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Write code like a human will maintain it

Article URL: https://unstack.io/write-code-like-a-human-will-maintain-it Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859701 Points: 318 # Comments: 263

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Punk, or why I don't stream anymore

Article URL: https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/05/03/punk-or-why-i-dont-stream.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859671 Points: 195 # Comments: 229

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New MODBEACON RAT Uses gRPC Streaming for Encrypted C2 Traffic

The China-linked cybercrime group known as Silver Fox has been attributed to a new Rust-based remote access trojan (RAR) called MODBEACON. Chinese cybersecurity company QiAnXin said that while the threat cluster may appear like a low-sophistication, high-activity operation that propagates malware via counterfeit installers using SEO poisoning techniques, it belies their true organizational

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Replacing Direct Storage URLs With a Media Proxy at Scale

The first enterprise client to use our automated reporting feature filed an escalation. Every image in their weekly email was a broken red X, every single one. No thumbnails rendered, so the report was effectively unusable. There was no bug. The code did exactly what I'd designed it to do months earlier, which was the problem. I had stored raw third-party storage URLs in our database and passed them straight to the frontend. Image tags, video tags, email templates — all of them pointed at someon

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