Hacker News: snaveen

New comment by snaveen in "An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement"

snaveen — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:23:23 +0000

This post is AI generated, which loses the tool's authenticity.

New comment by snaveen in "How do you use Vim in the era of AI?"

snaveen — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:50:38 +0000

There are few people.

Attacking and Securing eBPF Maps [video]

snaveen — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 13:48:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV_-XOSRlGs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48686630

Points: 4

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New comment by snaveen in "Making Your eBPF Agents Unkillable"

snaveen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:08:14 +0000

Cool! If you are interested, you could also check out our blog at https://bomfather.dev/blog/

Making Your eBPF Agents Unkillable

snaveen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:28:40 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMLBZud1H6I

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48671877

Points: 7

# Comments: 3

Bpf_get_fsverity_digest: Pinning binaries from a BPF LSM hook

snaveen — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:59:26 +0000

Article URL: https://bomfather.dev/blog/bpf_get_fsverity_digest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48660997

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Protecting Against eBPF Rootkits

snaveen — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:03:25 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.bomfather.dev/p/protecting-against-ebpf-rootkits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48586506

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Sandboxing Isn't the Solution

snaveen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:09:47 +0000

Article URL: https://bomfather.dev/blog/sandboxing-isnt-the-solution/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47508403

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Best way to use Vim with AI for tab completion only (no agentic coding)?

snaveen — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 19:10:39 +0000

I want to keep using Vim as my primary editor, but add AI in a minimal, controlled way:

Inline/tab completion : ghost text that I accept with Tab, nothing autonomous. No file editing, no PR creation, no "agent" doing things on my behalf.

A way to ask questions: something like a chat buffer or a command where I can ask about code, get explanations, etc. Again, I'm in control; it only acts when I explicitly ask.

I've looked at copilot.vim + CopilotChat.nvim, Supermaven, and minuet-ai.nvim.

Curious what others are actually running day-to-day. A few specific things I'm wondering:

Is Supermaven the fastest option for ghost-text completion right now?

Is there anything that gives Cursor-style Tab (next-edit prediction) without using the Cursor itself?

Running Neovim on Linux.

Not interested in Copilot Workspace, Codex CLI, or anything that touches my filesystem without my confirmation.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47444364

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

We Secure Builds With fs-verity

snaveen — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:30:55 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.bomfather.dev/p/how-we-secure-builds-with-fs-verity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47041759

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by snaveen in "Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter)"

snaveen — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 19:22:59 +0000

Looks like they only test in `prod`. Probably they used grok to generate the tests code ;)

When LLVM's Optimizer Breaks Your eBPF Program

snaveen — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:32:54 +0000

Article URL: https://taskstruct.substack.com/p/when-llvms-optimizer-breaks-your

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45810839

Points: 5

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Show HN: Minefield – Fast SBOM Management, 10k Packages Cached in 30s

snaveen — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 20:26:56 +0000

Hi HN! I’m Naveen, and I’d like to introduce Minefield, an open-source tool designed to simplify managing software bills of materials (SBOM) and identifying vulnerabilities in dependencies. It’s built to handle large-scale projects with speed and efficiency.

Managing thousands of dependencies and ensuring they are vulnerability-free is daunting, especially in large software projects. Minefield tackles this challenge by providing fast, scalable SBOM management and dependency tracking.

Key Features:

•Caching Speed: Caches 10,000 SBOM packages’ transitive dependents in just 30 seconds.

•Optimized Queries: Runs dependency and circular dependency queries in O(1) time using Roaring Bitmaps.

•Highly Scalable: Designed to handle massive amounts of data efficiently with near-instant query times.

Minefield stores relationship data using a direct node-to-node graph model and Roaring Bitmaps, ensuring minimal storage overhead and ultra-fast query speeds. This approach allows it to manage massive datasets efficiently without complex node-edge structures.

You can check out the project here: https://github.com/bitbomdev/minefield.

Read the project paper here for more technical details: https://github.com/bitbomdev/minefield/blob/main/docs/bitbom...

I’d love to hear your feedback and ideas on how to improve Minefield! Feel free to open issues, submit PRs, or just leave a comment.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41469476

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by snaveen in "Ask HN: Life Changing Books?"

snaveen — Sat, 18 Dec 2021 17:30:33 +0000

A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Secret-Whispers-those-living/...

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735211299/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

https://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happin...

New comment by snaveen in "Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?"

snaveen — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:09:59 +0000

These projects are under https://github.com/ossf which is part of Linux foundation.

New comment by snaveen in "Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?"

snaveen — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 11:08:20 +0000

I am maintainer of couple of OSS projects https://github.com/ossf/scorecard https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis

These projects help with repository best practices and does some level of npm package analysis based on rules.

New comment by snaveen in "Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program"

snaveen — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:50:15 +0000

I have got my kids hooked on vim https://vim-adventures.com/

New comment by snaveen in "Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program"

snaveen — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 22:48:42 +0000

I have 2 kids 14 and 12. My 14 year old has started solving medium level leetcode problems (which I am happy about).

Talk to them often about code, technology etc.One thing that helped IMHO spending a lot of time in solving math problems (AOPS) , which made think through hard problems and had to grind through solutions which took time. My kids love Big Bang Theory and anything that is geeky. I talk to them about the latest things that are happening in tech like the recent hack and the malware.

I recently read this book https://www.amazon.com/But-How-Know-Principles-Computers-ebo... and sat and drew with my kids and,or , xor and nand gates.Building Mindcraft MOD can be another fun project.

Be patient and it helps a lot IMO.

Good luck :)

New comment by snaveen in "Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]"

snaveen — Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:01:20 +0000

Thanks for the mentioning this!

New comment by snaveen in "Reading a book a week for your career"

snaveen — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 22:45:58 +0000

I read 1 to 1.5 books a week. I have been reading for sometime now.My problem is that my friends don’t read much.

Everyone wants to read but don’t enjoy reading as much.

I have a hard time finding people with similar habits.

Most of my friends work on tech industry and is aware of benefits.