Hacker News: leni536

New comment by leni536 in "Terpstra Keyboard"

leni536 — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 19:09:56 +0000

I don't see how https is relevant for browser JS vulnerabilities.

New comment by leni536 in "How to Create a Tor Exit Node (2015)"

leni536 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 21:33:42 +0000

How is that trust anchored? To public IPs or to public keys?

New comment by leni536 in "Stop Thinking of LLMs as Next-Token Predictors"

leni536 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:53:05 +0000

Next token prediction is just an interface. It can be backed by a Markov chain, a neural model or an actual human being.

New comment by leni536 in "Adult Film Producer Unmasks Prolific 'John DOE' Torrent Pirate as Meta Executive"

leni536 — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 19:21:20 +0000

I'm torn on this. While I can imagine Meta being morally corrupt enough to do all of this, I just can't imagine an exec taking on personal liability for the company.

New comment by leni536 in ".name Termination"

leni536 — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:46:00 +0000

Will they get a refund?

New comment by leni536 in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

leni536 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 20:34:21 +0000

That is not my experience, but maybe quality is not consistent across countries.

New comment by leni536 in "Why do so many tools have JSON config files?"

leni536 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:49:17 +0000

Interesting. The website says that it's "validation-focused". I don't know how that plays out for TOML, but the lack of focus in json schema to define an interface in addition to validation can be very frustrating. Most of the time I would rather trade off some expressitivity in terms of validation in favor of having a defined typed interface into the validated data.

New comment by leni536 in "Move in C++ without a std:move"

leni536 — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:15:58 +0000

That one is not too hard either. `one` simply can't be NRVO'd as there is a runtime path in scope of it that doesn't return it. `two` can be (unless you hide some other return within ...).

New comment by leni536 in "Hacking IKEA Furniture"

leni536 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 23:03:49 +0000

They move OK if you dismantle them.

New comment by leni536 in "California lawmakers unanimously pass Linux exemption from age-verification law"

leni536 — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 07:48:30 +0000

The problem may exist, but I don't believe that intrusive "gun part deyection" solves it.

New comment by leni536 in "Get your Windows license refund"

leni536 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 20:01:52 +0000

It's OK as an option, even as a default, Just give me a dropdown with "blank" as an option too.

New comment by leni536 in "Peppermint oil reduces blood pressure by 8.48 mmHg in small study"

leni536 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 22:44:08 +0000

It did help Mr Creosote.

New comment by leni536 in "Show HN: Make your logo extra bright on HDR screens"

leni536 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:28:26 +0000

It goes up to 11

New comment by leni536 in "A Kantian Critique of "Sorry" by Justin Bieber"

leni536 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 15:34:24 +0000

I don't think the illustration adds anything, it could simply be left out. I did enjoy the writing.

New comment by leni536 in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

leni536 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:09:09 +0000

There might be some legal nuance here. What binaries does Google distribute and does Google provide sources of those? (I assume pixel updates count, is that pure AOSP?) Does grapheneOS request sources for beta tags that are not distributed yet in binary form?

Don't get me wrong, I still think this is shitty behavior from Google.

New comment by leni536 in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

leni536 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:04:39 +0000

> The GPL doesn’t require them to provide the sources to the world

"b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party,..."

New comment by leni536 in "The case against a C alternative (2022)"

leni536 — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:53:29 +0000

Pretty unconvincing arguments overall. Mostly boils down to "any new language will start as new and not mature". Dismisses any "killer feature" in C's design space. Ignores that there is already a well established C alternative: C++.

But obviously nothing will replace C in the sense that C will cease to exist.

New comment by leni536 in "Google has stopped pushing Git tags for some Android source code"

leni536 — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 21:44:51 +0000

While I don't find any requirements on how timely the source distribution must be upon request, one can reasonably say that there must be a line between 1 nanosecond and 1 century.

New comment by leni536 in "Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months"

leni536 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 19:09:25 +0000

In addition of being expensive, it's also a gamble. If it wasn't risky then I don't think financing it would be that big of an issue.

New comment by leni536 in "Linux 7.3 improves performance when running out of vRAM"

leni536 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:06:08 +0000

My experience is that if you have swap you better have a lot of it. Swapping is bad, but swapping and thrashing is a disaster.