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New comment by qbane in "Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver"

qbane — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 14:04:36 +0000

Compared to original sokoban game, the player's final position does not matter, and the number of boxes is strictly equal to the number of goal marks.

New comment by qbane in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

qbane — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 06:53:23 +0000

It is like prohibiting LLM consumption by putting a small reminder -- never works if done without using weird tricks (like mentioning nuclear weapon) also if they are forging new DOM structure they are NOT using the filter itself

New comment by qbane in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

qbane — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 15:03:42 +0000

I wrote and shared uBlock Origin filters for Facebook, shared on Reddit and up to a week later they changed the DOM structure bypassed the filters. After some attempts I no longer publish the filters.

New comment by qbane in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

qbane — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:55:31 +0000

This is an important context: the site is more likely to be targeted by scrapers because it is a curated collection of scraped information.

New comment by qbane in "A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website"

qbane — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:08:18 +0000

> And yes, my site gets its data by scraping those public documents. So I'm a scraper writing a blog post complaining about scrapers. I'm aware of how that sounds.

Language Server Protocol Specification – 3.18

qbane — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 17:16:08 +0000

Article URL: https://microsoft.github.io/language-server-protocol/specifications/lsp/3.18/specification/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48924072

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by qbane in "Type-checked non-empty strings"

qbane — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 14:07:06 +0000

I pondered for a while, it IS the company I used to know

New comment by qbane in "Vulnerability reports are not special anymore"

qbane — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 05:11:19 +0000

> LLMs are as good as almost any security researcher, and anyone can run them.

I wonder what the metrics are. Also, not "anyone", just the affordable.

New comment by qbane in "Deno Desktop"

qbane — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 15:11:22 +0000

You could, but by targeting a specific Electron app the mindset would be much simpler. Just take a look of how many times does the dev behind VS Code decide to upgrade their Electron/Node.js version, and how many breakages due to them.

It is all about unknown unknowns.

New comment by qbane in "Deno Desktop"

qbane — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 09:41:16 +0000

I doubt the benefit. Practically every Electron app on a desktop uses different versions of Chromium and many are very out of date because of the risk of breaking when upgrading.

Porting Btrfs-Progs to Rust

qbane — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 15:13:38 +0000

Article URL: https://xfbs.net/posts/2026/porting-btrfs-progs-to-rust/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48385211

Points: 10

# Comments: 0

New comment by qbane in "Googlebook"

qbane — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:07:55 +0000

I wish Google can bring back the OG Pixelbook, where "AI" merely means Google Assistant.

New comment by qbane in "Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)"

qbane — Fri, 08 May 2026 20:35:26 +0000

I realized that my mentioning UUID without v4 was misleading.

New comment by qbane in "Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)"

qbane — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:22:29 +0000

Okay, sightly more bits than UUID v4. The whole article is merely reasoning "why at least 128 bits are required", and if you smuggle some non-random data inside these bits the entropy can only drop, making it more vulnerable to collision, i.e. inferior to UUID v4.

New comment by qbane in "How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?"

qbane — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:32:17 +0000

Note that when neither is supplied, the text mode is the default. This is why I said that it is the C library handling the "b" flag.

New comment by qbane in "Why should a Trace-ID be 128 bits? (A Surprisingly Long Answer)"

qbane — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:22:32 +0000

tl;dr we reinvented UUID and it works well

New comment by qbane in "How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file?"

qbane — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:48:38 +0000

It's C library taking care of the "b" part for you according to the article.

New comment by qbane in "Rewriting Every Syscall in a Linux Binary at Load Time"

qbane — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 15:17:45 +0000

There is even a table copy-pasted into a paragraph without noticing.

> What’s needed is something different:

> Requirement ptrace seccomp eBPF Binary rewrite Low overhead per syscall No (~10-20µs) Yes Yes Yes [...]

New comment by qbane in "Nothing Ever Happens: Polymarket bot that always buys No on non-sports markets"

qbane — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 17:25:19 +0000

null hypothesis bot

New comment by qbane in "The End of Eleventy"

qbane — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 07:47:19 +0000

Reminding me of the Shoelace [0] project, which was rebranded as Web Awesome. The original (v2) repository was then archived.

[0]: https://shoelace.style/