HackerTrans
TopNewTrendsCommentsPastAskShowJobs

antihero

7,433 karmajoined 16 वर्ष पहले
https://news.ycombinator.com/news

Submissions

Supply chain attack alert: .github/setup.js

27 points·by antihero·पिछला माह·14 comments

comments

antihero
·11 घंटे पहले·discuss
The margins/padding on stuff and the sizing is very haphazard.
antihero
·11 घंटे पहले·discuss
Neat, could it leverage https://github.com/apple/container
antihero
·4 दिन पहले·discuss
Doesn’t Eastern Ukraine have more resources and more ethnic Russians?
antihero
·4 दिन पहले·discuss
Israel wants the Palestinian land. Many of them would be happy to raze Gaza to nothing and rebuild it.
antihero
·4 दिन पहले·discuss
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
·4 दिन पहले·discuss
You really think people should hide their honest opinions about others because they receive money from them?

What an awful corporate mindset.
antihero
·5 दिन पहले·discuss
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
·9 दिन पहले·discuss
They aren’t purely for that, they also contribute to how an application feels to use in a creative manner.
antihero
·पिछला माह·discuss
Careful with that dangerous knowledge, you’ll end up in a list.
antihero
·पिछला माह·discuss
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
·पिछला माह·discuss
Ah, thanks for your write up - was just reading it when I saw the comment.

This has royally fucked a lot of people.
antihero
·पिछला माह·discuss
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
·पिछला माह·discuss
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
·पिछला माह·discuss
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
·पिछला माह·discuss
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
·2 माह पहले·discuss
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
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Our company started monitoring our Claude usage so I've started coding personal stuff manually again and it's...really fun!
antihero
·2 माह पहले·discuss
Yeah, this is pretty good devex from the hackers.
antihero
·2 माह पहले·discuss
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
·3 माह पहले·discuss
Am I going to have to make it rewrite all the stuff 4.6 did?