834

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

A 'Bubble Barrier' is trapping plastic waste before it can get into the sea

matttah — Tue, 08 Jun 2021 11:52:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/08/europe/bubble-barrier-sea-c2e-spc-intl/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27433899

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

Ask HN: Katalon Experiences?

matttah — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 11:55:48 +0000

We're considering Katalon for a project for automated testing. Our goal is to have a non-technical staff build the tests on the frontend and thought Katalon may be a good tool for this with it's recorder.

Was curious if anyone had any experience with it and how it worked out for your team. Our frontend is built on Angular.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26659316

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Favorite Front end Test automation for non-devs

matttah — Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:01:17 +0000

I'm looking at setting up a test automation suite for a frontend project and want non-developers to be able to add and update different tests, so something like a selenium recorder or comparable. I know some tests will be too complex/hard to do via a simple recorder so understand some tasks may require developer time.

The frontend is built in Angular.

At the time we're looking at Katalon but wanted to see if anyone had any experience with them or recommended other alternatives.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25863451

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

REE demonstrates its wildly innovative vehicle platform of the future

matttah — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 23:40:55 +0000

Article URL: https://newatlas.com/automotive/ree-video-platform-demonstration-skateboard-chassis/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24714113

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by matttah in "Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers"

matttah — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:55:24 +0000

Just the images on the front page, guess a bit bigger than icons!

New comment by matttah in "Show HN: I wrote a book for engineers that want to become engineering managers"

matttah — Tue, 14 Jan 2020 16:49:47 +0000

Jstanier - Great job, this looks really cool. Curious what icon set are you using? I saw you have similar style icons across a few of your projects, is there a standard library you are using or are you creating them yourself?

Symfony was the back end framework with the most contributors in 2019

matttah — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 11:54:53 +0000

Article URL: https://symfony.com/blog/symfony-was-the-backend-framework-with-the-most-contributors-in-2019

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21990575

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

API Platform – REST and GraphQL framework to build modern API-driven projects

matttah — Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:47:22 +0000

Article URL: https://api-platform.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20160817

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Researchers Create New Way to Power Electric Cars

matttah — Sat, 23 Mar 2019 18:10:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.uml.edu/News/press-releases/2019/RyanResearch032119.aspx

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19471566

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by matttah in "Ask HN: Keep Last X entries per ID in larger DB"

matttah — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 01:54:40 +0000

At 500 million+ records, even a 0.01 second per lookup/update is going to be too slow at that scale even in parallel, unless the DB is able to process in parallel without lock contention extremely quickly.

New comment by matttah in "Ask HN: Keep Last X entries per ID in larger DB"

matttah — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 01:52:24 +0000

Agreed that storage is cheap, unless it's in a live cluster. Right now I keep 100% of the data in Redshift then use window functions to unload the latest X per id. Keeping it in real time I haven't tried but right now the unloading of the full dataset of last X per id takes multiple days on a 6 node cluster.

The analysis at end of month is simply give me 100% of the data set chunked up by ID. All analysis is done outside of the system.

Flat files is my thinking right now with S3 and prefixes per partition, I'm not sure on file format, since one thing is with each day's data being able to process and update existing data quickly. Current thought is to load current day's data to Redshift -> unload sorted by id -> process concurrently. With multiple prefixes on S3 I won't hit the rate limits. My main worry is if read in, loading/parsing each file will take too long to be scalable at 250-500 million unique id's per day. I wanted to check here before going down that route to see if anyone had a different recommendation.

Ask HN: Keep Last X entries per ID in larger DB

matttah — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:19:56 +0000

I'm trying to figure out the best solution for the following:

* Daily importing of ~500+ million rows of data, with ~250 million unique ids. * I need to only keep the latest X entries per unique ID. Older entries are discarded after X entries for that id has been achieved. * Monthly will read out the entire dataset for processing

X can be anywhere from 1000 to 3000, it is static over the entire DB just depends on as we determine the best setting. Since I don't access the data more than once a day, or at the end of the month, I would prefer not to pay for storage. There are over a billion unique id's which I can partition by prefix or ranges. Each individual entry per ID is fairly small with only an integer and two decimals stored.