Hacker News: okl

NanoPutians, organic molecules whose structural formulae resemble human forms

okl — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:30:19 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoPutian

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49050734

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by okl in "6 years and 360 patches to clean all instances of strnpy out of the Linux kernel"

okl — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 20:17:09 +0000

strncpy was originally used to write into fixed length buffers[1]. This becomes obvious when considering the padding behavior, as described in the C standard[2]: "If the array pointed to by s2 is a string that is shorter than n characters, null characters are appended to the copy in the array pointed to by s1, until n characters in all have been written."

strlcpy, often touted as a replacement, does not elicit the padding behavior but has another flaw: It is supposed to return the length of the string it tried to create, for example, so the user can call realloc without calling strlen again.[3] However, this final "strlen-tail" in strlcpy isn't bounded by the size parameter which describes dest, not src.

While strscpy is a marked improvement, there is still something to be careful about: It can read past the end of the src-buffer, when sizeof src < sizeof dest and src is not nul-terminated.[4] (Set the count argument to something like min(sizeof dest, sizeof src) to avoid that).

[1] - https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/438090

[2] - https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n3220.pdf, 7.26.2.5 p. 3

[3] - https://manpages.debian.org/jessie/libbsd-dev/strlcpy.3.en.h...

[4] - https://manpages.debian.org/testing/linux-manual-4.8/strscpy...

Atlas of Humanity

okl — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:42:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.atlasofhumanity.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674194

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

The Everyday Projects

okl — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:37:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.everydayprojects.org

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48674101

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Mutex Service – Team Coordination Tool

okl — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 13:06:18 +0000

Article URL: https://mutex.team/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46230893

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by okl in "MinIO stops distributing free Docker images"

okl — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 19:44:50 +0000

Also there is garage, which I found easy to setup: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/

New comment by okl in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

okl — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:45:04 +0000

Game theoretic modelling commonly results in early escalation followed by a slower de-escalating as a winning strategy. Fits into the strong-arm approach to politics of exercising power to expand power which the current US administration seems to follow. Thus, I wouldn't think that decoupling or falling of a cliff is the intended goal.

New comment by okl in "Tech megacaps lose $770B in value as Nasdaq suffers steepest drop since April"

okl — Sat, 11 Oct 2025 16:24:43 +0000

Did you know that 90% of gamblers quit before they win big? /s

New comment by okl in "EU lawmakers push to ban term 'veggie-burger'"

okl — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 11:55:58 +0000

Problem here is that the excessive focus on secondary issues raises the perception of a problem solving deficit which reduces support/legitimacy for the political system.

It would be nice to focus on solving more existential problems of which there are enough.

Wikipedia: Incrementalism

okl — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:00:05 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incrementalism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45531677

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by okl in "RIP pthread_cancel"

okl — Sat, 13 Sep 2025 19:47:41 +0000

https://c-ares.org/

List of single-file C/C++ libraries

okl — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 12:29:27 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/r-lyeh/single_file_libs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44658462

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Chrome enhanced spell check sends your input to Google

okl — Thu, 22 May 2025 06:30:08 +0000

Article URL: https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/13616585?hl=en

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44059330

Points: 1

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World Press Photo Suspends Authorship Credit for 1972 'Terror of War' Photo [pdf]

okl — Sat, 17 May 2025 11:27:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.worldpressphoto.org/getmedia/9a412bbd-5173-4b9d-bec6-0882ec71f2b6/WPP_2025_The-Terror-of-War_summary-of-investigative-analysis.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44013520

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Fortinet: Analysis of Threat Actor Activity

okl — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 14:35:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fortinet.com/blog/psirt-blogs/analysis-of-threat-actor-activity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43693358

Points: 1

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The Celestial Zoo (2001)

okl — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 00:07:53 +0000

Article URL: https://pablocarlosbudassi.com/2021/02/the-celestial-zoo-celestial-zoo-tour-of.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43213743

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

What is Nuclear? – Nuclear expertise for everyone

okl — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 23:25:46 +0000

Article URL: https://whatisnuclear.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43189468

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Are noise-cancelling headphones impairing our hearing skills?

okl — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:52:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/22/filter-trouble-why-audiologists-worry-noise-cancelling-headphones-may-impair-hearing-skills

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43160937

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by okl in "Fly To Podman: a script that will help you to migrate from Docker"

okl — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 17:44:34 +0000

GitHub issue for podman support, here: https://github.com/containrrr/watchtower/issues/1060

New comment by okl in "Greg K-H: "Writing new code in Rust is a win for all of us""

okl — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:16:54 +0000

Seems to me that everyone is focused on the technical merits, not weighing the effort of learning a new programming language/toolchain/ecosystem for the maintainers appropriately.

Mastering a new programming language to a degree that makes one a competent maintainer is nothing to sneeze at and some maintainers might be unwilling to based on personal interests/motivation, which I'd consider legitimate position.

I think its important to acknowledge that not everyone may feel comfortable talking about their lack of competence/disinterest.