Hacker News: cjg

New comment by cjg in "New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros"

cjg — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 14:47:19 +0000

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Rebuilding Prime Video UI with Rust and WebAssembly

cjg — Sun, 23 Mar 2025 08:56:44 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/prime-video-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43451665

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Reimplementing Rust in Go

cjg — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 22:45:51 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/UoCCS/project-GROS

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43441546

Points: 8

# Comments: 1

Metasyntactic Variable

cjg — Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:27:22 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42316168

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Fake letters: malware rather than a weather warning app

cjg — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 11:00:50 +0000

Article URL: https://www.ncsc.admin.ch/ncsc/en/home/aktuell/im-fokus/2024/2024-meteosuisse.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42192721

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

How to solve cryptic crosswords – the ultimate beginner's guide

cjg — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 14:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/crossword-blog/2024/oct/21/how-to-solve-cryptic-crosswords-the-ultimate-beginners-guide

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42026579

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Username over 52 Characters? No Password Required, Says Okta

cjg — Sat, 02 Nov 2024 14:16:10 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2024/11/02/username-over-52-characters-no-password-required-says-okta/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42026521

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by cjg in "Industrious Dice"

cjg — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:55:44 +0000

Or a d6 with the 4, 5 and 6 faces blank. When you roll, if the face isn't blank, that's your number. If it is then flip the die over and subtract that number from 7.

Only uses 6 pips.

Coal fired power stations are being turned into batteries

cjg — Tue, 01 Oct 2024 17:41:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240927-how-coal-fired-power-stations-are-being-turned-into-batteries

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41711652

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Programming with Verse in UEFN

cjg — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 15:29:50 +0000

Article URL: https://dev.epicgames.com/documentation/en-us/uefn/learn-programming-with-verse-in-unreal-editor-for-fortnite

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40821663

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by cjg in "What If We Recaption Billions of Web Images with LLaMA-3?"

cjg — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 09:40:46 +0000

Humans have bootstrapped by training the next generation. Why not LLMs?

New comment by cjg in "Enforced Amnesia as Way to Mitigate Risk of Silent Suffering in the Conscious AI"

cjg — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:52:22 +0000

Naive arguments aside, humans can't suffer in the same way a steak can't suffer.

New comment by cjg in "Magika: AI powered fast and efficient file type identification"

cjg — Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:18:32 +0000

> does this mean the file is clean?

No.

Why Rust? It's the safe choice

cjg — Thu, 15 Feb 2024 15:29:43 +0000

Article URL: https://maticrobots.com/blog/why-rust-its-the-safe-choice/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39383839

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by cjg in "Show HN: Pong Wars"

cjg — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:46:54 +0000

Because there are a finite number of states, it will always loop.

An interesting question might be around how many distinct loops there are and whether there's some pattern to the loop lengths.

SEC Charges SAP for FCPA Violations

cjg — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 10:13:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2024-4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38950196

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Georgian Scripts

cjg — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 10:27:47 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgian_scripts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38175244

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Killer robots and work-free lives – Sunak quizzes Musk on AI future

cjg — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 01:46:41 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67302048

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38123326

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by cjg in "Realtors Face an Antitrust Reckoning"

cjg — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 12:14:22 +0000

For contrast, in the UK we typically don't use buyer brokers at all. Normally the seller pays about 1% to their agent.

New comment by cjg in "No morphological differences between living and non-living systems are yet known"

cjg — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 11:51:53 +0000

The first thing capable of evolving was inorganic.