Hacker News: lowmemcpu

New comment by lowmemcpu in "The anti-privacy EARN IT Act could change the internet as we know it"

lowmemcpu — Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:49:18 +0000

Glad you posted this but...

This is one of those multi-day, multi-faceted topics that need us to have many conversations until it's stopped.

Recall the SOPA & PIPA protests of last decade: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protests_against_SOPA_and_PIPA

There were more than a few discussions here

Mincss: “Clears the junk out of your CSS”

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:53:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/mincss

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23920870

Points: 2

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Europe’s 'Last Dictatorship'

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:48:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-53491514/belarus-election-snatched-from-the-streets-in-europe-s-last-dictatorship

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23920819

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by lowmemcpu in "Pioneers in Online Learning: ArsDigita Computer Science University"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:42:33 +0000

> After running from September 2000 through July 2001, seeing the first class to graduation, the program was forced to shut down.

I wonder why it was forced to shut down?

I bet a few of the graduates are on HN, so maybe someone has the backstory?

Nomnoml

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 19:40:50 +0000

Article URL: http://www.nomnoml.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23920752

Points: 1

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New comment by lowmemcpu in "The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 17:25:07 +0000

I recall a statistic from about 10 years ago that computer forensic investigators in law enforcement burn out after two years due to the trauma of the images they are exposed to.

Mylar: Experimental platform for web apps with end-to-end encryption (2014)

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:39:54 +0000

Article URL: https://css.csail.mit.edu/mylar/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23918831

Points: 18

# Comments: 2

RoWrite 2 Smart Writing Notebook

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:28:01 +0000

Article URL: http://www.royole.com/en/rowrite2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23918710

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Invest in Relationships

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://drewbarontini.com/blog/invest-in-relationships/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23918013

Points: 1

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New comment by lowmemcpu in "Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:46:51 +0000

> It fails completely for large classes.

Large in-person classes you don't even have discussions. Some universities have lecture halls of 400-600 students, and you have to go ask a TA for help later in the week

> That's not dissimilar to the situation before the plague.

So I think you agree and are saying that it's the same?

New comment by lowmemcpu in "Online classes are not worth cost of full tuition"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:44:10 +0000

I am enjoying working from home, many of my coworkers too. I'd probably say it's 50/50 here

The Inklings

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:12:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inklings

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23917183

Points: 1

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New comment by lowmemcpu in "New York Times says Krebs wrongly implicated Briton in Twitter hack"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:38:36 +0000

Thanks!

New comment by lowmemcpu in "GraphQL Query Generator"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:37:13 +0000

> can create a GraphQL server and essentially ... have their app brought to its knees trying to fulfill an intentionally complicated query is kind of concerning

I've seen this denial of service attack against SQL/Relational databases as well, and I imagine if it triggers more read replicas, that a large bill could be caused as well

so it's not unique to GraphQL

New comment by lowmemcpu in "GraphQL Query Generator"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:33:39 +0000

That editor (in the gif) is really cool. Does anyone know if it's homebuilt, or if they used a library for that?

New comment by lowmemcpu in "New York Times says Krebs wrongly implicated Briton in Twitter hack"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:28:41 +0000

> If I remember right its not the first time he has gotten such things wrong,

I must have missed that. Could you find that article for me?

New comment by lowmemcpu in "New York Times says Krebs wrongly implicated Briton in Twitter hack"

lowmemcpu — Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:23:41 +0000

Wow, this entire article seems to be more a "let's repost every tweet that hates Krebs". Most of it assumes he is a "a 50-year-old dude in a suit" doing cyberstalking, but I don't think that is an accurate description. Keep in mind, much of the criminal hackers do not like Krebs because he exposes them. People Swat his house and attempt to entrap him. So reposting a bunch of hate-Tweets is stupid.

Yes, Krebs' does his own research, but he also has hundreds of security researchers and contacts that provide him info, many of those are insiders. In his book Spam Nation, he even goes to Russia to visit a crime boss to ask tough questions. This isn't some cyberstalker.

Krebs is a better researcher than most, so I tend to trust his doxx. Most of the info he publishes is already public (poor opsec) and he is more thorogh than Reddit. Can he be wrong? Sure..... should he doxx? I don't know, that's an ethics question.. but if he's wrong on this, I'm sure Brian will reconsider that in the future

Build Boring Software

lowmemcpu — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:43:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.intercom.com/blog/videos/build-boring-software/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911316

Points: 5

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8 Lines of Code

lowmemcpu — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 21:34:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/8-lines-code-refactoring/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23911254

Points: 4

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The Update Framework

lowmemcpu — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 20:51:17 +0000

Article URL: https://theupdateframework.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23910867

Points: 1

# Comments: 0