Hacker News: boardwaalk

New comment by boardwaalk in "Bitwarden CLI compromised in ongoing Checkmarx supply chain campaign"

boardwaalk — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:53:09 +0000

I'm just hearing about this attack on Checkmarx.

We recently adopted it at work, and I find the thing to just produce garbage. I've never tuned out noise so quickly.

you have to appreciate the irony of a thing that's supposed to help protect you from vulnerabilities being one.

New comment by boardwaalk in "An incoherent Rust"

boardwaalk — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 07:29:49 +0000

Those dependencies pretty quickly reveal themselves to be complicated and heavy. I wouldn’t blame Rust for that. I rarely need more than what workspaces and VCS based deps give me, but when I have, putting up and using a non-official registryis pretty easy.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Tips for stroke-surviving software engineers"

boardwaalk — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:48:08 +0000

How strange to come across someone whose medical stuff so mirrors my own. I was just a decade older and don’t have epilepsy symptoms with meds. I can get behind all the advice here. Running out of “juice” and needing a break is very much thing. Before too but more so now. And taking a lot of semi stream of consciousness notes to help my more limited memory is too.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Amazon’s Ring to partner with Flock"

boardwaalk — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:55:48 +0000

I had one neighbor with the announcement thing but they eventually turned it off. No illusions that it’s not still recording. But how horribly hostile to have that on, right? No accounting for taste, I guess. I’ll continue staying off nextdoor and the rest and keeping my camera feeds to myself…

New comment by boardwaalk in "Schizophrenia is the price we pay for minds poised near the edge of a cliff"

boardwaalk — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 05:06:59 +0000

Though it doesn’t mention it by name exactly, I think a related idea for systems that are optimized close to a point of phase change is “the edge of chaos”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_of_chaos

New comment by boardwaalk in "The Unreliability of LLMs and What Lies Ahead"

boardwaalk — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 20:56:19 +0000

Or we’ll just leave them behind and that’s fine. And I work day maintaining old stuff of varying quality. Conceptually, software composting.

New comment by boardwaalk in "EV maker Canoo, once worth $2.4B, files for bankruptcy"

boardwaalk — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 08:07:21 +0000

I agree. I think we can reasonably posit why given the source. Call it selective YIMBYism maybe?

New comment by boardwaalk in "Air Con: $1697 for an on/off switch"

boardwaalk — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 03:32:54 +0000

There are thermostats, among other things, that use standard protocols and still work in a “dumb” way if not connected. You just need to do some homework.

New comment by boardwaalk in "MindEye2: Shared-Subject Models Enable fMRI-to-Image with 1 Hour of Data"

boardwaalk — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 06:21:56 +0000

As someone with damage to my visual cortex with a very specific effect I’m very curious what this would come up with for me. Not something useful on its own, but more understanding means more possibilities for treatments.

New comment by boardwaalk in "The Morgan XP-1 is an eccentric English electric vehicle"

boardwaalk — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 03:56:40 +0000

At least motorcycles have ABS and decent stopping power, though usually less than a car.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Making Our Hearts Sing"

boardwaalk — Thu, 02 Feb 2023 04:38:34 +0000

A lot of people see software as a list of features, hardware as a list of specs. But when you think about how much time we spend with these things, maybe they just aren’t that utilitarian. We think of buildings not just as volumes of conditioned air — but also as something architected, as something that can have a profound effect on how you feel, something that can have value in itself (historical buildings and such).

New comment by boardwaalk in "Yahoo is making a return to search"

boardwaalk — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 01:05:19 +0000

I know it’s easy to throw stones from the outside, but Google’s results are so compromised it seems like it’s a good time to get back in.

As one just example, I searched for a unique error message in code that exists on GitHub, is in a fairly popular repo, and is not new and Google just could not find it. That seems like a very basic failure.

New comment by boardwaalk in "What you can do when you get rich"

boardwaalk — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 18:09:19 +0000

I think people will bring their baggage with them ‘into their rich life’ as any major life change doesn’t really get you away from yourself. I certainly do okay staying lonely in a single house in a single city.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Gptcommit: Never write a commit message again (with the help of GPT-3)"

boardwaalk — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 00:33:29 +0000

You can do approximately that with GitHub Copilot already: Write a comment and have Copilot write the function or what have you to match.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Ask HN: What happened to flatbuffers? Are they being used?"

boardwaalk — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 20:03:50 +0000

How is it annoying? To be fair, we’re fronting our gRPC service with a AWS LB that terminates TLS (so our gRPC is plaintext), so we don’t deal with certs as direct dependencies of our server.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Tesla cuts prices by up to a fifth in US and Europe as EV price war starts"

boardwaalk — Fri, 13 Jan 2023 18:24:26 +0000

I’m not sure what the significance of the length of loans is? Surely it’s the overall amount of interest that matters.

I probably wouldn’t want to be paying a loan at the point I would want to be trading something in — but even then I keep things more than even 84 months and you can always just pay it off.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Austral: A systems language with linear types and capabilities"

boardwaalk — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 05:24:26 +0000

Agree separating the interface and implementation is not a great idea. It seems like a decision that's designed to waste time (in copying definitions from one place to another, in compilation errors).

It's half the reason to dislike C/C++'s module... err, text inclusion system. The other half being horrible build systems/times.

The only way it'd be halfway reasonable is if there was very good editor support for syncing the two copies. And even then, what's the point of denormalizing your source code? Like you said, you can always generate docs from source or an interface file from source (if for some reason you were building a closed source module -- which seems very much not the norm these days).

New comment by boardwaalk in "Btrfs in Linux 6.2 brings performance improvements, better RAID 5/6 reliability"

boardwaalk — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 04:37:09 +0000

As someone who is in the middle of pulling apart a BTRFS volume by hand (read: writing code to interpret the data structures) to try and recover it, I think being burnt enough is once.

No indication of any hardware issue: No recent power loss (& it's on a UPS), no SMART issues, no memory test positives. But the block tree (at least, WIP) is f*cked across all the disks (looks like two competing writers went at it) and none of the available tools can deal with it.

It wasn't a super exotic setup either: RAID10 with 4 disks (2 stripes), fairly full and regular snapshots/cleanup, but that's it.

I already converted my root to ext4 because paranoia and I'm probably going to move bulk data (what can be recovered) to ZFS.

New comment by boardwaalk in "Finding the B-21's hangar location from the stars in its press image"

boardwaalk — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 20:46:41 +0000

I mean, they livestreamed the rollout on YouTube on the Edward’s AFB YouTube channel and said it was at NG’s Palmdale facility (paraphrasing). I’m not sure any of this was a secret…

New comment by boardwaalk in "Soursop and Ponies in Kona: A C++ Committee Trip Report"

boardwaalk — Sun, 27 Nov 2022 15:20:27 +0000

I’ve done this with libclang: parsing C++ with clang.cindex in Python, walking the AST for structs with the right annotation, and generating code to serialize/deserialize. All integrated into a build system so the dependency links are there. Obviously being built into the language would be way better, but if I was spending 90% of my time I would take any necessary steps.