Hacker News: rwestergren

New comment by rwestergren in "Running Claude Code dangerously (safely)"

rwestergren — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:29:29 +0000

I think VMs with snapshots would negate the need for Vagrant.

Proxying Flutter Traffic on Android with Claude

rwestergren — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 15:27:27 +0000

Article URL: https://randywestergren.com/vibe-hacking-proxying-flutter-traffic-on-android-with-claude/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46527472

Points: 1

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New comment by rwestergren in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

rwestergren — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 00:18:40 +0000

With increasingly aggressive usage limits (Claude weekly usage now), "agentic" style of token burning seems much less practical to me. Coming from Aider and trying tools like OpenCode, the "use models to discover the relevant files" etc pattern seems very token heavy and even wasteful - whereas with Aider you include relevant files up front and use your tokens for the real work.

New comment by rwestergren in "Gemini CLI tips and tricks for agentic coding"

rwestergren — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 17:20:04 +0000

Agreed. Alternatives seem too "agentic" for me, where Aider strikes the right balance of AI pair programming.

Analyzing VPC Flow Logs to Reduce Nat Gateway Costs

rwestergren — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 11:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://randywestergren.com/analyzing-vpc-flow-logs-to-reduce-nat-gateway-costs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878443

Points: 2

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New comment by rwestergren in "GitHub notification emails used to send malware"

rwestergren — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 00:35:08 +0000

One one hand, I can see the captcha is easy to fall for. On the other, nothing says "prove you aren't a machine" like "run this code that a machine could easily run."

New comment by rwestergren in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

rwestergren — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 02:11:57 +0000

If you have any sort of Experian bureau activity, you're at risk by this issue whether you manage your profile with this site or not

New comment by rwestergren in "It's still easy for anyone to become you at Experian"

rwestergren — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 02:06:59 +0000

Experian allows unfreezing via their site in the article. If someone can easily recreate your account, they can unfreeze it which makes it pretty useless.

New comment by rwestergren in "What's New in Python 3.12"

rwestergren — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 10:18:36 +0000

defaultdict doesn't seem to easily solve for the main topic of deeply nested values.

New comment by rwestergren in "Tracing HTTP Requests with tcpflow"

rwestergren — Sun, 13 Nov 2022 15:51:02 +0000

+1 for Fiddler, though it doesn't sound like the author was in a position to forward traffic to an HTTP proxy at the time in prod

New comment by rwestergren in "Reverse Engineering a Cat Feeder to Boost Productivity"

rwestergren — Sun, 09 Oct 2022 10:33:13 +0000

I was scratching my head on how he was capturing requests without mentioning a proxy cert, but then I saw the security note at the bottom.

  You'll see that the data for these products is sent in plaintext to and from their servers

The API seems to have a valid cert and is listening over HTTPS - strange that the app client uses plaintext.

  curl https://api.petkt.com/
  {"error":{"code":97,"msg":"App is out of date, please upgrade"}}

Simplified SSO with AWS Application Load Balancer and Azure AD OIDC

rwestergren — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 12:34:01 +0000

Article URL: https://randywestergren.com/simplified-sso-with-aws-application-load-balancer-and-azure-ad-oidc/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33120339

Points: 1

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Building Pymssql (FreeTDS) for Lambda

rwestergren — Sun, 20 Mar 2022 17:20:42 +0000

Article URL: https://randywestergren.com/building-pymssql-freetds-for-lambda/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30744527

Points: 2

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New comment by rwestergren in "CORS is not meant to secure an API endpoint"

rwestergren — Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:47:08 +0000

I find CORS is generally a good interview question for frontend or full stack engineers.

New comment by rwestergren in "Event-driven access to my home after a run"

rwestergren — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:57:30 +0000

The battery level isn't actually close to dying, in my case it just rapidly depletes from up to 40% when it's very cold. But that 40% remains intact seemingly with the screen off. Could be my phone also, but it has happened often enough that I wanted to solve it and thought this was an interesting approach.

For me, this was just a matter of convenience and not optimizing for most resilient or reliable solution. I do have backup plans for home entry.

New comment by rwestergren in "Event-driven access to my home after a run"

rwestergren — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 13:19:12 +0000

I shared this elsewhere but I could have expressed the initial problem a little clearer, which actually was "enter my home without unlocking my phone which causes my phone to die in the cold."

Unlocking the screen caused the battery to drop immediately - it still had network connectivity prior to that.

Event-driven access to my home after a run

rwestergren — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 12:50:13 +0000

Article URL: https://randywestergren.com/event-driven-access-to-my-home-after-a-run/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30257776

Points: 114

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New comment by rwestergren in "APKTool: A tool for reverse engineering Android APK files"

rwestergren — Mon, 17 Jan 2022 10:20:34 +0000

Back from 2015, bypassing an APK signature check: https://randywestergren.com/reverse-engineering-the-yik-yak-...

New comment by rwestergren in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2022)"

rwestergren — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 10:53:54 +0000

Marlette Funding | Multiple Engineering Roles | Full-time | Wilmington, DE / REMOTE

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The company is a fast-growing fintech that has been recognized numerous times as a best workplace. If you are energized by working in a fun organization where communication is open, everyone feels included, creativity is embraced, personal growth is encouraged, and you can make positive impact on the business, Marlette is the place for you.

Senior frontend engineer: https://jobs.lever.co/marlettefunding/54bfe4d1-1fa6-4172-a40...

All open engineering positions: https://jobs.lever.co/marlettefunding?department=Technology&...

Building pyodbc for Lambda's Python 3.9 Runtime

rwestergren — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 12:40:40 +0000

Article URL: https://randywestergren.com/building-pyodbc-for-lambdas-python-3-9-runtime/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29317097

Points: 1

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