Hacker News: Ecco

New comment by Ecco in "sshole"

Ecco — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 13:31:46 +0000

How is password auth weaker than key auth? Bugs in auth code can happen in both pathways. And apart from stupidly short passwords both should be equally impossible to brute-force.

In other words, conceptually, at the end if the day, isn’t a key just another name for a password, really?

New comment by Ecco in "Python on My Wrist"

Ecco — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 12:54:24 +0000

« An Apple Watch costs around $700 » : such a blatant lie in the first paragraph. Stopped reading.

New comment by Ecco in "Bitwarden Dual License Model"

Ecco — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:37:59 +0000

Any more details on this? Like did anyone build a better extension or are you just guessing?

New comment by Ecco in "Nvidia is the central bank of AI"

Ecco — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 16:45:01 +0000

Question: wouldn’t the fab be the actual bottleneck? In other words, why wouldn’t TSMC make more NVIDIA chips instead of AMD ones? I assume they’ll just do whichever is paying more, so if NVIDIA chips are better, gamers would be willing to pay more for them and in turn TSMC will be willing to make more of them?

New comment by Ecco in ".name Termination"

Ecco — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:59:43 +0000

I mean in the first place. Now it's too late indeed.

New comment by Ecco in ".name Termination"

Ecco — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:19:52 +0000

Ok I don’t get it. Why not register `fraser.nameˋ directly? Or pick any TLD and register ˋ a 2nd-level domain (ˋfraser.tld`)? It just feels easier, plus this way you don’t have to pay for any new member of your family?

New comment by Ecco in "Show HN: I made a heatmap of 3400 VCs who are open to cold emails"

Ecco — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 19:40:46 +0000

For some reason all the datapoints seems to be shifted a few miles south-west.

New comment by Ecco in "The Official Rules for Calling Shotgun"

Ecco — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 03:30:49 +0000

That was surprisingly both fun and somewhat serious/practical. Loved it!

New comment by Ecco in "Pentagon forbids export of Apple computers"

Ecco — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:23 +0000

Yes, the joke is that this was back in 1999, but it’s funny how history repeats itself. And this gives an interesting perspective to the recent Anthropic export ban : in a way, that’s free advertising.

I wonder what commercial Anthropic could build out of this!

Pentagon forbids export of Apple computers

Ecco — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:58:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoxvLq0dFvw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48516853

Points: 7

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New comment by Ecco in "Dav2d"

Ecco — Sun, 31 May 2026 21:03:06 +0000

Using raw uncompressed bitrate is a bit disingenuous. How about comparing an older, widely supported codec like H.264 as a baseline?

New comment by Ecco in "World's biggest RC A380 [video]"

Ecco — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:43:44 +0000

It sounds like it's electric powered. As much as I love brushless motors, I think a model of that scale and quality would have deserved actual jet engines.

New comment by Ecco in "Mounting tar archives as a filesystem in WebAssembly"

Ecco — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 12:19:00 +0000

How about using a format that has actually been designed to be a compressed read-only filesystem? Something like a SquashFS or cramfs disk image?

New comment by Ecco in "France pulls last gold held in US for $15B gain"

Ecco — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 08:36:15 +0000

Reading the article is what made him say that.

New comment by Ecco in "Books of the Century by Le Monde"

Ecco — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 02:45:45 +0000

Kinda ironic that standardebooks.org refuses non-English books but will happily promote a French ranking... I mean none of those books are actually available on standardebooks.org - at least not in their original French version.

New comment by Ecco in "ReferenceFinder: Find coordinates on a piece of paper with only folds"

Ecco — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 13:36:28 +0000

That is really cool. I wish it had an animated video to display the result, that'd be even easier to follow and therefore even more impressive.

New comment by Ecco in "Spherical Snake"

Ecco — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 20:01:01 +0000

Really cool game, but please please fix the viewport to prevent accidentaly zooming on the page on a mobile device!

New comment by Ecco in "Ruby Symbols"

Ecco — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 11:38:54 +0000

I think the whole article is super confusing.

A Symbol is really just a string!

Well, it's a string that will guarantee unique allocations (two identical strings are guaranteed to be allocated at the same address), which makes equality checks super fast (compare pointers directly). But pretty much just a string nonetheless...

New comment by Ecco in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

Ecco — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:45:53 +0000

Feels like a disassembly of a boilerplate app, as opposed to handcrafted, minimal assembly code.

For instance I’m pretty sure the autorelease pool is unnecessary as long as you don’t use the autorelease mechanism of Objective-C, which you’re most likely not going to do if you’re writing assembly in the first place.

New comment by Ecco in "Hello-World iOS App in Assembly"

Ecco — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 12:43:30 +0000

How would that impact the App Store approval? AFAIK they review binaries anyway…