Hacker News: patchguard

New comment by patchguard in "Writing a simple windows driver in Rust"

patchguard — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 09:47:41 +0000

There are conventions, but like anything that isn't explicitly enforced, developers will do whatever they can/wish.

New comment by patchguard in "Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise"

patchguard — Sat, 30 Mar 2024 18:13:51 +0000

> Performance can be bought with better hardware.

I hate this argument. If current hardware promises you a theoretical throughput of 100 MB/s for an operation, someone will try to hit that limit. Your program that has no hard to understand code but gives me 5 MB/s will loose in the face of a faster one, even if that means writing harder to understand code.

New comment by patchguard in "YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox"

patchguard — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 17:53:31 +0000

Not so hard to believe tho. I work on a product that has parametrized feature flags. This means that, from a web interface, someone can say things like "activate feature X, on machines running operating system Y, at version Z, and are running product version W with license type Q". This is not a hard thing to build, and once you have it you can mix and match filters without being a software engineer or knowing how it works behind the scenes.

New comment by patchguard in "Risk Assessment of GitHub Copilot"

patchguard — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 06:44:46 +0000

> copilot skirted that need by just analyzing the AST of code they host and using the nearby comments to identify what a section of code is meant to do.

I'm curious what it spills out for things like "Todo", or "this is probably broken", etc.

New comment by patchguard in "A Gentle Introduction to Hypervisor Memory Introspection"

patchguard — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:51:02 +0000

What HVMI is and how you can use it to monitor and/or protect your VMs.

A Gentle Introduction to Hypervisor Memory Introspection

patchguard — Tue, 04 Aug 2020 09:51:02 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@hvmi/a-gentle-introduction-to-hvmi-baa91e1571d1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24048319

Points: 1

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New comment by patchguard in "Microsoft Office rewrite to React.js nears completion"

patchguard — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 16:24:33 +0000

Since when is Office a developer tool that runs only on dev machines?

New comment by patchguard in "Why Crystal Is My Next Language"

patchguard — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:20:53 +0000

Assembly also lacks features.

New comment by patchguard in "Tad, a tabular data viewer"

patchguard — Wed, 31 May 2017 21:49:38 +0000

A mature framework should not have this kind of problems https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/12115