Hacker News: nightpool

New comment by nightpool in "Ask HN: Since when does Craigslist's front page have emojis?"

nightpool — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:30:32 +0000

Based on https://web.archive.org/web/20260618001349/https://washingto... and https://web.archive.org/web/20260621034150/https://washingto..., it seems like they were added at some point between the 18th and the 21st. I definitely think it helps navigating the site, and it's a nice compromise between Craigslist's text-first style and a nod towards usability.

New comment by nightpool in "In praise of memcached"

nightpool — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:43:00 +0000

You're making inigyou & OP's point for them. Redis is a great technology, but its design (supporting both persistence and non-persistence modes) makes it much easier to misuse and much more likely to be misused compared to Postgres and Memcached. That's a design issue, not just an internal documentation issue.

New comment by nightpool in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

nightpool — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:09:47 +0000

Okay, but how does that square with the person I'm replying to's claim that VW should "put security into the app"? You missed the point of my reply.

New comment by nightpool in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

nightpool — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:08:51 +0000

I don't disagree with this, but you're completely contradicting the user I'm replying to. I'm pointing out that the user who says "you should put security into the app" is completely misguided or at the very least perfectly explaining why VW is doing this.

New comment by nightpool in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

nightpool — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:57:06 +0000

How else would you build "security" into the app (in the sense of not allowing third-party modifications of it that would open them up to liability), except relying on hardware attestation that the app has not been modified? That attestation necessarily requires the platform provider to be involved.

New comment by nightpool in "Show HN: Trace – Offline Mac meeting transcripts you can flag mid-call"

nightpool — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 03:32:22 +0000

Is this legal to use in 2 party consent states? Might vary from state to state, which is probably why both zoom and Meet require users to click through consent screens when meetings are bring transcribed. Might be useful to have that on the FAQ page

New comment by nightpool in "Your ePub Is fine"

nightpool — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 00:06:40 +0000

No, the CSS spec is specifically designed to be forwards compatible because of exactly this issue. Any invalid CSS rule should only cause that specific line to be ignored, not the whole stylesheet. And certainly even if your CSS parser chokes in some specific case, it shouldn't cause your ereader to fail to load the entire book!

New comment by nightpool in "Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model"

nightpool — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 21:27:58 +0000

it works because Nex N2 is also a derivative of the original base Qwen model. If it was two completely unrelated models it wouldn't work.

New comment by nightpool in "Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware"

nightpool — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:02:39 +0000

Right, which is exactly what elashri is objecting to. elashri said "Why do LLMs have restrictions on nuclear science", and IncandescentGas was explaining why they think those guardrails are a good idea. You're just agreeing with them.

New comment by nightpool in "Software is made between commits"

nightpool — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 05:18:27 +0000

This is purely a function of what people expect to be looked at.... if your team started looking at each individual commit step by step, then you'd probably find that people started paying more attention to how their commit hygiene looks.

New comment by nightpool in "A walking tour of surveillance infrastructure in Seattle (2020)"

nightpool — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:17:08 +0000

No, in the context of the thread it sounds like they're illustrating myrmidon's point about how the selective enforcement of crimes that are easy to catch on camera means that the police have less time (and less inclination, training, norms) for addressing more serious crimes, like interpersonal violence.

More broadly, they're not saying that we should make the cameras better to catch more crime, they're saying that when you make cameras the main way you catch crime, you shift the social definition of what crime is to "what cameras can catch".

New comment by nightpool in "Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services"

nightpool — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:13:00 +0000

There is a version of that. It is called RedHat Enterprise Linux. : )

New comment by nightpool in "Show HN: Freenet, a peer-to-peer platform for decentralized apps"

nightpool — Thu, 21 May 2026 20:33:41 +0000

I'm very glad to hear that—the anonymity of the original Freenet has led to it being a very unsavory place that was more well known for CSAM then anything positive or useful. As an outsider, it sounds like this new direction is the right choice for Freenet to try and attract new users and fulfill the team's original goals.

New comment by nightpool in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

nightpool — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:27:08 +0000

I'm not seeing anything on the official marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=whatwedo...

I wonder if it was open-vsx specific?

New comment by nightpool in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

nightpool — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:14:40 +0000

No, there's no joke, you might have just misread the article (the 3,800 number is the number of internal GitHub repos the employee had downloaded on their personal computer / had access to on their own GitHub account)

New comment by nightpool in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

nightpool — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:19:41 +0000

Did Railway give admin credentials to delete their production database? My memory of the incident is that a customer of Railways used an AI tool to delete their production database, and then blamed Railway for it. The customer was the one who put their own account credentials into their own AI, not Railway

New comment by nightpool in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

nightpool — Wed, 20 May 2026 17:56:28 +0000

Fly, Render, and even Heroku still are all better choices then working with Railway I think

New comment by nightpool in "Saying Goodbye to Asm.js"

nightpool — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:52:57 +0000

It did, V8 added asm.js compilation to WASM in 2017 https://v8.dev/blog/v8-release-61#asm.js-is-now-validated-an...

New comment by nightpool in "Gemini Omni"

nightpool — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:39:49 +0000

Yes, if you watch the video closely you can see that the "lensing" effect only really covers a circular area—this prompt probably went through multiple iterations where the author was trying to improve it so that the shape of the hand was reflected more closely.

New comment by nightpool in "Anthropic acquires Stainless"

nightpool — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:21:14 +0000

Okay, sorry, that was obvious in retrospect, I definitely feel kinda stupid now that I see it. In fact, I agree with your comment on almost all counts—I just see a lot of misuse of the term "monopoly" online, and I think I was led down a garden path by one of my sibling commenter's mention of Lina Kahn. No fault of yours, and I'm gonna delete my comment if I can :)