Hacker News: iwwr

New comment by iwwr in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

iwwr — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 14:44:01 +0000

Thanks for the clarification!

New comment by iwwr in "Spanish track was fractured before high-speed train disaster, report finds"

iwwr — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 21:15:31 +0000

AFAIK continuously welded tracks (like those used in high speed rail) are also slightly tensioned, so a break in a single point could make it look like a whole section of track is missing, as tension is released.

New comment by iwwr in "Kimi K2 1T model runs on 2 512GB M3 Ultras"

iwwr — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:11:24 +0000

What is it using for interconnect?

New comment by iwwr in "OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification"

iwwr — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:28:24 +0000

Each step in that chain is harder to do and more computationally expensive.

New comment by iwwr in "Show HN: Simple live calculator in Tree-sitter and cranelift JIT"

iwwr — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 10:05:20 +0000

So what does it do?

New comment by iwwr in "The 'Invisibility Cloak' – Slash-Proc Magic"

iwwr — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 15:36:03 +0000

Could you use a unionfs like overlay2 for more advanced pid hiding?

New comment by iwwr in "JSON Patch"

iwwr — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 16:25:45 +0000

What about auto-formatting the json and sorting all keys, to create some kind of canonical form? Then we can use standard textual patch.

New comment by iwwr in "Show HN: GitOps Template for Kubernetes"

iwwr — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 21:08:54 +0000

Genuinely interested. What problems did you have dealing with the standard reconciliation mechanism provided by ArgoCD and by k8s itself. I understand the advantage of the operator approach, but it might be hard to show the state in ArgoCD and somewhat breaks the idea of gitops.

Can we benefit your project in a more limited but agentless way? Limiting the types and CRDs we allow in k8s makes operations better, especially with the aggressive upgrade cycle that k8s already imposes.

New comment by iwwr in "Show HN: GitOps Template for Kubernetes"

iwwr — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 18:40:52 +0000

Why do you need an in-cluster operator/pod?

New comment by iwwr in "Who uses Accept-Language header?"

iwwr — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:53:46 +0000

This is a problem for me as a language learner on mobile. I set a keyboard with (for example) Russian, and suddenly the world looks Russian, even though I am far from comfortable in it yet. I wish there were a way for the browser to ignore some system languages. This is worse for apps because I also get served with localised versions, where I need to uninstall, remove system language and re-install.

New comment by iwwr in "Jd – JSON Diff and Patch"

iwwr — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 09:40:33 +0000

Is this useful for large json files, on the order of GiB?

New comment by iwwr in "A picture of the sun, taken with a neutrino detector, at night through the Earth"

iwwr — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 13:43:35 +0000

Deep down in the sun photons are absorbed almost as soon as they are created. In a sense the photons at the surface of the sun are the result of nuclear reactions thousands of years back. However neutrinos escape pretty fast and so can be used to gauge the status of nuclear reactions now.

New comment by iwwr in "It's not just CrowdStrike – the cyber sector is vulnerable"

iwwr — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 17:04:21 +0000

Or maybe switch to an operating system that isn't a security dumpster fire?

New comment by iwwr in "PeaZip: Open-source file compression and encryption software"

iwwr — Sat, 11 May 2024 13:39:09 +0000

In some restricted environments (e.g. containers in CI, build servers or AWS Lambda) you may have limited disk space or no write access at all, so it is useful to have a tool that can stream to memory while decompressing on the fly, and discarding what you don't need.

New comment by iwwr in "Google Assistant will lose 17 features in the coming weeks"

iwwr — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 12:39:37 +0000

> Who wants to send an email through the smart speaker?

People of limited mobility, without working limbs, holding babies, cooking etc.

New comment by iwwr in "Experts revive ancient techniques to make concrete more sustainable"

iwwr — Mon, 04 Dec 2023 17:47:51 +0000

The ancient Roman concrete was very different from modern: it was more thick, could not ne poured etc. But more importantly, it had no rebar, which is the main thing that corrodes over time. Ancient buildings could use molten lead to join together pieces of stone, but steel could not be made in the volume needed for reinforced structures.

New comment by iwwr in "Aerogel Core Fission Fragment Rocket Engine"

iwwr — Sun, 05 Nov 2023 11:37:14 +0000

Thanks!

So basically the fragments are escaping through the aerogel.

New comment by iwwr in "Aerogel Core Fission Fragment Rocket Engine"

iwwr — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 14:44:09 +0000

But why Aerogel? Is it easily compressible?

New comment by iwwr in "Solving the Expression Problem in Go"

iwwr — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:30:26 +0000

> The goal is to define a datatype by cases, where one can add new cases to the datatype and new functions over the datatype, without recompiling existing code, and while retaining static type safety (e.g., no casts).

Isn't this made moot by the prevalence of static linking or fat binaries in go-land?

New comment by iwwr in "OpenTF repository is now public"

iwwr — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 11:31:13 +0000

It's far easier for a project with many contributors. Plus, PRs and branches are cheap.