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snaveen

66 karma · joined November 2, 2012

Software Security | Google Open Source Peer Bonus award 2021,2022, and 2024 | https://github.com/naveensrinivasan
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snaveen··on Can a language model run in Linux eBPF?
I love this author's past work and contributions, but this is 100% ai generated as per pangram https://www.pangram.com/history/9b3e03f0-6aa0-4516-90f9-507b..., which makes me wonder.
snaveen··on BPF Token Delegation
Why Do I Want To Hand Roll a BPF Token Delegation?

Anywhere I searched for “BPF tokens”, I kept getting something like, “BPF tokens let unprivileged containers load eBPF" and I wanted to use it, but all Google searches either led me to kernel commit messages or nearly 100% AI generated blog posts.

When I read these blog posts, they didn’t make sense, and I couldn’t find examples of failures someone ran into, or an explanation of why doing it a certain way led to failure, which IMO is critical to understanding the internals.

So I asked myself, can I build the entire token delegation handshake myself in one file and either create a token that I can pass to a process, or learn exactly why I can’t?

snaveen··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
I stopped reading blog posts/tweets that have been AI generated.
snaveen··on How Do I Profile eBPF Code?
Thank you for the additional insights.
snaveen··on How Do I Profile eBPF Code?
Thank you for these references! I wasn't aware of these papers.
snaveen··on An Empirical Study: AI Agent Rules Need Context and Layered Enforcement
This post is AI generated, which loses the tool's authenticity.
snaveen··on How do you use Vim in the era of AI?
There are few people.
snaveen··on Making Your eBPF Agents Unkillable
Cool! If you are interested, you could also check out our blog at https://bomfather.dev/blog/
snaveen··on Users Stuck in YubiKey Re-Enrollment Loop on X (Twitter)
Looks like they only test in `prod`. Probably they used grok to generate the tests code ;)
snaveen··on Ask HN: Life Changing Books?
A Master's Secret Whispers: For those who abhor the noise and seek The Truth about life and living https://www.amazon.com/Masters-Secret-Whispers-those-living/...

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0735211299/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...

Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

https://www.amazon.com/Almanack-Naval-Ravikant-Wealth-Happin...

snaveen··on Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?
These projects are under https://github.com/ossf which is part of Linux foundation.
snaveen··on Ask HN: How do you security-audit external software using NPM packages?
I am maintainer of couple of OSS projects https://github.com/ossf/scorecard https://github.com/ossf/package-analysis

These projects help with repository best practices and does some level of npm package analysis based on rules.

snaveen··on Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
I have got my kids hooked on vim https://vim-adventures.com/
snaveen··on Ask HN: Please share your experience teaching your kids to program
I have 2 kids 14 and 12. My 14 year old has started solving medium level leetcode problems (which I am happy about).

Talk to them often about code, technology etc.One thing that helped IMHO spending a lot of time in solving math problems (AOPS) , which made think through hard problems and had to grind through solutions which took time. My kids love Big Bang Theory and anything that is geeky. I talk to them about the latest things that are happening in tech like the recent hack and the malware.

I recently read this book https://www.amazon.com/But-How-Know-Principles-Computers-ebo... and sat and drew with my kids and,or , xor and nand gates.Building Mindcraft MOD can be another fun project.

Be patient and it helps a lot IMO.

Good luck :)

snaveen··on Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures [pdf]
Thanks for the mentioning this!
snaveen··on Reading a book a week for your career
I read 1 to 1.5 books a week. I have been reading for sometime now.My problem is that my friends don’t read much.

Everyone wants to read but don’t enjoy reading as much.

I have a hard time finding people with similar habits.

Most of my friends work on tech industry and is aware of benefits.

snaveen··on Ask HN: What are the things that you have automated in your personal life?
Cool, would the source code for this available in github? Thanks
snaveen··on Simple command-line snippet manager, written in Go
Perfect! It has solved the exact problem I run into. Thanks.