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Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of cons...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:40AM (#49008573)
the video requires signing up for Yubikey spam.
https://app.livestorm.co/yubico-y/securing-trusted-actions-a...
Re:Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of cons...
on Wednesday July 22, 2026 @11:22AM (#49008260)
Listening to Yubikey and OnePassword talk about this, they actually say "One Person, One Device". Which really speaks to their failure to understand their users.
Re:Ask HN: When has a "dumb" solution beaten a sophisticated one for you?
on Saturday January 10, 2026 @10:20PM (#46572410)
The common one I fought long ago was folks who always use regular expressions when what they want is a string match, or contains, or other string library function.
Re:Ongoing Viral SendGrid Phishing Attack
on Monday January 05, 2026 @06:30PM (#46506689)
Can confirm. Got the same e-mail sent to my Sendgrid registered e-mail address.
Fortunately I also got an e-mail from one of the apps I have that uses Sendgrid so I assumed it was phishing and logged in by hand to check.
Re:Ask HN: Changing Developer Career Specialty
on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:38PM (#44595190)
If I were interviewing you for an Embedded position I would ask questions about how your skills with .NET and React applied to your embedded projects.
I would review your github repo and ask about the embedded projects there and what lessons you learned, and how they were different than a .NET project.
Changing specialties is rough, but I have done it more than once. Embedded is a strange space, but you can break in.
Re:Ask HN: How do you drive adoption when your product requires a beha...
on Friday April 18, 2025 @07:46PM (#43732898)
My former CEO would tell you "if you depend on people changing their nature, your product is not likely to succeed".
Re:Show HN: I Made a Quiz to Roast Developers (Its Accurate ASF)
on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:33PM (#43536919)
I got Duct Tape Developer.
No lie detected.
Re:What major changes have happened in back end software engineering
on Friday January 31, 2025 @12:07AM (#42884855)
You should check out both Go and Rust as new languages that are excellent for back end services. If you want to explore a little more, also give Zig a try for a toy project.
Re:Ask HN: Did anyone figure out copyright laws of LLM output?
on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:59AM (#42854688)
USPTO says: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/
Re:Ask HN: Do technical interviewers feel guilty about their hard ques...
on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @03:51PM (#42716768)
I ask hard questions to see how you handle them. One of the most important things you can say in a technical interview is "I don't know". You can't know everything, and how you handle running off the end of your knowledge says a lot.
Re:Ask HN: How do you use HTTP status codes in REST APIs?
on Thursday December 19, 2024 @09:53AM (#42461911)
This is a question I use when interviewing devs for writing REST API.
The answer is either way, and it depends on the tooling you are using. If you are relying on a client library that doesn't handle HTTP errors in the way you want, then you return a 200 - OK {"error": "bad request"}. If the client library does what you want, then returning a limited selection of 4xx errors is very useful for letting the client know what happened quickly and easily.
Personally, I default to using the HTTP error codes. But I know that some really large companies don't agree, and always return a 200 OK to any valid request.
Re:Ask HN: How do you conduct technical interviews in the LLM era?
on Thursday November 28, 2024 @03:30PM (#42268348)
for the programming part, I ask them to get the answer from the LLM and then code review the solution as part of the interview.
Re:Ask HN: What databases are you working with day to day?
on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @09:48AM (#35787341)
MySQL
Redis