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foerster commented on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP   invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp... · Posted by u/andy99
ecosystem · 7 months ago
What do you mean by "private functions"? Do you mean unlisted, but publicly accessible HTTP endpoints?

Are they in your sitemap? robots.txt? Listed in JS or something else someone scraped?

foerster · 7 months ago
Just helper functions in our code, very distinct function names, suddenly attempted to get invoked by bingbot as http endpoints.

They’re some helper functions, python, in controller files. And bing started trying to invoke them as http endpoints.

foerster commented on GitHub MCP exploited: Accessing private repositories via MCP   invariantlabs.ai/blog/mcp... · Posted by u/andy99
foerster · 7 months ago
We had private functions in our code suddenly get requested by bingbot traffic…. Had to be from copilot/openai.

We saw an influx of 404 for these invalid endpoints, and they match private function names that weren’t magically guessed..

foerster commented on Show HN: Which animal shares your body fat percentage?   animalbodyfatmatch.netlif... · Posted by u/Atallapr
anon84873628 · a year ago
Yeah, 3.5% would make you leaner than many Mr. Olympia competitors! And nearly at the point of negative health effects.

It's a shame when people use those electronic home scales and believe the results. Someone was so happy to tell me they were at 10% body fat, I could only smile and nod...

Most healthy people would have difficulty dropping below 10-12% without very deliberate effort. And beyond that would probably be kinda freaked out when they start to see all the veins and striations appearing.

foerster · a year ago
I got down to about 6% for a bodybuilding show. It was incredible to look at, but also literally painful to bump into any hard surface, to sit on any hard surface, etc. The amount of bony protrusions you have when the body fat is gone is eye opening. I walk around at 10-13% typically, then lean down for summer and shows.

Most people at 30+ lbs further away from 'having abs' than they think. I see it time and time again.

foerster commented on Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol   supabase.com/blog/s3-comp... · Posted by u/inian
jonplackett · 2 years ago
Dear supabase. Please don’t get bought out by anyone and ruined. I’ve built too many websites with a supabase backend now to go back.
foerster · 2 years ago
I'm a bit terrified of this as well. I have built a profitable product on the platform, and it were to drastically change or go away, I'd be hosed.
foerster commented on Supabase Storage now supports the S3 protocol   supabase.com/blog/s3-comp... · Posted by u/inian
foerster · 2 years ago
no feedback on this in particular, but I love supabase. I use it for several projects and it's been great.

I was hesitant to use triggers and PG functions initially, but after I got my migrations sorted out, it's been pretty awesome.

foerster commented on Airbnb nightly rates shot up 36% in 3 years   thepointsguy.com/news/air... · Posted by u/lxm
bluetidepro · 3 years ago
The article touches up on it, but the "Additional fees and upfront pricing" is my biggest frustration with Airbnb that they refuse to fix (it's an easy solution, in my opinion).

Hosts want to show lower prices, so in search you don't see all the fees, but then when you get all the way down the funnel you finally see these completely ridiculous fees (usually around cleaning) of what you'll actual pay. I don't understand why Airbnb is still on the side of hosts with this. They need to change the UX, and it would expose so much of the BS hosts try to pull around rates. This would quickly kill the need for hosts to try to game the system like they do now.

Also in general, I refuse to use Airbnb these days when it's not only more than a hotel, but the audacity of some hosts have for checking out is hilariously dumb (cleaning, vacuuming, laundry, etc.). The reliability of hosts is all over the place, I see so many horror stories of last minute cancellations, hosts trying to pull one over on guests, and other sketchy practices they continue to allow.

Note: I could be wrong now though (maybe they do show up front pricing now/), but they already burned the bridge where I stopped even looking at them as an option.

Note (again): I just checked, and it does show a "total cost" in search, but it's still pretty deceptive. It should just be baked into the single nightly cost, and not a separate cost where you have to do the math to figure it all out. They should kill fees all together. Have it so it's just left at the hands of the host to make into a single cost that they want to charge per night, and simplify it.

foerster · 3 years ago
I'm curious, what kind of fees are hosts charging? I have a rental condo on AirBNB, our cleaning fee is $180, which is exactly what my cleaning company charges me to perform the clean.
foerster commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)    · Posted by u/whoishiring
foerster · 5 years ago
SecuraStock| Full Stack Software Engineer | ONSITE Northeast Ohio | $90-120K | Full-time | https://securastock.com

We are hiring an experienced software engineer to join our team, developing software for our inventory management systems. We are a small (but growing) company. The incoming engineer will have a direct impact on our customers and the success of the company. You'll wear a lot of hats, from adding new features, fixing bugs, possibly interfacing with various hardware products, integrating a new front-end library, scaling the server infrastructure, etc.

We seek a smart engineer with broad experience with linux, python, aws, etc. We have some interesting scaling problems to address as well, so experience with concepts of scaling within aws would be a benefit.

Candidate must be within driving distance to come in to the office as needed, but can also work from home.

Contact me if interested: bob@securastock.com

u/foerster

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