Hacker News: blenderob

New comment by blenderob in "Avoid Using "< [Cdata[ ]]]]>" in RSS"

blenderob — Fri, 29 May 2026 10:20:17 +0000

I totally understand the general advice of using actual XML DOM library for making DOM. But for my own understanding, I want to ask why the 5 escapes the OP suggests (&, <, >, " and ') aren't good enough? Do you see anyway to exploit it if these 5 are escaped? Someone kind enough to enlighten me?

New comment by blenderob in "Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?"

blenderob — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:57:50 +0000

Thank you. It is good to know that I am not the only one feeling this way.

Ask HN: How do you feel about posts about GenAI taking over the HN front page?

blenderob — Thu, 28 May 2026 11:46:53 +0000

There seem to be a lot of opinion pieces about GenAI on the front page lately. How do others feel about this?

I feel conflicted. I understand that GenAI is one of the biggest topics in tech right now. Yeah it makes sense that it gets a lot of attention. But I would find it a loss if the front page became too heavily skewed towards commentary on a single topic... more so when there are so many other technical areas worth discussing.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307584

Points: 14

# Comments: 19

Pixelizing My New Favicon

blenderob — Thu, 28 May 2026 10:38:31 +0000

Article URL: https://terra-incognita.blog/posts/pixelizing-my-new-favicon

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307091

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

PHP – simple way to send HTTP headers before a script ends

blenderob — Tue, 26 May 2026 10:28:46 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/php-simple-way-to-send-http-headers-before-a-script-ends/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48277704

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Notes on Incidents

blenderob — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:33:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/notes-on-incidents/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48259812

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

User level WireGuard for UDP based encryption and authentication

blenderob — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:44:57 +0000

Article URL: https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/tech/WireGuardForUDPAuthEncryption

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48258213

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Your Clippy Config Should Be Stricter

blenderob — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:42:47 +0000

Article URL: https://emschwartz.me/your-clippy-config-should-be-stricter/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256816

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Childhood Computing

blenderob — Sun, 24 May 2026 12:07:34 +0000

Article URL: https://susam.net/childhood-computing.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256597

Points: 254

# Comments: 126

Which age-gates should be skill-gates and vice-versa?

blenderob — Sun, 24 May 2026 11:12:30 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/which-age-gates-should-be-skill-gates-and-vice-versa/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48256332

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

How to style a Hugo Atom feed with XSL

blenderob — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:11:58 +0000

Article URL: https://afranca.com.br/how-to-style-a-hugo-atom-feed-with-xsl/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205910

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source

blenderob — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/gds-weighs-in-on-the-nhss-decision-to-retreat-from-open-source/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205906

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Prompts are technical debt too

blenderob — Wed, 20 May 2026 11:10:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seangoedecke.com/prompts-are-technical-debt-too/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48205899

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

New comment by blenderob in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

blenderob — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:32:05 +0000

Aren't these 3 different implementations with totally different use cases? Katex is latex-like implementation for web. Ratex is really 'rewrite katex in rust'. I don't understand what is getting "bolted on" to what here.