Hacker News: ephou7

New comment by ephou7 in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

ephou7 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 20:59:27 +0000

Ulrich Drepper, Lennart Poettering, this clown. Red Hat seems to have a skill of hiring savants with high technical and low social aptitude.

New comment by ephou7 in "Throwing away 18 months of code and starting over"

ephou7 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:57:36 +0000

Exactly. OP seems to have very limited understanding of software development if that fact has eluded him.

New comment by ephou7 in "Anthropic Cowork feature creates 10GB VM bundle on macOS without warning"

ephou7 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:43:16 +0000

Jesus Christ what kind of potatos are you using when 10 GB of disk space are even noticable for you?

New comment by ephou7 in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

ephou7 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:30:36 +0000

He was a good hacker but also a HUGE, arrogant jerk who treated a lot of people quite badly.

New comment by ephou7 in "C++26: Std:Is_within_lifetime"

ephou7 — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 14:43:20 +0000

Exactly my thought. Or a typed enum: enum class uint8_t { NAH, YEAH, OMGWTF };

I'm (fairly) sure there's a good reason for that language feature, but the justification the blog article gives is super weak.

New comment by ephou7 in "Show HN: I'm building an AI-proof writing tool. How would you defeat it?"

ephou7 — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 21:31:56 +0000

I used this:

#!/usr/bin/python3 import subprocess import time import random with open("/tmp/x") as f: t = f.read() for c in t: subprocess.call([ "xdotool", "type", c ]) time.sleep(abs(random.gauss(0,0.07)))

And pasted a random Hacker News comment:

Authenticity Score 81 Highly Authentic

Words per minute: 162 Keystroke variance: 52ms Paste attempts: 0 Window/tab switches: 4 Pauses (≥10s): 0 DOM manipulations: 0

You failed.

New comment by ephou7 in "Show HN: PlutoFilter- A single-header, zero-allocation image filter library in C"

ephou7 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 20:11:20 +0000

I'm not sure why single-header is an advantage over powerful libraries such as GEGL.

New comment by ephou7 in "Getting ready to issue IP address certificates"

ephou7 — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 21:08:16 +0000

> Other than it being completely wrong and requiring a regex to be compiled for an amount of work that's certainly less than the compilation itself.

It's not. And the sequence you describe is not even parsed because colons are not part of the IPv6 extension of the SAN. PLease educate yourself before spilling such drivel.

New comment by ephou7 in "Occurences of swearing in the Linux kernel source code over time"

ephou7 — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 21:58:14 +0000

6.15.2 has 20 occurrences, of which only 2 are actual swearwords

  ./fs/bcachefs/bkey_cmp.h: /* we shouldn't need asm for this, but gcc is being retarded: */
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmsmac/d11.h:/* Advance Retard */
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/phy.h:#define B43legacy_OFDMTAB_ADVRETARD B43legacy_OFDMTAB(0x09, 0)
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/phy.c:  for (i = 0; i < B43legacy_ILT_RETARD_SIZE; i++)
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/phy.c:           b43legacy_ilt_retard[i]);
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/ilt.h:#define B43legacy_ILT_RETARD_SIZE 53
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/ilt.h:extern const u32 b43legacy_ilt_retard[B43legacy_ILT_RETARD_SIZE];
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/ilt.c:const u32 b43legacy_ilt_retard[B43legacy_ILT_RETARD_SIZE] = {
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/wa.c:static void b43_wa_art(struct b43_wldev *dev) /* ADV retard table */
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/wa.c: for (i = 0; i < B43_TAB_RETARD_SIZE; i++)
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/wa.c:   b43_ofdmtab_write32(dev, B43_OFDMTAB_ADVRETARD,
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/wa.c:    i, b43_tab_retard[i]);
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/tables.h:#define B43_TAB_RETARD_SIZE 53
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/tables.h:extern const u32 b43_tab_retard[];
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/tables.c:const u32 b43_tab_retard[] = {
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/tables.c: BUILD_BUG_ON(B43_TAB_RETARD_SIZE != ARRAY_SIZE(b43_tab_retard));
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_n.h:#define B43_NPHY_PHYSTAT_ADVRET   B43_PHY_N(0x1F3) /* PHY stats ADV retard */
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_lp.h:#define B43_LPPHY_ADVANCEDRETARDROTOR_ADDR B43_PHY_OFDM(0x8B) /* AdvancedRetardRotor Address */
  ./drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43/phy_a.h:#define B43_OFDMTAB_ADVRETARD  B43_OFDMTAB(0x09, 0)
  ./drivers/net/dsa/sja1105/sja1105_dynamic_config.c:/* The switch is so retarded that it makes our command/entry abstraction

New comment by ephou7 in "Amelia Earhart's Reckless Final Flights"

ephou7 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 15:19:47 +0000

The two pilots in the Tenerife aircrash would beg to differ.