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hotdogs··on Ask HN: How do you automate file upload to GitHub?
If it's JSON it sounds more like config than code. Does it actually need to live in the GitHub repo? Could your application read it from an external location (where ever the rest of your configs live) and reload it on an API call or periodically?
hotdogs··on OpenSSH introduces options to penalize undesirable behavior
The certificates have a validity window that sshd also checks. So the CA can sign a certificate for a short window (hours), until the user has to request a new one.
hotdogs··on RSA/SHA1 signature type disabled by default in OpenSSH
To tag onto this, modern means OpenSSH 7.2 (released February 2016) or newer. Currently running an enterprise-wide SSH certificate service, and trying to push people along to update their old VMs in preparation for this deprecation.
hotdogs··on Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019
Huh, it's been about a decade since I last visited Pittsburgh, I had no idea. Thanks for sharing.
hotdogs··on Highest Paying Tech Companies of 2019
What's in Pittsburgh driving the median so high? I know Carnegie Mellon is there, but I was not aware of any sort of commercial tech hub.
hotdogs··on Equifax doesn't want consumers to get their $125
I think not quite everyone was affected, it was supposedly 147M people. You can check if your information was included in the breach on the settlement site.
hotdogs··on Dark Mode for Slack
Yeah, but they got to gradually develop "Slack Kit" and release a blog post patting themselves on the back for doing so to fulfill a 5 year old feature request. You can't just do that in CSS!
hotdogs··on I was seven words away from being spear-phished
The original spearphishing targeted Coinbase employees, not their users. It seems once that failed, the people behind this cast a wider net.
hotdogs··on The Mueller Report [pdf]
Ah, thanks, I didn't see a table of contents for it so I figured it'd be a separate doc.
hotdogs··on The Mueller Report [pdf]
It says part I of II, is the second part located anywhere?
hotdogs··on Generating More of My Favorite Aphex Twin Track
Great writeup, generative.fm is awesome, I'll definitely be using that when I need to focus and nothing in my music library appeals to me.
hotdogs··on Ask HN: How did you decide what problems to solve in your lifetime?
> Solve the data format problem. Make it easier for everyone to exchange data in meaningful, efficient ways.

https://xkcd.com/927/

The whole field feels like such a mess to deal with what basically boils down to text/numerical data. You could probably spend the rest of your life just writing parsers to consolidate different data formats. I truly don't believe healthcare will be solved by technology until there is a single ubiquitous format. It's really a problem of policy, and I won't purport to know the answer or who should be solving the issue, but I don't think it's ever going to be solved by one person at a keyboard.

There are standards such as HL7/FHIR, but in my experience, most companies incorrectly or partially implement the spec, and then it might as well be something else.

hotdogs··on How Discord handles over a million requests per minute with Elixir’s GenStage
"Obviously a few notifications were dropped. If a few notifications weren’t dropped, the system may never have recovered, or the Push Collector might have fallen over."

How many is a few? It looks like the buffer reaches about 50k, does a few mean literally in the single digits or 100s?

hotdogs··on Headphones can be hijacked to surreptitiously record audio
"Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You" Ironic coming from Wired, one of the most ad/tracker infested sites you could visit.
hotdogs··on Show HN: Text Nina, your personal list assistant
A way to name/share a list (so two people can push to it) would also be cool. I know myself and my s/o would use it to make a shared grocery list.