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Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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Post by atonse »

ctmnt wrote: post #49
gritzko wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work on a revision control system project, except merge is CRDT. On Feb 22 there was a server break-in (I did not keep unencrypted sources on the client, server login was YubiKey only, but that is not 100% guarantee). I reported break-in to my Telegram channel that day. My design docs https://replicated.wiki/blog/partII.html I used tree-sitter for coarse AST. Some key parts were missing from the server as well, bec…

Also, evil maids, what?

I can't speak for the specificity of parent's "evil maids" phrase but the concept of an "Evil maid" is used in security scenarios.

A maid tends to be an example of a person who's mostly a stranger, but is given unmonitored access to your most private spaces for prolonged periods of time. So they theoretically become a good vector for a malicious actor to say "hey I'll give you $$ if you just plug in this USB drive in his bedroom laptop next time you're cleaning his house" - it's often used in the scenario of "ok what if someone has physical access to your resource for a prolonged period of time without you noticing? what are your protections there?"

I wonder if that's what OP meant? :-)

Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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Post by gritzko »

ctmnt wrote: post #46
gritzko wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work on a revision control system project, except merge is CRDT. On Feb 22 there was a server break-in (I did not keep unencrypted sources on the client, server login was YubiKey only, but that is not 100% guarantee). I reported break-in to my Telegram channel that day. My design docs https://replicated.wiki/blog/partII.html I used tree-sitter for coarse AST. Some key parts were missing from the server as well, bec…

Wait, are you suggesting that OP broke in to your server and stole code and is republishing it as these repos? I have questions. Have you reviewed the code here to see if it matches? What, more specifically, do you mean when you say someone broke in? What makes you think that this idea (which is nice but not novel) is worth stealing? If that sounds snarky, it’s not meant to; just trying to understand what’s going on.…

1. Just saying, strange coincidence

2. How can we compare Claude's output in a different language?

3. Detecting break-ins and handling evil-maids: unless the trick is already known on the internets, I do not disclose. Odds are not in my favor.

4. Maybe worth, maybe not. I have my adaptations. Trying to make it not worthy of stealing, in fact.

Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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Post by atonse »

gritzko wrote: post #38
red_hare wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is OP using Claude relevant?

OK for prototyping. Not OK for prod use if noone actually read it line by line.

Sorry but these are just not accurate as blanket statements anymore, given how good the models have gotten.

As other similar projects have pointed out, if you have a good test suite and a way for the model to validate its correctness, you can get very good results. And you can continue to iterate, optimize, code review, etc.

Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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Post by gritzko »

atonse wrote: post #51
ctmnt wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, evil maids, what?

I can't speak for the specificity of parent's "evil maids" phrase but the concept of an "Evil maid" is used in security scenarios. A maid tends to be an example of a person who's mostly a stranger, but is given unmonitored access to your most private spaces for prolonged periods of time. So they theoretically become a good vector for a malicious actor to say "hey I'll give you $$ if you just plug in this USB drive in…

"Evil maids" (example): I put my laptop into a safe, seal the safe, seal the room, go to breakfast. On return, I see there was cleaning (not the usual time, I know the hotel), the cleaner looks strangely confused, the seal on the safe is detached (that is often done by applying ice; adhesive hardens, seal goes off). This level of paranoia was not my norm. Had to learn these tricks cause problems happened (repeatedly). In fact, I frequented that hotel, knew customs and the staff, so noticed irregularities.

Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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Post by [deleted] »

atonse wrote: post #51
ctmnt wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also, evil maids, what?

I can't speak for the specificity of parent's "evil maids" phrase but the concept of an "Evil maid" is used in security scenarios. A maid tends to be an example of a person who's mostly a stranger, but is given unmonitored access to your most private spaces for prolonged periods of time. So they theoretically become a good vector for a malicious actor to say "hey I'll give you $$ if you just plug in this USB drive in…

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Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

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Post by [deleted] »

sluongng wrote: post #2

Oh this is really neat for the Bazel community, as depending on tree-sitter to build a gazelle language extension, with Gazelle written in Go, requires you to use CGO. Now perhaps we can get rid of the CGO dependency and make it pure Go instead. I have pinged some folks to take a look at it.

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Re: Show HN: I ported Tree-sitter to Go

#60

Post by odvcencio »

up2isomorphism wrote: post #53

"rewrite" a nice code base without mentioning it is vibe coded is not great. Essentially you use AI to somehow re-implement the original code base in a different language, made it somehow work, and claim it is xx times faster. It is misleading.

i really appreciated this comment the most because of how much work "somehow" is doing here
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