Hacker News: nolta

New comment by nolta in "SpaceX S-1"

nolta — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:44:59 +0000

Anthropic can cancel the deal on short notice: “The agreements may be terminated by either party upon 90 days’ notice.”

Logic bug in the Linux kernel's __ptrace_may_access() function

nolta — Fri, 15 May 2026 14:50:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/15/2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48149420

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Drawvg Filter for FFmpeg

nolta — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:16:39 +0000

Article URL: https://ayosec.github.io/ffmpeg-drawvg/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47413879

Points: 184

# Comments: 30

How Local Governments Got Hooked on One Company's Janky Software

nolta — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 21:04:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-09-05/tyler-tech-s-odyssey-software-took-over-local-government-and-courts

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41469714

Points: 54

# Comments: 21

New comment by nolta in "Syd the perhaps most sophisticated sandbox for Linux"

nolta — Wed, 17 Jul 2024 13:04:41 +0000

Also this tutorial: https://man.exherbolinux.org/sydtutorial.7.html

New comment by nolta in "Webb and Hubble confirm Universe's expansion rate"

nolta — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 14:31:10 +0000

You might like "Coming of Age in the Milky Way".

New comment by nolta in "Hubble’s Hitchcock Moment: An Explosion in Unexpected Place"

nolta — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 17:51:05 +0000

should link to the original source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2023/news-2023...

New comment by nolta in "Google Launches AI Supercomputer Powered by Nvidia H100 GPUs"

nolta — Sat, 13 May 2023 14:39:44 +0000

3250? The H100 NVL product spec [1] says it can do ~8 PFLOPs of FP8.

[1]: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/data-center/h100/

50th Anniversary Of '|'

nolta — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 17:41:02 +0000

Apparently today is the 50th anniversary of using '|' for connecting shell pipelines. It was introduced in v4 of the Thompson shell, whose manpage is dated 1973-04-18 [1]. Previously the syntax for 'a | b' was `a >b>` [2].

[1]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v4/

[2]: https://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/bourne/v3/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35617228

Points: 31

# Comments: 5

New comment by nolta in "ESO event on groundbreaking results from Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration"

nolta — Fri, 06 May 2022 12:42:18 +0000

There will be multiple press events around the world (Germany, Mexico, Chile, China, Taiwan, Japan, US):

https://eventhorizontelescope.org/blog/event-horizon-telesco...

New comment by nolta in "Rome: Decline and Fall Pt 1: Words"

nolta — Sat, 15 Jan 2022 19:06:00 +0000

"[L]ook at those folds!" I'm looking at the folds, and they got worse.

And take the cover of the Lorsch Gospels: the misshapen fingers, the bulging eyes, the blank expressions -- this is crude, not stylized. You get the sense that art is devolving back to the "archaic smile".

New comment by nolta in "SSH Bastion Host Best Practices"

nolta — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 20:52:39 +0000

It recommends:

  # Configure idle time logout
  ClientAliveInterval

but i don't think this is correct. AFAICT, this is a keep-alive mechanism, not a timeout. I don't think openssh has an option to kill idle sessions.

New comment by nolta in "Nothing like this will be built again (2002)"

nolta — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 17:39:56 +0000

1000+ mile links exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current

New comment by nolta in "The Rise of Meson"

nolta — Wed, 01 Sep 2021 14:32:16 +0000

Yeah, i had the same reaction. For example, meson couldn't find pybind11 until i added `pybind11-config --cmakedir` to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.

New comment by nolta in "Types versus sets in math and programming languages"

nolta — Sun, 25 Jul 2021 15:36:36 +0000

Here's a nice video with a little more detail on the difference between intensional/extensional: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNG53SA4n48

Naïve Type Theory [video]

nolta — Fri, 23 Jul 2021 17:19:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNG53SA4n48

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27933203

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

From Set Theory to Type Theory (2013)

nolta — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 02:30:13 +0000

Article URL: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/01/from_set_theory_to_type_theory.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27889510

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by nolta in "GM reveals more technical details of its Ultium battery packs"

nolta — Wed, 14 Jul 2021 15:25:40 +0000

Original article:

https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a36877532/general-moto...

New comment by nolta in "Apache Arrow 3.0"

nolta — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:35:26 +0000

To be fair, arrow absorbed parquet-cpp, so a little confusion is to be expected.

Facebook Scaled Back Voter Registration Kickoff

nolta — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 20:21:01 +0000

Article URL: https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/facebook-scaled-back-voter-registration-kickoff

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24215818

Points: 88

# Comments: 15