Readit News> but because we have this data (file name, etc.) passed back and forth between different layers in the code. we were doing lots of .clone() and db.open() at different layers to fetch the same data. The interesting part for me was that, this change reduced our
Reduced your what? The article seems to be cut off.
ah! sorry. I meant to say, "the interesting part for me was that we removed code to improve performance."
I don't know what to say.
I did my graduate in Privacy Engineering and it was just layers and layers of threat modeling and risk mitigation. When the mother of all risk comes. People just give the key to their personal lives without even thinking about it.
At the end of the day, users just want "simple" and security, for obvious reasons is not simple. So nobody is going to respect it
suriya-ganesh commented on GitHub experience various partial-outages/degradations githubstatus.com?todayis=... · Posted by u/bhouston
It is always a config problem. somewhere somplace in the mess of permissioning issues.
suriya-ganesh commented on Where to Sleep in LAX cadence.moe/blog/2025-12-... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
I ended up at LAX 5 am for an 8 am flight. nobody in the whole airport, no TSA nothing until 6 am.
i took a very uncomfortable nap on the floor that day.
suriya-ganesh commented on Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes · Posted by u/Haakam21
Interesting take, but this feels like one of those tarpit ideas that YC discourages their portco to start attacking.
Guaranteed this is going to attract a ton of abusers who are looking to use this for signing up to services, spamming or other nefarious purposes, which then blacklists the doman. This is an infinite whack-a-mole.
do you guys have some ways of handling it?
suriya-ganesh commented on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE nbcnews.com/tech/internet... · Posted by u/duxup
I don't know signal very well but when I have spoken to others about it they mention that the phone number is the only metadata they will have access to.
This seems like a good example of that being enough metadata to be a big problem.
but this is not a technical attack that returns the metadata.
much more closer to the $5 wrench attack
the reason why I thought this PR was interesting is that, it only needed ~ 4 lines of real change, everything else was cascades due to that change. and the performance did improve with that "pointless formatting and whitespace changes"