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pvg··on Triggers not executed following foreign key updates/deletes
Oh I see. You can't put your comment in the title. You can put your comment in a comment, that's mentioned in the site docs - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
pvg··on Meta's AI Glasses Go Sporty with Oakley Collab Launching at $399
Thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327468
pvg··on Roons: A Marble Computer [video]
Thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859464
pvg··on Triggers not executed following foreign key updates/deletes
Looks like the original title
pvg··on Xlibre fork lights a fire under long-dormant X.org development
Much of this article is about the same drama which is dupey by HN dupes algebra. Maybe it's worth talking about the effects when such effects occur meaningfully.
pvg··on Billions of login credentials have been leaked online
AP is reporting what others are reporting. What's dubious is the original reporting.
pvg··on Show HN: Ts-SSH – SSH over Tailscale without running the daemon
Show HN's get to have text and a link, most other things don't.
pvg··on Oakley Meta Glasses, a New Category of Performance AI Glasses
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44327468
pvg··on Is it necessary to open a join waitlist
Also worth keeping in mind - waitlists are offtopic on HN so if you'd like to show your work here (like in https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html) you need to be at a stage where people can try the thing out.
pvg··on [dead]
Blogspam of https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abg7586 and dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44319585
pvg··on Why do we need DNSSEC?
Unrenewed certs have not caused the kind of extended mass outages DNSSec has, it's not close.
pvg··on Why do we need DNSSEC?
That's a pretty damning indictment of DNSSEC.
pvg··on Juneteenth in Photos
I have never heard of "Trucktober"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzPBaC6VPuU

You must be some sort of communist! There's a Trucktober question on the naturalization test, right before the one about Thanksgiving.

pvg··on Juneteenth in Photos
The name of the holiday, so named by the people affected, is a century and change old. The problem isn't the quality of the name, which is where we started.
pvg··on Ask HN: What is the best way to generate a ton of money as a dev?
One traditional method is to begin with several tons of money.
pvg··on Juneteenth in Photos
A June and a -teenth is no harder to envision than a Frapp and a CCino. It's a silly tangent.
pvg··on Juneteenth in Photos
You're pre-qualified for the Feats of Strength but not, so far, for the Airing of Grievances.
pvg··on Juneteenth
Ongoing thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44320851
pvg··on SpaceX's next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44315529
pvg··on Juneteenth in Photos
Juneteenth is the same sort of portmanteau as Trucktober. Plus holidays have weird names. What's a Christmas, a Mardi Gras, a Festivus? It's almost entirely a matter of usage and familiarity.
pvg··on Juneteenth in Photos
Trucktober and Frappuccino aren't "real words" but most Americans know what they mean. The unfamiliarity with Juneteenth is not due to the unrealness of the word.
pvg··on Show HN: A DOS-like hobby OS written in Rust and x86 assembly
Whoa there. Gotta run Doom and BASIC to compete with DOS. That is the officially recognized DOS-Kármán line.
pvg··on How to report suspected Microsoft service compromise?
https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1b0m7nj/legit_win...

Looks like it's Azure stuff, not an actual compromise of Microsoft services.

pvg··on Show HN: My file search app is now 8× faster than before
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44269245
pvg··on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
Imagine if they pushed an update of the app out with the vuln to only some users, or users in {country} in their app release configs

"Imagine an arbitrarily powerful adversary operating in arbitrarily narrow, undetectable ways" is not meaningful threat modeling beside being a kind of Universal Goalpost Moving technique. It is not a 'meme' that WhatsApp is e2e encrypted if that's the form and content of your objection. The other thing is still the meme!

pvg··on Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp from their devices
If the messages are managed on the two ends of the channel by a closed source binary that does who-knows-what.

The meme/trope is that you can't possibly know what such an app does without the source. It just isn't true. There'd be no meaningful phone vulnerability research if it was.

pvg··on [dead]
Original https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44297652
pvg··on CVE-2025-3248: Serious vulnerability found in popular Python AI package
Blogspam of original report https://horizon3.ai/attack-research/disclosures/unsafe-at-an...
pvg··on OpenAI and Microsoft Execs Reportedly Considering the 'Nuclear Option'
Blogspam of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44292989
pvg··on Show HN: Chawan TUI web browser
just want us to be upfront when things aren't ready

Things that aren't ready are on topic, hobby tools, scratch-an-itch or learning projects are all on topic in for Show HN. Generic harumphing isn't. It is boring and lowers the quality of the threads.

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