Hacker News: ncts

New comment by ncts in "Backblaze has stopped backing up OneDrive and Dropbox folders and maybe others"

ncts — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:52:00 +0000

That's good guidelines and all, but meanwhile you are posting it on a site with..

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Show HN: At Your Own Risk – Disclaimer pages for things that don't need them

ncts — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 12:56:57 +0000

Built this because I thought an At Your Own Risk page as a Service would be fun.

It lets you generate satirical disclaimer pages served on subdomains (your-thing.atyourownri.sk). Choose one of the two tones, deadpan or legalese. Choose from a curated list of risk clauses or write your own. Then your At Your Own Risk page is live.

The legalese tone reads like a real SaaS terms page until you notice it's governing disputes by coin flip. The deadpan tone just stares at you.

A couple of examples: https://this-side-project.atyourownri.sk (legalese) and https://my-sourdough-starter.atyourownri.sk (deadpan).

Stack: Cloudflare Workers & D1, TypeScript. resvg-wasm for OG image rendering. Otherwise hand-rolled.

Check out the source at https://github.com/abslynowarranty/atyourownri.sk

It is completely, entirely, legally useless. Use it at your own risk.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47613840

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Design Space for Code Search Query

ncts — Thu, 26 Dec 2024 06:40:31 +0000

Article URL: https://ast-grep.github.io/blog/code-search-design-space.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42513536

Points: 57

# Comments: 9

macOS Sequoia "autocorrects" .sql extension to .sql.s

ncts — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 14:55:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/16969

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42136687

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

CVE-2024-6387: RCE in OpenSSH's server, on glibc-based Linux systems

ncts — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 10:44:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/01/3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40844458

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Credentials Leaking with Subdomain Takeover

ncts — Sat, 08 Jun 2024 01:42:46 +0000

Article URL: https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/credentials-leaking-with-subdomain-takeover

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40614625

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

It's Time We Addressed Time-Zone Selectors

ncts — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:28:53 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/time-zone-selectors/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39500681

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by ncts in "Placemark is now open source"

ncts — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 23:13:38 +0000

Well: https://macwright.com/2022/09/15/hacker-news. Still, it can be easily bypassed by an extension that cleans referrer (which is more or less good for privacy I guess?)

Placemark is now open source

ncts — Fri, 19 Jan 2024 21:15:22 +0000

Article URL: https://macwright.com/2024/01/19/placemark-oss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39061277

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by ncts in "Firefox on the brink?"

ncts — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 15:51:10 +0000

FYI there is Invidious.

New comment by ncts in "Porsche Open Source Platform"

ncts — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 19:24:24 +0000

> I wonder how I'll ever be able to use the code I wrote over the years that controls uncounted lathes, mills, plasmacutters, lasers and a whole raft of other industrial tools.

You are knowledgeable enough to make them work. Many aren't. Some can't be. Hacking requires knowledge and skill, and most importantly, being contained. Cutting yourself with your self-programmed hackable laser in your garage is unfortunate, but cutting other people is a disaster you can't afford.

> Vehicles are hackable, but they're not documented which makes them more dangerous, not less dangerous. Witness comma.ai and others.

I see two points here.

1. Security through obscurity is bad. That's true, but we have "business" in the play, so that's how it goes. Maybe push for better regulation.

2. comma.ai, an "autopilot", based on reverse engineering, or as you put it, the base product "not documented", thus makes it "more dangerous". No, it's dangerous not because the base product is not documented, but because there's no real autopilot at the moment, and comma.ai is irresponsibly advertising as being able to "drive for hours without driver action". There are many "black box" products with a ToS that forbid reverse engineering. Does that make the product inherently more dangerous too?

Besides, you seem to suggest that, with open products, people can not make things unsafer. That's not true. Some don't know what they are doing when they "hack" things.

New comment by ncts in "AWS IPv4 Estate Now Worth $4.5B"

ncts — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:16:22 +0000

This is even better:

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New comment by ncts in "Introduction to Immutable Linux Systems"

ncts — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 07:00:25 +0000

Outside of this bubble, you see vim plugins, VSCode plugins, JetBrains IDE plugins… Photoshop plugins, Premiere plugins…

New comment by ncts in "CSS-tricks.com hasn't posted since April"

ncts — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 18:45:28 +0000

The last post was https://css-tricks.com/passkeys-what-the-heck-and-why/ on 12 April. Their mastodon account announced in June an update of a 2022 article, but after that, silence. Twitter account didn't even mention the update.