Hacker News: labadal

New comment by labadal in "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"

labadal — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:33:29 +0000

Kind of like math, huh? Some people burn out on "meaningless" impossible problems. Others get obsessed with them and make significant contributions along the way to failure.

New comment by labadal in "I wasted weeks hand optimizing assembly because I benchmarked on random data"

labadal — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:26:38 +0000

I'm glad that I'm over that phase I had in university where I wanted to write a custom memory allocator for everything because "I understand my usage better". I will admit that it was a good bit of fun though.

New comment by labadal in "Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build"

labadal — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:09:17 +0000

How do push notifications and similar things work on GraphenOS? Do they work reliably out of the box on most apps, or did you have to set up MicroG/whatever GrapheneOS's equivalent is?

Show HN: Port – an open source, identifier-less, E2EE messaging app

labadal — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 19:53:50 +0000

Port is finally open source! We're a communication app that supports end-to-end encrypted direct chats, group chats and calling with an emphasis on user consent. Port replaces traditional permanent handles like phone numbers, usernames and email addresses with "Ports", allowing users to connect with peers without sharing any sensitive, permanent and personally identifying data. Using Ports you can decide how much access you grant others, from whether they're allowed to call you to if they can connect you with new people.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44652220

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Port Messenger – Solving spam by removing public identifiers

labadal — Mon, 26 May 2025 16:58:27 +0000

With the rise in AI-driven spam, scams, and unchecked data aggregation, Port aims to solve this privacy nightmare upstream.

We got rid of identifiers — phone numbers, usernames, even high-entropy IDs — and what’s left is a messaging app that does everything, while still respecting your privacy and time. You can learn more about our protocol here: https://portmessenger.com/port-protocol-v1 .

Don’t worry, we didn’t reimplement a crypto library. We built end-to-end encryption with OpenSSL at the core. We’re actively improving our docs, cleaning up bad choices and everything else before we publish our source code so you can see how we did it!

Please check it out and let us know what you think. Any feedback goes a long way!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44099217

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by labadal in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

labadal — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:51:29 +0000

I've started wearing a night guard/TMJ splint, by the recommendation of a dentist. It helps a lot in preventing my jaw from locking up during the day. Have you given that a show to try and alleviate some pressure from the area?

New comment by labadal in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

labadal — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:48:53 +0000

I'm starting to find correlations that make me feel regret...

New comment by labadal in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

labadal — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:47:49 +0000

I have noticed that my traps and everything around it feel a lot better when I work out. Hopefully I can continue to work out, despite recent minor injuries.

New comment by labadal in "Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out"

labadal — Fri, 23 May 2025 13:43:27 +0000

This was above and beyond, thank you.

New comment by labadal in "Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder"

labadal — Thu, 22 May 2025 22:32:43 +0000

As someone who hasn't been a professional for too long, I'm curious. Did the general tone of tools in software engineering ever feel like this before? Where we're talking about replacing engineers instead of assisting them? I learned to code LSPs and stack overflow. I didn't get to experience them being integrated into a developers wirkflow.

New comment by labadal in "Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder"

labadal — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:32:49 +0000

Written in an attempt to wrangle my own thoughts about AI, the current and future state of software engineering: My ramblings about AI and software engineering.

Engineers and AI: ramblings of a small startup founder

labadal — Thu, 22 May 2025 20:32:49 +0000

Article URL: https://labadal.com/blogs/ruminations/engineers-and-ai.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44066597

Points: 15

# Comments: 3

New comment by labadal in "Sorry, grads: Entry-level tech jobs are getting wiped out"

labadal — Thu, 22 May 2025 16:03:24 +0000

Can you point me towards some stats for these please? Are you looking at consultancy type companies or subsidiaries that hire locally?

New comment by labadal in "I have tinnitus. I don't recommend it"

labadal — Thu, 22 May 2025 02:10:57 +0000

I feel terrible because I never did anything wrong. I never went to a concert. I never worked around loud things for prolonged periods. I never listened to music too loud. I have tinnitus. It seems to go up in intensity when my TMD acts up, but it never goes completely away. Mine isn't nearly debilitating, but I worry that it's going to get worse with time.

New comment by labadal in "OpenAI to buy AI startup from Jony Ive"

labadal — Wed, 21 May 2025 18:42:34 +0000

The other archive link seems to be timing out for me, here's another one if you need it: https://archive.ph/AiEC0

New comment by labadal in "DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage"

labadal — Tue, 20 May 2025 14:09:31 +0000

I'm someone who is building a messaging app, and I make sure we subscribe to the "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" philosophy. But in our case it's collect nothing so there's no data to steal even if we get hacked.

New comment by labadal in "The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source"

labadal — Mon, 19 May 2025 23:28:37 +0000

I never even realized that it was tivo-ized. Probably because I haven't been on windows since before WSL became a thing.

New comment by labadal in "Zod 4"

labadal — Mon, 19 May 2025 16:49:26 +0000

I just got started working Zod into a new project. This could not have happened at a better time. I would have needed to change so much ot migrate to v4 based on what I'm seeing.

New comment by labadal in "What Is HDR, Anyway?"

labadal — Wed, 14 May 2025 19:25:18 +0000

Back in university I implemented a shoddy HDR for my phone camera.

The hardest part of it, by far, was taking hundreds upon hundreds of pictures of a blank piece of paper in different lighting conditions with different settings.

New comment by labadal in "The cryptography behind passkeys"

labadal — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:45:03 +0000

I love passkeys. I love them being on my phone, requiring biometric authentication before unlocking. I just hate the vendor lock in that comes with it.

Does anyone know the state of the standard wrt this? I know that they planned on doing something about it, just haven't kept up.