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Great job! I've tried to test their tool as well, but was totally paywalled.
Well be great if you've mitigated this as well: https://notcve.org/view.php?id=NotCVE-2026-0001
Re:Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works? on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:26AM (#46704704)
I can just tell you, that my whole website with the complex logic and systems (based on Astro), which produce more scientific metadata in html code than Nature journal, was spec-coded by me using Github Copilot. But this is my pet project, not an enterprise battle tested one with thousands of users, but it still works: https://david-osipov.vision/en/
Re:SETI@home is in hiberation on Wednesday January 21, 2026 @07:20AM (#46704641)
Wait, they have been in hibernation for almost several years, why to publish it now?
Re:A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela on Thursday January 15, 2026 @06:20AM (#46630958)
There is a nuance here for Cloudflare users that makes this problematic.

While analyzing the Jabber.ru incident (which used this exact BGP->TLS vector), I discovered that Cloudflare's "Universal SSL" actively injects permissive CAA records that override user-defined restrictions.

If a user sets a strict accounturi CAA record (RFC 8657) to lock issuance to their specific account—specifically to prevent BGP hijackers from getting a cert—Cloudflare's system automatically appends a wildcard record alongside it to keep their automation working. Because CAs accept any valid record, this effectively nullifies the protection.

It creates a situation where you think you have mitigated the BGP risk via DNS, but the vendor has silently reopened the door.

I wrote up the technical analysis of this override behavior here: https://david-osipov.vision/en/blog/cybersecurity/cloudflare...

Re:Why is the Gmail app 700 MB? on Tuesday January 06, 2026 @01:46PM (#46516666)
Spot on! We tried to somehow reduce the libcef size in our B2B app - barely could do that. We had to employ some fancy compression techniques, but still this thing is huge!
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Re:Web development is fun again on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:41AM (#46497288)
A product manager here. Thanks to AI, I was able to create my own website on Astro. I was so fascinated by web technologies, that I didn't realize when I created not just a website, but a blazing fast website with extensive amount of metadata generation (Json-LD, OG, microformats, Dublin Core, PRISM, RSL 1.0, Highwire Press, FAIR singposting, MODS generation) and so on. Thanks to this pet project, I'm now quite capable as a software architect of websites. And it is really fun!
Re:I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019) on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:35AM (#46497242)
But look, they occupied his time for 7 weeks full-time. He could have taken another project (opportunity cost) if not for this project. I mean, the inefficiencies of their business processes are not his point of concern - they occupied his time and they should pay for it.
Re:Why Microsoft Store Discontinued Support for Office Apps on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:13AM (#46497085)
No idea why have they created these MS Store versions. The same for MS Store Edge browser - it was (or is) just a downloader of an exe file from their webservers - useless piece of an app
Re:During Helene, I just wanted a plain text website on Monday January 05, 2026 @05:10AM (#46497064)
I'm not a web developer, but a product manager, and recently I've created my own website using Astro. I do support the point, that its better to have a relatively simple static website - it's really fast and lightweight! An average Wordpress website would weight 1 MB+ in best case, in worst case - 4 MB+. I don't know how people think it's a good idea to have a compressed webpage to be 4 MB!! Let's KISS