Hacker News: mmlb

New comment by mmlb in "Stacked PRs are now live on GitHub"

mmlb — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 18:51:01 +0000

I've had that same "what's the point" thought every time I've read about stacked PRs, but recently had an (obvious) epiphany. The benefit is you get CI for each commit! I've always hated fixup/typo/fix tests commits and toyed with having a CI check that enforced ci passing on each commit but this drops that need.

New comment by mmlb in "Glassworm is back: A new wave of invisible Unicode attacks hits repositories"

mmlb — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 21:04:58 +0000

In this instance the PR that was merged was from 6 years ago and was clear https://github.com/pedronauck/reworm/pull/28. Looks to me like a force push overwrote the commit that now exists in history since it was done 6y later.

New comment by mmlb in "A steam locomotive from 1993 broke my yarn test"

mmlb — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 17:01:09 +0000

Use the lessons learned from those before us in less heterogeneous days, aka inspect the binaries you're going to call out to for fitness. Things like "check if grep is gnu or bsd" or "check if sl is sapling or steamlocomotive".

I've done that a bit to deal with macos crippled bash for example.

New comment by mmlb in "Hedge Funds Are Pocketing Much of Their Clients' Gains with 'No Limit' Fees"

mmlb — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:08:42 +0000

No script element zapper can remove it, easy peasy.

New comment by mmlb in "How does rsync work?"

mmlb — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:02:40 +0000

True, but I imagined fetching every file with wget or equivalent and then just using it locally. Doesn't work anyway because the data is not all there.

New comment by mmlb in "How does rsync work?"

mmlb — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:01:30 +0000

Ah I see now, I didn't traverse deep enough whem checking.

New comment by mmlb in "How does rsync work?"

mmlb — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 15:43:35 +0000

For bzr did you try archive.org? https://web.archive.org/web/20150321194412/https://code.liw....

New comment by mmlb in "Software Freedom Conservancy files GPL lawsuit against Vizio"

mmlb — Wed, 20 Oct 2021 01:33:33 +0000

You are right that he can't unilaterally relicense the kernel and that it will likely never happen, but Linus is in fact against the GPLv3, see debconf 14 Q&A: https://youtu.be/5PmHRSeA2c8?t=2840

New comment by mmlb in "Inspecting coredumps like it's 2021"

mmlb — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 00:01:56 +0000

I used to use DDD as a GUI frontend to GDB.

https://www.gnu.org/software/ddd/

New comment by mmlb in "Outperforming LAPACK with C++ metaprogramming"

mmlb — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 15:04:12 +0000

The way I read GP, the python script can very well do the equivalent of gcc -DPARAM=42 -o binary-param=42 && ./binary-param-42.

edit: oh nm, reread GP...

Daytona: A Framework for Automated and Application-Agnostic Performance Analysis

mmlb — Tue, 30 May 2017 14:43:07 +0000

Article URL: https://yahooeng.tumblr.com/post/160987779296/open-sourcing-daytona-a-framework-for-automated

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14445696

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by mmlb in "Some Chimps Are Putting Grass in Their Ears (2014)"

mmlb — Mon, 14 Nov 2016 15:49:19 +0000

I think puranjay interpreted the snippet as a joke referring to college students in fraternity as the "primates in a primate house".

Emoji pins

mmlb — Tue, 16 Jun 2015 15:15:53 +0000

Article URL: http://www.engadget.com/2015/06/16/emoji-passcodes/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726385

Points: 1

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New comment by mmlb in "Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition"

mmlb — Wed, 08 Apr 2015 15:56:23 +0000

virtual machines. For custom kernels, clusters, both, and other reasons. Having more than 1 vm running gets to be a pain with 8gigs or less.