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What about IPv6? (SCNR)

Another thing is the stdlib integration of goroutines. We see this in Python where various generations of paradigms kind-of coexist. Golang built their goroutines into the heart of…

This is the reason why I implemented rather dumb but individual, hand-crafted captchas for my own websites in the past. Things like input fields which must be left empty, silly mul…

Thank you for this valuable comment! I remember having read somewhere that zig now requires to pass the Io argument around, which one can interpret again as "colored functions". IM…

HTTP QUERY was discussed many times in the past here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48568502 (4d ago, 173 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29794838 (4y ago, 12…

It's unfair to compare an idling deep sleep device with a cold boot. However, there is a shortcut: Just don't boot a full OS (thinking of custom firmware which boots in fractions o…

In other terms: The "recent" success of AI is mostly the commercialization of industrial scale stochastic plagiarism. Compare it to piracy, done by individuals for the benefit of t…

Honest question, what is the zig version of goroutines these days? They removed async from the spec. Honestly the only reason why I stick to golang for some projects are goroutines…

This is in fact useful for people who demand you to print out and sign contracts. Did so many times in the past, using some ghostscript+imagemagick scripting to avoid the cargo cul…

It's incredible how we said the same argument in pre-web 2.0 days. People loved to write code like bla I haven't seen these obscenities for a long time.

Lyapunov sounds a good tool but the README reads so LLM-generated and with little love that I am not bothered to look further into whether this is solid or not.

Teensy is a great choice because it has a high processor frequency for a rather cheap price (IIRC 600mhz for 20€)

Add »hacking the self-driving car« to the equation and you get the perfect classical-cyber hybrid crime. Afterwards, the poor waymo cannot remember what even has happened. That's s…

There is lots of discussion on this old API here on hacker news, for instance https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31739794

I find the arena experiment very interesting. If done right, whole programs can be structured as as a set of arenas. I've read some things on arenas here such as https://news.ycomb…

Long-distance shipping is even a pain in the (so-called) developed world, for instance from Europe to the US. As soon as your shipping value exceeds a treshold (IIRC about 1000€), …

Exactly. This shows that "extremely portable" is actually marketing for "It supports a number of platforms. In my opinion, this number is big".

Matlab inspired the scilab ecosystem, which is based on numpy, scipy, matplotlib, pandas. This was a major driver for the data science industry for a decade before AI kicked in and…

I just gave Zulip a try with a team of 3. I loved the UI because I spent years in pain finding things in big Slack and Mattermost installations (big = 30 users, nowhere near enterp…

I wonder why they quit their strategy of (practically) "infinite email storage". Compared to other data sources, after identifying hand-written E-Mails and attachment this would gi…

Severe, but you also need to use quite specific configuration to be vulnerable. I can imagine this pattern to be widespread in some classical PHP applications deployed via nginx.

Beautiful and informative website from the old age: Tables, tiling background pictures, no fancy fonts or colors, even the formulas (equations) are typesetted as low-res bitmaps in…

That sounds awesome. A bit like plan9 philosophy "everything is a file". I wonder whether one could implement something like this with fuse+git (gitfs doesnt allow this, cf https:/…

I loved the simple increasing numbers of Subversion. This was better then CVS "ad-hoc" versioning and also far better then git's hashes. Single numbers are easy for humans. I would…

Title is misleading. The vessel has "autonomous navigation", I guess this is some autopilot function which is probably widespread these days. I thought of "autonomous" as in "no cr…