<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: schrodinger</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=schrodinger</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 03:51:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=schrodinger" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by schrodinger in "I found 10k GitHub repositories distributing Trojan malware"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wonder if you could run your password manager in an isolated sandbox that couldn’t provide the secret behind the TOTP, only the current value.</p>
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<p>That’s a good point.<p>Maybe a good compromise is to use 1pw for most TOTP but keep your gmail / iCloud and a few others in an iPhone only app?<p>Gmail is what scares me the most. It’s basically keys to the kingdom.</p>
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<p>Idk if this is intentional or just part of an innocent site that’s unwittingly hosting these but I just got a “we’re verifying your browser” page, as if _I’m_ the suspicious one. Nice social engineering.</p>
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<p>IYKYK</p>
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<p>Is there any chance you made a typo in this comment? I'm not sure why your manager being long-term would result in less frequent one-on-ones...</p>
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<p>I don't understand — I use AI to write email particularly _because_ I care about the recipient, and am confident the resulting email will more eloquently and accurately express my feelings. I'll also often edit it afterwards to ensure it's in my voice.
Regardless, I don't think it's fair to presume that my boss doesn't case because an LLM generated the email.<p>^ This was written 100% by hand. Let's have Claude proofread it and make any suggestions:<p>I'd argue the opposite — I reach for AI because I care about the recipient. It helps me express my thoughts more precisely and eloquently than I might off the cuff, and I'll often edit the result to make sure it sounds like me.<p>Presuming that an LLM-assisted email signals indifference seems like a category error. The care is in what you're trying to communicate, not which tool you used to get there.
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<p>Single inline backticks like `this` aren't recognized (although still useful in my opinion, they just don't change the rendering).<p>Triple backticks also aren't recognized. However, if you indent by I believe 4 spaces, it formats it in a fixed width font presuming it's code.<p>Let's try (4 spaces):<p><pre><code>    func main() {
        fmt.Println("Hello, HN!")
    }
</code></pre>
None for comparison:<p>func main() {
    fmt.Println("Hello, HN!")
}</p>
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<p>As someone who's been a hiring manager for around 7 years, I agree with you, but note that the people who screen resumés before they even _get to you_ very well may be looking for those references.<p>For my own resumé, I include the stack used at each job which I feel strikes a fair balance.</p>
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<p>Same.<p>If it's something like "Refactored the apartment list service improving  P99 Latency from 2s to 180ms", it definitely boosts the resumé in my mind. A good engineer would be measuring their impact and likely have numbers like that off the top of their head.<p>But if it's like "Increased revenue by $18.7M by reducing time-to-first-interaction latency from 2.3s to 117ms, increasing conversion by 47% and LTV by 28%," with the same fidelity on each bullet, I'm very skeptical.<p>--<p>I don't summarily reject AI-written resumés to be clear, as honestly, it's basically a necessity at this point to be competitive with others; it'd be putting yourself at a severe disadvantage on pure principles in a way that has no real positive net effect on society. Even if you disagree with AI resumé screeners, you're only hurting yourself — especially at a time that has the largest impact on your compensation (i.e. negotiating salary at job start is one of the most valuable ways to spend your time since it will pay you back every paycheck).<p>Though I _do_ tend to question resumés that look like they were written almost entirely by an LLM without the candidate providing significant context and refinement.</p>
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<p>This sounds correct. When I implemented push notifications for an iPhone application, I remainder needing to obtain a store a separate token for each device a user has, and subscribing to a feed of revoked delivery tokens. Seemed like an interesting design intended to facilitate E2E encryption for push notifications.</p>
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<p>How's it work? Embed tokens and use euclidean distance or something?</p>
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<p>Depending on where you live it may not really be relatable to                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     you, but living in NYC -- there are people that will intentionally jay walk on a green light and even _stare you down_ knowing that you will stop and let them pass.<p>People jay walk when there's no traffic all the time, that's totally fine. This is a totally different act of passive aggression.</p>
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<p>It's easy to get caught up in your own hype when you're surrounded entirely by people who always tell you what you want to hear.</p>
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<p>I’ve recently begun using my personal domain as my primary email address, with it forwarding to gmail so I can “get out” easily if I ever had a reason. That said, I’ve found Gmail’s service great, their spam filtering highly effective, (although I haven’t surveyed the competition lately so it’s possible their huge advantage no longer exists) and their features pretty user-friendly (eg the one-click unsubscribe as well as a page to view all your subs in one place). I have never felt like they _abused_ the immense amount of data they have about me nor used it for “evil” purposes; only to profit on relevant ads that are at least clearly marked and unobtrusive. I don’t like that they have so much data on me, but I’ve felt like they’ve been transparent about it, so it’s been on me for making a decision eyes wide open. As opposed to Meta and the shady shit they’ve been caught doing...<p>That said, I’m open-minded and obviously thinking about this given moving to my own domain.<p>What’s the evil behavior you’ve experienced? I’m down to move off if I’m oblivious to something…</p>
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<p>I don't think that ads _have_ to be evil.<p>When I look at Google, I see a company that is fully funded by ads, but provides me a number of highly useful services that haven't really degraded over 20 years. Yes, the number of search results that are ads grew over the years, but by and large, Google search and Gmail are tools that serve rather benevolently. And if you're about to disagree with this ask yourself if you're using Gmail, and why?<p>Then I look at Meta or X, and I see a cesspool of content that's driven families apart and created massive societal divides.<p>It makes me think that Ads aren't the root of the problem, though maybe a "necessary but not sufficient" component.</p>
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<p>FYI -- Because of this, Apple made a feature where if you click the power button 5 times, your phone goes into "needs the passcode to unlock" mode.<p>Whenever I'm approaching a border crossing (e.g. in an airport), I'm sure to discreetly click power 5 times. You also get haptic feedback on the 5th click so you can be sure it worked even from within your pocket.</p>
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<p>Writing the code has never been the hard part for the vast majority of businesses. It's become an order of magnitude cheaper, and that WILL have effects. Businesses that are selling crud apps will falter.<p>But your hypothetical manager who needs employee scheduling software isn't paying for the coding, they're paying for someone to _figure out_ their exact needs, and with a UI that fits their preference, ready to go in no time.<p>I've thought a lot about this and I don't think it'll be the death of SaaS. I don't think it's the death of a software engineer either — but a major transformation of the role and the death if your career _if you do not adapt_, and fast.<p>Agentic coding makes software cheap, and will commoditize a large swath of SaaS that exists primarily because software used to be expensive to build and maintain. Low-value SaaS dies. High-value SaaS survives based on domain expertise, integrations, and distribution. Regulations adapt. Internal tools proliferate.</p>
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<p>Write it in Go!</p>
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<p>What a nice thought :)</p>
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<p>I do—all the time. Why not?<p>I also use en dashes when referring to number ranges, e.g., 1–9</p>
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