Hacker News: feb

New comment by feb in "Minimal x86 Kernel Zig"

feb — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:47:38 +0000

That one actually looks more like a real kernel with services like memory management, syscalls, processes and context switching. Nice work.

New comment by feb in "Fabrice Bellard Releases MicroQuickJS"

feb — Thu, 25 Dec 2025 20:31:35 +0000

For a functionnal language, TCO is really a must have. How would you do the equivalent of loops without it ?

New comment by feb in "Show HN: Mirror_bridge – C++ Reflection powered Python binding generation"

feb — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 08:45:57 +0000

There's another HN thread about this project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46144199

New comment by feb in "U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat"

feb — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:55:10 +0000

For those of us who are not used to the acronyms, DUI means Driving Under Influence. Similar term is DWI, Driving While Intoxicated.

New comment by feb in "Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing?"

feb — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 09:54:51 +0000

There's PeerTube (https://peertube.tv/) which is based on Free software (https://joinpeertube.org/).

New comment by feb in "Dr. TVAM – Inverse Rendering for Tomographic Volumetric Additive Manufacturing"

feb — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:50:22 +0000

This sounds like the technique shown by 3D Printing Nerd on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oHPrnYMdLow There they called it computed axial lithography.

New comment by feb in "Show HN: iFixit created a new USB-C, repairable soldering system"

feb — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 19:11:51 +0000

The difference is surprising. Digging deeper, the US shop does not include shipping or taxes. To get an idea, I tried for CA and that already adds $12. That's already $38 without custom tax and VAT.

New comment by feb in "Frame.work laptop now available in Denmark, Finland, and Sweden"

feb — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 09:15:56 +0000

Fully charging the battery can cause it to age more quickly and lose capacity. Limiting charge level helps to protect it, especially when it's always connected to a power supply and don't need the battery that much.

New comment by feb in "Show HN: Sum (algebraic) types for C in one 100 line header"

feb — Tue, 28 May 2024 07:17:10 +0000

Nice system built with only a couple of C99 macros. That small header also achieves matching for specific C types over the "sum types".

In the context of C99, isn't tagged union the more usual name instead of sum type?

New comment by feb in "DuckDuckGo was down"

feb — Thu, 23 May 2024 11:25:44 +0000

Actually Qwant.com uses bing API too and has a warning at the top of their homepage.

New comment by feb in "Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition"

feb — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 09:26:16 +0000

From valetudo.cloud: Conga is a brand that uses existing robot designs with a slightly customized cloud.They’re not a robot manufacturer.

New comment by feb in "Replication Prohibited: Attacking Restricted Keyways with 3D Printing [pdf]"

feb — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:59:16 +0000

The paper explains how to get the profile of the key to 3D print the equivalent of key blanks. But one needs the cuts in the key and that part is secret that cannot be easily detected from a photo of the key hole.

New comment by feb in "Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way"

feb — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:41:08 +0000

It disappeared without any visible explanations. Apparently, it was a a friendly fork of the Breath project (https://github.com/cb-linux/breath) by Apacelus (https://github.com/Apacelus/Apacelus). But Apacelus stopped working on it on May 26th (https://github.com/Apacelus/Apacelus/commit/c84ee94310144ec9...).

There's another project on Github with the same name: eupnea-linux-backup https://github.com/eupnea-linux-backup

New comment by feb in "A Cryptographic Near Miss"

feb — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 08:20:31 +0000

Filippo describes how evolutions in the source code and hidden assumptions caused a bug in a special case implementation he kept for performance reasons. This is a great example of how the incompleteness of the old Weierstrass curves multiplication formulas still bites us and how he uses the opportunity to get valuable lessons from this accident. It also shows again how optimizing for performance can cost security and hurt maintainability.

New comment by feb in "CarSized: A way to visualise car dimensions"

feb — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 17:03:11 +0000

And it's also illegal in EU. The GRPD imposes to have the choice to reject tracking cookies. And it must be easy to reject, not hidden somewhere or requiring one to manually delete the cookies with the browser mechanisms.

New comment by feb in "Cylindrical aquarium housing 1,500 exotic fish bursts in Berlin"

feb — Fri, 16 Dec 2022 11:13:57 +0000

According to a german news report [1], it could be due to material fatigue.

[1] https://www.rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2022/12/berlin-karl-li...

New comment by feb in "Code Review Handbook"

feb — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 09:21:23 +0000

> It seems like a decent guide, though like others mentioned, you should download and run the code most of the time, except for trivial changes.

Actually, that's not true at all. Code review is not a replacement for automated builds and testing. That's what Continuous Integration is for. Let humans concentrate on what they do best (understanding and comment on code) and don't lose their time and patience with things that can be automated.

Projects often enforce that by running CI on code submitted for review and it cannot be accepted as long as a CI fails. It also reduces breakages for other devs of the builds of the code base.

I Lost More Than Half My Business

feb — Sat, 08 Oct 2022 11:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8ejmt5GKAQ

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33131427

Points: 4

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New comment by feb in "Show HN: Chitchatter – P2P chat app that is serverless, decentralized, ephemeral"

feb — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 08:25:28 +0000

The README is a bit optimistic about it the security model. Like the parent said the room UUID is a very critical asset and should be handled as a critical secret. Sadly, users may not know that.

In addition, the README says one can audit the full code and the assets used. For example, it suggests to audit the gh-pages branch for the static assets. But when hosting with github, that branch could change at any time and deliver non-audited content. Powerful attackers like government could do it easily, and less powerful ones too.

New comment by feb in "The IKEA Effect – Why managers fall in love with their own ideas"

feb — Mon, 05 Sep 2022 09:07:54 +0000

This article about IKEA boxes sounds a lot like the cake mix marketing story. But apparently, that story is a legend: https://gobraithwaite.com/thinking/cake-mixes-fresh-eggs-and...

And maybe this study should be taken with a grain of salt too.