Hacker News: retropragma

New comment by retropragma in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

retropragma — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:40:53 +0000

If anyone's curious what the malware does: https://pastebin.com/raw/KiuwueMU

Looks like it's pilfering Solana wallets that don't belong to Russians.

New comment by retropragma in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

retropragma — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 01:27:06 +0000

likely a compromised github API token

New comment by retropragma in "Be wary of Bluesky"

retropragma — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 16:33:26 +0000

Someone could make a backup script wrapped in a GUI, but then people would have to see the "need" in order to start using it.

The bigger danger would be AT Protocol losing its biggest contributor. Unless another VC backed team appeared to fill their shoes, the protocol would stagnate and communities would slowly deteriorate. Hope is critical early on in a protocol's rise to prominence.

New comment by retropragma in "Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript"

retropragma — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:22:08 +0000

The lack of composability makes this a hard no for me

New comment by retropragma in "Doing the thing is doing the thing"

retropragma — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 08:12:38 +0000

Just don't mistake prototyping for doing the thing.

Good enough is a self limiting fallacy.

A prototype failing to attract fans doesn't prove a lack of a market for the job the prototype attempts to perform. It only proves the prototype, as it stands, lacks something.

Beware quitting early. All good builders do.

New comment by retropragma in "Altcha – Free, open-source Captcha alternative"

retropragma — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:03:08 +0000

I found Altcha just recently. I'm curious what people think of it. Are there caveats compared to Google Recaptcha or Cloudflare Turnstile? Please share your thoughts.

Altcha – Free, open-source Captcha alternative

retropragma — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:03:08 +0000

Article URL: https://altcha.org/open-source-captcha/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46533700

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by retropragma in "Gemini 3 Flash: Frontier intelligence built for speed"

retropragma — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 19:46:21 +0000

That's more of a flash-lite thing now, I believe

New comment by retropragma in "Normie.club – a daily web game where normies thrive"

retropragma — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:15:36 +0000

when I had this idea, I knew I had to make it. launched it back in November to family & friends.

10 new questions each day. predict the most popular answer. one miss and you're out. give it a try! do you actually understand the normies?

Normie.club – a daily web game where normies thrive

retropragma — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:15:36 +0000

Article URL: https://normie.club

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46286046

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by retropragma in "Show HN: An endless scrolling word search game"

retropragma — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:36:21 +0000

It's too easy to "cheat" by panning around until a word toggles in the list, effectively telling you which corner of the screen the word can be found in

New comment by retropragma in "Do not download the app, use the website"

retropragma — Sat, 26 Jul 2025 14:43:16 +0000

That doesn't sound right. Have you seen documentation on this?

New comment by retropragma in "I just want to code (2023)"

retropragma — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 15:16:27 +0000

Important to note that it's not a dichotomy as long as you're not an "extremist" of either side. Build for yourself and a big market. Take pride in competing at a high level. If you view "hustling" as an 'all work, no play' experience, you're engaged in absolutist thinking.

New comment by retropragma in "Yagri: You are gonna read it"

retropragma — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 05:02:15 +0000

Tangential: I was recently wishing that bitwise flags had better support in Postgres. For now, bools are just easier to work with

New comment by retropragma in "JSX over the Wire"

retropragma — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:20:02 +0000

Delegate your thinking to HN comments at your own peril

New comment by retropragma in "JSX over the Wire"

retropragma — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:18:47 +0000

The content isn't difficult. People are just lazy

New comment by retropragma in "You might not need WebSockets"

retropragma — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:38:26 +0000

If you use a proper framework, you don't have to manage the socket lifecycle and it doesn't complicate your server.

New comment by retropragma in "Levels of configuration languages"

retropragma — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:36:35 +0000

Every time I work with XML data, I hate it. Just use JSONC imo.

New comment by retropragma in "Levels of configuration languages"

retropragma — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:34:36 +0000

As a TypeScript developer, my answer is to use unconfig [1]. Support for JSON, JavaScript, or best of all, TypeScript.

Or wire up your own utility function with bundle-require [2], another favorite of mine, for loading TS or JS config files.

[1]: https://github.com/antfu-collective/unconfig [2]: https://github.com/egoist/bundle-require

New comment by retropragma in "ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod"

retropragma — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 05:14:12 +0000

I find your last paragraph to be lacking. Would help if you elaborated more on the purported need for this "bridge" concept.