Hacker News: qbane

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 Practically every Electron app on a desktop uses different versions of Chromium and many are very out of date because of the risk of breaking when upgrading.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

New comment by qbane in "The Last Quiet Thing"

qbane — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 19:13:49 +0000

The watch is interactive! Nice detail

New comment by qbane in "GitHub is once again down"

qbane — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 21:43:37 +0000

Productivity is finite. If you pivot entirely to the AI stack, you're going to lose bandwidth for everything else. It's an opportunity cost problem.

New comment by qbane in "Ask ChatGPT to pick a number from 1-10000, it generally selects from 7200-7500"

qbane — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:06:26 +0000

A better example would be to use LLMs to generate passwords or secret keys. Then even if it looks random to human, the inherent bias would make it a security disaster.

New comment by qbane in "Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web"

qbane — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 05:00:58 +0000

You can still obfuscate JS heavily and make a VM that executes also obfuscated code calling arbitrary browser APIs. At least In WASM everything is sandboxed so the attack surface is smaller.

New comment by qbane in "Hacker News.love – 22 projects Hacker News didn't love"

qbane — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:06:49 +0000

cf. Kagi is a good take

Technical Breakdown: How AI Agents Ignore 40 Years of Security Progress [video]

qbane — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 10:26:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3okhTwa7w4

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120411

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by qbane in "Anthropic's original take home assignment open sourced"

qbane — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 09:46:48 +0000

Remember: It is a company that keep saying how much production code can be written by AI in xx years, but at the same time recruiting new engineers.

New comment by qbane in "Show HN: Pdfwithlove – PDF tools that run 100% locally (no uploads, no back end)"

qbane — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 08:33:17 +0000

The "source" link at the footer seems to point to the author's GitHub profile, not source repository. The repo under it contains no code either.

New comment by qbane in "C++ std::move doesn't move anything: A deep dive into Value Categories"

qbane — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:58:32 +0000

I read Effective Modern C++ years ago and was confused exactly like what you describe.