Hacker News: oasisaimlessly

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Microsoft Edge stores all passwords in memory in clear text, even when unused"

oasisaimlessly — Tue, 05 May 2026 01:40:53 +0000

No, that is actually very rare, not typical. Do you have any examples of password managers that do that?

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "I am worried about Bun"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 04 May 2026 23:33:30 +0000

You dropped this:

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Unsigned sizes: A five year mistake"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:33:13 +0000

> Wrapping around is what happens when you decrement the minimum value of any integer type, including signed types.

No, signed wraparound is undefined behavior in C, whereas unsigneds are defined to wraparound. If you use -ftrapv, signed wraparound is an immediate abort().

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Unsigned Sizes: A Five Year Mistake"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 02 May 2026 20:28:55 +0000

> That's true for signed numbers too though? `int_min - 2 > int_min`

No, that's undefined behavior in C, and if you care about correctness, you run at least your testsuite in CI with -ftrapv so it turns into an abort().

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:41:15 +0000

MEMS oscillators do use a vacuum, and that's why they're susceptible to helium. A helium atom is tiny compared to an oxygen or nitrogen atom, and can leak through many otherwise-perfect seals.

So, a (badly-designed) MEMS oscillator is basically a region of vacuum enclosed by a membrane that only helium can permeate. Of course exposing it to helium is going to permanently change its behavior! Once the helium gets in, there's no reason for it to leave, due to the vastly higher atmospheric pressure outside.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "HashiCorp co-founder says GitHub 'no longer a place for serious work'"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:35:23 +0000

You don't have to 'build' anything. Just spin up a GitLab docker container. Bonus: If you put it behind a VPN, you never have to worry about updating it.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "10 years ago, someone wrote a test for Servo that included an expiry in 2026"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 18:11:02 +0000

This is a very SWE-centric perspective. The very names of software/hardwsre would imply the exact opposite.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Bypassing the kernel for 56ns cross-language IPC"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 01:52:50 +0000

What?

> Exactly, the application logic is the target. Actually doing seccomp bpf base but for managed bindings (Java, Node, Go, ...) add a lot of complexity....

Maybe proofread the slop before posting it next time?

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:17:20 +0000

I'm an actual boss, and wasting a week is cause for a 30-minute post-mortem, not immediate termination.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "It's OK to compare floating-points for equality"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 19:18:19 +0000

I don't think this is true. Modulo the sign bit, the "next float" operator is equivalent to the next bitstring or the integer++.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 06:34:55 +0000

I've never heard anybody (mis)attribute that to Apple.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "The Document Foundation ejects its core developers"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:57:52 +0000

On the contrary, I would take this as evidence that these projects are alive and well - they have people who care enough to try to affect their future trajectory.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Nitrile and latex gloves may cause overestimation of microplastics"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 00:37:11 +0000

> There's zero reason to replace your gloves when switching from dicing green peppers for a salad to picking up raw chicken.

Typo?

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Why I love NixOS"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 14:01:55 +0000

It does, in combination with a pinned nixpkgs commit, which you can find like this:

    ~/repos/nixpkgs$ git log --grep='nodejs.* 24.14.0' -1 origin/master
    commit 9c0e2056b3c16190aafe67e4d29e530fc1f8c7c7
    Merge: d3a4e93b79c9 0873aea2d0da
    Date:   Tue Feb 24 16:53:40 2026 +0000
    
        nodejs_24: 24.13.1 -> 24.14.0 (#493691)
    ~/repos/nixpkgs$ nix eval nixpkgs/9c0e2056b3c16190aafe67e4d29e530fc1f8c7c7#nodejs_24.version
    "24.14.0"
    ~/repos/nixpkgs$

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Evidence of the bouba-kiki effect in naïve baby chicks"

oasisaimlessly — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 05:07:15 +0000

I don't think it's abstract at all. Rub something sharp (anything from a stick to a phonograph needle) on an object and you'll directly transcribe its spatial frequency spectrum into an audio frequency spectrum.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Defer available in gcc and clang"

oasisaimlessly — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 15:31:46 +0000

It's possible to fix this in application code with a Primitive or NoDefault wrapper that acts like a T, except doesn't have a default constructor. Use Primitive wherever you'd use int that it matters (e.g. struct fields), and leaving it uninitialized will be a compiler error.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

oasisaimlessly — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 04:18:19 +0000

That line from TRON: Legacy always gave me a shiver.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "The Science of the Perfect Second (2023)"

oasisaimlessly — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 21:19:28 +0000

Nice article. Finally, something that matters on the front page.

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Running Your Own AS: BGP on FreeBSD with FRR, GRE Tunnels, and Policy Routing"

oasisaimlessly — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 02:06:30 +0000

Link: https://yggdrasil-network.github.io/

New comment by oasisaimlessly in "Attention at Constant Cost per Token via Symmetry-Aware Taylor Approximation"

oasisaimlessly — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:48:19 +0000

That argument could also be used to say that the FFT's time complexity of O(n log n) should be impossible.