Hacker News: Meneth

New comment by Meneth in "Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)"

Meneth — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:06:40 +0000

They kinda are: "This issue is to fully eliminate LLVM, Clang, and LLD libraries from the Zig project." https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/16270

New comment by Meneth in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

Meneth — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 20:00:04 +0000

I'm confused.

The IndexedDB UUID is "shared across all origins", so why not use the contents of the database to identify browers, rather than the ordering?

New comment by Meneth in "NSA is using Anthropic's Mythos despite blacklist"

Meneth — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 11:03:01 +0000

NSA never cared about rules.

New comment by Meneth in "OpenClaw privilege escalation vulnerability"

Meneth — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:43:58 +0000

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New comment by Meneth in "EmDash – A spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security"

Meneth — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 18:31:29 +0000

"solve security" - that's an April Fools joke if I ever heard one.

New comment by Meneth in ""Over 1.5 million GitHub PRs have had ads injected into them by Copilot""

Meneth — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:25:32 +0000

Me too, main reason I switched to Debian.

New comment by Meneth in "I put all 8,642 Spanish laws in Git – every reform is a commit"

Meneth — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:09:17 +0000

It seems the commits aren't in proper date order. Here are some newer changes, placed before the latest commits: https://github.com/EnriqueLop/legalize-es/commits/master/?af...

New comment by Meneth in "GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information"

Meneth — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 12:01:37 +0000

To fight a thing, you must think about it.

The best way to avoid an -ism is to forget about it.

The fighters cannot forget, so they fall into a trap of their own making.

New comment by Meneth in "Have a fucking website"

Meneth — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 08:33:42 +0000

That is still a very good template for how a simple website should be written.

New comment by Meneth in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

Meneth — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 12:29:33 +0000

> A much more effective counter to this would be to rebalance the information asymmetry by giving citizens the tools to coordinate against state sponsored influence.

Which tools, specifically? I know none.

New comment by Meneth in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

Meneth — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 17:00:01 +0000

Wise.

I've seen many a fine volonteer project become enshittified because they started optimizing for financial income rather than for having fun.

New comment by Meneth in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

Meneth — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:03:25 +0000

I agree.

New comment by Meneth in "No right to relicense this project"

Meneth — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:52:21 +0000

If a copyright holder does not give you permission, you can't legally relicense. Even if they're dead.

If they're dead and their estate doesn't care, you might pirate it without getting sued, but any recipient of the new work would be just as liable as you are, and they'd know that, so I probably wouldn't risk it.

New comment by Meneth in "No right to relicense this project"

Meneth — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:45:44 +0000

"How do we protect ourselves against a competitor doing this?"

That's the neat thing: you don't!

New comment by Meneth in "World-first gigabit laser link between aircraft and geostationary satellite"

Meneth — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 12:32:09 +0000

"low-latency links", says the article. I wonder if they consider 500 ms ping to be low, or if they want to replace Geostationary with Low Earth Orbit.

New comment by Meneth in "The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying"

Meneth — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 07:48:09 +0000

That's a lie.

New comment by Meneth in "Banned in California"

Meneth — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 14:45:29 +0000

Poorly written site. Javascript-only, no references, no sources.

New comment by Meneth in "JavaScript-heavy approaches are not compatible with long-term performance goals"

Meneth — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 12:27:17 +0000

JavaScript isn't good for performance? Could've told you that 20 years ago.

New comment by Meneth in "7zip.com Is Serving Malware"

Meneth — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:41:09 +0000

I compared https://7-zip.org/a/7z2600-x64.exe with https://7-zip.com/a/7z2600-x64.exe. They are byte-for-byte identical. If there's malware, it isn't obvious.

New comment by Meneth in "Communities are not fungible"

Meneth — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 11:35:14 +0000

Gratis in terms of dollars, but not free. You pay by letting them take your community hostage.