Hacker News: blodorn

New comment by blodorn in "A Modern Web App in C"

blodorn — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 21:48:16 +0000

The BCHS stack is OpenBSD, C, OpenBSD's httpd, and SQLite.

Is that the stack you are referring to, or something else?

New comment by blodorn in "Using Gorilla glass for home building"

blodorn — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 19:57:59 +0000

100 year old windows were designed for easy maintenance and repair. Are the double hung windows? If they are, you can make sure to have storm windows on which effectively work as a double pane window. If this new glass were available, you could replace every pane in your window without removing a nail.

New comment by blodorn in "OpenBSD: Removing syscall(2) from libc and kernel"

blodorn — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:38:52 +0000

I think pledge(2) and unveil(2) would help to prevent "what can be done if a bug is exploited", yes?

New comment by blodorn in "OpenBSD 7.4"

blodorn — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:47:29 +0000

> Soft updates (softdep) have been disabled for future VFS work [See earlier report].

Hopefully some acceptable filesystem will be added in the near future.

New comment by blodorn in "OpenBSD 7.4"

blodorn — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 18:42:15 +0000

There is also gefs https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf with the other thinking about porting it to OpenBSD.

New comment by blodorn in "FreeBSD at 30: Its secrets to success"

blodorn — Wed, 05 Jul 2023 21:44:14 +0000

20 years later, who made the right call?

New comment by blodorn in "Tell HN: After 10 years of experiments, custom username emails receive no spam"

blodorn — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 03:45:56 +0000

What is the purpose of the ? here?

New comment by blodorn in "Vitamin D Resistance as a Possible Cause of Autoimmune Diseases"

blodorn — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 01:28:51 +0000

Ugly: Yes

Wix: Yes

Book: Free

So not _too_ much peddling, at least.

New comment by blodorn in "Reconstructing the Menu of a Pub in Ancient Pompeii"

blodorn — Mon, 22 Feb 2021 01:12:39 +0000

Pure asafoetida is fine to use, it doesn't smell bad, it doesn't give you stomach problems. You dilute it with the food you cook with it. It doesn't need it adulterated with flour and turmeric. Here is a good brand that I like, "Best Hing Ever". Hing is another name for asafoetida.

https://www.pureindianfoods.com/hing-asafoetida-powder-p/hin...

New comment by blodorn in "Quad9 public DNS moves to Switzerland"

blodorn — Thu, 18 Feb 2021 03:41:48 +0000

Next time you feel that way just look at Nepal. By far the most unique country flag.

New comment by blodorn in "Some Arabic and Persian accounts of the export of tin from Cornwall"

blodorn — Sun, 07 Feb 2021 05:03:54 +0000

A happy little accident.

New comment by blodorn in "Why the Service Mesh Should Fade Out of Sight"

blodorn — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 01:55:41 +0000

Your RHEL/Debian/etc hosts can be just as much locked down cattle as your CoreOS (which is also Linux). I find it very interesting to go on about the technicality of correctness when the entirety of kubernetes is dependent upon Linux.

New comment by blodorn in "Linux Hardening Guide"

blodorn — Sun, 03 Jan 2021 04:17:13 +0000

Ahhh, that makes a lot of sense. Thank you for taking the time to answer my question!

New comment by blodorn in "Linux Hardening Guide"

blodorn — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:58:01 +0000

> The ipv6 module is used for more than ipv6.

Would you tell me why the ipv6 module used for more than ipv6? If you don't want something running, disabling it at the kernel level makes sense to me, so I am curious as to why that is not the case. If things don't work with it disabled in the kernel, but DO work with it disabled via sysctl, what is actually being disabled?

New comment by blodorn in "Elephant decline revealed by shipwreck cargo"

blodorn — Fri, 25 Dec 2020 21:22:14 +0000

One way to check for real v fake ivory is to heat a pin in a lighter and then try and poke a little hole. Real ivory doesn't melt at all, and a lot of imitation ivory does, and that is a very easy and expedient test.

New comment by blodorn in "The Persian Art of Etiquette (2016)"

blodorn — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 22:50:43 +0000

Or trying to shop somewhere where nothing has a fixed price and instead you must haggle.

New comment by blodorn in "Kosmonaut: web browser from scratch in Rust"

blodorn — Sat, 15 Aug 2020 23:21:06 +0000

xhtml?

New comment by blodorn in "Low latency tuning guide"

blodorn — Mon, 03 Aug 2020 00:24:21 +0000

I thought it was "Additions I would have benefited from" but then reading them it is clearly "Additions I have benefited from".

New comment by blodorn in "Weird Shell – Structural Regular Expressions Unix Shell Made in Rust"

blodorn — Tue, 28 Jul 2020 16:17:53 +0000

Linux vi like text editor using Structural Regular Expressions too https://github.com/martanne/vis

New comment by blodorn in "Lua 5.4.0"

blodorn — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:14:06 +0000

Am I wrong? I thought the author of LuaJIT has been pretty well over it for the last 5 years and no one else picked it up.

LuaJIT had a beta release 3 years ago and hasn't been updated since.