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tiffanyh··on Show HN: Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents
Thanks for sharing, and congrats on the launch.

I looked through GitHub and the .dev site and still have a few questions:

- Why isn’t OAuth delegation enough?

- Is this mainly for enterprise? If IT has already approved an agent for employees to use, what additional KYA/KYB problem still needs to be solved?

- Can you give a few examples of where this actually shows up in someone’s day-to-day use? That’s the part I’m struggling with most.

One suggestion: I’d spend more time on the sites explaining the “why” and the actual problem being solved, and a little less on the “how.” I think that would make it much easier to understand.

tiffanyh··on OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability
Since OpenSSH is included in the base install, and enabled on OpenBSD - is it correct that they will need to update the famous:

“Only two remote holes in the default install, in a heck of a long time!”

https://www.openbsd.org/

tiffanyh··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
Thank you.

Would you mind explaining what each file is, and how this works (do you create a skill such that AI is doing this on every prompt)

tiffanyh··on Ask HN: What's your current AI agentic setup?
My challenge is revisiting AI-gen code months later and making sure the AI has the context from our previous work.

How do people handle this?

Do you keep everything in the same conversation thread?

tiffanyh··on Images 2.6
There’s less money to be made with images, than code gen.

Investment in new models follows the money.

tiffanyh··on A thousand fewer paths to root
Anthropic ran Mythos against OpenBSD and only had 1 reported vulnerability.

https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing

tiffanyh··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
Intel stock is down 49% in just the last month alone.

A lot of said gains have been erased.

tiffanyh··on OpenAI to acquire Pierre Computer Company
I have to imagine this is related to: https://openai.com/index/scaling-git-at-openai/

And you'll see that mitchellh is a big fan of Pierre (and I think investor)

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2036855931569651884?lang=en

For those who don't know Pierce, here's a demo from mitchellh:

https://x.com/mitchellh/status/2057229385963618787

tiffanyh··on Safari introduces Adaptive Dark Mode in 27.3
What’s the relationship for Safari and Safari Tech Preview.

Because correct me if I’m wrong, neither of these features were in the Tech Preview.

And numerous features have been in Tech Preview that have never made it into mainline Safari.

tiffanyh··on Show HN: HackerChurn – which SaaS tools HN wants to cancel
It'd be good to note which are actually networks (vs products).

LinkedIn, RealPage, etc (on the list) are more so networks than a product.

tiffanyh··on OpenAI seems to be silently re-enabling model training on Codex chats
Unchanged for me (disabled/off)
tiffanyh··on Apple reports fourth quarter results
Conversely, Google is “renting” from Apple to be the default search engine in Safari for ~$12B annually.

I’m sure there’s some balance of trade going on here.

tiffanyh··on Herdr has released native app
What’s the planned monetization model for all the terminal multiplexers backed by VC funding like Herdr, Rex, etc?
tiffanyh··on Quad9 to exit France
I’m sorry for being so dense, so what do you plan to do?

It sounds like selectivd site blocking is against your mission, so will you then just not offer Quad9 to any person in France instead (total blackout across all sites)?

Sorry if I’m missing the obvious or your stated solution.

tiffanyh··on Visa, Mastercard, Major Banks Facing New Litigation over 'Anticompetitive' Fees
Let's use Stripe as an example, there fee is 2.9% + 30 cents.

That 30 cents - is what's often ignored but makes up a disproportionate amount of the fee.

On a $30 transaction, paying 30 cents is equivalent to a 1% fee.

So Stripe on a $30 transaction is effectively 3.9% in fees (on a $30 transaction).

Interchange (which goes to the issuer), would only be approx 1.75% (of the 3.9% fee charged by Stripe).

tiffanyh··on Visa, Mastercard, major banks facing new litigation over 'anticompetitive' fees
What seems to be getting lost is that the acquirer, not the payment network, sets the Merchant Discount Rate. The acquirer is also the merchant’s direct payments provider.

Yet the acquirers seem to be always absent from these lawsuits.

tiffanyh··on Treg (OpenRouter for Tools)
Can you explain more as to why T&C don’t allow for this.
tiffanyh··on Ask HN: What do you think about Fractional CFOs
“Fractional” seems to be the modern-day buzzword for a 1099 contractor.

(and your experience will all depend upon the contractor)

tiffanyh··on OpenSSH 10.6
> I raised an issue on the tracker

I thought OpenBSD / OpenSSH operate without a tracker and it’s all email distro based.

tiffanyh··on Gleam doesn't compile to Erlang source anymore
The title is a bit misleading because one might imply that Gleam no longer compiles to something Erlang can use (not true).

From the article:

> Over the last few months Giacomo Cavalieri has entirely rewritten Gleam's Erlang code generator that has an entirely different design, and most notably, outputs a different format. Previously Gleam generated Erlang source code, now it generates Erlang abstract forms.

tiffanyh··on JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history
I thought JetBrains is a private/bootstrapped company.

Where are these financials coming from?

tiffanyh··on Powerless F1 drivers frustrated by Bahrain F1 software glitch
F1 are effectively prototype cars.

Every GP is a slightly different car running bleeding edge tech and code.

tiffanyh··on What Meta got right with Muse
It isn’t though.

Muse is:

- a single thread

- has avatars that you can name

- has approval cards

Now dots is similar in concept but that only launched a few days ago and Muse launched a month ago.

tiffanyh··on What Meta got right with Muse
UI/UX

Many times, UI/UX makes all the difference in user adoption & use.

tiffanyh··on Every SaaS business will become a harness around a model
> I’m using the term “harness” broadly to mean all the infra, interfaces, context, and state that surround a stateless LLM

When the definition is that broad, aren’t you effectively already defining what SaaS is today.

Especially when you include interfaces in that definition.

tiffanyh··on Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics
Isn’t there selection bias though …

because if someone feels physically well enough to go to Burning Man, then the probability of them dying in the next week is near zero in comparison to the national average (which includes individuals hospitalized, terminally ill, etc).

tiffanyh··on Backblaze drive stats for Q2 2026
Could this be a situation of extremes … where the drive either (a) fails early in its life … or (b) lives a very long life.
tiffanyh··on NASA asked several former SR-71A staffers to help secret restart
Didn’t satellites with superior optics and realtime video streaming … kill the need for an SR71 update?
tiffanyh··on Dots: Always-on agents
The video demo confuses me.

It’s having agents update websites, charts, etc for human consumption.

But isn’t the future the AI labs are (subtly) saying is that no human digital interfaces need to exist … and the interface is just the agent surface itself.

tiffanyh··on As A.I. makes law firms more efficient, clients ask: 'Where's my discount?'
Do you have any issues with thr tech industry selling software licenses?

Because a lawyer selling a contract template, is in many ways, very similar in concept to tech industry selling a software license/seat.

They are both akin to “templates”, and selling IP.

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