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Vercel April 2026 security incident

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Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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This is why you pay a real provider for serious business needs, not an AWS reseller. Next.js is a fundamentally insecure framework, as server components are an anti-pattern full of magic leading to stuff like the below. Given their standards for framework security, it's not hard to believe their business' control plane is just as insecure (and probably built using the same insecure framework). Next.js is the new PHP,…

Next.js is the polar opposite of PHP, in a way.

PHP was so simple and easy to understand that anyone with a text editor and some cheap shared hosting could pick it up, but also low level enough that almost nothing was magically done for you. The result was many inexperienced developers making really basic mistakes while implementing essential features that we now take for granted.

Frameworks like Next.js take the complete opposite approach, they are insanely complex but hide that complexity behind layers and layers of magic, actively discouraging developers from looking behind the curtain, and the result is that even experienced developers end up shooting themselves in the foot by using the magical incantations wrong.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like humans would be better at hyper targeting. AI agents have the benefit of working at scale, probably "better" used for mass targeting.

this like is saying email marketing is done better if you hand write every email. Thats true, but the hit rate is so low, that you are better off generating 1 million hyper personalized emails and firing them off into the ether

If you’re targeting a million people, I wouldn’t consider that a hyper targeted attack.

But I get your point.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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I'm on a macbook pro, Google Chrome 147.0.7727.56. Clicking the Vercel logo at the top left of the page hard crashes my Chrome app. Like, immediate crash. What an interesting bug.

Huh, curiously; I'm on Arch Linux, crash happens in Google Chrome (147.0.7727.101) for me too, but not in Firefox (149.0.2) nor even in Chromium (147.0.7727.101). I find it fun we're all reading a story how Vercel likely is compromised somehow, and managed to reproduce a crash on their webpage, so now we all give it a try. Surely could never backfire :)

Works in Safari too. Sounds like a Google Chrome thing.

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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post #4

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47824426 https://x.com/theo/status/2045862972342313374 > I have reason to believe this is credible. https://x.com/theo/status/2045870216555499636 > Env vars marked as sensitive are safe. Ones NOT marked as sensitive should be rolled out of precaution https://x.com/theo/status/2045871215705747965 > Everything I know about this hack suggests it could happen to any host http…

Who is this “theo” person and why are multiple people quoting him? He seems to have little to say that’s substantive at this point.

YT tech vlogger

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t he a Vercel evangelist though?

He is "whatever gives me short-term boost in popularity". Including doing 180 turns on whatever he's evangelizing or bashing.

Good for the content but would sponsors be on board long term?

Re: Vercel April 2026 security incident

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post #7

https://x.com/theo/status/2045871215705747965 - "Everything I know about this hack suggests it could happen to any host" He also suggests in another post that Linear and GitHub could also be pwned? Either way, hugops to all the SRE/DevOps out there, seems like it's going to be a busy Sunday for many.

Ah, Theo with his vast insights and connections into everything. That man gets around, and his content is worth it's cost. Theo's content boils down to the same boring formula. 1. Whatever buzzword headline is trending at the time 2. Immediate sponsored ad that is supposed to make you sympathize with Theo cause he "vets" his sponsors. 3. The man makes you listen to a "that totally happened" story that he somehow alwa…

I just wanted to chime in and say I think he is knowledgeable; he's not a con. I know you didn't say that, but people might have the impression he doesn't know what he's talking about. He does know, and I've learned quite a lot from him in the past.

However, since the LLM Cambria explosion, he has become very clickbaity, and his content has become shallow. I don't watch his videos anymore.

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