Hacker News: yuribro

AI Guided Hybrid Application Static Testing (Aghast)

yuribro — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:35:26 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/BounceSecurity/aghast

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777687

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yuribro in "Tesla Q1 2021 Results"

yuribro — Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:58:21 +0000

If the GP's statistics are correct, how does your anecdote changes anything? More than 70% of all car owners is a very viable market.

New comment by yuribro in "Icecream: Never use print() to debug again in Python"

yuribro — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 07:14:24 +0000

This is similar to an earlier package called "q"[0]

[0] https://github.com/zestyping/q

Smart (and simple) ways to prevent symlink attacks in Go

yuribro — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 11:50:32 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2020/11/24/smart-and-simple-ways-to-prevent-symlink-attacks-in-go/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26327225

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Microsoft Sculpt Wired Conversion Mod

yuribro — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 12:39:51 +0000

Article URL: https://chadaustin.me/2021/02/wired-sculpt/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26223805

Points: 84

# Comments: 70

New comment by yuribro in "Go is not an easy language"

yuribro — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 06:25:35 +0000

I don't understand the jump from the lack of algebraic types, to using interface{}.

You can spell out all your types into explicit structs (where you can choose between a simple implementation with a little worse performance or to make the implementation a little more complex) and pass them around.

There are many complex code bases (kernels & databases come to mind) which use C (not C++), and they don't resort to passing void* around the "business logic" parts.

The idea that for a complex project you would choose a different language with so many different characteristics due to a minor detail about the type system (this is not exactly Haskell vs JS...). This kind of decision making would not pass in any reasonable organization...

New comment by yuribro in "Obfuscated Tiny C Compiler"

yuribro — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 13:19:40 +0000

>> why doesn't he write blog posts? why he has so little online presence?

>> bellard is a programming genius and true C hacker. his works are so great ...

It's probably related. Obviously it's his and only his decision, but I wonder if him slowing down to share the knowledge and skills could have been more productive in the sense that others could do similar work.

New comment by yuribro in "Postgres scaling advice"

yuribro — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 14:18:00 +0000

> But I think most importantly the decrease in dev speed and performance is an investment in future scalability.

It makes sense only if you'll ever need this scalability. And you take a hit on other fronts too: Infra cost, Deployment complexity. And both deployment complexity and code complexity also increase QA cost, instability, product and company reputation.

>> much like people don't often start with SQLite today

Maybe they should start with SQLite by default

New comment by yuribro in "MasterCard to push up fees for UK purchases from EU due to Brexit"

yuribro — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 12:06:21 +0000

I thought that the card bonus programs on US credit cards were subsidized not by the transaction fees, but by the monthly interest payments. So actually payed by the non-responsible credit card users.

Errors vs. exceptions in Go and C++ in 2020

yuribro — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 07:57:48 +0000

Article URL: https://dr-knz.net/go-errors-vs-exceptions-2020.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25843748

Points: 63

# Comments: 71

A Philosophy of Software Design – John Ousterhout – Talks at Google (2018)

yuribro — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 17:41:05 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSAYlu0NcY

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25836135

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by yuribro in "What I Use Instead of Google"

yuribro — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 15:30:36 +0000

> If Apple were a different company, it would've made maps available for use on web browsers and non-Apple devices. That could also help in a more rapid improvement of maps as opposed to the mostly-useless state it's been in (except for a few countries and regions in certain countries that Apple likes and works more on).

If apple would have done that (for Maps and other services), how would it be different than Google?

Google offers these services for free to the end-user and generates revenue from ads.

Apple is using these services to sell more hardware devices, and generates revenue from there.

New comment by yuribro in "Code Browser"

yuribro — Tue, 29 Dec 2020 18:38:35 +0000

Is there an Emacs package which does something similar to the "Smalltalk Style" navigation view? It looks like it can be implemented in a very similar way to imenu

Should be interesting, especially if it can leverage lsp for the code analysis.

New comment by yuribro in "Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?"

yuribro — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 18:59:18 +0000

There is an implicit rule: Everyone talk about gross. Including the OP.

Salaries for developers are in the 60-80K EUR gross in DE[0]

The US median gross is <40K USD [1] and for software developers it is close to 100K USD (probably much higher is SV and major tech hubs, and much lower everywhere else) [2]

[0] https://teleport.org/cities/berlin/#salaries [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_income_in_the_United_... [2] https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...

‘Breath’ Review: Eager Breather

yuribro — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 10:23:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/breath-review-eager-breather-11590953832

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25485222

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by yuribro in "Analyzing the compromised DLL file that started the Solorigate attack"

yuribro — Sat, 19 Dec 2020 17:01:23 +0000

It says encoded, not encrypted. base64 is an encoding. It also says obfuscation, which isn't encryption either.

And finally, it talks about hashes (without even claiming cryptographic hash functions), and but it's not about the base64 strings...

New comment by yuribro in "To Lose Weight with Exercise, Aim for 300 Minutes a Week"

yuribro — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 17:16:23 +0000

This general statement makes no sense. How can it not depend on the size of the person? What about the other food he consumed in that day, or the goal. Does a powerlifter needs the same outcome as a climber? Is it the same for someone which tries to lose weight?

New comment by yuribro in "macOS to FreeBSD migration a.k.a. why I left macOS"

yuribro — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 18:45:49 +0000

I find it interesting how definitions of words drift away from their original meaning.

> is becoming less Unix-y every year

And the examples given are: no package manager, outdates packages, not open free software

Doesn't this exactly describe the original UNIX OSs? Solaris, IRIX, HP-UX and so on?

It sounds to me like a self fulfilling prophecy - he models his expectations on a modern Linux or BSD distribution, and of course at the end they will match what he wants.

New comment by yuribro in "Oasis: a small statically-linked Linux system"

yuribro — Tue, 01 Dec 2020 17:30:33 +0000

This looks like a desktop system, with a browser and window manager. So comparing it to the alpine minirootfs is apples to oranges

New comment by yuribro in "Production-Oriented Development"

yuribro — Sun, 22 Nov 2020 07:05:54 +0000

In this case, it looks like he doesn't even cover major parts of web development. Only no-SLA consumer apps. Just having a price tag on unavailability will change most of the reasoning for his points.

Also, I do think it's a little dishonest not to point out that one of the recommended products is made by his employer