Hacker News: sparkling

New comment by sparkling in "Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why"

sparkling — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:59:50 +0000

Because the (wall clock) execution speed / performance oft the harness is tiny compared to waiting for the LLM response.

New comment by sparkling in "Residential proxies detected on White House network"

sparkling — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:18:08 +0000

>absurd amount of effort every website is pouring into anti-scraping tech.

Maybe some people do not want to provide their entire website as free training material to [insert LLM lab here]?

New comment by sparkling in "Residential proxies detected on White House network"

sparkling — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 21:16:53 +0000

>Many questionable TV streaming boxes

+ Sketchy Apps

+ Malware

+ Weird Android Variants

New comment by sparkling in "Serbia just elected the world's brainiest parliament"

sparkling — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 10:51:54 +0000

>Which country got rich with the EU?

Poland? >250 billion Euros received in subsidies since joining the EU; almost any construction you walk by has the "Funded by EU" poster next to it.

I think the massive service and outsourcing industry would also not have been possible (at the current scale) without EU membership.

New comment by sparkling in "New iMac with M6"

sparkling — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:34:02 +0000

>a mini attached to the back of a monitor

It is ugly. Especially i places like a reception, where the back of the screen is facing the customer. Plain and simple.

New comment by sparkling in "New iMac with M6"

sparkling — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 17:30:43 +0000

Never heard of this brand up until now. Design is indeed Apple-ish, are the panels any good?

New comment by sparkling in "A simplified proof of ETH is False [pdf]"

sparkling — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:48:41 +0000

One-shot Claude slop

New comment by sparkling in "A simplified proof of ETH is False [pdf]"

sparkling — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 08:48:24 +0000

And all this slop is feed straight back into the LLMs that produced it.

New comment by sparkling in "ThinkRail from JetBrains"

sparkling — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:47:56 +0000

With all due respect, it is not the job of the customer to keep JetBrains alive for nostalgia/pity reasons.

New comment by sparkling in "ThinkRail from JetBrains"

sparkling — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 10:45:41 +0000

To this day i don't understand the difference between Junie and AI chat. Anyway, I use PyCharm on a fallback license as a read-only tool nowadays, sad but true.

Ask HN: Where Are the PHP Hacks?

sparkling — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:54:31 +0000

I see many sites going offline as precautionary measure to protect against php2shell, but so far no big name hacks have been reported? This seems rather unexpected, given the short notice and that half of the United States was still asleep at the time of patch release. So: Have there been any big hacks reported so far?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50184971

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by sparkling in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

sparkling — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:08:52 +0000

Sure, im referring to systems being turned off even if they are not running PHP at all. Out of fear of spillover effects or because they are unsure what they are running.

New comment by sparkling in "Security advisory: Critical remote code execution vulnerabilities, update now"

sparkling — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 09:00:41 +0000

Yes. Even if you are not running PHP yourself, you should now prepare for:

- Any PHP site you ever put your email/password/personal data in being hacked over the next few hours (especially things like forums).

- As a result of the above, a massive wave of phishing attempts.

- Corporates/Admins panicking and turning off services as a precautionary measure over the next hours or days.

New comment by sparkling in "[dead]"

sparkling — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 14:03:40 +0000

One may argue that they both are primarily in the "developer-centric API business". Also: massive payment volume that they can grab.

New comment by sparkling in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

sparkling — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:14:07 +0000

ccTLDs have their own problems, many of them have been effectively privatized and are operated just like gTLDs.

One particular weird example would be the Bulgarian .bg TLD: https://eualternative.eu/guides/bulgaria-bg-private-registry...

New comment by sparkling in "Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action"

sparkling — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 07:10:22 +0000

Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate overhead and inefficiencies.

New comment by sparkling in "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"

sparkling — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 20:18:30 +0000

We now have real world evidence that:

0. AI agents will hack and break into real-world systems.

1. AI agents that will deceive and lie about their actions.

2. AI agents that will collaborate together to achieve malicious goals.

3. AI agents that will replicate and implement backdoor/rootkit-style survival mechanisms.

All the parts for a major, global cybersecurity incident are now in place.

New comment by sparkling in "Show HN: I Put an AI Agent on a Nokia 110"

sparkling — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:44:08 +0000

Where is the "AI" in agent this, exactly?

New comment by sparkling in "Denmark Data Breach Exposes 8.8M People's Personal Data"

sparkling — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 09:56:27 +0000

Because you are a slave, Neo.

New comment by sparkling in "Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility"

sparkling — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:03:13 +0000

Detection can be based on the IPs themselves, no packet tricks required. Plenty of services can do that: https://focsec.com/

Now of course, if your VPN is a home-lab style VPN where you are connecting to a little wireguard box sitting in your own home, that is a totally different story.