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m90 commented on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran cnn.com/2026/02/28/middle... · Posted by u/lavp

dismalaf · 15 days ago

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/i...

> defending the mullahs wasn't exactly on my bingo card, but here we are...

Propaganda is a hell of a drug.

m90 · 15 days ago

So how do the recurring airstrikes help the protesters?

m90 commented on NPM to implement staged publishing after turbulent shift off classic tokens socket.dev/blog/npm-to-im... · Posted by u/feross

jonkoops · 2 months ago

I really think that the main issue is that NPM itself will execute any script that is in the "postinstall" section of a package, without asking the user for permission. This is a solved problem in other package managers, e.g. PNPM will only run scripts if the user allows them to, and store the allowlist in the package.json file for future reference.

In this scenario, if a dependency were to add a "postinstall" script because it was compromised, it would not execute, and the user can review whether it should, greatly reducing the attack surface.

m90 · 2 months ago

Wouldn't this just make the number of packages that can be targeted smaller? E.g. I publish a testrunner that needs to install Headless Chrome if not present via postinstall. People trust me and put the package on their allowlist. My account gets compromised and a malicious update is published. People execute malicious code they have never vetted.

I do understand this is still better than npm right now, but it's still broken.

m90 commented on Django 6 docs.djangoproject.com/en... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp

blagie · 3 months ago

"Fun" isn't the same thing as "functional."

I remember having great fun in QuickBASIC. And my son enjoys Scratch.

Django code is much more fun to work with than Node, but I can't imagine developing something competitive in it in 2025 to what I'm developing in Node. Node is a pain in the butt, but at the end of the day, competitiveness is about what you deliver to the user, not how much fun you have along the way.

* I think the most fundamental problems are developer-base/libraries and being able to use the same code client-side and server-side.

* Django was also written around the concept of views and templates and similar, rather than client-side web apps, and the structure reflects that.

* While it supports async and web sockets, those aren't as deep in the DNA as for most Node (or even aiohttp) apps.

* Everything I do now is reactive. That's just a better way to work than compiling a page with templates.

I won't even mention mobile. But how you add that is a big difference too.

It's very battery-included, but many of the batteries (e.g. server-side templating language) are 2005-era nickel cadmium rather than 2025-era lithium ion.

I would love to see a modern Node framework as pleasant to work with, thought-out, engineered, documented, supported, designed, etc. as well as Django, but we're nowhere close to there yet.

m90 · 3 months ago

You spell out a lot of examples, but all of them are purely technical. What is it that you can deliver to the user using Node that you cannot deliver using Django? This is a genuine question.

m90 commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

m90 · 3 months ago

Location: Berlin, Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, Golang, Python, PHP, Web Application development and (cloud) infrastructure

Résumé/CV: https://www.frederikring.com/experience/

Email: frederik.ring [at] posteo.de

I help individuals and small teams move fast by taking ownership of ambiguous, complex or unpredictable projects.

m90 commented on Show HN: I got tired of managing dev environments, so I built ServBay servbay.com... · Posted by u/Saltyfishh

m90 · 5 months ago

Congrats on building this. But, please do not auto translate your website content, English is fine. For my language the part about trust is really cringe, which is not really building trust, you know.

m90 commented on ERP Therapy Sucks taylor.town/try-erp... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

m90 · 6 months ago

Only tangentially related, but maybe helpful still: If you struggle with OCD, the books by Sally Winston and Martin Seif are pure gold. There's nothing that helped me finding a way to deal with OCD like they did.

m90 commented on Launch HN: Ghostship (YC S25) – AI agents that find bugs in your web app · Posted by u/jessechoe10

m90 · 6 months ago

Typo on your landing page: "GitHub PR Intergration" -> "GitHub PR Integration"

m90 commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

m90 · a year ago

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Berlin, Germany

Freelance software engineer with experience across a wide range of areas in web and software development. Skilled in delivering projects that require autonomy and focus.

Expertise includes JavaScript, Go, Python, and PHP, along with frameworks such as Node.js, Django, Flask, and Laravel. Proficient in cloud and infrastructure tools, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Serverless.

Capable of handling static websites, web applications, and custom cloud solutions with a focus on simplicity and thoughtful design.

  Contact: frederik.ring@posteo.de
  CV: https://www.frederikring.com/experience/
  GitHub: https://github.com/m90

m90 commented on The year I didn't survive bessstillman.substack.com... · Posted by u/LaurenSerino

dingnuts · a year ago

>Someone I used to work with, their wife was a professor at Rochester university and her research was around happiness. She would tell me that our baseline happiness in life is virtually constant (on large timescales, we all have good/bad days etc), there’s not much we can do to alter it in adulthood to shift it.

If you're someone who struggles with chronic depression this statement is extremely demoralizing. But it's also hearsay -- you're a stranger on the internet, so you want me to believe based on a stranger's colleague's wife's alleged research, that depression cannot be effectively treated?

If you want to share that researcher's work, provide a link. Keep your rumors, suppositions, and lay-person's doomer psychology to yourself, unless you are planning to make a post with direct citations that is in effect nothing like the comment you did leave.

People's lives depend on this. You can't just post "if you have depression you'll never be able to change it" cavalierly as though you are an expert and your post has no consequences.

Someone is going to read your supposition, your rumor, believe it, and despair.

m90 · a year ago

This is a well known concept called the "Hedonic Treadmill", which exists since the 70ies, not "doomer psychology". It also does not say treating depression is not possible. Depression is a disease.

m90 commented on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (February 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

m90 · a year ago

SEEKING WORK | Remote | Berlin, Germany

Freelance software engineer with experience across a wide range of areas in web and software development. Skilled in delivering well-defined, scoped projects that require autonomy and focus.

Expertise includes JavaScript, Go, Python, and PHP, along with frameworks such as Node.js, Django, Flask, and Laravel. Proficient in cloud and infrastructure tools, including AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Serverless.

Capable of handling static websites, web applications, and custom cloud solutions with a focus on simplicity and thoughtful design.

  Contact: frederik.ring@posteo.de
  CV: https://www.frederikring.com/experience/
  GitHub: https://github.com/m90