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wswin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2026)
that's so dystopian
wswin··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2026)
heads up - the application form requires recording video
wswin··on I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea
What a useless title
wswin··on I spent $220 on Google app ads and 60% of the installs were robots
the same way, app is the advertised products
wswin··on I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer
Interesting observation, similar manner of work as Linus Torvalds. These guys implement existing ideas well, consistent and open, but are not inventors.
wswin··on Local privilege escalation via execve()
I think good system should be prepared to do a reboot in a short notice. Even some long running jobs can have a pause mechanism.
wswin··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
It terms of the IT sector there is not much difference to the rest of the Europe. America has dominated the field, China is catching up, especially in global giants category.
wswin··on Poland is now among the 20 largest economies
You greatly overestimate its significance. The benefits are roughly 1% of the GDP. In 2023 Poland netted 8.2 bn€ [1]. The GDP was 751 bn€.

[1] https://www.pap.pl/en/news/poland-largest-recipient-eu-funds...

wswin··on How far behind is each major Chromium browser?
and Ungoogled Chromium
wswin··on German police name alleged leaders of GandCrab and REvil ransomware groups
not the state, but the law
wswin··on Nashville library launches Memory Lab for digitizing home movies
Home NAS, with data redundancy and filesystem with checksums. It's great because you can access it from any device and there is a ton of FOSS for it now
wswin··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
They don't have access to the host filesystem nor environment variables and this attack wouldn't work.
wswin··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
I will wait with updating anything until this whole trivy case gets cleaned up.
wswin··on Tell HN: Litellm 1.82.7 and 1.82.8 on PyPI are compromised
Containers prevent this kind of info stealing greatly, only explicitly provided creds would be leaked.
wswin··on Trivy under attack again: Widespread GitHub Actions tag compromise secrets
I don't think it would help here, they were stealing credentials
wswin··on Show HN: Threadprocs – executables sharing one address space (0-copy pointers)
Cool project. I think most real life problems would be solved with shared memory objects, c.f. shm_open [1].

Python has a wrapper on in the standard library [2], not sure about other languages

1. https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/shm_open.3.html

2. https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.shared_mem...

wswin··on Trivy ecosystem supply chain briefly compromised
what comments?
wswin··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
You didn't even slightly research the topic of phone malware, browse /r/isthisascam for starters. I don't say the problem is an "epidemic" and it doesn't have to be an epidemic to be addressed.
wswin··on Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps
what's your solution to combat scammers?
wswin··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
Any reasoning/data or at least an anecoded behind this claim? No?
wswin··on Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous 'Stop Cop City' Protester
What's sketchy about proton?
wswin··on Show HN: enveil – hide your .env secrets from prAIng eyes
These are from AWS right, what about simple, no cloud setups with just docker compose or even bare proccesses on a VPS?
wswin··on Magical Mushroom – Europe's first industrial-scale mycelium packaging producer
At least it's figurative
wswin··on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Finally, but done wrong. This should be done by 3rd party app (probably owned by government) with access token without sharing one's identity.
wswin··on [dead]
Funny that this is a non-existent problem for the previous generation of phones, since they had removable battery.
wswin··on Some notes on starting to use Django
Django is great, but it lacks typing in code, but especially in docs. It would spare me a lot of bugs.

IMO, type annotations should only be omitted in obvious cases or simple/MVP projects.

wswin··on Guix for Development
I think they're two different tools. Containers are great for production environments. Beside reproducibility, they also give control over resources and manage virtual devices. Things that are rather not needed during development.
wswin··on BirdyChat becomes first European chat app that is interoperable with WhatsApp
Let's not pretend they would do this if the tech monopolies were european.
wswin··on Skip is now free and open source
The path frameworks usually go: open source some of it and paywall extras or some related service. Look at Expo or Next.js.

It’s bold to assume people will spend money on something they can’t see in action and don’t know whether it will fit their needs.

wswin··on Why DuckDB is my first choice for data processing
Comparison to Spark in terms of speed and simplicity is pretty unfair since Spark is designed for multi-node use and horizontal scaling isn't going anywhere.
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