Hacker News: nycerrrrrrrrrr

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:37:15 +0000

This idea has been around for a long time. See https://www.usenix.org/conference/hotcloud17/program/present..., also https://www.sigops.org/s/conferences/sosp/2009/papers/anders...

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "Traces Of Humanity"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:36:13 +0000

Yes, but when you blue-pill the hypervisor it becomes an attack on VMs. Her demonstrating the blue pill attack on Xen was really the "oh crap, these aren't as safe as we thought" moment.

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "Traces Of Humanity"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:37:06 +0000

Since some people seem to not be familiar with Joanna, she is a massively influential security researcher. IMO most famous for her "Blue pill" attacks on Vista and Xen: https://blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-06/BH-US-06-Rutkow..., https://invisiblethingslab.com/resources/bh08/part3.pdf. Her work demonstrated that hardware virtualization is not in fact the security panacea we wish it was, but that it too is vulnerable to attack just like any other layer of the stack. This revelation resulted in significant changes in the security world.

She is also famous for the Qubes OS project and coining the term "evil maid attack".

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "SingleRide: Longest route on NYC Subway without visiting the same station twice"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Thu, 07 May 2026 13:33:10 +0000

Definitely don't know the system like some people do, but: 102 stations, 60.09 miles, 4:19, 4 boroughs, $3.00 fare: 6 > M > 7 > D > Q > S > C > A.

Fun game :)

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "Map To Poster – Create Art of your favourite city"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 14:53:36 +0000

Does anyone have recommendations for how to actually print a poster from images like these?

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "Beginning January 2026, all ACM publications will be made open access"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:16:07 +0000

Conflicted. Obviously open access is great, but it's never been that difficult to find most papers either on arxiv or the author's website. And I despise the idea of paying to publish, especially since unlike other fields the "processing" required for CS papers is minimal (e.g., we handle our own formatting). FWIW, USENIX conference papers are both open access and free to publish.

My understanding is that this is at least to some degree in response to the surge of AI generated/assisted papers.

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "Ode to libraries (the book ones)"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 12:42:15 +0000

Not sure what city you're in, but this has not been my experience with several NYC libraries.

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "United Airlines grounds flights after system meltdown"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:19:49 +0000

Also slightly ironic considering United has several planes that are themselves 30+ years old.

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 14:57:17 +0000

Curious why they're using NFSv3 instead of v4?

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "Usenix ATC Announcement"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Fri, 09 May 2025 13:23:05 +0000

Not sure what you mean by "US people" - the PC is mostly (but definitely not 90%) US based, but that follows from systems research being largely US based (for now, at least).

New comment by nycerrrrrrrrrr in "No GPS required: our app can now locate underground trains"

nycerrrrrrrrrr — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 16:46:00 +0000

Great article, I'll have to try it out next time I'm on the subway.

One correction though - there is no subway line that goes across the Queensboro.