Building a Rust-style static analyzer for C++ with AI
The project is available at: https://github.com/shuaimu/rusty-cpp As someone who has spent almost 15 years doing systems research with C++, I…
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Building a TLS 1.3 Implementation in Pure Common Lisp
Happy New Year!For the past 20+ years, every Common Lisp application that needs HTTPS has traditionally had one option: cl+ssl,…
I used an old-school security trick to catch prompt injection on AI agents
So I've been messing around with MCP and kept thinking about security. These agents can call tools, query databases, hit…
Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker
Rust–: Rust without the borrow checker A modified Rust compiler with the borrow checker disabled. This allows code that would…
Sergey Brin’s Unretirement
See also: https://www.businessinsider.com/sergey-brin-says-leaving-goo… Google co-founder Sergey Brin on leaving retirement to work on AI – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37226292 – Aug 2023 (25…
PSA: Be aware when opening “take home challenges” from untrusted recruiters
I was recently contacted by linkedIn "recruiter" who's upto no good it seems. After some brief chatting, they asked me…
Snitch – A friendlier ss/netstat
snitch a friendlier ss / netstat for humans. inspect network connections with a clean tui or styled tables. install go…
Logging Sucks
Logging sucks. And here’s how to make it better. by Boris Tane 2024-12-20T03:14:22.847Z INFO HttpServer started successfully binding=0.0.0.0:3000 pid=28471 env=production…
How I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers
TL;DR:Put that in your nginx config:location / { # needed to still allow git clone from http/https URLs if ($http_user_agent…
i wrote a code editor in C and now i’m a changed man
I never thought I would share this, but here I am. I was writing a lot of code, a bunch…
Help my website is too small
A jobs web site I belong to just emailed me, telling me that some of the links in my public…
Announcing Key Transparency for the Fediverse
I’m pleased to announce the immediate availability of a reference implementation for the Public Key Directory server. This software implements…
I killed a worker mid-payment to test “exactly-once” execution
Distributed systems often claim “exactly-once” execution. In practice, this is usually implemented as at-least-once delivery + retries + idempotency keys….
Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads – use the API
One of the (many) depressing things about the “AI” future in which we’re living, is that it exposes just how…
GPT-5.2
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/latest-model System card: https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/3a4153c8-c748-4b71-8e31-aecbde944… Read more on Hacker News
How do you modernize a legacy tech stack without a complete rewrite?
As everyone warns about rewrite projects that they are set for failure, how would you modernize legacy software written with…
Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2025)
Please state the location and include REMOTE for remote work, REMOTE (US) or similar if the country is restricted, and…
Poll HN: What operating system do you primarily develop on?
Clarification: the operating system where e.g. your IDE runs on. Not the deployment target. Results from 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30055031 Read more…
Lowtype: Elegant types in Ruby
Iow/type Watch 3 Star 12 Fork You’ve already forked type 0 Code Issues Pull requests Activity Elegant types in Ruby…
Native Secure Enclave backed SSH keys on macOS
Native Secure Enclave backed ssh keys on MacOS It turns out that MacOS Tahoe can generate and use secure-enclave backed…