Hacker News: netheril96

New comment by netheril96 in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

netheril96 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 06:05:51 +0000

ETH is not afraid of doing hard forks, so I'm expecting that they will lead in adopting post quantum cryptography. And then BTC ecosystem participants can learn from ETH.

New comment by netheril96 in "Bitcoin and quantum computing"

netheril96 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:58:09 +0000

It would still tank the price. Right now many Bitcoins are lost because no one holds the keys any more. When they can hack it, suddenly the sell pressure significantly goes up.

New comment by netheril96 in "China is flooding Taiwan with disinformation"

netheril96 — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 03:03:28 +0000

I don't count that Xi losing, but Xi winning. He's very conservative in China's sense, and he's basically crushed less conservative forces in the Party. A crackdown on clothing "detrimental to the spirit of the Chinese people." doesn't serve any real interests of Xi other than enforcing the ideals of China's conservatives.

Similar to how the Republican party always try to inhibit abortion wherever they can. You won't say that Republican party successfully passing an anti-abortion law indicates they are losing, will you?

New comment by netheril96 in "Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster"

netheril96 — Thu, 21 Sep 2023 05:06:29 +0000

Was it? What I was told was that Youtube was built in Python and was gradually migrated to C++ after bought by Google.

New comment by netheril96 in "Ruby 3.3's YJIT Runs Shopify's Production Code 15% Faster"

netheril96 — Wed, 20 Sep 2023 05:39:07 +0000

> Because Shopify would have waited until Rust came out in 2015, instead of launching in 2006,

> PHP and Ruby apps have generated far more revenues than all the Rust and Golang code combined.

You already stated the obvious: PHP and Ruby apps generated far more revenues simply by existing longer.

New comment by netheril96 in "64-bit bank balances ‘ought to be enough for anybody’?"

netheril96 — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 13:26:43 +0000

ETH uses 256-bit integers for accounting.

New comment by netheril96 in "Java 21 makes me like Java again"

netheril96 — Sun, 17 Sep 2023 12:39:13 +0000

Nullable annotations don’t work with well with generics, or at least those tools I use.

New comment by netheril96 in "Yes, Android 14 still allows modification of system certificates"

netheril96 — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:28:08 +0000

What's the practical difference between system store and user store? Do some apps or system operations only trust the system store and not the user store?

Not rhetorical questions.

New comment by netheril96 in "The first week of US v. Google – Defaults are everything and nobody likes Bing"

netheril96 — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 04:22:16 +0000

The materials found during discovery are not always relevant. You can discover all of them, but then some of them shouldn't be presented to the court or jury.

New comment by netheril96 in "Caddy is the first and only web server to use HTTPS automatically and by default"

netheril96 — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 09:41:40 +0000

Not really. If someone logins as user A on the machine, and caddy runs as user B, then unless A has sudo access, A cannot modify caddy. But with this admin HTTP endpoint, user A now can arbitrarily modify caddy.

New comment by netheril96 in "Huawei teardown shows chip breakthrough"

netheril96 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 11:34:39 +0000

> what makes you think India and China can?

They don't have to do anything. The US visa system already excludes most of the Chinese and India people eager to immigrate to the US. The brain drain is bounded above by the US policy.

New comment by netheril96 in "Sex Workers Took Refuge in Crypto. Now It’s Failing Them"

netheril96 — Wed, 23 Aug 2023 06:32:26 +0000

There are also exchanges where you trade against other people between crypocurrencies and fiat. Chinese people all use this. These workers could use those.

New comment by netheril96 in "Java 21: First Release Candidate"

netheril96 — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 02:49:11 +0000

It will be years when most Android users are on Java 21. It’s also not a feature that can be transpiled. So for Android developers virtual threads are probably not a thing we need to understand or use in any near future.

New comment by netheril96 in "HashiCorp adopts Business Source License"

netheril96 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 08:18:39 +0000

Then don't complain about people not contributing to your projects. You reserve the right to reject my PR, and I reserve the right not to contribute any more.

New comment by netheril96 in "Downfall Attacks"

netheril96 — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:48:28 +0000

No QA is able to find out a Spectre vulnerability. QA is irrelevant in this conversation.

New comment by netheril96 in "Ferromagnetic half levitation of LK-99-like synthetic samples"

netheril96 — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 10:00:08 +0000

> really cranky with anyone who dared challenge their position.

You could profit from those people, if you are confident in your position, by shorting some of the stocks that shoot up from people's pre-judgments on this matter.

New comment by netheril96 in "Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees"

netheril96 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:33:00 +0000

> If your recovery mechanism completely bypasses the benefits of using the YubiKey, that recovery mechanism is what your attackers will use.

I don't use any methods other than YubiKey when I do have my keys. So attackers cannot trick me. If I see a choice without Yubikeys I immediately know I'm being phished.

New comment by netheril96 in "Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees"

netheril96 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 15:31:02 +0000

I have four. One attached to the desktop, one attached to the laptop, and two carried with all my mechanical keys (one of them supports NFC and another supports USB-C).

New comment by netheril96 in "Speed Up C++ Compilation"

netheril96 — Sun, 06 Aug 2023 03:44:47 +0000

I think the point of header generation is not to save compilation time, but to save developer time. Saving them from writing the same thing twice, in header and in implementation.

New comment by netheril96 in "Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect"

netheril96 — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 11:47:38 +0000

My guess is that it needs to be very pure to have zero resistance. But levitation requires less purity.