<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: Zarathust</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Zarathust</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 16 May 2026 11:08:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=Zarathust" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Pentium on a 386 Motherboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><i>However, looking at the Pentium Overdrive pinout the extra row of pins doesn’t seem to be at all essential. There is a number of extra power points and some signalling pins to support L1 cache coherency when using write-back. Nothing too much to worry about.</i><p>Uh... sure, if you say so.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 31 Oct 2021 23:44:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29061589</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29061589</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29061589</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "The main thing about Phenylacetone meth is that there's so much of it"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>In Canada you can still buy that over the counter. You get id-ed and they keep a record of your purchases, but since it's now generic pills it is now much cheaper than it was before</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2021 19:21:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29030428</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29030428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29030428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "A viable solution for Python concurrency"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>"Viable" as in "you have no other choice sometimes". This forces you to deal with 3 libraries each with their own quirks, pitfalls and incompatibilities. Sometimes you even deal with dependencies reimplementing some parts in a 4th or 5th library to deal with shortcomings.<p>I really don't care that much which of them survive, I just want to rely on less of them</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 19:50:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882293</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882293</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28882293</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Tool can make photos undetectable to facial recognition without ruining them"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That is the nature of captchas by design. 2000s captchas can probably be solved by off the shelves OCR.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2021 01:04:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964147</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964147</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26964147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My take on that is that it's up to the kernel maintainers to unban them. If they end up the investigation with: "Yeah, that was bad but we won't do anything about it", it's unlikely to get the banning side to move an inch.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2021 02:39:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898137</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898137</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26898137</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If they really care about being banned, they'll have no choice but to follow thorough</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 21:46:03 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895850</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895850</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26895850</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This indeed looks like a FUD statement, implying that they can have an infinite amount of potential vulnerabilities. Realistically though, writing parsers that do not yield control of your whole device is not that complex. The people exploiting iOS zero days can certainly do it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893883</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893883</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893883</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It seems to be a retaliatory measure against this:<p>> When Cellebrite announced that they added Signal support to their software, all it really meant was that they had added support to Physical Analyzer for the file formats used by Signal.<p>Your case is valid about potential judiciary impact, but it would require for Signal to monitor cases involving Cellebrite and step forward to help the defense while unprompted to do so. Furthermore, Cellebrite clients seems to include entities that do not care so much about a fair trial.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2021 18:38:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893726</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893726</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26893726</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "The Bhikkhu Diet (2003)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We live in a society (many of us) where "low calory food" is synonym of "healthy". I think it's one of the ultimate modern luxury, to look for food that will yield little energy for you.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 12 Aug 2018 15:15:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744685</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744685</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744685</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "E.Deorbit (2016)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>China showed a few years ago that blasting satellites with missiles is neither subtle or sustainable. This kind of thing could be weaponized much more efficiently</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:58:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17625016</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17625016</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17625016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "UK unveils new Tempest fighter jet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Russia announced the abandonment of the su-57 yesterday. <a href="https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/russias-stealthkiller-fighter-project-has-been-abandoned/news-story/03e50ea76d6a5dfb5aaac69b9c75fbd6" rel="nofollow">https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/military/russi...</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2018 21:52:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545481</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17545481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p><a href="https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures" rel="nofollow">https://www.nasa.gov/feature/facts-and-figures</a><p>It is possible that code itself is not that complex, but the interaction between all modules certainly has a high level of complexity.<p>"In the International Space Station’s U.S. segment alone, more than 1.5 million lines of flight software code run on 44 computers communicating via 100 data networks transferring 400,000 signals (e.g. pressure or temperature measurements, valve positions, etc.)."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 20:25:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17104686</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17104686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17104686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "The Stuxnet worm may be the most sophisticated software ever written"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The code base for the International Space Station is probably also VERY complex</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2018 16:29:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17102729</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17102729</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17102729</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Lockheed Martin has obtained a patent for a compact fusion reactor"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a critical part to consider in "current" fusion research. Most of it rely on the deuterium / tritium fusion which will probably require a classic nuclear plant to generate the fuel. This makes the whole "infinite clean energy" claim pretty bogus for now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2018 09:20:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686656</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686656</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16686656</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "How Dropbox handles downgrades"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Wow, dropbox made it long and annoying to give them less money. Verdict : I love it!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2018 19:13:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448552</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448552</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16448552</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Indistinguishable from Magic: Manufacturing Modern Computer Chips (2012) [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You have a bunch of nice images. Are those taken with "standard" microscopes?<p>Also you mentioned a background in metrology. How do you inspect something a few atoms thick?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jan 2018 23:59:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182816</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182816</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16182816</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "New Gravitational Wave Detection from Colliding Black Holes (2017)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This article is from September</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Jan 2018 17:00:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134299</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134299</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16134299</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Claim 5 is a bit puzzling to me :<p>A key feature of the plasma magnet is that the diameter of the magnetosphere increases as the density of the solar wind decreases as it expands away from the sun. The resulting expansion exactly matches the decrease in density, ensuring constant thrust. Therefore the plasma magnet has a constant acceleration irrespective of its position in the solar system.<p>I'm not 100% sure about the science here, but the "exactly" looks a bit magical to me. If I understand the concept correctly, when the sail is closer to the sun, the particles "pressure" on the sail will "compress" and reduce its effective area.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 10 Jan 2018 19:42:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118253</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118253</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16118253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Modernize C++: Sink Functions"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>a shared_ptr would probably also be a better choice if the ptr should go through several nodes of the pipeline</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:06:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871214</link><dc:creator>Zarathust</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871214</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15871214</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by Zarathust in "Breaking Elgar’s Enigma"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So it seems that even music has its own kind of numerologists</p>
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