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    Comment #49117230

    Other side of that though, touch the bottom of a stack and every layer above it re-runs. Stack unwinding, basically.

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    Comment #48914158

    Most of the malicious ones just curl something in a postinstall script, scanners already catch that. The sneaky ones don't look malicious until they run, and three days may not hel…

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    Comment #48469273

    Build tooling still runs though. Your bundler plugin or PostCSS transform gets full fs access at build time, nobody's auditing that.

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    Comment #48286974

    It may depend on the runtime giving you a sync wait that doesn't deadlock the loop you came from. In JS you just can't. `dontawait` would need V8 to be a different VM.

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    Comment #48089342

    The box itself is probably fine. It's the path between you and it. In shared infrastructure one compromised hop somewhere upstream is enough and now you're SSHing into the wrong th…

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    Comment #47870276

    Reviewing isn't hard when the diff is what you asked for. It's when you asked for a one-line fix and get back 40 changed lines across four files. At that point you're not even revi…

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    Comment #47842642

    Half the time I just grep the ticket key in Slack because it's faster than using Jira's own search.

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    Comment #47745325

    This isn't really about centralization. ISPs are blocking at the IP level, not Docker Hub specifically. You could self-host a registry behind Cloudflare and still run into the same…

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    Comment #47609381

    Started from a thread on "Slop is not necessarily the future" ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47587953 ). I commented that technical debt from sloppy code shows up too late …

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    Comment #47594680

    How long does that take though? Technical debt from sloppy code doesn't show up in the product until way later. By the time users notice, the team is already three features deep an…

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    Comment #47447095

    The intention part is right but the bottleneck is review. AI is really good at turning your clean semantic functions into pragmatic ones without you noticing. You ask for a feature…

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    Comment #47435532

    Yeah the raw parse speed comparison is almost a red herring at this point. The real cost with JSON is when you have a 200MB manifest or build artifact and you need exactly two fiel…

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    Comment #47405915

    The part that gets me is when it passes lint, passes tests, and the logic is technically correct, but it quietly changed how something gets called. Rename a parameter. Wrap a retur…

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    Comment #47358592

    The worst version of this I've seen is when every layer is like four lines long. You step into a function expecting some logic and it's just calling another function with slightly …