Hacker News: whirlwin

New comment by whirlwin in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

whirlwin — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 10:22:18 +0000

IKEA is the new "fast fashion", but for furniture.

You buy something one day, and it starts to deteriorate and become janky after a year, and you'll have a buy a new one. All products have gone through spreadsheet cost optimizations.

It wasn't always like that. If you're lucky to get your hands on an old IKEA bookshelf (Billy), it's sturdy and will last forever.

New comment by whirlwin in ""That's not SOC 2 compliant""

whirlwin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:53:16 +0000

That's a good way to kill off motivated employees.

"We don't know why we're doing it - it's just mandatory".

New comment by whirlwin in ""That's not SOC 2 compliant""

whirlwin — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 06:51:04 +0000

Does there exist any tool to analyze PR feedback quality and usefulness?

I've been trying to explain to compliance employees that if the majority of PR reviews anyway is just "LGTM - Just merge" (I don't care), what's the actual value of PRs? It's just facade.

On a different note, we're looking into artifact attestations and admissions through Sigstore, which is solves many of the same challenges but through different means.

New comment by whirlwin in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

whirlwin — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:32:06 +0000

So bubblewrap is the community medicine to this issue. But isn't it funny that we're now trusting a single GH user (although allegedly a RH employee) for the supply chain security? Imagine bubblewrap itself being compromised.

Now you trust a single GH user rather than a company. Fair enough. I just think it's very paradoxical.

New comment by whirlwin in "Google copybara: moving code between repositories"

whirlwin — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 09:55:49 +0000

Does anyone know if it is useful for bidirectional sync between codeberg and GitHub?

New comment by whirlwin in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

whirlwin — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 10:38:48 +0000

In that case it sounds like the last waves of malicious reset attempts happened after the patch was put in place

New comment by whirlwin in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

whirlwin — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:35:51 +0000

I got a suspicious password reset request email today from Meta but it landed in my inbox. Luckily I have MFA and after checking audit logs inside IG upon logging in, I did not see anything suspicious.

New comment by whirlwin in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

whirlwin — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:20:45 +0000

The RCA and preventive measures was a pleasant read. I got a lot of respect for companies putting a lot of effort into incident reports like these. Makes them appear very professional rather than just blaming the cloud provider outright.

New comment by whirlwin in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

whirlwin — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:09:52 +0000

I've started experiencing them first time during Q1 this year up until now. Used to be pretty stable before that.

New comment by whirlwin in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

whirlwin — Wed, 06 May 2026 14:13:46 +0000

We just invested a lot migrating 300+ pipelines from Azure DevOps to GitHub Actions. What a bummer timing-wise. Anyone got an alternative to GitHub Actions?

New comment by whirlwin in "RedHat Product Security repo transferred to random GH owner (LobsterTrap)"

whirlwin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:05:36 +0000

Not long ago RH Product Security created a blog post around lola, their AI context package manager. Ref: https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2026/04/08/manage-ai-...

The article refers to their GH repo and that was all cherry and sunshine up until just recently, where it is redirected to https://github.com/LobsterTrap/lola.

No mention of it anywhere. "Did it get compromised?" was my initial thought. Still in the fog here.

RedHat Product Security repo transferred to random GH owner (LobsterTrap)

whirlwin — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 12:05:36 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/LobsterTrap/lola

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47933332

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

New comment by whirlwin in "GitHub Copilot EU data residency"

whirlwin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:45:54 +0000

MS is turning focus to compliance market when they cannot compete on agentic tooling capabilities

GitHub Copilot EU data residency

whirlwin — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 10:45:53 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/changelog/2026-04-13-copilot-data-residency-in-us-eu-and-fedramp-compliance-now-available/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47814828

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by whirlwin in "[dead]"

whirlwin — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 08:06:47 +0000

If you don't have ad-blocker, you will get redirected to betting/crypto broker sites

New comment by whirlwin in "OpenCode – Open source AI coding agent"

whirlwin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 18:18:58 +0000

Most of, if not every commit of claude code is now written by claude code itself without any human writing code, only promoting.

Government to enforce 1099 bike parking spaces at IKEA, Norway

whirlwin — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 14:42:42 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2034158957053276277

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47467499

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by whirlwin in "Our commitment to Windows quality"

whirlwin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 22:22:58 +0000

Windows is just a wonderful box of chocolate that keeps expanding. You never know what you get, all brilliant frontier tech innovations like Edge, Bing, the calculator, vertical taskbar, and now the highly intelligent Copilot, up there fighting with OpenCode, CC and others...!

Norwegian AI Championship

whirlwin — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 20:05:32 +0000

Article URL: https://ainm.no/en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47459904

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by whirlwin in "Nmap in the movies (2008)"

whirlwin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:06:19 +0000

For showing something "hacker-looking" in the screen, I think also tcpdump could be a good alternative, because nmap might be a bit slow...