Hacker News: valeriozen

New comment by valeriozen in "Claude Desktop spins up a VM without no way of stopping it"

valeriozen — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:59:50 +0000

the vm makes sense for cowork but no off switch is weird. a visible sandbox on/off toggle would do more for trust than any safety blogpost imo

New comment by valeriozen in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

valeriozen — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:05:09 +0000

Yea, its fundamentally an issue of asymmetric economics.

Running AI scanners internally costs money, dev time, and management buy in to actually fix the mountain of tech debt the scanners uncover. As you said there is no incentive for that

But for bad actors the cost of pointing an LLM at an exposed endpoint or reverse engineered binary has dropped to near zero. The attackers tooling just got exponentially cheaper and faster, while the enterprise defenders budget remained at zero.

New comment by valeriozen in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

valeriozen — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 20:27:52 +0000

The AWS analogy breaks down because AWS doesn't encourage customers to pool their S3 buckets into a nationwide searchable index.

Flock operates a federated network. If you drive past an unmarked camera, you have absolutely no way of knowing which specific HOA or town leased it so how are you realistically supposed to know who the "data controller" is to send your ccpa or deletion request to?

Show HN: Zenovay, Web analytics with performance monitoring and revenue insights

valeriozen — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:16:31 +0000

We spent much time trying to figure out our revenue sources with GA4 which feel built more for enterprise teams. As founders we just wanted one place to see real traffic without bot traffic, visual heatmaps for user behavior and how our code deployments affect our website.

We ended up building Zenovay as an “all in one” web analytic tool. It is one script that does not kill your web vitals but still gives you everything from session replays to Stripe, Google search console and Github integrations

When you click the link for this post you will come to a dashboard that we made public for you guys. We do this because we do not have a live demo on the homepage. Things like session recordings, error tracking, revenue and AI insights are hidden on this shared dashboard for privacy reasons.

If you want to know more about the product just write me in the comments or check our landing page zenovay.com but as mentioned there is NO demo on the landing page. If you prefer moving pictures we also have our “marketing” video here: https://youtu.be/aX0uejUJSSM?si=UH25HWEgTi97XmKw

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New comment by valeriozen in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

valeriozen — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 21:15:58 +0000

We are seeing the dark side of "Security as a Service". When Microsoft simplifies the signing pipeline (like with Trusted Signing), they also centralize the point of failure. The fact that a FOSS pillar like VeraCrypt can be sidelined due to what looks like an automated account flagging issue with no path to human arbitration shows that the current system is too fragile for critical infrastructure. Secure Boot is a great security feature, but it shouldnt be used as a tool for vendor lock in through administrative incompetence

New comment by valeriozen in "Show HN: Brutalist Concrete Laptop Stand (2024)"

valeriozen — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 16:12:09 +0000

love the brutalist vibe of this. concrete is such an underrated material for desk setups. It looks way more premium than the plastic xD