Hacker News: synack

New comment by synack in "Anthropic CEO reportedly worried new hires only care about money"

synack — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 06:09:02 +0000

I once saw a job candidate take a competing offer from Facebook because they had better snacks.

New comment by synack in "I stopped trusting USB-C cable labels and started testing them"

synack — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 03:50:48 +0000

I came up with a color code based on the wiring: Red for Power Only, Blue for USB 2.0, Green for USB 3 (the ones with the extra pairs connected). I use paint pens to mark every cable I come across with this code. Generally speaking, only the Green ones have special PD emarker chips.

It doesn't cover every possible configuration, but it's good enough for when I'm like "I need a USB cable" vs "I need a good USB cable"

I use this tester: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CF95VL2Y

New comment by synack in "AWS CloudFront Is Down"

synack — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 10:23:54 +0000

Jul 16 3:18 AM PDT We continue working to resolve the increased 5xx errors for CloudFront customers utilizing VPC Origins connectivity. Customers utilizing other origin types remain unaffected by this issue. Based on our investigation, we believe the root cause is related to a packet processing subsystem responsible for routing requests from CloudFront's edge locations to resources within customer VPCs. We continue to recommend that customers who are able to do so temporarily change their origin type to resolve the errors. We will provide another update by 4:15 AM PDT, or sooner if additional information becomes available.

Amazon EC2 C9g and C9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 now available

synack — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 05:26:49 +0000

Article URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/amazon-ec2-c9g-and-c9gd-instances-powered-by-aws-graviton5-processors-are-now-available/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48742606

Points: 2

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New comment by synack in "News about Raspberry Pi 6 and Microcontroller Development"

synack — Thu, 28 May 2026 23:33:10 +0000

They aren't actually shipping the new RP2350 silicon revision on Pico 2 boards yet. If you want the errata fixes, you've gotta source the chips and make your own boards.

New comment by synack in "Tracking Starbucks' 'widely recyclable' cups: none ended up at recycling"

synack — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:30:40 +0000

I toured a sorting facility in Seattle recently. They said the only really profitable output is aluminum, everything else costs more than virgin material.

New comment by synack in "Accelerando (2005)"

synack — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:36:41 +0000

Tell Claude that it’s a Culture Mind. Entertaining for a little while.

New comment by synack in "Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

synack — Fri, 08 May 2026 13:55:58 +0000

Sounds like an opportunity for the business school to do a seminar on forming an LLC and writing contracts.

New comment by synack in "Dirtyfrag: Universal Linux LPE"

synack — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:46:04 +0000

If your container has setuid binaries and these modules are loaded, yes.

New comment by synack in "I am building a cloud"

synack — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 10:12:12 +0000

Nevermind, I misread their HTTPS proxy documentation. Cloud is fine.

New comment by synack in "I am building a cloud"

synack — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 09:58:28 +0000

Have we already forgotten about the NSA's "SSL added and removed here! :)" slide that Snowden showed us?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6641378

New comment by synack in "College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work"

synack — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 03:18:22 +0000

I learned HTML/CSS from a book on a computer with no internet access. Seemed reasonable at the time but in hindsight was absolutely ridiculous.

New comment by synack in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

synack — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:42:36 +0000

imo, the real value of Ada/SPARK today is that it enforces a clear split between specification and implementation, which is exactly what your LLM needs.

You define the interface, types, pre/post conditions you want in .ads file, then let the agent loose writing the .adb body file. The language’s focus on readability means your agent has no problem reading and cross referencing specs. The compiler and proof tools verify the body implements the spec.

New comment by synack in "Ada, its design, and the language that built the languages"

synack — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 16:29:33 +0000

I’ve written some bit-banged serial drivers in Ada. It’s not exactly VHDL, but it rhymes.

https://github.com/JeremyGrosser/softdev/tree/master/src

New comment by synack in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

synack — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:14:13 +0000

Reads like AI. Not sure what OAuth/JWT has to do with Layer 3.

New comment by synack in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

synack — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:05:19 +0000

Are they considering all uses of window.history.pushState to be hijacking? If so, why not remove that function from Chrome?

New comment by synack in "Running out of disk space in production"

synack — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:18:25 +0000

mkfs.ext4 defaults to 5% reserved for root. -m 0 to turn it off.

New comment by synack in "Build web apps for smart glasses"

synack — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:33:11 +0000

I wasn't aware of these glasses, pretty cool. Not sure I'm ready to drop that much money on a pair with prescription lenses though.

Would be useful to have my multimeter display in my field of view when heads down debugging a circuit. There are a few bluetooth meters on the market, so I think this is doable?

Looking at the SDK, the fixed LVGL font is a bummer. Ideally I'd like to have a raw framebuffer to control, though I imagine this is difficult to do over bluetooth without blowing your power budget. Maybe you could have a custom indexed tilemap and push sprites around?

New comment by synack in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

synack — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:13:36 +0000

Yet Sourceforge has been putting ads on open source projects for decades.

New comment by synack in "Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance"

synack — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:01:24 +0000

Is the Linux scheduler aware of shared CPU cache hierarchies? Is there any way we could make the scheduler do better cache utilization rather than pinning processes to cores or offloading these decisions to vendor specific code?