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Virtual Barber Shop [video]

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 9:27am
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Oberon vs. C++ (1994) [pdf]

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 9:22am
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Test Spies in Haskell

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 9:21am
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Show HN: Simple(R) GitHub Action for Publishing to MavenCentral

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 9:21am

I dislike trusting my signing keys and MavenCentral tokens to logic used for normal builds. I use Gradle, but Maven suffers from the same problem; there is altogether too much code alive during a build that I cannot trust or review myself.

So I have written my own action that publishes already-built artifacts. This means signing and publishing secrets are subject to a much smaller set of executing code. Actually, review-able amounts of code (IMO).

The Action is implemented in Java, using no external dependencies (well, except for the JDK and gpg).

You can find it at https://github.com/jskov/action-maven-publish

I have just updated the Action to use the new Publish Portal (v1) API. This meant I had to write a small, simple (and partial) JSON parser to keep avoiding external dependencies. This was fun. But probably also the first thing to break, if the API returns something I did not expect.

Should you want to take a look, I have tried to make it easy to review: https://github.com/jskov/action-maven-publish/blob/main/READ...

If you spot anything dumb, please comment! I would (perversely) love, if it turns out I have made something worse than what I am trying to avoid :)

Using the Action is pretty simple. The readme contains links to two of my other repositories that use it for publishing.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43727842

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women in space but it sucks

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 9:20am
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Show HN: A pluggable secret scanner for code, local fs etc.

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 9:17am

The problem of scanning local codes for secrets without too much effort in setting up databases, servers, etc., like other tools, was really bothering me yesterday.

Therefore, I woke up this morning with the goal of creating a small binary that would do the job.

I thought I would share it here and ask for some feedback.

I am planning to add support for databases, documents, etc.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43727804

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Ask HN: How to sell SaaS without selling subs?

Fri, 04/18/2025 - 8:27am

We don’t like subscriptions. Nobody likes subscriptions.

Subscriptions caused Adobe’s once-loyal user base to turn on and hate their product.

Is it possible for a SaaS to sell their product without monthly subscriptions — How?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43727422

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