Hacker News: Pesthuf

New comment by Pesthuf in "Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds"

Pesthuf — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 23:43:15 +0000

No, that's just them patching out a feature it used to have so you buy their newest model instead.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome"

Pesthuf — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 09:26:54 +0000

It would certainly help other browsers keep up in performance and battery life if Apple didn’t make all the APIs that allow Safari to stay so far ahead private and undocumented.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

Pesthuf — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 14:07:36 +0000

I think it makes more sense to use the kernel‘s’s sandboxing utilities (like seccomp, SELinux, namespaces, prctl and eBPF) than to rely on the process to try to isolate itself purely in userspace which will always have holes.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back"

Pesthuf — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:51:12 +0000

Or a server version. I have an M1 Mac mini as my home server and it really feels like I'm fighting the fact that it's a desktop OS with a GUI and full of components that really, really, really can't deal with being run on a headless system. Not much fun when your super efficient ARM processor suddenly uses 100% CPU for 6 days straight because WindowServer and CoreAudio are having a panic attack due to being unable to find any outputs.

And so much useless crap you can't turn off without disabling SIP, which it doesn't feel like you're meant to, because who knows what daemon will bring down the entire system when another it expects to be there isn't…

New comment by Pesthuf in "The Forgetful CPU (Linux on M4)"

Pesthuf — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 07:51:04 +0000

Isn’t kqueue pretty much as fast as epoll?

There’s no io_uring, but in practice, almost all servers run epoll anyway, don’t they?

New comment by Pesthuf in "RavynOS: Pre-alpha open-source OS based on Darwin, FreeBSD, Apple open-source"

Pesthuf — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:25:29 +0000

The project says it’s in pre alpha so that’s to be expected

New comment by Pesthuf in "Internet centralization and the original sin of NAT"

Pesthuf — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:10:01 +0000

Sending files to another would be easy if only the services that allow doing this - over WebRTC - didn’t sell out to sketchy advertisers constantly. I have to look up which service is still good to use every time.

New comment by Pesthuf in "AltTab is introducing a Pro version and staying open source"

Pesthuf — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:49:26 +0000

I don’t even need the features but I’ll probably buy a license anyway. This software is great and I can’t imagine going back to macOS’ built in alt tab or Mission Control.

The only downside is the "this app is recording your screen" notification light that pops up briefly when you enter full screen mode that a native implementation wouldn’t have to deal with. But clearly, Apple has no interest in building one.

New comment by Pesthuf in "you_can::turn_off_the_borrow_checker"

Pesthuf — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:20:13 +0000

I wonder if this has any measurable impact on compile times.

New comment by Pesthuf in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

Pesthuf — Tue, 12 May 2026 12:12:12 +0000

Tell me: why are these algorithms suddenly okay when the victim turns 18?

They are bad for everyone and if you’re willing to regulate them, make them illegal to be used on anyone.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Things C++26 define_static_array can't do"

Pesthuf — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:49:23 +0000

I love how to do anything in this language, you have to fight it with all you have. You have to use features in ways that feel like they were probably never intended to be used in. Everything is just an accident, some random pattern randomly discovered by someone when some typo happened to compile.

New comment by Pesthuf in "No one owes you supply-chain security"

Pesthuf — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 13:59:16 +0000

I feel like they could do a better job, though. In the postmortems of incidents you often hear it's because some maintainer got hit by the perfect phishing attack at the right time and they got tricked into entering password and TOTP into a phishing site. If that is so, why are we still allowing phishable credentials for logging into package repositories?

New comment by Pesthuf in "Windows native app development is a mess"

Pesthuf — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 19:32:56 +0000

Thanfully, you don't need to write p/invoke stuff yourself anymore. https://github.com/microsoft/cswin32 creates methods and all related structs for you. It's also AOT compatible (if you specify it). It works for calling C and COM functions.

I mean, not like this brings Windows development anywhere close to "modern", if anything, it feels like you're moving into the opposite direction, but at least this solves the "The modern APIs don't provide the specific functionality I need" problem that plagues all of Microsoft's "nice", "modern" abstractions…

New comment by Pesthuf in "Don't use passkeys for encrypting user data"

Pesthuf — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 15:17:44 +0000

Maybe we could add an extension to webauthn that adds a reason to a passkey. Then, the credential manager can warn the user better why deleting the passkey would be a bad idea.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment"

Pesthuf — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 16:28:48 +0000

Many such cases

New comment by Pesthuf in "Apple Vision Pro upgraded with M5 chip"

Pesthuf — Wed, 15 Oct 2025 13:30:07 +0000

I think most of us will wait for these chips to get into more useful computers.

New comment by Pesthuf in "WinBoat: Windows apps on Linux with seamless integration"

Pesthuf — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 11:17:56 +0000

This! Does it render Windows‘ windows individually on the Linux desktop, with integration into alt-tab, the Ubuntu dock etc. or does it just render one big VM window? How is that not shown on the site.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Apple takes down ICE tracking apps after pressure from DOJ"

Pesthuf — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 01:36:02 +0000

Then the government will just force ISP DNS not to answer queries for the domain. That's how easy you can block 99% of users, which is good enough.

And eventually, when all our hardware is runs-software-and-settings-signed-by-approved-entity-only, that last 1% can't do anything about it either.

New comment by Pesthuf in "UK once again demands backdoor to Apple's encrypted cloud storage"

Pesthuf — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 17:59:52 +0000

Looks like I finally found some common ground with the US government. May the UK fail again.

New comment by Pesthuf in "Scammed out of $130K via fake Google call, spoofed Google email and auth sync"

Pesthuf — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 07:46:48 +0000

Did the OTP message they sent you state that this code was specifically to authenticate on the phone?

If it did and even included details like the person‘s name, that would make me feel safe. If it’s a generic OTP that could be used to log into my account or reset its password, though…