Hacker News: packetslave

New comment by packetslave in "Turtle WoW classic server announces shutdown after Blizzard wins injunction"

packetslave — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 17:39:25 +0000

Nintendo is probably THE most aggressive company in the industry in terms of going after people for using their IP in unauthorized ways. They don't have a blind eye.

New comment by packetslave in "Waymo robotaxi hits a child near an elementary school in Santa Monica"

packetslave — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:30:19 +0000

> Waymo driver? The vehicles are autonomous

the "Waymo Driver" is how they refer to the self-driving platform (hardware and software). They've been pretty consistent with that branding, so it's not surprising that they used it here.

> Importantly, Waymo takes full ownership for something they write positively [...] But Waymo weasels out of taking responsibility for something they write about negatively

Pretty standard for corporate Public Relations writing, unfortunately.

New comment by packetslave in "Drug trio found to block tumour resistance in pancreatic cancer in mouse models"

packetslave — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 22:21:05 +0000

right-click, search Google: "MSK most commonly refers to Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, a world-renowned institution for cancer treatment and research"

New comment by packetslave in "What an unprocessed photo looks like"

packetslave — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:40:53 +0000

Right-click, "Search Google for 'ADC'", takes much less time than making this useless comment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog-to-digital_converter

New comment by packetslave in "Cloudflare outage should not have happened"

packetslave — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 22:29:30 +0000

yep, and it was this exact requirement that also caused the exact same outage back in 2013 or so. DDoS rules were pushed to the GFE (edge proxy) every 15 seconds, and a bad release got out. Every single GFE worldwide crashed within 15 seconds. That outage is in the SRE book.

New comment by packetslave in "The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting"

packetslave — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 19:03:07 +0000

I have a bit of a different take on browser fingerprinting: I don't want to uniquely identify you as a person so I can serve you ads, or whatever. I want to identify your traffic when you're scraping my content from 2,000 different IP's and 1,000 different user accounts, I can block you or rate limit you without hurting anyone else.

Given the scale of scrapers these days (AI companies with VC money have no problem spinning up thousands of VMs running Chrome), fingerprinting at the browser level is the only realistic option.

(obligatory: my personal opinion, not necessarily my employer's)

Choosing a vector database for ANN search at Reddit

packetslave — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1ozxnjc/choosing_a_vector_database_for_ann_search_at/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45984301

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by packetslave in "A Commentary on the Sixth Edition Unix Operating System (1977)"

packetslave — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 16:49:53 +0000

TCP/IP Illustrated is still in copyright. Please don't post pirated material here.

New comment by packetslave in "This week in 1988, Robert Morris unleashed his eponymous worm"

packetslave — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 22:53:12 +0000

and his dad was head of computer security at the NSA for a while

New comment by packetslave in "Jujutsu at Google [video]"

packetslave — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:15:49 +0000

Google had 86TB of sourcecode data in Piper way back in 2016.

New comment by packetslave in "New coding models and integrations"

packetslave — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 19:38:37 +0000

Also the just-released DGX Spark from Nvidia (although it "only" has 128gb of unified memory)

New comment by packetslave in "AWS Restored My Account: The Human Who Made the Difference"

packetslave — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:42:33 +0000

in AWS's defense, it's pretty easy to see the rationale for this. The amount of abuse they must deal with is staggering -- "spin up account, do evil stuff until they notice and nuke the account, repeat"

New comment by packetslave in "You Are in a Box"

packetslave — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:33:25 +0000

It's a less... dramatic... version of what happens when HN links to JWZ's blog.

New comment by packetslave in "You Are in a Box"

packetslave — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 20:32:50 +0000

Someone who is writing on their personal blog and doesn't give a damn what is "acceptable" to some rando on the Internet?

New comment by packetslave in "How the Sun Enterprise 10000 was born (2007)"

packetslave — Sun, 18 May 2025 18:26:48 +0000

Those look like E5500 or E6500 cabinets (hard to tell from the angle).

New comment by packetslave in "Rules for Negotiating a Job Offer (2016)"

packetslave — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 06:03:04 +0000

Netflix is a weird case, in that they let new hires pick the mix of stock vs. cash in their total compensation. Since the CA law requires posting the cash salary in the job offer, it really can be that wide of a range.

New comment by packetslave in "Sparks – A typeface for creating sparklines in text without code"

packetslave — Sat, 05 Apr 2025 06:28:28 +0000

Sparklines have been around (in modern usage) for nearly 20 years (coined by Edward Tufte in 2006.

Also, Google is a thing.

New comment by packetslave in "Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today"

packetslave — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 19:25:43 +0000

what an intrusive, nosy question!

New comment by packetslave in "The Evolution of SRE at Google"

packetslave — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 02:58:36 +0000

Not everything needs to be spelled out for people who are too lazy to Google

A Million Connection Problem

packetslave — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 21:23:20 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/1fnt8af/a_million_connection_problem/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41641086

Points: 2

# Comments: 0