Hacker News: bugfix

New comment by bugfix in "Copy Fail, Dirty Frag, and Fragnesia kernel vulnerabilities"

bugfix — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:50:23 +0000

I've been using KernelCare in my servers for many, many years now, and have yet to experience a single crash. One of them has been up for close to 4 years now.

New comment by bugfix in "Running out of disk space in production"

bugfix — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 01:07:59 +0000

I just use fallocate to create a 1GB or 2GB file, depending on the total storage size. It has saved me twice now. I had a nasty issue with a docker container log quickly filling up the 1GB space before I could even identify the problem, causing the shell to break down and commands to fail. After that, I started creating a 2GB file.

New comment by bugfix in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

bugfix — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 17:12:51 +0000

I really don't get it. Wouldn't you be wasting a lot of resources feeding the bots like this?

New comment by bugfix in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

bugfix — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 00:11:28 +0000

Do they offer a subscription like Claude? These models waste so many tokens "thinking", that using via API is a complete waste of money.

New comment by bugfix in "The history of C# and TypeScript with Anders Hejlsberg [video]"

bugfix — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 19:58:20 +0000

I think this ship has sailed.

New comment by bugfix in "Claude wrote a functional NES emulator using my engine's API"

bugfix — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 15:03:19 +0000

If you let it, Claude Code will write a comment for almost every single line of code.

New comment by bugfix in "AMD and Sony's PS6 chipset aims to rethink the current graphics pipeline"

bugfix — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 18:05:19 +0000

So we're getting a new console just to play AI-upscaled PS4 and PS5 "remasters"... and I suspect it’ll probably come without any support for physical media. The PS5 will be my last console. There's no point anymore.

New comment by bugfix in "Apple App Store guidelines remove ban on encouraging external payments in US"

bugfix — Fri, 02 May 2025 15:26:04 +0000

Apple wants to make sure they get a 30% cut if you spend money on anything within their ecosystem — that's all they really care about.

There are several reports of people having their entire accounts banned, effectively losing access to everything they paid for. And it's basically impossible to get your account back.

New comment by bugfix in "Google Play sees 47% decline in apps since start of last year"

bugfix — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 21:57:17 +0000

12 people, actually. And it's down from 20 individual testers requirement from when they introduced this policy last year.

New comment by bugfix in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

bugfix — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 01:00:21 +0000

Wouldn't this just waste your own bandwidth/resources?

New comment by bugfix in "I use zip bombs to protect my server"

bugfix — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 00:54:09 +0000

IrfanView was able to load it in about 8 seconds (Ryzen 7 5800x) using 2.8GB of RAM, but zooming/panning is quite slow (~500ms per action)

New comment by bugfix in "Jellyfin as a Spotify alternative"

bugfix — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 14:14:30 +0000

Those aren't competitors of Spotify/Netflix; they're alternatives for people who are willing to tolerate small inconveniences to have full control over their library.

Of course it's not as easy as signing up for Spotify/Netflix, but setting them up is easier than ever (even easier for tech people).

New comment by bugfix in "How 'Factorio' seduced Silicon Valley and me"

bugfix — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 16:04:43 +0000

To me, it starts to feel like work when I have to rebuild large parts of my factory because I didn't leave enough space to expand. This process feels exactly like having to refactor a bad codebase (where you feel the urge to just start from scratch).

If you plan your build properly, you can avoid this, but it takes a few runs to learn the best strategies.

New comment by bugfix in "Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't own your games"

bugfix — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:57:17 +0000

Once you buy a game on Steam, you don't need to pay any kind of subscription to play it. The vast majority of games sold there are, in fact, one-time purchases. The games stay in your library even if the developer/publisher decides to delist them.

There are games like MMOs that do require a subscription, but that has nothing to do with Steam itself.

New comment by bugfix in "LPCAMM2 is a modular, repairable, upgradeable memory standard for laptops"

bugfix — Tue, 07 May 2024 19:22:14 +0000

Even if it's just Lenovo using these new modules, I still think it's a win for the consumer (if the modules aren't crazy expensive).

New comment by bugfix in "AI copilots are changing how coding is taught"

bugfix — Fri, 03 May 2024 18:42:53 +0000

It's a great tool when you can actually read and understand the code AI is feeding you. When you don't really know how the language works or don't know programming in general, you end up getting stuck trying to guess why this valid piece of code (that looks like it should do what you asked the LLM for), is not working properly.

New comment by bugfix in "Why does Windows use backslash as path separator? (2019)"

bugfix — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 22:01:57 +0000

What would be the benefits of changing it now? Change for the sake of change would only break backwards compatibility.

New comment by bugfix in "Chrome.userScripts API requires developer mode"

bugfix — Tue, 05 Dec 2023 04:19:35 +0000

It's a single step for now...

New comment by bugfix in "I tested four NVMe SSDs from four vendors – half lose FLUSH'd data on power loss (2022)"

bugfix — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 04:35:42 +0000

I had this exact experience with my workstation SSD (NTFS) after a short power loss while NPM was running. After I turned the computer back on, several files (package.json, package-lock.json and many others inside node_modules) had the correct size on disk but were filled with zeros.

I think the last time I had corrupted files after a power loss was in a FAT32 disk on Win98, but you'd usually get garbage data, not all zeros.

New comment by bugfix in "Saying Goodbye to OpenSubtitles.org API"

bugfix — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 19:51:25 +0000

If you don't pay, they'll limit you to 5 downloads per 24 hours. If you pay for a "VIP" account you can download 1000 subtitles per 24 hours.

How long would it take for you download all 6.260.893 subtitles listed in the "dump" with these limits in place?