Hacker News: nornagon

A Libc++ Oddyssey

nornagon — Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:19:25 +0000

Article URL: https://nornagon.medium.com/a-libc-odyssey-973e51649063

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26973011

Points: 1

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New comment by nornagon in "Electron 9.0"

nornagon — Tue, 19 May 2020 01:44:59 +0000

There was a hiccup in our release process, the updated release notes will be coming soon!

update: they arrived

New comment by nornagon in "Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID"

nornagon — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:48:56 +0000

Electron maintainer here. Electron doesn't send this header.

New comment by nornagon in "Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID"

nornagon — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 18:47:23 +0000

Electron maintainer here. Electron does not send this header.

Electron's 'remote' module considered harmful

nornagon — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 17:50:35 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nornagon/electrons-remote-module-considered-harmful-70d69500f31

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21205815

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by nornagon in "macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address"

nornagon — Mon, 07 Oct 2019 03:42:53 +0000

FWIW, I created a mirror of all of Apple's OSS releases on GitHub here: https://github.com/apple-opensource-mirror

Many California State Entities' Information Assets Vulnerable to Attack

nornagon — Tue, 10 Sep 2019 02:31:45 +0000

Article URL: http://www.auditor.ca.gov/reports/responses/2015-611/2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20924598

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by nornagon in "Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?"

nornagon — Tue, 13 Dec 2016 09:50:06 +0000

C/C++ has no module system to speak of. Libraries are packaged in a whole menagerie of ways and shapes, with different build systems and different ways of linking and including various parts of them.

Try building something with SDL on Windows if you want to see this for yourself.

New comment by nornagon in "ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer"

nornagon — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 19:46:10 +0000

Ah, I missed that bit! Thanks :)

New comment by nornagon in "ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer"

nornagon — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 18:54:39 +0000

> The battery itself is projected to last about six months without being connected to power.

It seems like a lot of the security of the device depends on active scanning (e.g. the LDS clamshell mesh, the IMU, the temp sensor, etc.), which stops working after 6 months. Is the vector of a malicious actor taking the device and waiting 6 months before breaking in considered not worth protecting against?

New comment by nornagon in "Scout: Securely Locate Peers Without Central Servers"

nornagon — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 23:33:11 +0000

The Kademlia/Bittorrent DHT protocol still requires an initial node to bootstrap access the DHT. In Bittorrent, a set of known-good nodes is encoded into the .torrent file (or clients can use previously-discovered nodes they might happen to know about, or router.bittorrent.com as a last-resort fallback).

How does Scout bootstrap?

New comment by nornagon in "A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype"

nornagon — Wed, 17 Aug 2016 18:59:44 +0000

Designer & author of the JSON OT algorithm that underlies ShareJS/ShareDB here. I do not have a formal proof for any of the properties of the algorithm, but we have extensively fuzzed it and are confident in its correctness. I believe a proof of correctness is possible, merely tedious.

New comment by nornagon in "How to listen when you disagree"

nornagon — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 21:51:51 +0000

Fantastic essay. Listening in this way is an important part of Nonviolent Communication[1], which I'd highly recommend as further reading if this resonated with you.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication

New comment by nornagon in "Mentat helps people land their dream jobs"

nornagon — Fri, 15 Jul 2016 01:01:24 +0000

> “If I ever needed a job, I’d definitely use Mentat,” says Justin Kan, Partner at Y Combinator.

Says rich man who's never had to look for a job.

New comment by nornagon in "Ōryōki Web Browser"

nornagon — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 19:36:08 +0000

Not really, the Chromium content/ layer is pretty much stuff that every browser implementor using blink (or previously, WebKit) would want. See http://www.chromium.org/developers/content-module for more info.

Urban design and the perpetually imperfect

nornagon — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 19:15:41 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@nornagon/urban-design-and-the-perpetually-imperfect-d06326422c6c#.rixb2a3ol

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11095263

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by nornagon in "Show HN: Grid – Multiplayer Creative Workspace"

nornagon — Sat, 13 Feb 2016 00:03:38 +0000

I want to like this, but I have no idea what it is.

New comment by nornagon in "CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation"

nornagon — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 20:28:46 +0000

How does this compare to other similar specifications, e.g. MsgPack and BSON?

What is Engineering?

nornagon — Sat, 16 Jan 2016 03:19:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/67702423?access_key=key-2da9p5e5gtt95etwj2me&allow_share=true&escape=false&view_mode=scroll

Hacker News: nornagon

A Libc++ Oddyssey

New comment by nornagon in "Electron 9.0"

New comment by nornagon in "Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID"

New comment by nornagon in "Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID"

Electron's 'remote' module considered harmful

New comment by nornagon in "macOS no longer allows changing wifi mac address"

Many California State Entities' Information Assets Vulnerable to Attack

New comment by nornagon in "Ask HN: Hiring managers, what tech skills will you be hiring for in 2017?"

New comment by nornagon in "ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer"

New comment by nornagon in "ORWL – The first open source, physically secure computer"

New comment by nornagon in "Scout: Securely Locate Peers Without Central Servers"

New comment by nornagon in "A Conflict-Free Replicated JSON Datatype"

New comment by nornagon in "How to listen when you disagree"

New comment by nornagon in "Mentat helps people land their dream jobs"

New comment by nornagon in "Ōryōki Web Browser"

Urban design and the perpetually imperfect

New comment by nornagon in "Show HN: Grid – Multiplayer Creative Workspace"

New comment by nornagon in "CBOR – Concise Binary Object Representation"

What is Engineering?

Standard cell