Hacker News: creshal

New comment by creshal in "OpenBSD 8.0"

creshal — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 06:56:14 +0000

By that point medicine will be sufficiently advanced that we can graft new fingers on him, obviously. That'll also make him more productive, given he's an emacs user.

New comment by creshal in "Laptop Based on 6502 CPU"

creshal — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 11:05:19 +0000

All the code is kept in the rom, as are all the assets. So you only need to track sprites that move unpredictably, and the average 2600 game had very few of those - pacman, space invaders, etc have very few actice objects, and most of them are strictly constrained in how they can move.

New comment by creshal in "Show HN: Microsoft Office running with Wine on Linux with no virtualization"

creshal — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:04:15 +0000

doc vs docx is whatever, what kills older offices for me is the 64k row/col limit in excel. That was only fixed with the ribboned versions. :(

New comment by creshal in "Microsoft patches Windows and Excel – breaks audio, remote access, and paste"

creshal — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:04:17 +0000

Especially when the following years once again confirmed that none of the big enterprise customers care enough to cancel any contracts over QA problems.

New comment by creshal in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

creshal — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:11:18 +0000

Sure, but compare that to the effort it would take to have the same safety guarantees without any drop in performance.

New comment by creshal in "Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions"

creshal — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 05:38:01 +0000

> Posted from a memory safe browser - WebKit MiniBrowser compiled with Fil-C. Pretty sure this is safer than even V8 and the heap sandbox.

It's easy to be safer, as long as performance can be sacrificed for it.

New comment by creshal in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services"

creshal — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:51:21 +0000

A lot of the stability problems come from trying to scale a free product on a still WIP cloud solution without costing too much; the same software running on separate, paid for infra has a lot better odds.

New comment by creshal in "Disruption with Some GitHub Services – Resolved"

creshal — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 19:48:28 +0000

Which is a good fit to a distributed, offline first version control system, if you use it like that.

New comment by creshal in "Ask HN: GitHub employees what's going on? Why?"

creshal — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:34:27 +0000

Microsoft considers it a bonus if a hype lets one department cripple another department.

New comment by creshal in "On AI regulation and messaging"

creshal — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 10:34:57 +0000

IMO the constraint is that AI is still rather anaemic at sustainable green-field projects: It's good at one-off oneshots, and also at refactoring or fixing bugs or adding features to existing projects, where test suites and significant architectural scaffolding already exists, but the more you move away from that, the more wobbly the results get, and the more the human once again becomes the bottleneck, for all the hard work of coming up with all the conceptual scaffolding in the first place. Typing speed rarely was the bottleneck there anyway.

New comment by creshal in "Spaghettifying DRAM"

creshal — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:56:12 +0000

Reaching into ring -2 or the TPM allows privilege escalations past traditional "root permissions" and lets attackers defeat the sort of tamper protection that's designed to make escalations to local root manageable. Wipe-resistant malware, falsified cryptographic attestations, all sorts of fun.

New comment by creshal in "To save C, we must save ABI (2022)"

creshal — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:05:51 +0000

Preferably one that doesn't deliberately shoot itself in the face to spite its users just to protect some committee members' egos.

New comment by creshal in "To save C, we must save ABI (2022)"

creshal — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:18:10 +0000

Is C even worth saving at this point? Even standards committee members can't consistently write C code that doesn't overflow and segfault.

New comment by creshal in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

creshal — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:56:37 +0000

I'm always flabbergasted when I see what people pay and how much effort they need to invest to keep their cloud websites from eating them alive.

My allegedly more complicated VPS stack needs an afternoon of attention every two years when a new Debian major release is necessary, and costs have been predictable for 15 years, no matter what happened traffic wise.

New comment by creshal in "Taste Is All That's Left"

creshal — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:46:05 +0000

I'm sceptical, where are all these essays he was supposed to have learned this very distinct style from? I certainly don't remember seeing them.

New comment by creshal in "The Religion of Speed"

creshal — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 07:49:23 +0000

Don't confuse urgency for FOMO.

> There is definitely a point where you are going too fast, but the customer will almost certainly let you know when this happens.

Usually by stopping doing business with you forever.

New comment by creshal in "What does GitHub's security team even do?"

creshal — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 06:47:50 +0000

The post-release XP service packs, to be precise. XP's release was a perfect storm of events: Suddenly, millions of home users receiced an OS that had dozens of networked RPC services running in the background, and received DSL modems around the same time that exposed their computer directly to the internet. A slightly suboptimal combination at a time when software firewalls were a separate product you had to buy for a hundred dollars a year, if you even knew they were a thing.

New comment by creshal in "Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber"

creshal — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:02:21 +0000

Model quality is only one aspect, the bigger problem is making it work in a fully integrated enterprise platform, and Google has always been lacking when it came to the latter.

At this rate, if Google has a flagship model, you're better off plugging it into a competitor's tooling than hope Google figures out how to use it.

New comment by creshal in "Firefox 153 available with support for Vulkan video decoding, JPEG-XL"

creshal — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:54:47 +0000

The primary advantage of dedicated hardware accelerators for the past ~15 years been power efficiency, rather than performance. Not much of a problem on a desktop, but very noticeable on mobile devices.

New comment by creshal in "Ditching Vagrant: VMs with KVM and Virsh on Debian"

creshal — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:35:28 +0000

kubevirt is a cute joke, but hardly a replacement for ovirt or vmware. It's a real shame redhat keeps sabotaging itself to chase hypes with half-assed non-solutions.