Hacker News: lpapez

New comment by lpapez in "A thousand fewer paths to root"

lpapez — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:03:27 +0000

> When the autonomous scan and manual analysis finished after 10 days, 61 LPEs had already been patched upstream, 43 had staging patches, and 299 were being reported and discussed publicly.

If only the kernel maintainers considered the thought which first came to your uninformed mind, they would have saved some effort...

New comment by lpapez in "The result of the C++26 DIS ballot"

lpapez — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 09:50:44 +0000

This. The discussions on this site are typically oblivious to this fact. I am desperately trying to persuade a corporate client to adopt version control and here people are talking about Rust. It's like we are living on different planets.

New comment by lpapez in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

lpapez — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:42:43 +0000

Surely you realize that the codebase behind the language powering 60% of the web is a bit more complicated than an experimental JS runtime?

New comment by lpapez in "Upcoming critical PHP security release (CVE-2026-109618 / -109619)"

lpapez — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 11:26:17 +0000

Talked to my clients this morning and persuaded most of them to shut down the services and wait for the patch. For most of them it's cheaper to lose a day of work than to pay for recovery. Scary to be in a situation where you have no fix/workaround in sight.

New comment by lpapez in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

lpapez — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 21:05:50 +0000

Exactly, and you need to start turning a profit before the end of that runway. Even if that means running code that is suboptimal.

New comment by lpapez in "Saving 100 terabytes of memory by optimizing 1.1.1.1's DNS cache"

lpapez — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:58:01 +0000

This is the right way to deliver software.

Produce working product first, validate the idea, stabilize the business, start generating profit, and then you can start optimizing your costs.

In fact optimization is by far the easiest part of the process because there are many system programming experts on this HN thread who consider these optimizations to be trivial.

New comment by lpapez in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

lpapez — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:10:12 +0000

Who are you and why should we listen to you banging on the drum?

Memento mori.

New comment by lpapez in "Why do AI company logos look like buttholes? (2025)"

lpapez — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 12:01:35 +0000

You are absolutely right! It was an honest mistake on my part. The absence of colour is the smoking gun.

New comment by lpapez in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

lpapez — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:17:00 +0000

We are reaching levels of pettiness never considered possible previously.

New comment by lpapez in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

lpapez — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 11:54:44 +0000

Source?

New comment by lpapez in "What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?"

lpapez — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 20:29:46 +0000

There is a very good open source conversion tool called "Calibre". I use it all the time to convert my, erm, security backups of books I own.

New comment by lpapez in "Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?"

lpapez — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:19:55 +0000

What is "good code"?

If you ask your boss, it will most likely be whatever spaghetti code which ensures the contract gets signed on time.

The boss doesn't care if the developer needs 10000 libraries for the submit button.

New comment by lpapez in "GPT‑NL: a sovereign language model for the Netherlands"

lpapez — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 08:25:53 +0000

Butcher worker protections and quality of life across all industries to (hypothethically) benefit a single one?

No thanks.

Why do you feel grinding insane hours would be beneficial to AI progress?

New comment by lpapez in "Cooling in Space"

lpapez — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:07:44 +0000

It is a comment on the absurdity of orbital data centers. Mountaintop data centers sound absurd, but are more feasible and efficient than orbital ones in nearly every aspect.

New comment by lpapez in "Redis 8.8: New array data structure, rate limiter, performance improvements"

lpapez — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:53:33 +0000

I use PHP. None of the language tools or constructs available to me are adequate.

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-php-singularity/

New comment by lpapez in "Restartable Sequences"

lpapez — Sun, 31 May 2026 16:56:06 +0000

Except that is not what the article says and you clearly missed the sarcasm.

New comment by lpapez in "DuckDuckGo search saw 28% more visits after Google said people love AI mode"

lpapez — Wed, 27 May 2026 20:34:30 +0000

If the user puts glue on their pizza because a computer said so, that's a human problem.

The computer generated recipes can be useful as inspiration, but of course common sense is required.

New comment by lpapez in "Stop Advertising in Your Commits"

lpapez — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:26:52 +0000

Until Omega Star gets their act together, we have to live with this nonsense...

New comment by lpapez in "Ask HN: Is the Job Market Actually Bad?"

lpapez — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:07:21 +0000

Can't you simply fill that gap on your resume with something made up? "Self employed", "freelancer", "stealth startup", "confidential employer" etc.

How would the companies ever know?

New comment by lpapez in "We found a stable Firefox identifier linking all your private Tor identities"

lpapez — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 19:07:47 +0000

Very cool research and wonderfully written.

I was expecting an ad for their product somewhere towards the end, but it wasn't there!

I do wonder though: why would this company report this vulnerability to Mozilla if their product is fingeprinting?

Isn't it better for the business (albeit unethical) to keep the vulnerability private, to differentiate from the competitors? For example, I don't see many threat actors burning their zero days through responsible disclosure!