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it would be even cooler if the blink duration, color, direction, etc were accurate!

random_savvon WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE

I am so happy that I asked Codex to rewrite our website as Hugo templates which allowed us to statically host it and get rid of Wordpress. So much stress gone!

random_savvon GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

For what it's worth, we switched some of our actions to a self-hosted Woodpecker instance, and although there were a few kinks to iron out, it works better overall (for example, because of better caching on that single instance, our docker images build faster).

random_savvon Anyone on the Internet Can Ring Your Doorbell

Your printer doesn't make weird noises?

random_savvon Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones

Where can I buy this??

random_savvon Environmentalists worry Google behind bid to control Oregon town's water

This comment made me curious is such a thing actually happens.

As it turns out "greenmailing" is a thing, but not from environmental groups. Here's what claude found for me:

<ai> The concern isn't baseless—there are documented cases of parties using environmental law as leverage, particularly California's CEQA. But empirical studies show only ~13% of such lawsuits actually come from environmental groups; the majority come from labor unions, business competitors, and NIMBYs hijacking environmental review for unrelated purposes. In this specific case, WaterWatch has a 40-year track record on Oregon water issues and the concerns about fish habitat are supported by the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs—so the 'thinly veiled shakedown' framing doesn't really fit </ai>

I hope doing that research didn't spend too much water!

random_savvon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)

GreenTriangle | Senior Software Engineer (Product/Frontend) | Remote (EU only) | https://green-triangle.com

We're making crop insurance accessible to farmers worldwide. Our platform helps major insurers monitor 10M+ hectares across 10+ countries using satellite imagery and ML — so farmers can manage the volatility of their industry.

You'll build web & mobile apps that agronomists use daily in the field (offline-capable, rough conditions), work on data-heavy features cramming gigabytes into mobile apps, and help shape product decisions with real autonomy.

Stack: TypeScript, React/React Native, PostgreSQL/PostGIS, Python + GDAL/NumPy for satellite imagery processing.

Small remote-first team, wear multiple hats. Quarterly in-person meetups.

chris@green-triangle.com

random_savvon AirPods live translation blocked for EU users with EU Apple accounts

What about Switzerland? Although not in the EU, it often inherits such regulation

random_savvon The truth about seed oils

This is a topic that I've long debated about myself, switching from vegetable oil to coconut oil and then back to HOLL rapeseed oil.

I'm sure this will be a contentious topic among the HN crowd, I'm looking forward to the comments.

random_savvon Malleable Software

This seems like an advertisement for that person's company.

random_savvon Startup equity is worth more than you think

It’s interesting that the author thinks that the value of the shares is higher than the preferred price, even though employees typically hold common shares, meaning they get wiped out in most scenarios except best case. The expected (best case) growth is not an argument in favor of a 4x multiple on price. The chance of achieving that is baked into the price

random_savvon Hacking a Toniebox

We really liked the idea of our kids being able to select what music they want to listen to, without having to look at a screen.

So we bought them a cassette/CD player from Sony for €100.

The idea that you’d buy a speaker with super expensive and proprietary figurines is a bit crazy to me.

random_savvon WhatsApp introduces ads in its app

The fact that this didn’t work seamlessly for my chat history is why I stopped using Signal

random_savvon Wrong ways to use the databases, when the pendulum swung too far

For Postgres, there’s pgTAP: https://pgtap.org/

random_savvon S5cmd: Parallel S3 and local filesystem execution tool

Most S3 systems are terrible with small files (~50KB). 1MB can still be ok though

random_savvon Intel sells 51% stake in Altera to private equity firm on a $8.75B valuation

To me, high quality photos for real estate inspection means (e.g.) being able to take high resolution photos of a specific part of the roof so you can understand why there’s a leak. Not having to climb is a big deal!

random_savvon So you want to build your own data center

I guess there's another in-between step buying your own hardware, even when merely "leasing individual racks", and EC2 instances: dedicated bare metal providers like Hetzner.

This lets one get closer to the metal (e.g. all your data is on your specific disk, rather than an abstracted block storage, such as EBS, not shared with other users, cheaper, etc) without having to worry about the staff that installs the hardware or where/how it fits in a rack.

For us, this was a way to get 6x performance for 1/6 of the cost. (Excluding, of course our time, but we enjoyed it!)

random_savvon Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?

Their version numbers are meaningless in that way. Most major up upgrades are non events

random_savvon Ask HN: What type of Auth are you using on your side projects?

We use Keycloak

random_savvon Ask HN: Should we bring software dev in-house?

How much does the third-party software cost?

random_savvon Ask HN: Boss thinks I'm dumb, now what?

There is a chance that he is well-intended and he believes in starting from first principles - think ELI5. It would be interesting to hear more concrete examples.

random_savvon Nginx Unit: open-source, lightweight and versatile application runtime

How does this compare to OpenResty? Could it somehow help with OIDC support (e.g. by integrating a relevant nodejs lib)?

random_savvon DOJ compares AAPL share buybacks with R&D as 'evidence' of lack of competition

Peter Thiel must be smiling :)

random_savvon Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?

I really liked this comment and we follow all points except 7. We use a monorepo and it's working well for us. What's hard to scale about them? In what way are they hard to secure, and why?

random_savvon A fridge from 70 years ago has better features than the fridge I own now

When I did the math on replacing a 10-15 year old fridge, I was able to amortize the cost of the new fridge in 2.5 years, from the energy savings.

random_savvon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2023)

GreenTriangle is on a mission to make farming more financially secure and sustainable by making crop insurance products accessible to farmers worldwide.

We are looking for talented Software engineers in Europe to join our team of twelve remotely. Please write to me directly at: chris@green-triangle.com

We have two software engineering positions open:

Product/Frontend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nekHN83QZzBep04hJubNk8_...

Backend/ML/remote sensing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoLJaL8pqzJFhExoEIgbebma...

(We also have one more open role for data scientists with a background in agronomy!)

random_savvon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2023)

GreenTriangle is on a mission to make farming more financially secure and sustainable by making crop insurance products accessible to farmers worldwide.

We are looking for talented Software engineers in Europe to join our team of ten remotely. Please write to us at: chris@green-triangle.com

We have two software engineering positions open:

Product/Frontend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nekHN83QZzBep04hJubNk8_...

ML/remote sensing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoLJaL8pqzJFhExoEIgbebma...

random_savvon Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2023)

Two open positions: product/frontend; ML/backend.

GreenTriangle is on a mission to make farming more financially secure and sustainable by making crop insurance products accessible to farmers worldwide.

We are looking for talented Software engineers in Europe to join our team of ten remotely. Please write to us at: chris@green-triangle.com

We have two software engineering positions open:

Product/Frontend: https://docs.google.com/document/d/19nekHN83QZzBep04hJubNk8_...

ML/remote sensing: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HoLJaL8pqzJFhExoEIgbebma...

random_savvon Fuel from discarded plastics comes with a high cancer risk

Even with proper filtering it seems to cause some problems, e.g.:

https://www.stadt-zuerich.ch/ted/de/index/departement/medien...

"In 2022, the canton of Zurich examined the surroundings of waste incineration plants (WIP) for dioxins and published the results in November. No massive or large-scale contamination like in Lausanne was found in the canton of Zurich. However, the random sample from the Josefwiese was within the range of the legal test value of 20 nanograms of toxicity equivalent per kilogram (ng TEQ/kg)."

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