Hacker News: kevvok

New comment by kevvok in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

kevvok — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 02:16:55 +0000

Can't be them because they franchise. My guess is In-N-Out

New comment by kevvok in "A cryptography engineer's perspective on quantum computing timelines"

kevvok — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:25:04 +0000

This issue is already being tracked by a shiny website: https://tldr.fail/

New comment by kevvok in "New patches allow building Linux IPv6-only"

kevvok — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:47:57 +0000

It’s not implemented in the Linux kernel, but the latency penalty you’re describing is part of the “Happy Eyeballs” algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs

Embracing AI with Claude's C Compiler

kevvok — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:11:45 +0000

Article URL: https://chipsandcheese.com/p/embracing-ai-with-claudes-c-compiler

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47597829

Points: 8

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New comment by kevvok in "Noq: n0's new QUIC implementation in Rust"

kevvok — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:14:56 +0000

It’s pretty common for IETF drafts to be substantially complete well before they are finalized as RFCs. For example, supporting ML-KEM in TLS is still a draft, but there are already multiple large scale deployments of it since the technical aspects were nailed down a while ago

New comment by kevvok in "Jolla on track to ship new phone with Sailfish OS, user-replaceable battery"

kevvok — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:25:43 +0000

Also missing Band 13, which is Verizon’s main band for coverage

New comment by kevvok in "GM will ditch Apple CarPlay and Android Auto on all its cars, not just EVs"

kevvok — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 23:56:40 +0000

I think that'll only happen when and if the corresponding drop in sales offsets increases in revenue from the subscription services owners will be forced to use. When they announced this originally for EVs it was clear the underlying motivation was to convert owners from a one-time source of income into an ongoing stream by forcing them into a subscription model for features they would get from CarPlay/Android Auto.

New comment by kevvok in "Power over Ethernet (PoE) basics and beyond"

kevvok — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 05:21:33 +0000

The smaller switches like the Arista 710P are meant for deployment out at the edge of the network where you want something small and quiet (e.g. at people’s desks or in conference rooms) to provide more ports without needing as many runs back to the network core where the big loud switches live. They’re still enterpise grade since they support enterprise features like centralized management, VLANs, QoS, IGMP snooping, etc.

New comment by kevvok in "NSA and IETF: Can an attacker purchase standardization of weakened cryptography?"

kevvok — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:57:28 +0000

Yeah, the ClientHello message(s) are already part of the transcript signed by the server (and the client in mTLS) during the handshake

New comment by kevvok in "Show HN: Rotary Phone Dial Linux Kernel Driver"

kevvok — Sat, 24 May 2025 22:25:48 +0000

This reminds me of how Sarah at the Connections Museum in Seattle wrote a driver to allow an Asterisk soft PBX on a Linux box to speak revertive pulse signaling to the pre-DTMF trunks on their old telephone switches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35N5vKKGDy8

New comment by kevvok in "Direct TLS can speed up your connections"

kevvok — Thu, 22 May 2025 07:00:56 +0000

Years of middleboxes tampering with TCP and barfing on anything they didn’t recognize is why QUIC encrypts everything as well

New comment by kevvok in "O2 VoLTE: locating any customer with a phone call"

kevvok — Sun, 18 May 2025 05:18:55 +0000

Many operators do configure the SIP signaling for VoLTE to use an IPsec transport terminated at the P-CSCF, but most (if not all) of them only configure IPsec to provide integrity protection.

New comment by kevvok in "Intel: Winning and Losing"

kevvok — Sun, 11 May 2025 04:58:39 +0000

> Murthy Renduchintala

He was a joke at Qualcomm before he went to Intel too. That Intel considered snagging him a coup was a consistent source of amusement.

New comment by kevvok in "Eccfrog512ck2: An Enhanced 512-Bit Weierstrass Elliptic Curve [pdf]"

kevvok — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 10:03:00 +0000

With the industry pivoting towards focussing on post-quantum algorithms, I’d be surprised if yet another elliptic curve gains much traction.

New comment by kevvok in "New research suggests that Walmart makes the communities it operates in poorer"

kevvok — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 19:21:10 +0000

I’ve heard this about TOMS

New comment by kevvok in "Qualcomm wins licensing fight with Arm over chip designs"

kevvok — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 07:25:24 +0000

Oh don’t worry, they have plenty of those too

New comment by kevvok in "The Google Willow Thing"

kevvok — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:20:05 +0000

> But I'm not sure if it works the same way against elliptic curves - or at least you'd probably need a bigger computer to attack the same level of security.

Elliptic curve cryptography is also based on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms, which makes it vulnerable to Shor’s algorithm. Unfortunately, while the increased difficulty of brute forcing ECC with a classical computer allowed it to use smaller key sizes to achieve security equivalent to older algorithms like RSA, the smaller key sizes make ECC attackable with fewer qubits.

New comment by kevvok in "The IPv6 Transition"

kevvok — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 07:02:22 +0000

The point was a prefix from 2600::/16 isn’t special; it’s just from one of the blocks assigned to ARIN. One ISP I know of with an allocation in that range is Verizon, which announces a number of prefixes over BGP in 2600:1000::/24

New comment by kevvok in "The IPv6 Transition"

kevvok — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 09:23:41 +0000

According to the IANA assignment list, 2600::/12 is assognrd to ARIN.

https://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-unicast-address-assign...

New comment by kevvok in "NASA releases Hubble image taken in new pointing mode"

kevvok — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:54:23 +0000

Hell, even the JWST is powered by the same CPU as the first iMac running at half the speed