Hacker News: riffic

New comment by riffic in "Show HN: Files.md – Open-source alternative to Obsidian"

riffic — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:58:20 +0000

that's still the case according to SSL Labs:

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=app.files.md

Research shows a clear and communicated AI stance acts as a powerful amplifier

riffic — Tue, 19 May 2026 02:52:26 +0000

Article URL: https://dora.dev/capabilities/clear-and-communicated-ai-stance/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48188638

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by riffic in "Have a Coherent AI Policy"

riffic — Fri, 15 May 2026 00:31:55 +0000

DORA.dev (DevOps Research And Assessment) also point to having a clearly communicated stance concerning AI to be a foundational capability.

https://dora.dev/capabilities/clear-and-communicated-ai-stan...

New comment by riffic in "Driver accused of DUI tracks missing laptop to Illinois State trooper's house"

riffic — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:57:08 +0000

there's a pretty well known saying about all cops and it's never been proven wrong.

New comment by riffic in "Stop MitM on the first SSH connection, on any VPS or cloud provider"

riffic — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:26:49 +0000

zero touch prod might be something folks should keep as a north star - SSH should be break glass and a last resort if possible.

https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon19emea/presentation/...

New comment by riffic in "Apple, Intel have reached preliminary chip-making deal"

riffic — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:11:55 +0000

another triumph for x86

New comment by riffic in "From Supabase to Clerk to Better Auth"

riffic — Thu, 07 May 2026 12:52:38 +0000

"Better Auth" apparently has nothing to do with "Better Stack" which runs a product called "Better Uptime" and focuses on monitoring or incident response I guess, right?

New comment by riffic in "At Protocol: Building the Social Internet"

riffic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:38:28 +0000

it seems the parent comment isn't referring directly to encryption / TLS, but building everything on top of HTTP / HTTPS, which seems to be the default abstraction these days to build on top of.

Wikipedia: Articles for Deletion/GitHub (2008)

riffic — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 03:14:00 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/GitHub

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47943795

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by riffic in "Networking changes coming in macOS 27"

riffic — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:50:11 +0000

> people on private home networks shouldn't be too worried about

philosophically I would beg to differ about any premise assuming we can trust the castle and moat model. Even on home networks.

New comment by riffic in "Cybersecurity looks like proof of work now"

riffic — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:28:19 +0000

those hacking concerns are just as valid inside as well as outside the firewall.

List of defunct social networking services

riffic — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:41:05 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_networking_services

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47708727

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by riffic in "EFF is leaving X"

riffic — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:40:34 +0000

Coming soon, on a long enough timeline:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_defunct_social_network...

New comment by riffic in "EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

riffic — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:39:52 +0000

if this can implode the crooked "web hosting industry" that surrounds the lamp / wordpress ecosystem the better.

New comment by riffic in "Eclipse GlassFish: This Isn't Your Father's GlassFish"

riffic — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:46:53 +0000

obviously you're supposed to know what everything is ahead of time on orange site.

Zombie Netscape Won't Die

riffic — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:24:06 +0000

Article URL: https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/zombie-netscape-wont-die/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47566897

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by riffic in "Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle"

riffic — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 20:15:43 +0000

AOL Media LLC

more info here: https://hackaday.com/2026/01/27/zombie-netscape-wont-die/

Topsy (Elephant)

riffic — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:29:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topsy_(elephant)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47512017

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

New comment by riffic in "The math that explains why bell curves are everywhere"

riffic — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:53:40 +0000

You're doing this multiple times, but it's can only mean "It Is" or "It Has".

New comment by riffic in "Federal Cyber Experts Called Microsoft's Cloud "A Pile of Shit", yet Approved It"

riffic — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 18:25:37 +0000

all clouds are.