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JustSkyfall

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17 year old programming enthusiast from the UK

website: https://mahadk.com

email: hey@mahadk.com

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JustSkyfall··on Keyv and friends compromised in active Shai-Hulud supply chain attack
Wouldn't the dropper get executed once tests are run within CI though?
JustSkyfall··on How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
Thanks for answering!

I suppose my second question would be how much Bun spends on CI per month atm - I'd imagine that robobun would have ramped up the bill a fair bit

JustSkyfall··on How is the Bun Rewrite in Rust going?
How come Bun uses Buildkite instead of self-hosting the CI infra?
JustSkyfall··on Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB
What's wrong with Starling/Monzo?
JustSkyfall··on OnePlus halts operations in USA and Europe
If I had to guess, it's because the phone market is largely dominated by Apple and Samsung, and so it'd be/has been very hard for OnePlus to actually sell their phones there.
JustSkyfall··on We scaled PgBouncer to 4x throughput
I've been using pgdog (https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog) and it has worked really well for my needs!
JustSkyfall··on Hanami 3.0: In Full Bloom
Big congrats on the release!

I have been using Rails 8 for the past few months on a work project, but the Hanakai ecosystem looks really, really interesting.

My one question would be whether or not Hanakai supports Inertia or Svelte views - we've been moving away from ERB recently, which has made it much easier to write interactive code due to the ecosystem, and I'd rather not throw that DX away!

JustSkyfall··on GLM-5.2 is the new leading open weights model on Artificial Analysis
The problem with these benchmarks is that the Chinese models tend to be incredible on paper, and absolutely terrible in practice :/
JustSkyfall··on Claude Fable 5
> In the UK you get thrown in prison for making a slightly unfriendly tweet.

Do you? The closest thing I can think about is how someone was jailed for encouraging arson attacks on asylum hotels. I'd be extremely surprised if the US had zero cases of somebody receiving a police visit after threatening to kill the President or bomb a school or something...

(FWIW I do think the UK needs stronger free speech protections, but saying that you'll be immediately jailed for writing unfriendly tweets is a huge stretch)

JustSkyfall··on Claude Fable 5
Would be more impressive if the safeguards weren't so trigger-happy!
JustSkyfall··on Cloudflare to cut about 20% workforce
It's interesting how every time there's a layoff, the blog post always has a title like "Preparing for what's next" or "An update on our workforce" or "Getting ready for the agentic era"!
JustSkyfall··on Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX
Probably a good idea in all honesty. xAI is a deeply unserious lab
JustSkyfall··on Ghostty is leaving GitHub
re: #1, Blacksmith (https://blacksmith.sh) exists and it works pretty well!
JustSkyfall··on Microsoft's 'unhackable' Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss'
I mean, considering that it's been 13 years since the release, I think they did pretty well!
JustSkyfall··on Launch HN: Didit (YC W26) – Stripe for Identity Verification
This is really cool (especially considering that the pricing is way better than Persona/Stripe Identity)!

That being said, what security measures does Didit take, and has it gone through e.g. auditing or SOC 2?

JustSkyfall··on How we rebuilt Next.js with AI in one week
Rails 8 is surprisingly good nowadays. It absolutely still has its share of problems (e.g. Bundler being slow, the frontend story being crappy without Inertia, lack of types which is a biggie, memory) but it is still a fantastic framework imo.
JustSkyfall··on Good Riddance, 4o
And I agree! It's something I touch upon halfway iirc, but their suffering shouldn't be something to laugh at or mock. It's genuinely upsetting to see to be honest.

At the same time though, I don't think it's healthy to let them go on with 4o either (especially since new users can start chatting with it)

JustSkyfall··on Good Riddance, 4o
People are not happy with this because 4o, at least from what I've heard, seems to be much more willing to go down the relationship/friend path than 5.2 and Claude and the like.
JustSkyfall··on Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass
My theory is that the vast majority of users won't have an Android with root access/a jailbroken iPhone, which reduces the risk of using a virtual camera? Then they can just block emulators/rooted/jailbroken devices which increases the barrier to entry.
JustSkyfall··on Hacking Moltbook
Supabase seriously needs to work on its messaging around RLS. I have seen _so_ many apps get hacked because the devs didn't add a proper RLS policy and end up exposing all of their data.

(As an aside, accessing the DB through the frontend has always been weird to me. You almost certainly have a backend anyway, use it to fetch the data!)

JustSkyfall··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
The government is somewhat complicit - there are even reports that the police take escapees back to their captives for a bribe
JustSkyfall··on How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills
You can definitely vibecode an app, but that doesn't mean that you can necessarily "get smarter"!

An example: I vibecoded myself a Toggl Track clone yesterday - it works amazingly but if I had to rewrite e.g. the PDF generation code by myself I wouldn't have a clue!

JustSkyfall··on Ask HN: Share your personal website
https://skyfall.dev - this post reminds me I should write more though!
JustSkyfall··on The Most Popular Blogs of Hacker News in 2025
Reading the article and randomly stumbling across my name was certainly something to say the least.. here’s to hoping my next posts are written in better circumstances though!
JustSkyfall··on Cloudflare was down
Seems to be back up?
JustSkyfall··on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues
Not if you’re using Workers/Pages!
JustSkyfall··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2025)
Location: near London

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Unfortunately not.

Technologies: Rust, TypeScript, Svelte, Astro, React. I do have some experience with Rails and can and have shipped features to production, but I'm not as comfortable with it as the other technologies.

Résumé/CV: Available on request

Email: hi@skyfall.dev

Hi! I’m a high-school student looking for a part-time role or internship at a company building something ambitious. I learn quickly, thrive in small teams (see below!) and love taking projects from idea to shipped product.

I currently volunteer for a nonprofit (for teens into STEM) called Hack Club [1], have ran programs there, and have also worked on some of their flagship programs - in other words, I'm no stranger to scrappy teams and can ship a project from start to finish.

Outside of Hack Club, I've worked on projects like Vortex, a tempmail service comprising of a custom SMTP server written in Rust, and a frontend made with React Router, a WakaTime plugin for Figma, and a bunch of others you can see on my website [3] and GitHub [4].

[1] https://hackclub.com. Super cool org, if you know folks aged 18 or under into tech then I think they'd really like it!

[2] https://vortex.skyfall.dev. Way too proud of this one :D

[3] https://skyfall.dev/projects. Not an exhaustive list!

[4] https://github.com/skyfallwastaken

JustSkyfall··on PlanetScale Offering $5 Databases
They’re pretty infamous for having constant outages and downtime, wouldn’t recommend for something serious
JustSkyfall··on Affinity Studio now free
You can use it without internet after the first signin!
JustSkyfall··on Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
No I haven't, I literally learned about this 30 minutes before starting the blog post. I don't think it's an unreasonable assumption that your service provider will not 40x your bill with a week's notice!
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