Hacker News: polaris64

New comment by polaris64 in "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

polaris64 — Tue, 12 May 2026 07:54:00 +0000

I'm assuming you use Emacs? Are you using a special "hacker news mode" or something more generic?

New comment by polaris64 in "Show HN: Building a web server in assembly to give my life (a lack of) meaning"

polaris64 — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:33:32 +0000

I did exactly the same and it was so much fun. It wasn't about bringing anything novel to the table, it was just a fun challenge for myself. I finished and now I'm writing a game using it, although now the challenge has gone I am not making much progress on that. But never mind, I had fun! I wouldn't have had that fun or satisfaction if I had vibe coded it instead.

New comment by polaris64 in "Emacs-libgterm: Terminal emulator for Emacs using libghostty-vt"

polaris64 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 06:45:28 +0000

(be-malicious) Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function be-malicious)

Yep, didn't work for me

New comment by polaris64 in "Cloudflare was down"

polaris64 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 09:09:51 +0000

DownDetector'sDownDetector does not detect that DownDetector's down

New comment by polaris64 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

polaris64 — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 09:06:24 +0000

It looks like DNS has been restored: dynamodb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com. 5 IN A 3.218.182.189

New comment by polaris64 in "An interactive guide to Flexbox"

polaris64 — Thu, 24 Nov 2022 09:06:28 +0000

I've started seeing things like this recently too. For example I was browsing through a gallery of artwork by an artist and one was blurred because it contained "sensitive material". The warning stated "food" and when I clicked to reveal the image I found that it was simply a photograph of some freshly baked bread.

New comment by polaris64 in "An open source lawyer’s view on the copilot class action lawsuit"

polaris64 — Thu, 10 Nov 2022 09:30:44 +0000

A difference is that I can't just spin up a copy of George Lucas on my GPU in seconds and request it to produce something from a prompt like "a disappointing prequel".

New comment by polaris64 in "Protonmail can delete the wrong email and nobody cares"

polaris64 — Wed, 02 Nov 2022 11:13:55 +0000

I've suffered from exactly the same issues with Protonmail Bridge, and just this last weekend I decided (reluctantly) to move to a more standard mail provider (I chose Mailbox.org).

Aside from the UID issue discussed I also had problems with Bridge not supporting my particular use-cases. I created my own fork (see https://github.com/polaris64/proton-bridge) to work around some limitations and to add features, but maintaining this was too much work, especially as paying for a mail provider was supposed to reduce maintenance burden. I have had a pull request open since the 23rd of June to merge these to the upstream version, but so far I haven't received any comments from the Proton team.

I like ProtonMail, I just wish Bridge was more standards-compliant.

MIT boffins cram ML training into microcontroller memory

polaris64 — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 10:40:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/05/microcontroller_ml_training/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33106649

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by polaris64 in "The New York Times buys Wordle"

polaris64 — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 09:48:24 +0000

The chosen word list index is modulo its length, meaning you can play forever as long as you don't mind running into some repetition :)

New comment by polaris64 in "Nude pictures on early retro PCs – was it possible?"

polaris64 — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 12:13:17 +0000

> ...I got a floppy with an erotic picture...

I think something's wrong here :)

New comment by polaris64 in "Why Emacs: Redux"

polaris64 — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:36:56 +0000

If you haven't done so already I'd also recommend looking at evil-collection (https://github.com/emacs-evil/evil-collection). This enables Evil keybindings throughout Emacs which can certainly help.

New comment by polaris64 in "Richard Stallman FSF support/remove letter signature counts"

polaris64 — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:51:12 +0000

I'm generating it every 10 minutes based on the current number of signatures on each of the letters. If you want the raw CSV it can be accessed here: https://www.polaris64.net/resources/support-or-ostracise-ric...

I did this as a way to visualise the number of signatures over time, just as a matter of interest.

Richard Stallman FSF support/remove letter signature counts

polaris64 — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:35:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.polaris64.net/resources/support-or-ostracise-richard-stallman/chart.svg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26646423

Points: 31

# Comments: 41

New comment by polaris64 in "Syswall: a firewall for syscalls"

polaris64 — Mon, 18 Feb 2019 17:24:28 +0000

seccomp is a robust way of restricting a process's syscalls so that it can only do what you allow it to.

syswall is more of an interactive tool (similar to systrace as mentioned in another comment). The goal is not to replace seccomp (it's certainly not meant to provide complete security), but rather to allow users to reason about what a process is actually doing. For example, allowing users to see if a new version does something different from the previous, perhaps meaning that malicious code was added unexpectedly.

New comment by polaris64 in "Syswall: a firewall for syscalls"

polaris64 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:27:06 +0000

You're right; I hadn't come across systrace before actually, but it's very similar to what syswall is trying to achieve. I'll be sure to take a look!

New comment by polaris64 in "Syswall: a firewall for syscalls"

polaris64 — Sun, 17 Feb 2019 09:24:58 +0000

Yes, partially, although I wanted to create a more interactive system for end-users to reason about software. I wouldn't recommend it (certainly not yet at least) for system security, tools like seccomp and pledge will do a better job there.

New comment by polaris64 in "Little scripting language written in Rust (no_std WASM example)"

polaris64 — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:32:21 +0000

I created a little programming language parser and interpreter written entirely in Rust with an optional "no_std" Crate feature allowing the parser/interpreter to work in environments where the standard library is not available (e.g. embedded devices).

The excellent Nom library was used to build the parser. The interpreter itself has no external dependencies.

By way of an example, linked is a live demo of the parser and interpreter compiled to a WASM module, allowing scripts to be parsed and executed entirely within the browser.

The project is mainly a component of another project that I'm working on, but I thought that some of you might be interested in the progress so far. Everything's open source, so please take a look at the code too (GitHub link on page). I'm planning on writing a tutorial series about this too, so I'll post a link to that when it's available.

Thanks!

Little scripting language written in Rust (no_std WASM example)

polaris64 — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 07:31:55 +0000

Article URL: https://www.polaris64.net/resources/programming/p64lang_wasm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17976730

Points: 5

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