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richbell··on Vinix – A modern operating system written in V
And the lead dev would come into any thread on HN or Reddit and argue with people.
richbell··on Product Backlog Problems: Why Your Hierarchy Is Broken
https://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
richbell··on Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
It's baffling that this hasn't been done after the 6th(?) time in the past year.
richbell··on Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
Likewise. I saw it vanish from the "Plan usage limits" page in real time.
richbell··on Anonymous GitHub account mass-dropping undisclosed 0-days
I've only heard it used as Retr0id's definition.
richbell··on US allows Anthropic to release Mythos to 'trusted partners'
What I'm reading is that you agree Trump represents the republican party. Great, the gp's comment has been settled.
richbell··on Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator
I moderated a large Reddit community (circa 2014). She threatened to have articles written about how we were racist/misogynistic, unless we removed comments she didn't like.

Her being nasty elsewhere doesn't surprise me...

richbell··on SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75T, reports say
I suspect that he at least uses AI for scripts. He tends to repeat the same thing worded slightly differently a few times.
richbell··on EmDash – a spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/SUVS7G-lets_end_open_...
richbell··on Israel is running critically low on interceptors, US officials say
Is the implication that someone can't dislike both?
richbell··on I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites
If you find an exposed token in the wild, for a service supported by GitHub Secret Scanning, uploading it to a Gist will either immediately revoke it or notify the owner.
richbell··on I found 39 Algolia admin keys exposed across open source documentation sites
How is reminding people that they can safely revoke exposed API keys not informative? Why are you being so combative?
richbell··on You deleted everything and AWS is still charging you?
AWS sends me an invoice for $0.01 every month.
richbell··on What canceled my Go context?
Kotlin Coroutine's structured concurrency. Cancelling a parent automatically cancels child jobs, unless explicitly handled not to. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/coroutines-basics.html
richbell··on Bun v1.3.9
Parallel and Series makes sense to me; it's also the terminology used for electrical circuits.
richbell··on Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server
The purpose of command and control servers is to send and receive data to victims devices.

A secondary goal is to do so while evading detection. This is why many threat actors piggy-back off of legitimate services, it disguises the malware communications and avoids directly exposing the upstream C2 instance.

richbell··on PGlite – Embeddable Postgres
The main use case, in my opinion, is for tests/CI. SQLite has traditionally been used to quickly run tests, however, if your actual infra uses PostgreSQL then the value is limited.
richbell··on Kohler Can Access Pictures from "End-to-End Encrypted" Toilet Camera
That is what "end-to-end encryption" has come to mean in marketing. In the same way that every single product is "natural."
richbell··on GrapheneOS migrates server infrastructure from France
One highly publicized incident was https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13s7mv3/why_...
richbell··on Goldman Sachs asks in biotech Report: Is curing patients a sustainable business? (2018)
Uber's business model is to be a loss leader to hamper competition, then jack up rider rates and lower drive rates. This is technically a 'working' business model, but hardly one that benefits the people.
richbell··on Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure
> Hang on a minute. How do you square your claim that it's as it should be that train drivers can be paid as much as airline pilots, with your claim that everyone else is underpaid, including, presumably, airline pilots

What is inconsistent about those two things?

You can simultaneously believe that train drivers and airline pilots deserve to be paid more.

richbell··on American Heart Association says melatonin may be linked to serious heart risks
> He said that his team had hoped for it to become a prescription medicine dosed at 500 mcg, because anything higher gave paradoxical effects and actually made sleep worse.

Tangentially, I'm reminded of this interview around ~31m.

TL;DR they found something that promoted deeper sleep, but people didnt necessary feel "well rested", and so it was shelved for something that subjectively improved sleep but actually reduced the quality of sleep.

https://youtu.be/UWhk2LMDwCc?t=31m

richbell··on Hacking India's largest automaker: Tata Motors
There are a number of products and open source tools that do this. Look up "secret scanning".
richbell··on Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry
> in light of the DOGE findings regarding 150+ year olds collecting social security...

The claims made by DOGE were highly misleading (i.e., lack of death date does not mean a 150 year old is receiving money).

Moreover, it wasn't a novel discovery. It had already been identified and published in a 2023 audit: https://oig.ssa.gov/assets/uploads/a-06-21-51022.pdf

richbell··on One mother's win over Meta will change social media for everyone
The modern Internet is a privacy nightmare in large part due to advertisers. Having every aspect of your life surveiled, packaged, and sold is not a trivial issue.
richbell··on Porkbun partners with Proton
And will they ever support an easily-configured catch-all domain, like Namecheap?
richbell··on Siren Call of SQLite on the Server
I believe foreign key constraint validations are also disables by default.
richbell··on DOGE as a National Cyberattack
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
richbell··on PostgreSQL Best Practices
> I'm amazed that this has reached the almost-top of HN.

The article is objectively bad; the subject is clearly something a lot of people think about, myself included.

richbell··on PostgreSQL Best Practices
> But definitely not within database functions and procedures.

I generally find Hungarian notation silly, however, there's a compelling argument to have them in functions and procedures — perhaps more than for views. The type of the variable matters just as much as where/how it was declared, such as in/out params.

That's the 'steelman' argument for them, as I understand it.

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