Hacker News: mustardo

New comment by mustardo in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

mustardo — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:28:23 +0000

> failed their strategic objective

copium

> It's their relentless deindustrialization that will eventually do them in

Agree, China has already won, at this point a lot of the world sees them as a more sane option than USA as well which is a nuts timeline

New comment by mustardo in "Why We Don't Trust the Database with Authentication"

mustardo — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 03:54:22 +0000

Anecdotal but we certainly run flyway migrations with a high privelage user not the regular low privelage "app" user who can only SELECT UPDATE and sometimes DELETE. The fact that nobody does this doesn't mean it's a bad idea just a reflection on poor industry practice (add it to the list)

New comment by mustardo in "Anthropic flies staff to D.C. to clean up White House fight"

mustardo — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 09:58:41 +0000

Mighty fine AI you have there, be a shame if something were to happen to it...

New comment by mustardo in "Cleaning up after AI rockstar developers"

mustardo — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:41:59 +0000

This! I've worked with a few developers I would consider net negative to their team and product, in that their removal would have increased 3-4 other team members productivity by say 20% each. Coincidently these developers were almost exclusively Indian immigrants. In organisation with poor corporate culture and the ZIRP (Zero Interest Rate Policy) days of hiring to signal growth and managers hiring to increase the number of reports (to signal importance) compounded the problem

New comment by mustardo in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

mustardo — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:08:19 +0000

Built with packages hosted on Microslop's NPM

New comment by mustardo in "Canonical/Ubuntu have been under DDoS"

mustardo — Fri, 01 May 2026 10:33:28 +0000

I thought copy.fail is a privelage escalation exploit, become root from a regular user? Am I missing something?

How would "node architecture" make people vulnerable to this?

You have to have shell access to a victim first right? Or am I missing something?

New comment by mustardo in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

mustardo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:15:02 +0000

In an interview with Zelinsky Trump asks "why haven't you had an election? " Zelensky : "because we are at war" you can see the idea percolating then. People think I'm a nutter for suggesting there just won't be another election but that's where my money is. I'm waiting for his version of the Gestapo, ICE seems to be a proving ground

New comment by mustardo in "Ask HN: What did you find out or explore today?"

mustardo — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 09:15:33 +0000

For machine tools I just use an oil can with a finer than normal tapered tip, this will depress the ball bearing in zerk / grease nipple fittings no problems, this also works with the ball oilers typically found on lathes etc. You can cut a tiny slit in the end too if that helps get oil in https://www.wentztech.com/metalworking/projects/convert-a-ch...

New comment by mustardo in "Ask HN: How do you choose a hostname for personal devices?"

mustardo — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 12:06:56 +0000

One place I worked at used Red Dwarf characters, Hollister, Cat, Toaster, Rimmer etc

TV show characters can be good

I normally use Greek gods for snowflake servers

A concatenation of owner / location and device for LAN devices. JohnsPixel4, LoungeTV,

New comment by mustardo in "Redis' license change and forking are a mess that everybody can feel bad about"

mustardo — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:02:11 +0000

This has aged well https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17818647

New comment by mustardo in "NotepadNext – a cross-platform reimplementation of Notepad++"

mustardo — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 00:37:36 +0000

LSP (Language Server Protocol) a way for editors to talk to language tools to provide auto complete, warnings errors etc. this means the language tools can be written once and then any editor that has LSP support can use it https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Server_Protocol

New comment by mustardo in "Client did not pay? Add opacity and decrease it until their site fades away"

mustardo — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 07:31:09 +0000

Not even particularly elegant code, for example, opacity is clamped between 0 and 1 in in the very next line a bounds check is made anyway.

  opacity = (opacity < 0) ? 0 : opacity;
  opacity = (opacity > 1) ? 1 : opacity;
  if(opacity >= 0 && opacity <= 1) {
      document.getElementsByTagName("BODY")[0].style.opacity = opacity;
  }

New comment by mustardo in "Kids with cats have double the risk of developing schizophrenia"

mustardo — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 07:53:41 +0000

> these religious institutions help stabilize society

I'm not sure this is true, there are plenty of conflicts because of religion. I would argue the most stable would for nobody to be religious

New comment by mustardo in "Mailpit – An email and SMTP testing tool with API"

mustardo — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 02:29:59 +0000

A couple others

Mail Catcher https://mailcatcher.me/

Lunatic SMTP https://github.com/anlar/lunaticsmtp

Green Mail https://greenmail-mail-test.github.io/greenmail/

New comment by mustardo in "Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback"

mustardo — Sat, 17 Jun 2023 06:06:43 +0000

Auctions generally perform better in a seller's market (strong buyer demand), with interest rate rises prices have been dropping lately here (NZ)

New comment by mustardo in "An open-source alternative to QuickBooks"

mustardo — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:46:27 +0000

Banks don't give out access to this API easily. Unfortunately it's not some OAuth thing that a new upstart accounting software could easily hook into, therefore the banks gate keep feeds to major accounting providers and no doubt charge excessively for the privelage. We need regulation to open feeds to anyone willing to consume them, or a bank to add it as a feature but why would they when they can charge Xero and MYOB to access proprietary feeds

New comment by mustardo in "I was wrong. The ChatGPT code interpreter is OP"

mustardo — Sat, 27 May 2023 02:05:58 +0000

Over Powered

New comment by mustardo in "Developers should be force-fed state machines (2011)"

mustardo — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 12:02:50 +0000

A Hungarian notation but as a suffix?

Ignoring variable name shadowing a static type system helps a lot

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_notation

New comment by mustardo in "Developers should be force-fed state machines (2011)"

mustardo — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 11:47:11 +0000

100% this! One of the worst projects to reason about I have ever worked on (and I have worked on a lot of trash) was when a colleague insisted on implementing a state machine in a system that tracked voucher (offer) redemptions. State machines do have their place but coordinating business logic with one is a bad idea IMHO

This same colleague had implemented a similar FSM (flying spaghetti monster as known by the team) in an FX (foreign exchange) platform at a previous company. Which after a job change I got the pleasure of experiencing, nobody in the team knew how it worked and everyone was petrified of making changes

New comment by mustardo in "New Zealand passes legislation banning cigarettes for future generations"

mustardo — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 08:45:19 +0000

"dairy" is Kiwi for a convenience store, Off License, Superette. I remember being surprised moving overseas and calling it a dairy nobody knew what I was talking about https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_(store)