Hacker News: ajasmin

New comment by ajasmin in "Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked"

ajasmin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:49:39 +0000

Is there a tool in Windows that will dump all of a process context to debug these kind of things: CWD, env vars, current user, elevation, etc.

New comment by ajasmin in "Why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when clicked"

ajasmin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 17:43:50 +0000

> Many of the issues I worked on were things I found interesting.

That’s a rare privilege!

New comment by ajasmin in "Cuis: The Modern Smalltalk-80"

ajasmin — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 03:49:21 +0000

I haven't used these in a long while.

Is this a fork? What's Cuis' main selling point compared Squeak and Pharo?

New comment by ajasmin in "56k.rip – the 1996 dial-up internet experience"

ajasmin — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:43:14 +0000

That's surprisingly well done

New comment by ajasmin in "No AI Fridays"

ajasmin — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 16:11:25 +0000

Sure. No AI for toy projects:. But the professional mission-critical ones, you should just let the LLM write them

New comment by ajasmin in "Splitting a Git Commit"

ajasmin — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:02:49 +0000

Love the minimalist blog layout

New comment by ajasmin in "Incident with Github.com"

ajasmin — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 18:09:17 +0000

Lots of paying customers also depend on the open source part of GitHub to run their business.

New comment by ajasmin in "I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude"

ajasmin — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 05:05:56 +0000

I'm actually surprised Claude was about to do that much.

I hadn't even considered handing it a visual mockup to work from. Event though that workflow is par for the course for any web design team.

I would assume there must be at least some prior work into locating individual assets in a larger canvas. It just needs to be integrated into the pipeline.

New comment by ajasmin in "The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor"

ajasmin — Mon, 30 May 2022 03:32:51 +0000

Major nitpick: ARK is not a hedge fund but an ETF. My understanding is that it tracks an actively managed list of public stocks.

I'm sure it's not much consolation, but "actual" hedge funds are for the sophisticated investor. These funds have access to more sophisticated ways of wiping out investor money.

New comment by ajasmin in "The rise and fall of Cathie Wood, controversial Wall Street investor"

ajasmin — Mon, 30 May 2022 02:43:36 +0000

You're right. Cathie Wood's ARK is all about "disruptive innovation". It's no surprise to see the fund falling after tech. stocks were so grossly inflated.

As an investment strategy, it's a long-term play. Whether the holdings make sense is a whole other question. But don't expect a huge change in strategy just because the markets are down.

New comment by ajasmin in "Why does the Alpha AXP predict a coroutine transfer the way it does?"

ajasmin — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 01:28:19 +0000

Is this about the old DEC Alpha?

New comment by ajasmin in "E-waste recycler loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve prison term"

ajasmin — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 05:22:13 +0000

Microsoft offering the Windows ISO for download is a recent addition.

If you had to restore a PC 10 years ago, your only options were to obtain a restore disk from the PC manufacturer, use a restore partition on the HDD (assuming it was intact) or buy Windows.

In the past, I had to get restore disk images on BitTorrent to fix friends computers.

New comment by ajasmin in "Reading privileged memory with a side-channel"

ajasmin — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 00:05:46 +0000

Independent discovery don't happen overnight. Intel must have been aware of these vulnerabilities for some time.

edit: I'm sure everyone involved acted responsibly. I'm just curious as how far apart these independent discoveries were made.

The bug has been around forever, but it must have been discovered relatively recently since it's not fixed in hardware yet.

I've always been baffled by the concept of simultaneous discovery.

New comment by ajasmin in "Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Chip Flaw"

ajasmin — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 16:24:18 +0000

For the cloud providers it's the security of the hypervisor that's at stake.

New comment by ajasmin in "Cities with Uber Have Lower Rates of Ambulance Usage"

ajasmin — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 06:02:52 +0000

How is Uber any different than taking a taxi to the hospital?

New comment by ajasmin in "Intent to Deprecate and Remove: Trust in Existing Symantec-Issued Certificates"

ajasmin — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 04:17:42 +0000

Wasn't Verisign the very first CA business? How the mighty have fallen!

New comment by ajasmin in "Show HN: Nomouse"

ajasmin — Sat, 11 Mar 2017 22:44:02 +0000

I doesn't say but this is for the Mac.

New comment by ajasmin in "Mozilla Acquires Pocket"

ajasmin — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 15:03:14 +0000

Mozilla's donation page says: We are proudly non-profit, non-corporate.

I don't know the ins and out of Mozilla dual identity as a foundation/corporation. But it'd be unsettling to learn that part of your donations to an open-source project is financing a corporate acquisition.

New comment by ajasmin in "Steve Jobs Introduces WebObjects [video] (1996)"

ajasmin — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 04:06:53 +0000

Never mind how it's pronounced. No developers in their right mind would automate Excel from their web server the way they did in that demo!

New comment by ajasmin in "Revisiting the “Cookieless Domain” Recommendation"

ajasmin — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 03:17:38 +0000

Gmail greats us with a loading indicator like that.