Hacker News: wky

New comment by wky in "Ruby vs. Java vs. TypeScript: my experience on building a Cowork DOCX plugin"

wky — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:35:54 +0000

Golang has the golang.org/x packages, which avoids too much stdlib bloat while still providing the niceties of “pre-vetted” packages that don’t pull in a massive dependency tree.

New comment by wky in "Canvas is down as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data"

wky — Thu, 07 May 2026 22:31:05 +0000

It's possible that Instructure's servers got compromised:

dig canvas.ucdavis.edu

    [...]
    
    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    canvas.ucdavis.edu. 1974 IN CNAME ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com.
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.125
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.103
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.15
    ucdavis-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.18

dig canvas.duke.edu

    ;; ANSWER SECTION:
    canvas.duke.edu. 300 IN CNAME duke-vanity.instructure.com.
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.125
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.18
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.103
    duke-vanity.instructure.com. 60 IN A 18.173.121.15

Nationwide security breach involving Canvas

wky — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:25:10 +0000

Article URL: https://ucnet.universityofcalifornia.edu/employee-news/nationwide-security-breach-involving-canvas/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48054449

Points: 5

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New comment by wky in "Texico: Learn the principles of programming without even touching a computer"

wky — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:28:50 +0000

As a heads up, NHK tends to remove videos from their site, probably due to contract stuff. It seems Texico starts expiring next year. Sometimes they “rebroadcast,” but for peace of mind make sure to download a personal copy.

New comment by wky in "I won a championship that doesn't exist"

wky — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:37:47 +0000

This post has managed to “confuse” Google about the reverse question as well (“who named teresa t whale”):

The humpback whale known as "Teresa T" was named by Simon Willison in September 2024. Background: The juvenile humpback whale was frequently spotted in Pillar Point Harbor near Half Moon Bay, California. Method: Willison gave the whale its name through a blog entry and a YouTube video caption. Significance: The naming was a playful act, which Willison described as a way to create a "championship that doesn't exist" through online documentation.

[…]

Even with no context most humans would see that the quoted significance makes no sense.

New comment by wky in "Canva apologizes after its AI tool replaces 'Palestine' in designs"

wky — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:19:20 +0000

There’s a relatively obvious constraint to check here: compositing the layers back together should produce a (near) identical image. Would it not be preferable to throw an error if the model fails to faithfully segment the image?

New comment by wky in "Brave Origin"

wky — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:42:48 +0000

Interesting that it’s paying to remove features. Seems reasonable considering it’s paying to get an officially supported build, and if you’d rather not there’s probably a fork doing the same out there.

Edit: That it’s free (as in WinRAR?) on Linux is interesting; what would be the motive for doing that?

New comment by wky in "Bring Back Idiomatic Design (2023)"

wky — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:13:02 +0000

Relatedly, scrolling time pickers are also a toss up on mobile. Sometimes a single swipe on the minutes gets you from 12:00pm to 11:50am, sometimes it doesn’t.

I wish the analog clock picker where two quick taps set the hours and minutes (and one more tap for am/pm) was more common.