Hacker News: kevin_thibedeau

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "E Ink Kaleido 4"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:15:24 +0000

> Would you have considered color photography a gimmick ?

It sucked or was massively inconvenient for the first 50+ years.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "The Double Headed Stack Allocator"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 14:13:43 +0000

Bipartite buffers are better for storing a sequence of variable sized objects. It works like a circular buffer and you don't get stuck with bump allocator memory exhaustion. This requires sequential iteration but you rarely need random access for such things.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:37:30 +0000

Once the sales rep is happy with your performance pushing product, you get invited to expenses paid conferences in the tropics.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:54:36 +0000

Warrantless surveillance already exists in the US for monitoring cleared people and those with adjacency. The third party doctrine covers everyone else. Everything you can imagine them doing is being done. They already have the collection methods running and just need authorization to expand the scope.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

kevin_thibedeau — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 01:30:10 +0000

Please explain the process for reimbursing stolen money from a vendor which will disavow any responsibility as soon as they're on the hook for *illions.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:47:42 +0000

I consider my phone compromised and will not do banking on it at all. The rest of the world is living in blissful ignorance that will burn them some day.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:30:31 +0000

Smart meters themselves aren't the problem. It's meters that can control HVAC.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "A Modern Web App in C"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:10:29 +0000

It partially added them. You can't use them out of order or skip members nor can you use the array initializers.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "A Modern Web App in C"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:16:14 +0000

Designated initializers are gimped in C++;

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Hackers activate automatic defrosting in supermarket fridges across Europe"

kevin_thibedeau — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 02:13:21 +0000

Use CP/M. It's the only way to be sure.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "A Modern Web App in C"

kevin_thibedeau — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:18:06 +0000

T> here is no runtime penalty for using C++

Large portions of the standard lib depend on heap allocations. C is a much safer target for environments with limited resources.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

kevin_thibedeau — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 19:03:30 +0000

A lot of Taiwanese manufacturing actually happens in China similar to the "assembled in USA" game. China has every incentive to compromise the supply chain of network gear.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Ask HN: Do you want a router that has DD-WRT pre-installed?"

kevin_thibedeau — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:58:22 +0000

It's UI is too confounding. I tried once to configure a router as a bridge and gave up because it forces you into too many arcane areas to configure what should be basic functionality.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "LineageOS 24.0"

kevin_thibedeau — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:18:10 +0000

It's time to bring back Privacy Guard. GrapheneOS is up and coming. Lineage needs to take empowering users with security controls seriously.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "LineageOS 24"

kevin_thibedeau — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:12:14 +0000

Insurance against collapse of the bank. FDIC doesn't insure against fraud because you expanded your trust relationship across multiple third parties with credentials to access your account.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "OpenSCAD the Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 17:58:49 +0000

Blender gives you a mesh that isn't parameterized. Not particularly useful for making dimensional changes outside of eyeballing everything. An LLM isn't going to reliably hit your dimension targets so tweaks will be necessary.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "Cloudflare acquires Deno"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 15:31:10 +0000

For a service that has its tentacles all over the internet, you'd think they would prefer native code for the cost savings.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "YouTuber Says Cops Visited Him After He Built a Flock-Style Camera to Track Cops"

kevin_thibedeau — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 01:34:11 +0000

Mr. Cat, You ran a stop sign ten years ago so now you're on our watchlist for suspicious persons.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "US man given prison sentence for bot-farming music streams"

kevin_thibedeau — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:25:11 +0000

Until Congress acts, it's still the DoD.

New comment by kevin_thibedeau in "A Terminal Protocol for Program Status (OSC 7501)"

kevin_thibedeau — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:57:36 +0000

It's a product of the scope limited interface granted to agents. They get a terminal stream so everything goes into the stream. Piling on more in-band signaling is just going to become a security nightmare. It would be better to have a safe way to query process state that can be locked down as needed.