Hacker News: capitol_

New comment by capitol_ in "Coreutils for Windows"

capitol_ — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:58:22 +0000

Why not use ripgrep?

New comment by capitol_ in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

capitol_ — Tue, 19 May 2026 05:06:56 +0000

Isn't that just an insult people throw around? Or maybe some psychopath that tries to justify their worldview.

I have never had an conversation with someone who seems like an NPC.

New comment by capitol_ in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

capitol_ — Sun, 17 May 2026 10:16:15 +0000

I also find it useful for review, and sometimes I use multiple passes to review for different categories. Like security, performance and so on.

New comment by capitol_ in "GnuPG – post-quantum crypto landing in mainline"

capitol_ — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 09:49:04 +0000

As far as I understood it: GnuPG started to implement stuff from the standard before it was finished, the standard continued to improve and GnuPG refused to change code already written.

Combined with some personal drama.

New comment by capitol_ in "I am building a cloud"

capitol_ — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:18:43 +0000

Your first example sound very sensible to me?

Using new technology in something small and unimportant like a setup script is a perfect way to experiment and learn. It would be irresponsible to build something important as the first thing you do in a new language.

New comment by capitol_ in "OpenSSL 4.0.0"

capitol_ — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:10:23 +0000

Finally encrypted client hello support \o/

New comment by capitol_ in "Supply chain nightmare: How Rust will be attacked and what we can do to mitigate"

capitol_ — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 08:28:10 +0000

There is sadly a lot that is missed by cargo audit, far from everyone report their vulnerabilities to rustsec.

New comment by capitol_ in "The Resolv hack: How one compromised key printed $23M"

capitol_ — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:06:48 +0000

Those stablecoins are useful when you want to do crime.

New comment by capitol_ in "Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)"

capitol_ — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 13:48:40 +0000

Typically markets are good at optimizing everything that is priced into the market.

Long term price stability is currently not something that is optimized for.

One way to solve it is of course abandoning the ide of a market economy for power.

Another is to let those industries that need price stability buy that on the futures market.

New comment by capitol_ in "RFC 9849. TLS Encrypted Client Hello"

capitol_ — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 09:29:24 +0000

Split dns is such an ugly hack, it causes no end of hard to debug problems.

New comment by capitol_ in "Show HN: Xmloxide – an agent-made Rust replacement for libxml2"

capitol_ — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 06:29:25 +0000

There is nothing in the open source licensees that prevents charging money, in fact, non-commercial clauses are seen as incompatible with the Debian Free Software Guidelines.

And there is a lot of companies out there that make their money based on open source software, red hat is maybe the biggest and most well known.

New comment by capitol_ in "Hetzner Prices increase 30-40%"

capitol_ — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 12:45:31 +0000

That Trump makes us very motivated to stop relying on American tech.

New comment by capitol_ in "Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are sold out for the year, says WD"

capitol_ — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 15:19:14 +0000

one.. fully autonomous, self improving, replicating, general intelligence.

New comment by capitol_ in "ICE and Palantir: US agents using health data to hunt illegal immigrants"

capitol_ — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 13:53:04 +0000

It means selling to all bidders, since it's information and not a tangible asset.

New comment by capitol_ in "Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy"

capitol_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 14:24:49 +0000

A prediction is not a claim.

Predictions operate on events that will happen in the future.

Proofs typically operate on things that already exist.

New comment by capitol_ in "Xfce is great"

capitol_ — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 06:44:56 +0000

What on earth do the Direct Rendering Manager api have to do with commercialization?

New comment by capitol_ in "All my new code will be closed-source from now on"

capitol_ — Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:13:38 +0000

I have worked in the industry for a little over 20 years, i wouldn't be surprised if I have written between one to two million loc.

I would be surprised if it's significantly above that.

New comment by capitol_ in "Report: Microsoft kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet"

capitol_ — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:56:09 +0000

And yet, without the software for Linux gaming, there is no Linux gaming.

Very hard to falsify such a statement.

New comment by capitol_ in "Giving C a superpower: custom header file (safe_c.h)"

capitol_ — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 14:44:10 +0000

I agree, if people just had refrained from building things in c/c++ that operated on data from across a security boundary we wouldn't be in this mess.

New comment by capitol_ in "Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: the story of learned avoidance"

capitol_ — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:34:07 +0000

I'm pretty sure that you won't be able to claim your 1 million dollars from the Clay Mathematics Institute by just answering yes or no.