Hacker News: abiro

New comment by abiro in "EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear"

abiro — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:36:31 +0000

A lot of the apparel being destroyed is unsold inventory of up-market brands to protect their pricing power. If they shipped that to less affluent countries for destruction, it's unlikely that they'd be destroyed, because those items would fetch a good price on the black market.

Zero Knowledge Encryption: Analysis of Three Cloud-based Password Managers

abiro — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:25:28 +0000

Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/058

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47033751

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by abiro in "Rust Cryptography Should Be Written in Rust"

abiro — Sat, 26 Aug 2023 19:10:31 +0000

I thought it weird that the post didn’t mention RustCrypto. It’s legit.

New comment by abiro in "Tarsnap outage postmortem"

abiro — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 08:43:29 +0000

> The second step failed almost immediately, with an error telling me that a replayed log entry was recording data belonging to a machine which didn't exist. This provoked some head-scratching until I realized that this was introduced by some code I wrote in 2014: Occasionally Tarsnap users need to move a machine between accounts, and I handle this storing a new "machine registration" log entry and deleting the previous one

Recommend writing a TLA+ model to catch stuff like this

New comment by abiro in "The past is not true"

abiro — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 12:54:50 +0000

What to read on the slice universe?

New comment by abiro in "Passkeys now support external providers"

abiro — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 09:59:26 +0000

Any details on how passkeys sync using external providers?

AMA with a WoW botter / gold seller

abiro — Sun, 28 May 2023 19:40:53 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/13rgbzi/i_am_a_botter_gold_seller_at_the_start_of_every/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36107065

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by abiro in "Smol Developer"

abiro — Wed, 17 May 2023 07:39:57 +0000

Very cool project, congrats to the author!

Baaed on the comments, I feel that people are both under and overestimating this. On the one hand it replaces the manual tasks of searching for a template and then googling errors and this is huge! It completely disrupts search on the internet as we know it. On the other hand it won’t be able to solve problems that you couldn’t just google anyway, since that’s what it basically does under the hood.

Why the golden ratio is mostly non-sense by a Fields Medal winner [video]

abiro — Sun, 14 May 2023 12:19:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVKhDtOjji8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35937431

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Free42 – An HP-42S Calculator Simulator

abiro — Thu, 11 May 2023 10:25:03 +0000

Article URL: https://thomasokken.com/free42/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35900205

Points: 80

# Comments: 35

Exploring Ethereum Token Transfers with TLA+ for Wallet Security

abiro — Sun, 16 Apr 2023 07:06:36 +0000

Article URL: https://sealvault.org/blog/2023/04/token-transfer-tla/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35587920

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How do you reason about a probabilistic distributed system? (2020)

abiro — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 10:36:23 +0000

Article URL: https://ahelwer.ca/post/2020-09-11-probabilistic-distsys/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35019879

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by abiro in "Automerge 2.0"

abiro — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 11:21:34 +0000

Another thing to keep in mind is that if you want the data to be end-to-end encrypted, then you need both devices to be online at the same time to sync with Automerge.

New comment by abiro in "30k lines of SwiftUI in production later"

abiro — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 12:49:19 +0000

SwiftUI and UIKit compose well in both directions, so if you choose SwiftUI as your framework, but then run into a wall, it's an option to partially rewrite that difficult part with UIKit.

Of course if the problem is with the core of your application like the scrolling example in the article, this is not going to help you much.

Construction of the St. Lawrence Seaway (Walter Cronkite, 1958)

abiro — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 22:14:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDYfNUrjs0w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34460802

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by abiro in "Welcome to Comprehensive Rust"

abiro — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 12:48:46 +0000

This is great. I'd recommend the Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists [0] tutorial as the next step. It really helps you grok the borrow checker.

[0]: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/index.html

New comment by abiro in "Show HN: Portable Secret – How I store my secrets and communicate privately"

abiro — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:57:28 +0000

This is pretty cool:

> Before we jump in, I wanted to share some history with you. Back in 2009 when we first built 1PasswordAnywhere, it wasn’t possible to use it with Dropbox. We couldn’t use Dropbox at the time because each file request needed to include a revision number and 1PasswordAnywhere had no way to know which revision numbers to use.

> Roustem and I explained this problem to the Dropbox Founder Arash, and he was kind enough to add a workaround to allow us to load files directly. This was state of the art technology in 2009.

New comment by abiro in "Great Tech by Shopify Founder"

abiro — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:47:00 +0000

Shopify supporting Passkeys for all merchant sites could be a great driver for adoption.

New comment by abiro in "Interview with Martin Hellman of Diffie-Hellman (2004)"

abiro — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:44:06 +0000

If you liked this, you'll probably like this interview with Diffie too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJxOz0I6z5A

New comment by abiro in "Bestselling books have been getting shorter"

abiro — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 21:30:22 +0000

Would be curious to see this broken down by fiction vs non-fiction. I read very few non-fiction books cover-to-cover. Most of them could be probably cut by 50% and not lose much.