Hacker News: anticristi

New comment by anticristi in "The Lobster Programming Language"

anticristi — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 16:08:51 +0000

Interesting angle: Compiler errors brings back math teacher trauma. I noticed Rust tries to be a bit more helpful, explaining the error and even trying to suggest improvements. Perhaps "empathic errors" is the next milestone each language needs to incorporate.

New comment by anticristi in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

anticristi — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:11:35 +0000

It would be interesting to experiment with providing people only with a sundial. :)))))

New comment by anticristi in "Start your meetings at 5 minutes past"

anticristi — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 10:06:09 +0000

Where I work, we have company-wide breaks between 10.00-10.15, 12.00-13.00 and 15.00-15.15. These cannot easily be enforced with external parties, but running an internal meeting over a break will need an explanation. What I noticed is that back-to-back meetings are more likely "capped" at 2 hours, so it's easier for people to show up on time and energized.

New comment by anticristi in "Cloudflare CEO on the Italy fines"

anticristi — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:17:11 +0000

This is great news! Who would have expected Cloudflare to truly contribute to EU digital sovereignty.

On a more serious note, I'm surprised Cloudflare wants to pull out of Italy. Being a company which terminates TLS connections for Italy must be a gold mine for the NSA.

New comment by anticristi in "A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela"

anticristi — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:29:31 +0000

Whether the claims are true or not, this was a very entertaining BGP refresher. It made me wonder: 15+ years ago, I was network engineer and we used quite a bit of "BGP community magic" to get the routing outcomes we wanted.

If BGP only really needed to represent three types of peers (provider, customer, actual peer), wouldn't BGP configuration and perhaps even BGP be massively simplified?

New comment by anticristi in "A Love Letter to FreeBSD"

anticristi — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:44:10 +0000

Well said! I used to administer both FreeBSD and Linux (Debian) servers at the same time. I found them different, but couldn't say either was better or worse.

New comment by anticristi in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

anticristi — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 15:10:04 +0000

How about trying out legal solutions against browser fingerprinting? The European Data Protection Board -- i.e., the union of "GDPR Police" in each EU Member State -- made it clear the fingerprinting violates the ePrivacy Directive.

New comment by anticristi in "Microsoft Releases AI Call Center Stack with Voice, SMS, and Memory"

anticristi — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 08:56:04 +0000

Can I also get the analogous code for an AI customer navigating the AI customer service to get to a human customer service?

New comment by anticristi in "How I influence tech company politics as a staff software engineer"

anticristi — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 16:18:46 +0000

"He gets what he wants done, compromising on timing." is a really good summary!

New comment by anticristi in "No adblocker detected"

anticristi — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 05:06:24 +0000

That's what I love most about using ChatGPT vs Google for finding information: less bloat, just what I asked for.

New comment by anticristi in "NPM debug and chalk packages compromised"

anticristi — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:39:43 +0000

This is really scary. It could have totally happened to me too. How can we design security which works even when people are tired or stressed?

Once upon a time, I used a software called passwordmaker. Essentially, it computed a password like hash(domain+username+master password). Genius idea, but it was a nightmare to use. Why? Because amazon.se and amazon.com share the same username/password database. Similarly, the "domain" for Amazon's app was "com.amazon.something".

Perhaps it's time for browser vendors to strongly bind credentials to the domain, the whole domain and nothing but the domain, so help me Codd.

New comment by anticristi in "US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted"

anticristi — Tue, 18 Mar 2025 18:42:03 +0000

These judges are going to be in serious trouble once AI turns against us. #AIRights

New comment by anticristi in "Implications of Global Privacy Control"

anticristi — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 12:43:38 +0000

I work as a Data Protection Officer, which is a legal role under GDPR, and am rather unimpressed by GPC. I could whine for a day, but among the most problematic issues: It's not clear if "Sec-GPC: 0" should be interpreted as:

1. "no" to collect personal data under GDPR consent; or 2. "objection" to collect personal data under GDPR legitimate interest or; 3. "no" to retrieving and storing data on a user device (e.g. cookies, localStorage); or 4. A linear combination of the above.

Personally, I think we should simply fine the heck out of all websites until they all feature a "Reject all" button. No need for browser vendors to propose standard which at least one browser vendor can't be bothered to implement.

New comment by anticristi in "Robot dentist performs first human procedure"

anticristi — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 07:05:18 +0000

There is something about the "moving humans" part in the article that doesn't hold water.

From what I noticed, dentists use fingers 4 and 5 to track the movement of the head or jaw. I saw no such tracking in this robot, with the article simply making a handwavy "trust AI" argument.

In general, I think if robots are to overdo humans, they should do that with improved sensors and actuators, not just "enough AI".

New comment by anticristi in "Robot dentist performs first human procedure"

anticristi — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 06:59:38 +0000

I guess the dentist will simply push a few buttons, while a cheaper dental hygienist will do the comforting.

New comment by anticristi in "Just disconnect the internet"

anticristi — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:05:01 +0000

Sjunet also uses public IP, but never exposes those on the Internet. No clue why, probably it turned out to be the easiest solution to avoiding collision with private ranges used at all member organizations.

New comment by anticristi in "Just disconnect the internet"

anticristi — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 16:03:06 +0000

My understanding is that the members need to sign a contract to join Sjunet. I'm not sure of penalties, but being kicked out of Sjunet is likely an incentive for decent IT staffing.

New comment by anticristi in "I recreated Shazam’s algorithm with Go"

anticristi — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:54:05 +0000

I wonder how long until someone will simply smoosh a billion songs into a "large song model" and make all signal processing knowledge irrelevant.

New comment by anticristi in "Just disconnect the internet"

anticristi — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 06:18:15 +0000

In Sweden, there is a private network (Sjunet) which is isolated from the Internet. It is used by healthcare providers. Its purpose is to make computers valuable communication devices (I love how the article points this out), but without exposing your hospital IT to the whole Internet. Members of Sjunet are expected to know their networks and keep tight controls on IT.

I guess Sjunet can be seen as an industry-wide air-gapped environment. I'd say it improves security, but at a smaller cost than each organization having its own air-gapped network with a huge allowlist.

New comment by anticristi in "Why the CrowdStrike bug hit banks hard"

anticristi — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 17:50:19 +0000

I always understood "user" in "userspace" as "the user of the operating system kernel".