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New comment by pie_flavor in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

pie_flavor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:01:30 +0000

pin-project-lite is the only base dependency, which itself has no dependencies. If you enable the "full" feature, ie all optional doodads turned on (which you likely don't need), it's 17: bytes, cfg-if, errno, libc, mio, parking_lot+parking_lot_core+lock_api, pin-project-lite, proc_macro2+quote+syn+unicode-ident, scopeguard, signal-hook-registry, smallvec, and socket2. You let me know which ones you think are bloat that it should reimplement or bind to a C library about, and without the blatant fabrication this time.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

pie_flavor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:06:16 +0000

How about former NASA engineer Charles Camarda? Linked from the article: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ddi792xdfNXcBwF8qpDUxmZz...

New comment by pie_flavor in "Artemis II is not safe to fly"

pie_flavor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 08:03:58 +0000

The OP links a document from former astronaut Charles Camarda, who NASA explicitly invited in to check their work, and who observed the press conference the Ars article comes from. He addresses every point in it, including that one. Just because an article is contrary to a strident opinion doesn't make it 'balanced'. It matters whether the actual facts are true or not.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ddi792xdfNXcBwF8qpDUxmZz...

New comment by pie_flavor in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

pie_flavor — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 07:15:22 +0000

Rust libraries are infrequently used outside of Rust because if you have the option, you'd just use Rust, not the ancient featureless language intrinsically responsible for 70% of all security issues. C libraries are infrequently used in Rust outside of system libc, for the same reason; I go and toggle the reqwest switch to use rustls every time, because OpenSSL is horrendous. This is also why you say 'rarely' instead of 'never', when a few years ago it was 'never'; a few years from now you'll say 'uncommonly', and so on. The reason C libraries are used is because you don't feel like reimplementing it yourself, and they are there; but that doesn't apply more to C libraries than Rust libraries, and the vast majority of crates.io wouldn't be usefully represented in C anyway, or would take longer to bind to than to rewrite. (No, nobody uses libcurl.) Finally, this only happens in NPM, and the Rust libraries you pull in are all high-quality. So this sounds like a bunch of handwaving about nonsense.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Ripgrep is faster than grep, ag, git grep, ucg, pt, sift (2016)"

pie_flavor — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 10:38:01 +0000

This is a nonstandard tool. If you can't customize your machine, you already don't have it.

New comment by pie_flavor in "MAUI Is Coming to Linux"

pie_flavor — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 18:09:48 +0000

The Microsoft MAUI framework is the one being brought to Linux by Avalonia, yes.

New comment by pie_flavor in "ArXiv declares independence from Cornell"

pie_flavor — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:57:27 +0000

You may have delivered value in peer review, but on the whole, peer review delivers negative value. https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-rise-and-fall-of-...

The arXiv vs journal debate seems a lot like 'should the work get done, or should the work get certified' that you see all over 'institutions', and if the certification does not actually catch frauds or errors, it's not making the foundations stronger, which is usually the only justification for the latter side.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

pie_flavor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 23:14:07 +0000

'Only the educated elite should be permitted to use technology' is a great take, but unfortunately the peons outvote and outspend you, so their opinions matter more than yours.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Google details new 24-hour process to sideload unverified Android apps"

pie_flavor — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:25:30 +0000

This is already how it works.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Node.js needs a virtual file system"

pie_flavor — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:38:35 +0000

You just cat the exe with the zip file, then it is all loaded into memory at the same time on process init. This is how e.g. LÖVE does game code packaging. (It can't be tar, because this trick only works because the PKZIP descriptor is at the end of the file.)

New comment by pie_flavor in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

pie_flavor — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 05:57:13 +0000

You have described every single regulatory problem anyone has ever complained about in the FDA: the default state is denial, and positive action is needed to carve permitted things out of it. If this is a categorical exemption to 'the regulations are written in blood', then you're failing to describe anything identifiable about the regulations at all.

New comment by pie_flavor in "The bureaucracy blocking the chance at a cure"

pie_flavor — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 19:02:41 +0000

No, it's a cliche because it's false and/or just rephrased alarmism. Most regulations are changes made to solve no problem, simply because someone thought it was a good idea, or because they were vaguely related to a Current Thing, and then persisted because undoing any decision is organizationally extremely hard and nobody cared enough. 'Written in blood' is a great catchphrase for eliminating any discussion of cost-benefit tradeoffs, and the lives that could have been saved but for inaction by default.

New comment by pie_flavor in "John Carmack about open source and anti-AI activists"

pie_flavor — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:25:30 +0000

Oldheads are not the exclusive group of people who have ever meant actual altruism by their open-source licenses. You can't just pick an attribute to dismiss an opinion based on. Creative control over the lineage of a line of code is just not something the open source world is very concerned with in aggregate.

Anti-AI sentiment comes primarily from slop PRs (and slop projects) along with the water use hoax; copyright concerns originate almost entirely from the art sphere, crossing over into the open source sphere by osmosis and only representing a small minority of opinion-havers therein.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Militaries are scrambling to create their own Starlink"

pie_flavor — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 19:00:49 +0000

The first rocket may take off sooner than 2040. But Starlink is not just a rocket, it is a complete business process, with a launch regularity and price. A Starlink satellite's worth of space on a Falcon 9 costs 500k-750k. With about ten thousand satellites, which last about five years, this means maybe a billion and a half per year spent on the space arm of the business, not counting ground stations. If they had to spend, say, ten times this, Starlink wouldn't be profitable today. And that's pretty much reality: the Ariane rocket costs ~$100m to Falcon's ~$15m (nobody knows what Zhuque-3 costs); I think cost per kg is 5000 vs 900. You could get it down to ~1.5B a year by narrowing it to just the latitudes overhead the EU, but then you cut the potential revenues too and have the same problem.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Dolphin Progress Release 2603"

pie_flavor — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:36:08 +0000

It's referring to memory cards. This is the Triforce feature, almost every game on it uses cards for savegames. The arcades you're thinking of almost certainly had a version of Mario Kart Arcade GP - you may just not have played it.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Is legal the same as legitimate: AI reimplementation and the erosion of copyleft"

pie_flavor — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:39:33 +0000

While no fan of AI slop, is there any difference between this and musl/busybox/etc, minus the addition of AI? Did anyone get mad at busybox before AI?

New comment by pie_flavor in "MacBook Neo"

pie_flavor — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:11:23 +0000

I am a longtime Windows user and it brings me absolutely no joy to report that the M4 I am forced to use for work runs the Rust compiler a good bit faster than the big fancy gaming PC I just got with a 9800X3D.

New comment by pie_flavor in "Why Go Can't Try"

pie_flavor — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:38:14 +0000

Everyone compares Go to Rust. This AI-generated slop mentions Rust at the top, then launches into an explanation of how Go is not like Zig, where Rust is also not like Zig, but instead is extremely like Go. This answers no questions at all about the argument people actually participate in.

Banned in California

pie_flavor — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 23:16:40 +0000

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

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47159430

Points: 633

# Comments: 716

New comment by pie_flavor in "An Unbothered Jimmy Wales Calls Grokipedia a 'Cartoon Imitation' of Wikipedia"

pie_flavor — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 05:57:48 +0000

If you hear a name in an internet argument, and want to know who that person is, and one site is more likely than the other to contain it, that site is definitionally the better encyclopedia in the moment. If you arbitrarily define notability so as not to include the guy who came up with the seed oil craze presently informing the federal health policy of the United States, you're just giving away part of the game for no reason. Like Stallman deliberately throwing away GPL compiler share dominance by refusing to make GCC a library, and now we've got a million proprietary LLVM compilers. Wikipedia isn't the gatekeeper of notability, such that refusing to have an article on some niche topic will prevent it getting oxygen. All it does is ensure that your first search result will be sympathetic to his fringe views, instead of critical.