Hacker News: bestouff

New comment by bestouff in "New York to tax luxury second homes in NYC"

bestouff — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:34:08 +0000

It's sarcasm (and I enjoyed it).

New comment by bestouff in "Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool"

bestouff — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:06:24 +0000

1. Why are you saying that ? Looking at your LinkedIn I'd say you're in your 40s, so effectively younger, lucky you !

2. Still, JS in the app window is not what I call native, but I won't fight over this

New comment by bestouff in "Show HN: Codiff, a local diff review tool"

bestouff — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:33:38 +0000

Kids these days. Calling JS "native" makes my stomach ache, but apparently this is normal.

New comment by bestouff in "Int a = 5; a = a++ + ++a; a =? (2011)"

bestouff — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:56:08 +0000

It's Undefined Behavior. So you can instrument all you want, the answer will still be wrong. You'll capture what your particular compiler does under some particular conditions (opt flags, surrounding code, etc.) but that will not be representative of what can happen in the general case (hint : anything can happen with UB).

New comment by bestouff in "Green Card Holders Targeted for Deportation by New 'Removal Apparatus'"

bestouff — Thu, 14 May 2026 20:32:58 +0000

It does work here.

New comment by bestouff in "Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"

bestouff — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:27:29 +0000

I would say that in a single-user system LPE isn't even needed. The moment you run malicious code all bets are off. No need to compromise the system when all your data is under "enemy" control.

New comment by bestouff in "Fragnesia Made Public as Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"

bestouff — Wed, 13 May 2026 16:44:39 +0000

Lots of privilege escalations these days. But are there that many multiuser Linux systems nowadays ? I'm under the impression the whole landscape is either servers or single-user desktops (and ofc Android phones).

New comment by bestouff in "Using AI for just 10 minutes might make you lazy and dumb"

bestouff — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:34:01 +0000

Does that mean that, by extension, becoming a manager makes you stupid ?

New comment by bestouff in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

bestouff — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:24:15 +0000

Yeah well not everybody agrees : https://sites.lafayette.edu/engineers-in-bonn/2025/04/22/us-...

New comment by bestouff in "California farmers to destroy 420k peach trees following Del Monte bankruptcy"

bestouff — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:20:13 +0000

Exactly.

(I wonder why my comment has been deleted)

New comment by bestouff in "Why airlines are always going bankrupt"

bestouff — Wed, 06 May 2026 05:07:52 +0000

That also didn't work well. The US is notoriously very poor in railroads.

New comment by bestouff in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

bestouff — Mon, 04 May 2026 22:16:34 +0000

Same same

New comment by bestouff in "If I could make my own GitHub"

bestouff — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:40:14 +0000

Github, Coke and Heinz. Ewww we don't have the same taste.

New comment by bestouff in "OpenWarp"

bestouff — Fri, 01 May 2026 09:20:44 +0000

Warp is already an Alacritty fork with no acknowledgement. I feel they deserve no respect for this.

see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47939527

New comment by bestouff in "BYD Seal 08 debuts with Blade Battery 2.0: 1,000km range, 5-min charging, 684hp"

bestouff — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:23:19 +0000

Heavily invested. The iX3 is made in China.

New comment by bestouff in "Orinoco: Young Generation Garbage Collection"

bestouff — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 05:14:06 +0000

I'm with you on this one. I think I still have that pcmcia card somewhere.

New comment by bestouff in "A quick look at Mythos run on Firefox: too much hype?"

bestouff — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 05:59:31 +0000

Globally agreed excepted for the "harmless" bit. Hackers are good these days, and these apparently innocuous bugs can be exploited in creative ways

New comment by bestouff in "Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries"

bestouff — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:16:57 +0000

This can't happen in EU. Thanks again.

New comment by bestouff in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

bestouff — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:25:24 +0000

Maybe it wasn't trivial at all for both of you ...

New comment by bestouff in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

bestouff — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 18:57:34 +0000

Running local AI requires unified memory.