<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: time4tea</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=time4tea</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2026 05:55:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=time4tea" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "We benchmarked Google Cloud's $512 VM – the speed wasn't the interesting part"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ax102-u<p>People seem to set their money on fire?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:13:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373968</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373968</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48373968</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Well, my point was that maybe it actually isnt "to get more people to give to charity", maybe its actually something else.<p>Its actually very easy to give £5/month direct to a charity. Takes about 2 minutes, just gotta do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 13:42:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160207</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48160207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "SQL patterns I use to catch transaction fraud"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ive always suspected that this is all of a tax dodge, a money spinner, and a pr exercise "we gave xxx to charity" - no, your customers did.<p>Just set up a direct debit to your favourite charity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 08:43:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158207</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158207</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48158207</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Should I Run Plain Docker Compose in Production in 2026?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yup, this works so nice.<p>Using traefik or caddy as proxy.<p>Docker context for remote access - over Internet or vpn, whatever.<p>Swarm-cronjob for scheduled things.<p>Labels for things that need to run in particular places.<p>So easy.<p>Personally, k8s is fine, but its an abstraction for building a service architecture, not the thing an end user (developer) should ever use. If you are in a big company and you are using helm or k8s yaml files to roll things out, your infra or platform teams have missed something out.. building the platform!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2026 18:51:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026817</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026817</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48026817</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "The Death of Scrum – Built for a slower world, performed by those who left"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Website was too long.<p>ScrumMaster - a qualification you cannot fail. (Pls pay fee)<p>Ultimately big company look for things to help them sort their terrible product and software processes.<p>The whole point of agile, its that you don't know!<p>If you are SaFE, or 4 week sprints.. you are in management imposed bs.<p>Your company is a about to be eaten.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 19:31:54 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000509</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000509</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48000509</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Securing the Git push pipeline: Responding to a critical remote code execution"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, sure.<p>But what about allowing user inputs in trusted fields,<p>Or allowing switching environments per request, on inputs from users<p>Or allowing requests in a user context to access storage from another<p>Or storing everything in plaintext on a node that everything can access<p>Or not validating user inputs<p>Or...<p>Its not a success story.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 19:44:35 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939576</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939576</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939576</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "What async promised and what it delivered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah yeah, you are right. It was easy to miss, as it was ~30 words in a massive article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 20:22:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904269</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904269</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47904269</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Jumping into cold water can stop your heart"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Float to Live<p><a href="https://rnli.org/safety/know-the-risks/cold-water-shock" rel="nofollow">https://rnli.org/safety/know-the-risks/cold-water-shock</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:35:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903925</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903925</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903925</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "What async promised and what it delivered"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No mention of JVM.. which is a bit odd as recently is kinda solved this problem. Sure, not all use cases, but a lot.<p>It uses N:M threading model - where N virtual threads are mapped to M system threads and its all hidden away from you.<p>All the other languages just leak their abstractions to you, java quietly doesn't.<p>Sure, java is kinda ugly language, you can use a different JVM language, all good.<p>Don't get me wrong, love python, rust, dart etc, but JVM is nice for this.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:29:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903876</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903876</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903876</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Discret 11, the French TV encryption of the 80s (2020)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Super interesting article.<p>Didn't operate for long? 1984-1995 - its long enough. Still remember seeing those scrambled programs in France.<p>At the time in UK, lets say 87-92,  the concept of paid tv over the air was incredible. Satellite existed, but wasn't very prevalent.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:01:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903679</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903679</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47903679</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "98% of all recent environmental claims can be categorized as "greenwashing""]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Carbon offsetting is a nonsense.<p>Any company that uses it, is doing nothing other than buying a grant to pollute.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:12:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875365</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875365</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47875365</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So hard to read that article, with all the pop ups, scroll hijacks, and back button grabbing (soon to be illegal)<p>Why do they try to hide actual content with hateful tech?<p>Anyhow, no way I would give <i>that</i> company money.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2026 18:55:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826643</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826643</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47826643</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Tell HN: GitHub Apps – Private key is not private"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hmm, not sure - the entire point of this sort of thing is that nobody should ever have your private key material. Whether they say they discard it is immaterial, they <i>have</i> had it, so they could use it, and then as far as everyone is concerned, they <i>are</i> you.<p>Because the key is sent via the web, anyone in the way can see it. In lots of companies, trusts are manipulated so that the content is visible to intermediate proxies.<p>With a private key that has been given to you by somebody else, it is possible to repudiate any transaction that was made with the key. Its not so much as they could skip any security - its that if they have the key, they don't have to.<p>keys are protection from anyone, and an audit trail isn't useful when its possible to forge/repudiate literally anything.<p>imagine if your card pin was also written down in the card factory - you'd be suspicious that anyone can withdraw money from your account - and the bank would say 'ah but only you know it'. In fact this did happen - the bank was only issuing 3 different pin numbers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 13:22:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815717</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815717</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47815717</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Tell HN: GitHub Apps – Private key is not private"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>When you create an app in GitHub - you are required to create a private key so that you can sign requests on behalf of your app.<p>Sounds reasonable.<p>However... to create the private key, they require you to <i>download</i> the private key from them. Which means they have it. So ANY APP on GitHub can be impersonated by GitHub as they have the key material for every app... so what is the point?<p>Am I losing my mind?<p>edit: i can't edit the link - it should be <a href="https://github.com/settings/apps" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/settings/apps</a></p>
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<p>Points: 2</p>
<p># Comments: 4</p>
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<p>See also 2600Hz...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:25:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813598</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813598</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813598</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I definitely have not had that experience, although use FF for personal, various work, and various educational places.<p>None of those have <i>required</i> me to install a particular extension..<p>Of course thats not to deny your experience!<p>The only time profiles ever come into it, for me, is using web driver, playwright, or whatever.<p>I guess maybe the usage  stats dont support making the profile selector better.<p>But also, maybe its a thing they would accept a change for?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:01:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796302</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796302</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47796302</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Mozilla Thunderbolt"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Firefox is pretty cool. Use it every day.<p>Blocks ads
Multi account containers
Dev tools very good<p>I never notice that it is in any way slow, except for those sites that need infinity cpu on any browser, like jira.<p>What specifically is the issue? To my mind it quietly just gets on with things.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2026 16:05:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795426</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795426</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47795426</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "I just want simple S3"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Garage is quite nice, for the cases I've tried so far. I didnt find it heavyweight.<p>Tres bon!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:48:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784288</link><dc:creator>time4tea</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784288</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47784288</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by time4tea in "Saying goodbye to Agile"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Spec driven ddevelopment.. ahh yes, because the formal methods era of computer programming was so quick and successful!<p>Let me find my:
Requirements Specification
Requirements Analysis
...<p>The circle will turn once again when people re-realise that by tue time you've written what should happen in enough detail, you've written the software, and English isn't that great at avoiding ambiguity.</p>
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