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cyberpunkon Show HN: Waymark – A workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying

How many tasks per workflow for the 1500/sec benchmark?

cyberpunkon Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games

Is it? How much would it cost to hire a person to do the same work two of these can do?

cyberpunkon Anthropic takes steps to block Claude from reverse-engineering video games

Curious about your setup if you don’t mind elaborating a bit for us? What models are you using and how do you find they compare? The 128gb model costs less than one months salary for a medium level engineer here, they look quite attractive.

cyberpunkon TCP Use-After-Free: CVE-2026-98432 / CVSS 9.8

You’re still on slackware? I’ve not thought about it in years! How’re things over there?

cyberpunkon Jepsen: ParticleDB 1.1.4

It’s really great to see more of these @Aphyr, I really enjoy them and learn something from each. Thank you!

cyberpunkon Hackers hijack Egypt highway billboard and Malaysian screens to show porn

My mind went straight to goatse and yes, it was goatse.

cyberpunkon Ex-Meta Researcher Torrented Pirated Books, Deleted It 'Due to Litigation'

These people tend to outgrow that tho. I def would have pirated books as a youth as it’d save me a trip to the library. Now i’m old and have money, I would never pirate a book as I value both contributing to the author and owning the physical thing. Maybe some exceptions if it’s in some niche tech or something and don’t wanna commit yet..

Wouldn’t you rather live in a world where book piracy is rampant than one where many people just don’t read anything?

cyberpunkon Northflank Breached

Sure, firewall bugs exist. I’m not sure what you’re trying to prove here, that it’s impossible to be fully secure? That’s not news to any of us. If you don’t see any difference in attack surface using defense in depth and separating concerns (and platforms! we quite like BSDs for our firewalls) then i’m not sure really what to tell you.

cyberpunkon AI isn't replacing SREs, it's deskilling them

The devops department at my company, which has around 500 services across a load of kubernetes clusters / regions are all amazed at how well gpt-6.1-luna is at their jobs. They've all been using it exclusively for 2 weeks and between them have spent like $400.

The take where in a couple years there will be a massive revert or that anyone cares about terraform indentation or a shitty yaml template is wildly optimistic.

I do hope you're right though, but I'm not seeing it from my side of the fence.

cyberpunkon Northflank Breached

    1. Good engineers should have had a firewall/waf/nat/thingy infront of their linux systems, and alerting at least on those directly exposed to reduce/eliminate blast radius
    2. Good engineers don't enable MTCP (which as far as I can tell is largely a desktop feature) on firewalls
    3. ???
    4. Profit!

cyberpunkon New iMac with M6

24” and 60hz…

cyberpunkon UK to charge universities $1,200 per international student

Come on, that’s communism! The markets will sort it all out, right? … right?

cyberpunkon Every AI model has the same "controversial" take on humans

Why french, Nietzsche was German?

cyberpunkon A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system

Yes, it’s a complete auth bypass. All you need is the email address of a user and they’ll likely sign CSRs for any domains under that account.

It’s the end for them, I imagine.

cyberpunkon A complete bypass of eMudhra’s 1FA OTP login system

Don't piss off the internet, there will be consequences. I guess.

cyberpunkon eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business

Ever dealt with key generation on a HSM?

Thousand line shell scripts that use expect to drive 30+ answers to a multi-choice interactive tui (that only works on one version of redhat from 2008 or something) is not so unusual, can totally understand how it happened. No excuses in that though.

cyberpunkon Railway Security Disclosure

Or, you know, use client certificates so the bots can’t hit you.

Those can leak / be stolen of course, but a bunch of my clients php apis survived as without a cert they’re told to fuck right off.

It does make their client onboarding a bit harder but it’s a trade off which seems to have been the right one.

cyberpunkon Hetzner object storage degraded for >1month

Absolute clown show. Do not trust these people with your business.

cyberpunkon DeepInfer: High-performance inference framework for DeepSeek models

more like: Your account will get automatically flagged for output containing the word nmap (technically illegal software in germany), blackholed killing your unrelated prod app, then the german support will take 4.5 weeks to respond inaccurately; you will complain and this will next get escalated to an “architect” (common role in german it, usually university graduates who have never written a line of prod code in their life, and never will) who unfortunately happens to be only working 2 days a week and has 10 days of holidays booked and then once the fax has been approved and stamped by 16 departments someone will upload the correct line to an excel spreadsheet on sharepoint which will trigger a cronjob to add your email to a servicenow ticket about an unrelated issue.

At least, this is how the three separate business i’ve migrated off the dumpster fire that’s hetzner found out what they’ve been paying for.

Avoid them like the goddamn plague. I’d rather run production off my fucking iphone than deal with that rank bunch of incompetent, arrogant useless tossers again.

cyberpunkon Delta’s Biscoff cookies were supposed to be temporary

One extreme option if you wanna kick the ‘butter — I ate a small amount of peanut butter immediately before a severe case of norovirus kicked in (48 hours of purge every 15-20 minutes) — can’t even be in the same room with the stuff without flashbacks anymore. Even typing that out made feel rough.

Maybe there’s some way to de-program such strong associations but seems like a way to kick a bad habit..

cyberpunkon Iosevka is an open-source, sans-serif and slab-serif, monospace font

I was looking forward to their new one (houston something?) for a couple years but seems all reference to it on their website has been removed.

Shame.

cyberpunkon New Apple TV 4K

I’ve listened to a bunch of these “audiophile” setups (usually owned by retired boomers with bad hearing in untreated rooms) and while 60k of amps does look good i really struggle to believe that anything other than the speakers makes much difference.

Having done that, my opinions are simple;

A good set of floor standers connected to pretty much anything will sound good.

Basic room treatment will go far enough for everyone unless you’re running a sfx studio or something and even then…

Anything over 320 mp3 is basically pointless, but the better masters you get on some of these 24/96 platforms make it probably worth the subscription (sometimes).

I prefer good headphones.

And this is how i’ve avoided spending 6 figures on audio gear :)

cyberpunkon New Apple TV 4K

..: Surely the specs (or … whatever compliance paperwork, CE etc?) of the device have to state if it includes a modem or not?

If it does then don’t buy it?

cyberpunkon New Apple TV 4K

Does it come with specially shielded and gold plated hdmi cables to go along with the rest of the 12k snake oil?

cyberpunkon Show HN: Proton Drive for Linux

I wish it was possible to pipe into it tho.

e.g tar -cf - * | <some unwieldly proton drive cmd>

I guess this is not possible due to the way the encryption works?

cyberpunkon Show HN: K10s – A Clickable Kubernetes TUI (Go, Bubble Tea)

tmux has that these days and it’s great if you have a big monitor with a lot of panes, just move the mouse to focus.

cyberpunkon US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams

They actually used the term super intelligence.

I hate this timeline.

cyberpunkon Meta and Microsoft take steps to reduce employee usage of Claude AI

Wait, okay maybe I'm in a bubble, but every org I've worked at understood that giving us whatever hardware we want more than pays for itself, and very quickly.

I can't fathom the logic of paying 10k a month for a developer and giving them an 800 device.

Insane. Your leadership is severely broken. If you can, work somewhere that values you.

cyberpunkon Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

There is this: https://github.com/ergo-services/ergo which i keep meaning to take a look at, but never seem to quite get around to…

cyberpunkon Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore

There are dozens of us! Erlang is a great language, elixir just feels kinda flimsy and over-macro’d to me somehow.