Replying to my own post to note that the author of the app in my linked post is using an LLM to respond to everyone in the thread. They responded to me (with a clearly LLM written, sycophantic tone) and said that they updated the design. It looks less like the parody site now.
23 hours ago [-]
m132 22 hours ago [-]
It's not a Claude generated website without at least one `backdrop-filter: blur(1000px)` element that slows older machines to a crawl
addandsubtract 11 hours ago [-]
It's missing the captcha that fails to load and then makes you retry three times.
possan 11 hours ago [-]
Needs a cookie banner, 3s delayed sign up to our newsletter and enable push request
JK-Swizzle 1 days ago [-]
It is missing the fade in on scroll.
noman-land 24 hours ago [-]
This needs bluish dark mode with accent color and pills with a little rounded colored border on just the left side.
Bolwin 1 days ago [-]
Love the X logo that goes to bluesky
walrus01 23 hours ago [-]
> $ curl -fsSL install.sh | sh # you'd be stupid to run that, slop or not
I wish more people would point this out.
Akronymus 18 hours ago [-]
I've legitimately seen one project that basically says to do that, but with "your ai agent". At least piping to sh is deterministic and, you can pipe to a filw and check the script
"Claude, install these 215 npm dependencies from unvetted repositores, make no mistakes"
xigoi 15 hours ago [-]
I still haven’t seen anyone point out how this is more dangerous than running an executable that you obtain any other way.
ffsm8 14 hours ago [-]
you can detect `curl | bash` server-side and serve a different payload for those (compared to curl -O file, wget etc), hence its an effectively undetectable attack vector.
Executables on the other hand can be inspected and prodded, so the likelihood of something going amiss and consequently security agencies finding out about it is significantly higher.
neither of those is secure of course, we're just discussing different levels of dangers. And curl|bash being worse, albeit not that much
(and the -L here is the extra cherry on top. piping a redirect to a shell is just monkas)
medstrom 6 hours ago [-]
> you can detect `curl | bash` server-side
Oh wow, ok. So if anything, manually do `curl` and `sh` separately?
ffsm8 6 hours ago [-]
at that point, i'd put bash script up as being moderately more secure as its generally easier to audit them vs a binary.
but i'Ve also gotta say that random binary download over web is also incredibly rare - usually its either a combination of both (the curl|bash ending in a random binary being downloaded) or the user actually installing via a packagemanager like apt, zypper, yum, dnf etc - and those packagemanagers generally do audit the main repositories, so theyre basically as secure as you can get in those contexts.
but of course, everyone has their own thread model and i dont work in security (●'◡'●)
0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49297469
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307700
I wish more people would point this out.
https://github.com/0xeb/ghidrasql
Executables on the other hand can be inspected and prodded, so the likelihood of something going amiss and consequently security agencies finding out about it is significantly higher.
neither of those is secure of course, we're just discussing different levels of dangers. And curl|bash being worse, albeit not that much
(and the -L here is the extra cherry on top. piping a redirect to a shell is just monkas)
Oh wow, ok. So if anything, manually do `curl` and `sh` separately?
but i'Ve also gotta say that random binary download over web is also incredibly rare - usually its either a combination of both (the curl|bash ending in a random binary being downloaded) or the user actually installing via a packagemanager like apt, zypper, yum, dnf etc - and those packagemanagers generally do audit the main repositories, so theyre basically as secure as you can get in those contexts.
but of course, everyone has their own thread model and i dont work in security (●'◡'●)
I giggled.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html