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antihero··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
Israel wants the Palestinian land. Many of them would be happy to raze Gaza to nothing and rebuild it.
antihero··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
I mean, all of it? Maybe someone born post rewrite will think wow AI made a cool thing but nobody is going whoa Postgres is made purely by AI?
antihero··on My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite
You really think people should hide their honest opinions about others because they receive money from them?

What an awful corporate mindset.

antihero··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
But that's the thing, without the decades of work, it wouldn't BE trivial.

Everyone is standing on the shoulders of those which came before. If LLMs allow us to combine the incredible decades of effort and knowledge and experiences that's gone into building something as great as Postgres, and take that and combine the experience and philosophy that has led to the creation of a language that potentially provides tangible benefits, and for far less human time and effort that it would have otherwise taken...surely something that should be celebrated as absolutely incredible?

antihero··on If you're a button, you have one job
They aren’t purely for that, they also contribute to how an application feels to use in a creative manner.
antihero··on Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable
Careful with that dangerous knowledge, you’ll end up in a list.
antihero··on Claude Fable 5
I asked it what the cheapest train fare would be for my partner to get somewhere and it hallucinated the two together railcard rules to the point it would have got us a fine. That said, British train fares are arguably more convoluted than even the most complex software application.
antihero··on Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
Ah, thanks for your write up - was just reading it when I saw the comment.

This has royally fucked a lot of people.

antihero··on The perils of UUID primary keys in SQLite
Doesn't Postgres' UUID type just do this for you anyway?

Why would you store it as as str column and not the inbuilt type for this?

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/datatype-uuid.html

If you are using SQLite well I guess that doesn't work.

antihero··on Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
Nope, the public repos are what the on-machine payload creates. Sorry, I worded that wrong, I meant it exfiltrates to.

The main attack is using compromised repo keys to:

* Create malicious actions to JSON dump and exfiltrate all GitHub org secrets.

* Commit the payload delivering hooks/scripts to any repo/PR it has access to.

* Mimics previous commits/timestamps, however you can see the key that did it by seeing the push in activity/audit logs.

antihero··on Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
We're trying to figure this out, we've nailed it to the developer machine but not sure how that machine got infected. Possibly through GHA.
antihero··on Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js
Attack is called "Hades - The End for the Damned", it exfiltrates secrets including ALL ORG GITHUB ACTIONS SECRETS via creating compromised actions, through GitHub public repos with encrypted payloads.
antihero··on Uber president says AI spending is getting 'harder to justify'
Nah in competitive industries you need to build features and out compete people and getting AI to do that whilst architecting things well due to experience and having time to think more about the important stuff but have a lot of the more boilerplate and simple things ABs plumbing etc handled by agents is great.

When you try to replace your entire brain with AI things are going to go wrong.

antihero··on Claude for Small Business
Our company started monitoring our Claude usage so I've started coding personal stuff manually again and it's...really fun!
antihero··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
Yeah, this is pretty good devex from the hackers.
antihero··on Postmortem: TanStack NPM supply-chain compromise
I would prefer my builds to break than the ecosystem to be compromised.

That said, once unpublished the version should be permanently unavailable to prevent publishing over known good versions.

antihero··on Claude Opus 4.7
Am I going to have to make it rewrite all the stuff 4.6 did?
antihero··on State of Homelab 2026
It's free and simple and handles HTTPS termination and can be set up easily using terraform/pulumi.

Interestingly, in the early hours of this morning I switched from Cloudflare Tunnels to a rathole/traefik based solution (well, currently it's port forwarding and a low grade home-baked dyndns solution until I get paid and can afford a cheap hetzner box because I spent all of my money again).

I switched back because I didn't like the added complexity of having to manage the routes, what I'm using it for is technically against ToS, and I like the self-contained nature of my microk8s cluster.

antihero··on State of Homelab 2026
I actually really like not having to worry if some licensing deal means my access to music I love gets shut off.
antihero··on State of Homelab 2026
Can tailscale funnel do custom domains yet?

Personally I'm switching to rathole+traefik, weirdly something I was researching and experimenting with in the early hours of this morning (I have now not slept and have to go to work).

antihero··on State of Homelab 2026
It is nice to download an app and then just point it at a public URL as opposed to having to rely on the device being in the same tailnet.
antihero··on Apple has removed most of the towns and villages in Lebanon from Apple maps?
What purpose would this serve in any way?

Could it be that their data source is tied to satellite data that is now being blacked out?

antihero··on Project Glasswing: Securing critical software for the AI era
Business idea for Anthropic: What if they provided (likely costly) audits, without providing access to the model?
antihero··on Show HN: Optio – Orchestrate AI coding agents in K8s to go from ticket to PR
Yep, I was gastowning some draft PRs to get a prototype built quickly. The polecat FE PR managed to request a review from @claude (normal ok), and then given that in isolation the PR was fine due to having hardcoded draft schemas (though it was deliberately only ever going to work against a PR deployed version of the API that was also draft), decided to enable auto-merge, such that the PR actually merged and luckily I caught the CI/CD run and locked deployments, however, it would have taken down the site and pointed it to staging.
antihero··on Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan
npm is claiming this doesn’t exist
antihero··on Show HN: Optio – Orchestrate AI coding agents in K8s to go from ticket to PR
And what stops it making total garbage that wrecks your codebase?
antihero··on Thoughts on slowing the fuck down
Well that's the thing, AI can mean anyone with an idea can build it, but only the people that own stuff will be able to leverage that to own more stuff.
antihero··on Nightingale – open-source karaoke app that works with any song on your computer
This looks like awesome awesome fun! Will let you know how it runs. What a wonderful idea <3
antihero··on Have a fucking website
If OP feels "humiliated" reading a silly item from a menu their dominatrix must have the easiest job in the fucking world.
antihero··on Launch an autonomous AI agent with sandboxed execution in 2 lines of code
You just set up CI/CD on GitHub and have it dump an image into ghcr it’s trivial. Claude excells at seeing up workflows. I don't know why anyone bothers with Dockerhub at all really.
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