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David_Osipovon GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers

Great job! I've tried to test their tool as well, but was totally paywalled.

David_Osipovon How we mitigated a vulnerability in Cloudflare’s ACME validation logic

Well be great if you've mitigated this as well: https://notcve.org/view.php?id=NotCVE-2026-0001

David_Osipovon Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?

I can just tell you, that my whole website with the complex logic and systems (based on Astro), which produce more scientific metadata in html code than Nature journal, was spec-coded by me using Github Copilot. But this is my pet project, not an enterprise battle tested one with thousands of users, but it still works: https://david-osipov.vision/en/

David_Osipovon SETI@home is in hiberation

Wait, they have been in hibernation for almost several years, why to publish it now?

David_Osipovon A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela

There is a nuance here for Cloudflare users that makes this problematic.

While analyzing the Jabber.ru incident (which used this exact BGP->TLS vector), I discovered that Cloudflare's "Universal SSL" actively injects permissive CAA records that override user-defined restrictions.

If a user sets a strict accounturi CAA record (RFC 8657) to lock issuance to their specific account—specifically to prevent BGP hijackers from getting a cert—Cloudflare's system automatically appends a wildcard record alongside it to keep their automation working. Because CAs accept any valid record, this effectively nullifies the protection.

It creates a situation where you think you have mitigated the BGP risk via DNS, but the vendor has silently reopened the door.

I wrote up the technical analysis of this override behavior here: https://david-osipov.vision/en/blog/cybersecurity/cloudflare...

David_Osipovon Why is the Gmail app 700 MB?

Spot on! We tried to somehow reduce the libcef size in our B2B app - barely could do that. We had to employ some fancy compression techniques, but still this thing is huge!

David_Osipovon The 2023 jabber.ru Attack Exposes a Critical Cloudflare Flaw in 2026

Hi, guys! As an experiment, I've created AI video and audio overview, based my article's info. If this helps at least some of you, pls let me know! If you have any questions or found any mistakes - pls let me know.

David_Osipovon Web development is fun again

A product manager here. Thanks to AI, I was able to create my own website on Astro. I was so fascinated by web technologies, that I didn't realize when I created not just a website, but a blazing fast website with extensive amount of metadata generation (Json-LD, OG, microformats, Dublin Core, PRISM, RSL 1.0, Highwire Press, FAIR singposting, MODS generation) and so on. Thanks to this pet project, I'm now quite capable as a software architect of websites. And it is really fun!

David_Osipovon I charged $18k for a Static HTML Page (2019)

But look, they occupied his time for 7 weeks full-time. He could have taken another project (opportunity cost) if not for this project. I mean, the inefficiencies of their business processes are not his point of concern - they occupied his time and they should pay for it.

David_Osipovon Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps

No idea why have they created these MS Store versions. The same for MS Store Edge browser - it was (or is) just a downloader of an exe file from their webservers - useless piece of an app

David_Osipovon During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website

I'm not a web developer, but a product manager, and recently I've created my own website using Astro. I do support the point, that its better to have a relatively simple static website - it's really fast and lightweight! An average Wordpress website would weight 1 MB+ in best case, in worst case - 4 MB+. I don't know how people think it's a good idea to have a compressed webpage to be 4 MB!! Let's KISS