Hacker News: Loren_SL

New comment by Loren_SL in "How do Traffic Signals Work (2019)"

Loren_SL — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:04:55 +0000

I always thought that traffic signals should be trying to minimize squared anger, where anger increases linearly with time spent waiting at intersection.

New comment by Loren_SL in "A freezable game clock to make my web based, tactics-RPG engine testable"

Loren_SL — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:31:04 +0000

Having a clock you can play with also opens up ability to do things like bullet-time.

New comment by Loren_SL in "Ask HN: How do you prevent sensitive data from leaking through debugging tools?"

Loren_SL — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:51:07 +0000

1: Don't keep it in memory. If you have to, keep it in memory for as short as time as possible and scrub it afterwards. For example, password fields.

2: If you generate crash dumps, scrub the dumps when you generate them. Some crash reporting services offer to do this automatically.

3: If you are writing anything client/server, where you control the server and the client runs on a users machine, never trust the client. Expect that it has been hacked, is being debugged, and is actively hostile.

New comment by Loren_SL in "Microcode in Intel's 8087 floating-point chip: the scale instruction"

Loren_SL — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:37:03 +0000

I remember getting a 80387 chip for my Compaq 386/20. It has the same size package as the CPU! Now that makes a bit more sense.

New comment by Loren_SL in "Porting the RAD Debugger to macOS"

Loren_SL — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:35:54 +0000

This is a great writeup — bookmarking it. ForensicDbg is Windows-only right now, but I could easily see a day where I'm in your exact shoes trying to get a native postmortem debugger running on macOS.

New comment by Loren_SL in "Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent"

Loren_SL — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 18:16:05 +0000

This sounds like you would be entrusting Muse with an uncomfortable amount of personal information.