Hacker News: rl1987

New comment by rl1987 in "Ask HN: Is Zuckerberg just a „one-hit-wonder"?"

rl1987 — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:36:42 +0000

He does run some strange "capitalist philanthropy" thing with his wife: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chan_Zuckerberg_Initiative

New comment by rl1987 in "Ask HN: Why isn't the NSA categorized as an APT?"

rl1987 — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 16:33:07 +0000

Because it's not wrong when "we" (i.e. those naming who counts as APT) are doing it.

New comment by rl1987 in "The Gervais Principle, or the Office According to “The Office” (2009)"

rl1987 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 17:00:59 +0000

That sounds more like "peace through superior firepower" rather than "war is peace".

New comment by rl1987 in "Palantir, Meta, OpenAI Execs Appointed Lieutenant Colonels in US Army (2025)"

rl1987 — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 15:22:24 +0000

It got to the point that now there is a "SSecretary" of War.

Advanced network traffic interception techniques with mitmproxy

rl1987 — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 10:36:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.trickster.dev/post/advanced-network-traffic-interception-techniques-with-mitmproxy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46132877

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rl1987 in "Don't obsess with security and privacy unless they are your core business"

rl1987 — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 02:26:24 +0000

Security is like insurance - it is something you kind-of don't need until something bad happens and when it does, you wish you had it.

New comment by rl1987 in "Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'"

rl1987 — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 02:31:45 +0000

The strongest few did. The likes of pets.com did not.

Scraping Next.js web sites in 2025

rl1987 — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 12:25:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.trickster.dev/post/scraping-nextjs-web-sites-in-2025/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45771266

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rl1987 in "Journalists turn in access badges, exit Pentagon rather than agreeing new rules"

rl1987 — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 09:16:11 +0000

People being grabbed off the streets and transported to prison in unrelated country is what you voted for?

New comment by rl1987 in "N8n added native persistent storage with DataTables"

rl1987 — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 02:36:47 +0000

You can do arbitrary REST API calls from n8n, which greatly increases the integrability surface.

New comment by rl1987 in "Buyers of Radio Shack, Pier 1 brands accused of running $112M Ponzi scheme"

rl1987 — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 02:06:05 +0000

Decamillionaire?

New comment by rl1987 in "The FCC's 15-Year-Old Flickr Account Appears to Have Been Deleted"

rl1987 — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 14:36:30 +0000

People in suits looking important.

See:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240927004237/https://www.flick...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230220184613/https://www.flick...

Setting up rooted Android emulator with Frida and mitmproxy

rl1987 — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 08:50:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.trickster.dev/post/setting-up-rooted-android-emulator-with-frida-and-mitmproxy/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45220102

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by rl1987 in "Ask HN: What are your favorite obscure but brilliant C/C++ libraries?"

rl1987 — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 14:08:32 +0000

Libpostal - street address parsing and normalisation library that relies on downloadable NLP model.

https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal

New comment by rl1987 in "Ask HN: What is Lex Fridman's association with MIT?"

rl1987 — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 12:17:09 +0000

See: https://old.reddit.com/r/mit/comments/1m2ewe5/what_standing_...

TL;DR: He is officially listed on MIT site as research scientist, has research published in association with MIT and also did some teaching. However, he does not have any prominence in campus beyond being a media personality and his connection to MIT, while real, is generally considered to be oversold for what it is. Furthermore, Fridman's alma mater is Drexel, not MIT.

New comment by rl1987 in "Mira Murati’s AI startup Thinking Machines valued at $12B in early-stage funding"

rl1987 — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 10:02:22 +0000

Exactly the point they are making?

New comment by rl1987 in "Reading Neuromancer for the first time in 2025"

rl1987 — Sun, 13 Jul 2025 17:55:09 +0000

The way I see it, works like Tetsuo is Japanese extreme cyberpunk - niche-within-a-niche kind of thing.

New comment by rl1987 in "Microsoft to Cut 9k Workers in Second Wave of Major Layoffs"

rl1987 — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:42:43 +0000

Twitter layoffs of 2022 might have been the Lehman Brothers moment that marked the end of programming gold rush.

New comment by rl1987 in "Ask HN: Laid-off devs who left tech?"

rl1987 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:36:46 +0000

Some quick examples:

Bosch: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/12/11/business/bosch-germany-jo...

Panasonic: https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/panasonic-layoffs-con...

SAP: https://www.thestack.technology/sap-layoffs-cost-3-billion-l...

Cisco: https://www.brusselstimes.com/1328320/us-company-cisco-to-sh...

Telia: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/swedens-telia...

Sure, numbers are lower, but tech downturn is a global thing.

New comment by rl1987 in "Ask HN: Laid-off devs who left tech?"

rl1987 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:00:19 +0000

Layoffs certainly do happen outside US and ZIRP was not uniquely American thing.