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il-b··on There isn't an easy exploit for this PHP vulnerability
Log4g was exploitable from the second it was published
il-b··on If you don't run your own LLM proxy, how do you know whats going on?
Even worse if he had an LLM write this
il-b··on Passkeys are not a trap
Ironically, the post intended to refute the original author's arguments ended up inadvertently proving their point.
il-b··on Yandex Takes a Second Data Center Hit in 48 Hours
The DC fire is usually contained. Fertilizer plant or a refinery is much worse.
il-b··on iPhone Duo
I want to see the mechanical properties of the build. He shows exactly that.
il-b··on GrapheneOS Overhauled Default Apps and Secure Clipboard
Could they just do PGP over SMS, built into the default app? They have all the machinery in place to store keys securely.
il-b··on SwiftUI After 7 Years
Somehow, we’re still failing to realize that the most complex UIs - think CAD software, 3D editors, etc - are imperative, object-oriented, and written in C++. Their core development teams are usually very small. Yet you need a 20-person frontend team to deliver a primitive e-commerce app. It’s as clear as day that the promise of declarative and reactive programming is failing its users.
il-b··on AI doesn't generate working products, that's still your job
For some strange reason, most of the software I use is getting worse, not better.
il-b··on How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?
Maybe their “TUI-over-React” team doesn’t want to get fired because of AI, either?
il-b··on GrapheneOS Defends Data-Wiping Function That Blocked US Border Search
“Your phone smells like weed”
il-b··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
It zeroes out the vault where the volume key is stored.
il-b··on Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects
Crypto enables resistance to tyrannies in many parts of the world. It also provides a means of survival for oppressed groups.
il-b··on Does creatine make you smarter?
https://youtu.be/g8JzXEoT9LI

Kinesio tape seems to be the solution

il-b··on When can a power company take your land for data center infrastructure?
Indeed, suing “the Capital” is more costly and difficult.
il-b··on Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked
The authors are proud of facilitating the theft of intellectual property. Disgusting.
il-b··on Cannabis users face substantially higher risk of heart attack (2025)
"We should have some caution in interpreting the findings in that cannabis consumption is usually associated with other substances such as cocaine or other illicit drugs that are not accounted for,"
il-b··on UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
So every VPS provider as well. Thankfully, these restrictive measures only lead to wider adoption of VPN technology among the general population. You end up with people who know how and are willing to use these circumvention tools, which is a very good thing for society in general. In Russia, for example, every slightly tech-oriented teenager knows Amnezia, VLESS, MTProto, etc., which leads to virtually everyone having a working VPN. Aside from turning the Internet completely off, the government has very few options left; it basically can’t restrict anything anymore.
il-b··on Netlify CTO Dana Lawson: Writing code is no longer the job
Still, she gets her bonus for reducing the headcount
il-b··on Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term
> (…) provide no benefit to society and don't need to exist.

The sounds extremely fascist.

il-b··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
Regulation is good because somebody might buy LSD. Nice.
il-b··on Bun support is now limited and deprecated
Nondeterministically translated
il-b··on IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media
About 20% are left-wing, but the majority is extremely far-right
il-b··on The Emacsification of Software
The dislike of code per se is what drives these people to use agents in the first place.
il-b··on GitHub is sinking
Who cares about bugs when their developer velocity has increased 5x!
il-b··on Formatting a 25M-line codebase overnight
Imagine lots and lots of models and stubs generated from swagger, protobuf, sqlc etc.
il-b··on An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below
If you can handle disaster& recovery, you shouldn’t be a CTO
il-b··on Ask HN: How to solve the cold start problem for a two-sided marketplace?
Beware of drug and cash traffickers. Unlike ride sharing, where the end user, the passenger, is responsible for everything.
il-b··on Claude Opus 4.7 Model Card
Ironically, the website is down
il-b··on €54k spike in 13h from unrestricted Firebase browser key accessing Gemini APIs
Yeah, just like “public key” in the cryptography sense
il-b··on Cal.com is going closed source
> An app like Cal.com can be vibe coded in a few evenings

Do it then

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