Hacker News: antoinealb

New comment by antoinealb in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

antoinealb — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:27:54 +0000

Tangent nit, but k8s was never a google-internal system. See https://research.google/pubs/borg-omega-and-kubernetes/

New comment by antoinealb in "GCC steering committee announces AI policy"

antoinealb — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:44:15 +0000

From the README of that repo, rcc seems to only compile ~2x as fast as GCC. You claim 10x. Where is the proof ?

New comment by antoinealb in "Mag 7 starting to underperform [pdf]"

antoinealb — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 17:40:53 +0000

Shouldn't you look at the YoY change instead, to compare to stock returns ? Otherwise that's like comparing market cap, and then it is obvious that a big company tends to stay big.

New comment by antoinealb in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

antoinealb — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 06:38:15 +0000

The agency who arrested him have been sentenced to pay him 12k$ + court fees. There is a criminal case ongoing against Della Valle, former head of Switzerland's federal police. It only started after the administrative ruling and parliamentary investigation.

New comment by antoinealb in "Apertus – Open Foundation Model for Sovereign AI"

antoinealb — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:57:19 +0000

And a Swiss court decided that this was illegal and disproportionate [1]. Rule of law does not mean that nothing illegal happens in the country (that's obviously impossible to guarantee). It means illegal acts have consequences.

[1] https://www.bvger.ch/en/newsroom/media-releases/fedpol-must-...

New comment by antoinealb in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

antoinealb — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 06:25:36 +0000

That's not what I believe. Other posters have explained it well, but to respond myself:

1. Some large tech companies are also large real estate funds. Google had >100B$ in real estate positions (although mixed between datacenters and office parks) [0]. So its not that they are milked for rent, but more that they would be loosing some money here, although not much. 2. People making decisions are also probably invested in the real estate market, and therefore have money to loose from a collapse of real estate value.

I also gave more thought to it, and I don't see it as impossible that WFH reduces employee's productivity (from the perspective of the employer). However, that is also true of other worker's rights like vacation time or sick leave. RTO mandates are an act of control of workers, from the managing class, and pushing it as "because of productivity" does not change that.

And again: I personally like working more from an office. I don't want to force others to follow my preferences.

[0] https://www.realtygroupfl.com/blog/posts/2022/02/02/google-r...

New comment by antoinealb in "What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?"

antoinealb — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:37:18 +0000

That's not necessarily true, though. For instance, real estate investors have a lot to lose from vacant office space and therefore would benefit from RTO.

I personally find that I enjoy in person collaboration but that should not mean we should universally force every team to come back to the office.

New comment by antoinealb in "PCB devboard the size of a USB-C plug"

antoinealb — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 06:58:54 +0000

If you are talking about USB-A Nanos, there is https://tomu.im/, which is very nice and interesting.

New comment by antoinealb in "Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down"

antoinealb — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:36:18 +0000

The linked article is precisely about how in 2024 they started rewriting their proxy layer from nginx (a C app). While "They haven't had an incident that bad since they switched from C to Rust." might be true, it has also been almost 9 years since cloudbleed, of which 8 were in C world.

New comment by antoinealb in "Arrests in Louvre Heist Show Power of DNA Databases in Solving Crimes"

antoinealb — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:33:41 +0000

What are you raving about? In the US you can get your DNA taken by authorities without possibility of refusing as well: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/23/us-border...

New comment by antoinealb in "F-Stack – A network development kit with high performance based on DPDK"

antoinealb — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 15:14:26 +0000

The goal of this kind of system is not to replace the application server. This is intended to work on the data plane where you do simple operations but do them many time per second. Think things like load balancers, cache server, routers, security appliances, etc. In this space Kernel Bypass is still very much the norm if you want to get an efficient system.

New comment by antoinealb in "SSL certificate requirements are becoming obnoxious"

antoinealb — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 14:51:37 +0000

There are more ACME-compatible CAs than just Let's Encrypt, should they ever become the bad guys, or if you don't want to trust them for any reason, see [0].

I understand that people get annoyed at shorter cert lifetime, for instance if you are managing appliances or use SSL certs for other reasons than the common use case. But if you just want to serve a website, there are not so many reasons not to use HTTPS today, either on Let's Encrypt or on something else.

[0] https://acmeclients.com/certificate-authorities/

New comment by antoinealb in "New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros"

antoinealb — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:15:29 +0000

Android delegated some security features to a different kernel called Trusty that is separated from the main Linux kernel using virtualisation. That kernel runs high value security services.

https://source.android.com/docs/security/features/trusty

New comment by antoinealb in "FFmpeg School of Assembly Language"

antoinealb — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 11:25:43 +0000

Yes, but on projects like that, ease of maintenance is a secondary priority when compared to performance or throughput.

New comment by antoinealb in "Supreme Court upholds TikTok ban, but Trump might offer lifeline"

antoinealb — Sat, 18 Jan 2025 10:34:28 +0000

Romansh is a national language, not an official one. (At the federal level) Which means that Switzerland considers it a part of it’s culture but that for instance laws and executive orders are not translated in Romansh.

New comment by antoinealb in "Nothing-up-my-sleeve number"

antoinealb — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 14:24:09 +0000

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/227459/why-is-t...

The initials spell out "OBSD", as a nod to the hash being first designed for OpenBSD, and they needed a 24 char / 192 bits value.

New comment by antoinealb in "A tiny self-remaking C program"

antoinealb — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 13:33:22 +0000

In arch at least it is reasonnably easy to download the source for a package, modify it locally, build it and install it. Not sure if that's what you are asking for?

New comment by antoinealb in "How I got my laser eye injury"

antoinealb — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 15:26:47 +0000

Google as a company manufactures hardware, it makes sense to have a machine shop for prototypes.

New comment by antoinealb in "A Swiss town banned billboards. Zurich, Bern may soon follow"

antoinealb — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 11:02:48 +0000

Do you have a link ? I was not aware of that, the only thing I can find is that McLaren ran some tests to replace in-cockpit ads with a small eink screen, but nothing on the side of the cars.

New comment by antoinealb in "Synchronization Is Bad for Scale"

antoinealb — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 19:01:46 +0000

etcd is fairly similar to Chubby indeed, or Zookeeper.