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All old `zip` crate versions were just yanked

f_devd — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:43:24 +0000

Article URL: https://lib.rs/crates/zip/versions

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120766

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by f_devd in "Screens Aren't Destroying Young Minds. I Should Know"

f_devd — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 14:23:07 +0000

Agreed, I think the author has some self-selection bias.

Also from article:

> They were coping mechanisms for [my] preexisting problems: loneliness, family instability, social anxiety, ...

I would also suspect that some of those may be partially caused by second order effects of modern digital landscape. Even if we assume his own screen use is healthy that doesn't mean everyone else is the same.

New comment by f_devd in "Context Language Models"

f_devd — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 07:42:21 +0000

It's pretty much required to make it work with large contexts, so probably not

New comment by f_devd in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

f_devd — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 11:33:11 +0000

Farmer advocates are not climate activists, surprisingly they have a negative correlation

New comment by f_devd in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

f_devd — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 15:38:45 +0000

> they can probably scrub through the data to find out whether there have been any mentions of the similar approach

They did check and it was in the trainingset but they could not confirm if it was the /cause/ of it, which is a bit of a cop out.

New comment by f_devd in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

f_devd — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:06:08 +0000

> no right to a trial before your rights of travel being revoked

I'm not sure what exactly this refers to (because of the paywall), but revoking right of travel before trial is fairly common, it the US it would be classified as detained without bail. And happens when there is a reasonable concern for flight risk before trial as seen by the judge.

New comment by f_devd in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

f_devd — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 07:38:10 +0000

How much time? Doesn't seem like the trend is reversing

New comment by f_devd in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

f_devd — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:27:21 +0000

It's not a single political front, they have members (those who sponsor hosting), they decide by vote

New comment by f_devd in "Stop Using OpenCode"

f_devd — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:49:47 +0000

Unrelated citation?

New comment by f_devd in "Keygen.music"

f_devd — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:13:49 +0000

Ngl the weird UI bugs made me think it must be made by AI, either that or the developer has very skewed frontend skills where gradients are fancy but sliders & interactions are broken.

New comment by f_devd in "Communication on European Tech Sovereignty, and an EU Open-Source Strategy"

f_devd — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 14:49:26 +0000

> Chips?

Only ST, NXP, Nexperia, Osram, and a bunch more obscure ones. It's not a boom, but it's far from a wasteland

New comment by f_devd in "Five frontier LLMs disagree on 67% of 1k real-world fact-check claims"

f_devd — Thu, 28 May 2026 12:47:33 +0000

Inject some adversarial priming as is in actual usage, and you can probably get that number to >=95%

New comment by f_devd in "Async Rust never left the MVP state"

f_devd — Tue, 05 May 2026 16:14:35 +0000

Because if you go down the callstack eventually you won't get the await keyword anymore; you'll get the actual 'waiters' and 'wakers' which define your scheduling

New comment by f_devd in "SpaceX Is Basically a Huge Meme Stock"

f_devd — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 06:49:55 +0000

Except there is little cooling or power in space, depending on your position in orbit you could only have one of those at a time.

New comment by f_devd in "Cyber.mil serving file downloads using TLS certificate which expired 3 days ago"

f_devd — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:07:39 +0000

I think they mean that a non-observant visitor cannot tell the difference between both situations

BIO – The Bao I/O Co-Processor

f_devd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:56:58 +0000

Article URL: https://www.crowdsupply.com/baochip/dabao/updates/bio-the-bao-i-o-co-processor

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47457344

Points: 5

# Comments: 2

New comment by f_devd in "HP trialed mandatory 15-minute support call wait times (2025)"

f_devd — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:34:57 +0000

Wouldn't be surprised if they have their own internal PBX system with a SIP trunk

New comment by f_devd in "Baochip-1x: A Mostly-Open, 22nm SoC for High Assurance Applications"

f_devd — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:22:42 +0000

That sucks, but also probably the best vindication for their strategy; any other mcu and you just wouldn't know.

New comment by f_devd in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

f_devd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:07:36 +0000

Always a bit jarring to see a devboard stacked on an otherwise neat board. Looks promising though.

New comment by f_devd in "Libre Solar – Open Hardware for Renewable Energy"

f_devd — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:25:57 +0000

A UPS-style grid connected inverter (with phase balancing) would be significantly more complicated by also significantly more useful. More in the critical/specialized part category, rather than near-commodity (like MPPT/BMS)