Hasnain says:

“Service businesses have always been the easiest to start because there’s no R&D phase. But they’ve historically been tough to grow because the main ways to grow were raising prices, hiring, or pruning your service into a product. If AI keeps getting better (a guarantee) but doesn’t quite get to superhuman abilities (big question mark), there will be lots of automation opportunities that let you grow your service business beyond the traditional constraints.”

Hasnain says:

The challenges they hit were eminently predictable - but it was still cool to read about their earlier use of SQLite.

“Overall, this migration proved to be a massive success. Shepherd is now better equipped to handle a higher volume of business and priced risks. We no longer need to worry about application/database coupling, and our engineering team’s velocity continues to grow.”

Hasnain says:

“This last snippet is probably not UB-safe and is GCC-specific. But the point stands: you can write completely alien and befuddling code in C without making it unreadable.”

Hasnain says:

"Guthrie, who is a hunter, says he wasn’t deterred by the thousands of years the bison had aged, nor the prospect of getting sick. “That would take a very special kind of microorganism [to make me sick],” he says. “And I eat frozen meat all the time, of animals that I kill or my neighbors kill. And they do get kind of old after three years in the freezer.”"

Hasnain says:

"I think this is a very interesting topic, that can serve as an introduction to understand other dynamic languages such as Javascript, where similar ideas are used for exploitation. For this reason, this is an in-depth explaination of the vulnerability, so that it can be used by others as a reference to understand how these attacks work."

Hasnain says:

"Shipping slowly should merit a post-mortem as much as breaking production does. Our industry doesn’t run like that, but that doesn’t mean you can’t personally follow the north star of Shipping Fast."

Hasnain says:

"Importantly, you could also describe XAES-256-GCM entirely in terms of a standard NIST SP 800-108r1 KDF and the standard NIST AES-256-GCM AEAD (NIST SP 800-38D, FIPS 197)."

Hasnain says:

“There was no vote Ruth Bader Ginsburg cast and no decision she authored that was as consequential as her decision not to retire. ♦”

Hasnain says:

I don’t get why he had to brag about it online. He had gotten away with it!

“The investigation into Anand started after a moderator on the social media site Reddit notified Lehigh University of a post that was titled, "I have built my life and career on lies," officials explained.”

Hasnain says:

““Dictatorship doesn’t happen suddenly. It’s chipped away piece by piece. That’s why we need to stop it at the beginning,” said Hamadmad, who remembers asking to be read her Miranda rights, to which the officer replied, “No, I don’t have to.” Unbeknownst to her at the time, the Supreme Court had silently rolled back many of the protections guaranteed by the famous 1966 Miranda v. Arizona case in 2022.

“You can sense dictatorship when you’ve been through it, and I could sense it in that moment.””