Hacker News: gxt

New comment by gxt in "EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'"

gxt — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:08:32 +0000

This message has been brought to you by the Minister of The Truth of the Government of Canada. /// Ce message a été émis par le Ministre de La Vérité du Gouvernement du Canada.

Thank you for directing your hate at the specified target. /// Merci d'aiguiller votre haine à la cible sus mentionnée.

New comment by gxt in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

gxt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:11:27 +0000

Assuming the interlocutor is stupid, at any scale, 1-1 to the whole of american politics probably just highlight that you don't fully grasp their point of view, because then it wouldn't be stupid. You'd be able to explain it to them and get them to see the matter from your perspective. If you can't do that, then you don't know you're right, you might be, but there's no way for you to know, truly.

New comment by gxt in "Alberta to hold referendum on whether to remain in Canada"

gxt — Fri, 22 May 2026 17:22:32 +0000

> Your comment is nothing more than a broad ethnic slur

Have you considered that it may not be an insult but legitimate criticism?

The official government stat is 1.05M FN members. They have been targeted by over 200B$ in federal wealth transfers alone excluding tax incentives, provincial and municipal funding since 2015. That's almost 20K$ per person per year, more than what most Canadians pay in taxes each year and yet many FN communities don't have running water.

I think to ask about potential corruption or at least gross mismanagement is absolutly legitimate.

New comment by gxt in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

gxt — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 01:26:15 +0000

Anybody with access to these models can challenge it to test the hypothesis that spacetime is a 4d viscous fluid with the speed of light being spacetime's sound barrier, mass relating to viscosity, blackholes being cavitation bubbles, Hawking radiation our perception of surface tension, and gravity just being a pressure differencial? Thanks

New comment by gxt in "Website streamed live directly from a model"

gxt — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 02:14:02 +0000

Beyond the training boundary. Seems a propos for "an infinite visual browser". I'm just not clear on how we get to the beyond part of it.

https://flipbook.page/n/f8982ddfd3ef4cbcb2ad8449d7d049b6

New comment by gxt in "How to Attend Meetings"

gxt — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:04:05 +0000

There's John Cleese's Meetings Bloody Meetings for good meeting hygiene training. Its entertaining and educational.

https://archive.org/details/meetingsbloodymeetings

Are Electrons made of Light? (2025)

gxt — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 01:43:57 +0000

Article URL: https://youtu.be/hYyrgDEJLOA

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46074828

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by gxt in "Cache-Friendly B+Tree Nodes with Dynamic Fanout"

gxt — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:01:52 +0000

You can implement a BTree with nodes stored in file-backed memmaps. It's plenty fast for the usual business case.

New comment by gxt in "Azure API vulnerability and roles misconfiguration compromise corporate networks"

gxt — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 12:54:34 +0000

I'll take this opportunity to remind anyone on Azure that if you enable service endpoints on a subnet without applying service endpoint policies, anyone with the resourceid of an affected subnet can silently backdoor your network. Your NSGs do not matter for service endpoints.

New comment by gxt in "Rust’s dependencies are starting to worry me"

gxt — Fri, 09 May 2025 14:22:12 +0000

You can audit your dependencies for crates with security vulnerabilities reported to the RustSec Advisory Database, also block unmaintained crates, and enforce your license requirements using SPDX expressions with cargo-audit and cargo-deny.

You can ensure that third-party Rust dependencies have been audited by a trusted entity with cargo-vet.

And you should have taken a look at where those 3M locs come from, it's usually from Microsoft's windows-rs crates that are transitively included in your dependencies through default features and build targets of crates built to run on windows.

New comment by gxt in "Hot take: GPT 4.5 is a nothing burger"

gxt — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:07:01 +0000

Sure they are AGI. Just let one execute in while (1) and give it the ability to store and execute logic rag-like. Soon enough you're gonna have a pretty smart fellow chugging along.

New comment by gxt in "How about trailing commas in SQL?"

gxt — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 17:14:48 +0000

At some point we should just commit the AST to git and render it however it is preferred in IDE.

New comment by gxt in "SQL nulls are weird"

gxt — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 03:55:00 +0000

This has always made queries unpredictable in many scenarios and it should be a feature to turn nulls off entirely and swap them out with Option instead.

New comment by gxt in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

gxt — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 14:58:04 +0000

I don't care about some scores going up. Newer models need to stop regressing on tasks they were already good at. 4o sucks at LLVM and related tasks were as legacy GPT 4 is relatively ok at it.

New comment by gxt in "Electric (Postgres sync engine) beta release"

gxt — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 03:17:16 +0000

What if the DRM/license was based around offering binaries built with 8/16/32/64 bit limits in data types and max records per table, each being its own edition and priced accordingly? Eg yearly license of $8/160/3,200/640,000.

New comment by gxt in "Multiple new macOS sandbox escape vulnerabilities"

gxt — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:06:20 +0000

Ultimately security is incompatible with backwards compatibility. All OSes in prod today need to be rebuilt from the ground up to be secure for the next century. That means throwing out a lot of code too. It's the cost to pay.

New comment by gxt in "Writing an OS in Rust"

gxt — Sun, 15 Sep 2024 03:55:06 +0000

We shouldn't write an OS in rust. We should create a data platform on which we can run DML/DDL with an SSMS++ automatic frontend.

New comment by gxt in ".INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications"

gxt — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 18:10:25 +0000

Is there an appliance or offline service to setup a private CA, do secure remote attestation, and issue certificates only to authenticated peers? Also preferably with fido2 support for administrative purposes.

New comment by gxt in "Belenios: Verifiable online voting system"

gxt — Tue, 06 Aug 2024 00:50:11 +0000

There is a contradiction on the first page. If "ballots are signed by the voter credential" then there is no vote privacy.

Electronic voting system must be prohibited across the board. Every system is vulnerable, electronic system are all remote controllable, I much prefer to have a person within the jurisdiction to go after than someone outside of it.

I don't understand howhy it's ever made out to be more complex than that.

New comment by gxt in "Google Arts and Culture site I didn't know existed"

gxt — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 03:14:52 +0000

Blob opera: https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHW...

Für Elise performed by Blob opera: https://youtu.be/0t4BEpbw5jQ