Hacker News: greg7mdp

Lessons from Zig

greg7mdp — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 01:05:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.vinniefalco.com/p/lessons-from-zig

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46983594

Points: 27

# Comments: 27

New comment by greg7mdp in "Size of Life"

greg7mdp — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:29:41 +0000

The OOM killer strikes again.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Libghostty is coming"

greg7mdp — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 15:31:55 +0000

> All of this is packaged up into a single zero-dependency C API (it doesn't even rely on libc), allowing it to be easily embedded into any popular language ecosystem.

@mitchellh That's super exciting. I'm wondering how easy it would be to integrate in the debugger frontend I'm working on. Do you already know what the C API will look like?

New comment by greg7mdp in "The $1.5B Bybit Hack"

greg7mdp — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 02:17:59 +0000

They didn't sign a transaction for 1 billion dollars. They all signed what they thought was a routine transfer, but in reality what they signed gave the hacker full control of the smart contract (the Gnosis Safe) in which the 1.4B $ of tokens were stored. The hackers, having gained control of the smart contract, proceeded to empty it of funds.

New comment by greg7mdp in "The $1.5B Bybit Hack"

greg7mdp — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 02:17:27 +0000

The hackers, having gained control of the smart contract, proceeded to empty it of funds.

New comment by greg7mdp in "The $1.5B Bybit Hack"

greg7mdp — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 02:13:58 +0000

What you should do is sign the transaction on an offline computer (which is booted from a linux OS on a flash drive with only the essential software), simulate the transaction to verify it does what you expect, and then save the signed transaction to a flash drive. Then you can submit your transaction on a connected computer with confidence that you didn't sign your tokens away to someone else.

"A calculator app? Anyone could make that."

greg7mdp — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 00:34:47 +0000

Article URL: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1890889465322786878.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43064080

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

I tried C++. Maybe there is something there even for Rust developers

greg7mdp — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:21:21 +0000

Article URL: https://chadnauseam.com/coding/pltd/the-good-and-bad-of-cpp-as-a-rust-dev

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505084

Points: 5

# Comments: 1

New comment by greg7mdp in "A Visual Guide to LLM Quantization"

greg7mdp — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 01:25:32 +0000

> for exponent 1, 10 and 11 you then have the same

Right. But the exponent is signed as well, so you have the same number of exponent values mapping to values between -1 and 1 (roughly exponent values from -127 to -1) as to all other values (between -inf and -1 and between 1 and inf), exponent values from 1 to 126.

New comment by greg7mdp in "The Miracle of Photography"

greg7mdp — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 12:42:00 +0000

Nothing really compare to a well made daguerreotype.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Sam Bankman-Fried Convicted"

greg7mdp — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 12:33:45 +0000

Elon Musk says idiotic stuff all the time and people revere him.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Free IRS-run tax filing pilot to be available in 13 states"

greg7mdp — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 01:07:33 +0000

I'm surprised Intuit allowed this to happen. It almost look as if the govt is working for the people.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Margaret Cavendish’s brilliant writing was largely neglected in the 1600s"

greg7mdp — Wed, 28 Jun 2023 18:38:06 +0000

Unless they pretended being a man :-)

New comment by greg7mdp in "Datomic is Free"

greg7mdp — Thu, 27 Apr 2023 19:43:56 +0000

This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSEQfqNYNAc

New comment by greg7mdp in "Inmos and the Transputer (1998)"

greg7mdp — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 16:22:48 +0000

Makes me remember how fun it was to read Byte in the 1980s! https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-05/page/n219/...

New comment by greg7mdp in "Bard and new AI features in Search"

greg7mdp — Mon, 06 Feb 2023 21:39:48 +0000

Page and Brin's original crawler had the issue, but they were unable to fix it, and it was Jeff Dean and Sanjay Gupta that rewrote the crawler so that it and the index storage would be hardware fault tolerant.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Ask HN: What was being a software developer like about 30 years ago?"

greg7mdp — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 18:30:33 +0000

There was a lot less googling for sure.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Byte Magazine: The Forth Language (1980)"

greg7mdp — Sun, 17 Jul 2022 00:45:59 +0000

I remember reading this issue cover to cover. Good times. The August issues of Byte were always a treat!

New comment by greg7mdp in "Summary After Four Months with Ada"

greg7mdp — Sun, 29 Aug 2021 11:00:35 +0000

Both are named after Ada Lovelace, mathematician and first computer programmer.

New comment by greg7mdp in "Sony's new curved image sensors could shake up the whole camera industry"

greg7mdp — Wed, 11 Aug 2021 12:08:05 +0000

The writer obviously does not understand the benefit of curved sensors. They will make the lenses cheaper and smaller - they will not change the way photographs look.