Hacker News: outerspace

New comment by outerspace in "uBlock Origin Lite now available for Safari"

outerspace — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 22:10:53 +0000

On the settings page of the extension, I got a popup to allow "ib.adnxs.com" access to browsing data. What is this?

New comment by outerspace in "Strobelight: A profiling service built on open source technology"

outerspace — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 16:42:28 +0000

Good to know there's an OSS alternative.

New comment by outerspace in "Why Not Rust? (2020)"

outerspace — Sun, 19 Dec 2021 00:07:50 +0000

A programming language that offers no mechanism to handle memory allocation errors is not a system programming language. I have yet to come to a conclusion on the merits of Rust, but this claim about system programming always ticks me off.

New comment by outerspace in "Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”"

outerspace — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 19:21:46 +0000

The most disconcerting part for me is the fact that the attackers gained full access to one of the administrators’ LastPass account. I would love to know how that happened.

New comment by outerspace in "All Futurama Opening Quotes"

outerspace — Thu, 18 Mar 2021 19:39:57 +0000

Watched that episode with the dead dog once. Almost cried. Never watched it again.

New comment by outerspace in "How California Became America’s Housing Market Nightmare"

outerspace — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 18:44:56 +0000

I think there is a straightforward solution to the housing crisis, and it’s not building more houses and squeezing more and more people into the same limited space. At least for Big Tech, which seems to be the focus of the problem, the solution would be telecommuting. As a software engineer, there is no reason whatsoever for me to go to an office. I can do whatever I do from anywhere in the world as long as I have a decent internet connection. Yet I’m forced to live in an expensive place just because of some old pre-hitech mentality that expects me to be in an office.

New comment by outerspace in "Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail"

outerspace — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 18:12:22 +0000

Usually this happens on weekends when I go on long rides. Smaller roads without a bike lane are worse than bigger multi-lane ones. Places outside Seattle proper are the major offenders: Bellevue, Issaquah, Renton, Enumclaw, to name a few. Maybe it’s the fact that I’m wearing a cycling kit that ticks people off.

My commute to work is usually uneventful, about 10 miles mostly on dedicated bike paths along with many other commuters. It’s a few miles longer than it should but it’s definitely the safest route to work.

New comment by outerspace in "Seattle's 'microtransit' experiment drives people to light rail"

outerspace — Sun, 25 Aug 2019 16:40:50 +0000

I recently moved from the Bay Area to Seattle. I was looking forward to the move because I love cycling and Seattle was rated #1 in bike infrastructure last year [1]. While the infrastructure is indeed somewhat better than the BA, I was shocked by the widespread hate for cyclists everywhere in Seattle and surrounding areas. Getting honked at is a regular occurrence here, and people will actually stick their head out of their cars to make sure you hear the insults they are shouting at you, while simultaneously giving you the finger. It gets worse: a couple weeks ago somebody hiding behind some trees threw a rock at me while riding on the Burke Gilman trail. Fortunately they missed me. The rock (fist-sized) shattered a few feet in front of me on the trail pavement. The hate is incessant and I definitely understand why people don’t feel comfortable riding.

[1] https://www.bicycling.com/culture/a23676188/best-bike-cities...

New comment by outerspace in "What's Coming in Python 3.8"

outerspace — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 23:18:10 +0000

Does it make sense to use := everywhere (can it be used everywhere?) instead of just in conditionals? Just like Pascal.

New comment by outerspace in "Cambridge's Ambitious Protected Bike Lane Law"

outerspace — Thu, 11 Apr 2019 17:30:43 +0000

> At a certain point doesn’t creating a preference for pedestrians and cyclists actually end up being a preference for wealthier people who can afford to live downtown, versus those who need to access the city but can’t live within walking or biking distance?

Reducing the number of cars (and therefore traffic) on the roads will benefit everybody, especially if cars and bikes don't get in each other's way (such as in the case of dedicated and protected bike lanes).

> Note that bicyclists and skateboarders also slow down busses, which are what lower income people use to get around

I don't think this is true. Busy streets and traffic jams slow down buses.

People walk across street at crosswalk

outerspace — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:18:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seattlebikeblog.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19129464

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

Ask HN: Fastmail 2fa via Google Authenticator useless?

outerspace — Sun, 04 Jun 2017 13:51:37 +0000

Fastmail supports 2fa via Google Authenticator (and alike). However, according to their documentation:

"Before you can enable two-step verification, you must add a recovery phone to your account. This is to prevent you from being locked out of your account should you ever lose access to your main verification device. You get a code sent to your phone instead to complete your second step when you log in."

Doesn't this defeat the purpose of having Google Authenticator (or any other 2fa app)? If I understand this correctly, they seem to be switching back to SMS 2fa if the authenticator fails.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481582

Points: 8

# Comments: 6

New comment by outerspace in "Small Businesses Lament There Are Too Few Mexicans in U.S"

outerspace — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 15:31:44 +0000

Tech companies complain there aren't enough high-skilled workers. Small businesses lament there are too few low-skilled workers. In the end, they are both saying the same thing: they want more workers for less money.

New comment by outerspace in "Ask HN: How do you get notified about newest research papers in your field?"

outerspace — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 17:06:52 +0000

Take a look at academia.edu. It's basically a social network for the academia. Researchers can post their papers and follow other people's work.

New comment by outerspace in "Show HN: Sabotage your C code"

outerspace — Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:41:29 +0000

Not a typo. It could have been split into two assignments:

    errno = SABOTAGE;   // 0 or ENOMEM
    p = errno ? NULL : malloc(size);

but this would have made the preprocessor code a bit trickier.

Show HN: Sabotage your C code

outerspace — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:47:10 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/e03213ac/sabotage

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11255961

Points: 8

# Comments: 2

Are streets for people or cars?

outerspace — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 17:47:38 +0000

Article URL: http://sustainableamsterdam.com/2015/12/livable-cities-campaign/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11254413

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Religious children are meaner than their secular counterparts

outerspace — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:53:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/nov/06/religious-children-less-altruistic-secular-kids-study

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10521211

Points: 4

# Comments: 0