<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: icefo</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=icefo</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 12:46:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=icefo" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Roku developer repositories moved from GitHub to GitLab"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You could stop it, do a snapshot of the storage and backup that for <1 min of downtime probably.<p>But at the same time, if you're not a global company, doing it at 3am is probably fine.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2026 17:41:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223424</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223424</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50223424</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Wanted to download an ISO, ended up writing a kernel exploit"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I bought ~15 of their cheapest 2.4ghz router to connect payment terminals ~4 years ago and it was a terrible mistake. I thought for a low bandwidth application with the router being decently close it would work fine.<p>Spent days trying to make it work (it would work, then lose the connection, roaming was probably an issue too) and in the end leased meraki hardware that worked fine.<p>I'd avoid their cheap tier of AP at least.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2026 21:19:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110425</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110425</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50110425</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "I've factored the RSA keys of a Certificate Authority from the 90s"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Activists 10 years ago are probably still linked to interesting people the government wants to survey though, even if they are maybe less active now</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2026 05:39:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605901</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605901</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49605901</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Trains halted across Germany because of communication system problem"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We departed around 30-45 min late from Basel sbb (in Switzerland) in a night train that goes through Germany.<p>They told us about the communication issues but what surprised me is that they told us that the Deutsch bahn replaced the locomotive with one of their (that was near the border I guess) so we could depart.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 23:05:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652794</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652794</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48652794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "It's 2026, Just Use Postgres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's something I did for small medium size data analysis (300Gb of csv). The reported size was around 800gb with indexes iirc and it fitted on a 512gb SSD.<p>It compresses the indexes pretty well but don't forget to turn off postgres' own copy on write mechanism</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:50:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910913</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910913</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46910913</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Over 40% of deceased drivers in vehicle crashes test positive for THC: Study"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You probably are compared to your baseline self (another comment goes more extensively on this subject) but maybe you have enough driving skills and common sense to minimize the risks somewhat.</p>
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<p>Please this is not reddit</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:09:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095395</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095395</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46095395</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Proper decoupling capacitor practices, and why you should leave 100nF behind"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Do you make SoMs for a reseller by any chance ?<p>I'm looking at the newest versal chips from Xilinx/AMD for a new design and buying a SoM & designing our carrier board could fit the bill nicely. We're still very early in the design process, we need to get prices for the chips too to see if it's an idea worth pursuing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2025 08:42:56 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876077</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876077</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42876077</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Bcachefs technical and political troubles in the kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I don't often post here (I forgot to check the guidelines), should I have left the original title "(bcachefs) Trouble in the kernel" ?<p>While the article that follows is well written, the original title feels very vague and clickbaity for me. Like "you won't guess what's wrong with this !!!".<p>I felt this give a much better idea of the content (technical problems that exposed people problems) and give chance to people that don't want to read about kernel politics / drama a chance to skip the article.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:06:21 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42203496</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42203496</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42203496</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Bcachefs technical and political troubles in the kernel"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>We only have the point of view of becachefs main developer here of course, but some things regarding some kernel developer and the CoC committee seem to be really concerning.</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/trouble-in-116412665">https://www.patreon.com/posts/trouble-in-116412665</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202165">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202165</a></p>
<p>Points: 22</p>
<p># Comments: 5</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:12:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://www.patreon.com/posts/trouble-in-116412665</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202165</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42202165</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "How thermal management is changing in the age of the kilowatt chip"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I had the chance to visit the new datacenter of my college and on the server exhaust side there is a radiator as tall as the rack with cold water in it. All the pipes are under the floor.<p>IIRC they mainly put power hungry compute nodes for the clusters in this new datacenter and I remember that servers full of GPUs had crazy power draw. The water then goes through an heat exchanger to help generate hot water to heat the campus and for the taps.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 26 Dec 2023 21:26:43 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776237</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776237</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38776237</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>To put you in prison if they find by some mean you did.<p>The mean could be a 5$ wrench, hacking into your devices or plain old surveillance</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jun 2023 13:05:14 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431531</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431531</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36431531</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The elections can be skewed with different kind of manipulation (social media, troll farms, electronic ballot hacks) and the popular candidate can still win.<p>It's fair to assume Putin would try to influence the elections in trump's favor as he would have been beneficial for him.<p>The Ukraine invasion would have been much easier if trump had been relelected, finished pulling out of nato and kept the more isolationist policy that was in effect during trump.<p>IMO trump was also doing a lot of damage to the US and it's position on the world stage which is also beneficial for Putin.</p>
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<p>There is also a third approach that is the best if you have a predictible base load with surges sometimes imo: hybrid cloud<p>You basically run the base load in your own data center and the surges go to the cloud. My university is evaluating this because sometimes you have multiple labs that need a lot of compute resources at the same time and local compute cluster has finite capacity.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:35:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35607564</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35607564</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35607564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Lobbyists begin chipping away at Biden’s $80B IRS overhaul"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Norway is far from being the only that has oil but to me it seems it has / had the best management of this resource. From what I understand the money doesn't go to a few people / companies but a good part is used to prop up the economy. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Norway</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Mar 2023 06:06:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383240</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383240</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35383240</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Taichi lang: High-performance parallel programming in Python"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I helped someone that had to use taichi code written by a PhD student and it was a bit weird. It looks a lot like python but you have to code like you would in cuda (e.g control flow), there is no magic.<p>For this we had to calculate forces to animate some kind of polygon with a lot of joints and we could not just call sycipy from the taichi code. I had to implement a very dirty polynomial equation solver in taichi for the demo</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 03:00:40 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35089915</link><dc:creator>icefo</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35089915</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35089915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by icefo in "Trying every combination to flash my Asus motherboard's BIOS"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Similarly, I broke idrac on a Dell sever because I did not follow the proper upgrade path.<p>I just assumed that the latest bios was good and the server happily bricked itsefl</p>
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<p>You can inflict extreme pain on someone by just talking without raising a finger nor your voice. Especially if this person cares about you.<p>It can be voluntary or not but dismissing it like that seems strange to me. It's not because it doesn't leave physical scars that it can't cause trauma.</p>
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<p>If you don't mind french, the project of this class that introduces OO programming was really great: <a href="https://cs108.epfl.ch/archive/18/archive.html" rel="nofollow">https://cs108.epfl.ch/archive/18/archive.html</a><p>It guides you through making a Gameboy emulator step by step. When I did it I remember that something that was a bit frustrating is that you had to do things a certain way that only made sense much later when other pieces of the puzzle fell into place</p>
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