Hacker News: phsau

New comment by phsau in "Monetization Gateway: Charge for any resource behind Cloudflare via x402"

phsau — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:25:39 +0000

Why is it worse? This seems like a good alternative to large monthly fees, where you can pay per use.

5c to read an article? Sure. $20/month subscription? No way.

New comment by phsau in "Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon"

phsau — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:35:21 +0000

Could you provide an article that explores this difference? I'd like to understand the mechanics of this and see how this conclusion is reached.

New comment by phsau in "Most parked domains now serving malicious content"

phsau — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 18:31:26 +0000

Port 25 is only uncommon for client submission, but prevalent for MTA>MTA traffic.

New comment by phsau in "Datacenters in space aren't going to work"

phsau — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 04:06:11 +0000

>Almost every single objection to data centers in space has already been overcome at a smaller scale with Starlink

Did you not read the article? It had many objections that make it clear datacenters in space are unworkable...

New comment by phsau in "Kurt Got Got"

phsau — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 02:46:11 +0000

And if you read the story, it's because he ignored the fact that the password manager didn't prompt auto-fill.

"I went to the link which is on mailchimp-sso.com and entered my credentials which - crucially - did not auto-complete from 1Password. I then entered the OTP and the page hung. Moments later, the penny dropped, and I logged onto the official website, which Mailchimp confirmed via a notification email which showed my London IP address:"

New comment by phsau in "Reverse engineering Call of Duty anti-cheat"

phsau — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 16:00:21 +0000

It's cheaper and more accessible than ever to use DMA/hardware cheats from cheat vendors.

New comment by phsau in "Syrian government falls in end to 50-year rule of Assad family"

phsau — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 13:13:30 +0000

https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/39...

The DoD says North Korean soldiers are already in Kursk and preparing? News of NK armament deliveries and use is old at this point and not debatable.

Is the DoD spreading fake news? Just because they haven't seen front-line combat _in Ukraine_ doesn't mean Russia isn't using NK assets.

New comment by phsau in "How French Drains Work"

phsau — Wed, 07 Aug 2024 15:58:27 +0000

Wouldn't it be better to keep the tree and its roots away from the drain? That growth might come at significant cost!

New comment by phsau in "What You Get After Running an SSH Honeypot for 30 Days"

phsau — Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:19:56 +0000

Malicious traffic is not limited to ssh and comes from the same usual suspects. Automated attacks against web applications is constant. I wouldn't say it's indiscriminate, it's practical.

New comment by phsau in "XFS online filesystem check and repair"

phsau — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 02:06:59 +0000

It's workload dependent; XFS performs better for our database needs.

New comment by phsau in "Diablo Immortal brought $100M to developers in less than two months"

phsau — Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:58:15 +0000

The source for this article is SensorTower Store Intelligence, which claims to have "download and revenue data for nearly all mobile apps available in the App Store and GooglePlay". How are they getting revenue data when it's not publicly available (to my knowledge)?

New comment by phsau in "OpenSMTPD"

phsau — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 17:46:42 +0000

We run Postfix at a large, high-volume scale and I can confirm OpenSMTPD does not have the feature/configuration set to work as a replacement. Postfix is great in this regard because it has near endless configurability, but it comes at the cost of complexity.

New comment by phsau in "Faking Twitter unfurling to phish you"

phsau — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 07:34:23 +0000

Isnt't that what CORS/same-origin policies prevent? The attacker domain can be prevented from loading the bank resources within the same context by the browser. If the request is made by the attacker domain instead and proxied to you, then it doesn't have your cookies to display the private identification.

In either case, the "correct profile picture" would not load.

New comment by phsau in "A man spent a year in jail on murder charge that hinged on disputed AI evidence"

phsau — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 18:04:04 +0000

Where in source [1] does it show that it's common for police to make over $450k a year?

The 'Avg Total pay & benefits' sorted by title has Chief Information Officer/Registrar of Voters as the entry into that level of remuneration. Police specific above that you only have the Sherrif, which is an elected official.

Police pay for the vast majority of roles is significantly below $450k.

New comment by phsau in "Google says geofence warrants make up one-quarter of all US demands"

phsau — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 17:02:04 +0000

Not all crime is premeditated and most people aren't described as criminals.

New comment by phsau in "38% of remote workers work from bed"

phsau — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 05:12:02 +0000

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New comment by phsau in "38% of remote workers work from bed"

phsau — Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:43:26 +0000

There are lots of good options. The higher end brands include: Herman Miller Humanscale Steelcase Ergohuman

Style, material preferences, and budget will guide the best pick. You can't really go wrong so long as your choice is an adjustable chair.

New comment by phsau in "Hastening Linux process cleanup with process_mrelease"

phsau — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:50:03 +0000

I've also found that under these conditions kswapd will effectively consume all your CPU time. The time it spends running is probably proportional to your maximum memory too - in our case it parses through 500+GB of LRU. The blocking writeback behaviour can be managed effectively with dirty page writeback ratio tuning. You don't want to block trying to write 50GB to disk at once when you hit the high dirty page watermark.

New comment by phsau in "I Was Robbed in San Francisco While the Cameras Rolled"

phsau — Tue, 25 May 2021 04:59:01 +0000

Which policies?

New comment by phsau in "Netmask NPM package, used by 270k+ projects, vulnerable to octal input data"

phsau — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:31:11 +0000

Thanks, that makes sense. I was thinking along the lines of applications interpreting HTTP headers like X-Forwarded-For, but trusting the client (instead of re-writing).