Hacker News: quentinp

The breach that broke the internet: The untold story of Log4Shell

quentinp — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 03:18:56 +0000

Article URL: https://github.blog/open-source/inside-the-breach-that-broke-the-internet-the-untold-story-of-log4shell/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45652081

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by quentinp in "So you want to serialize some DER?"

quentinp — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 03:17:57 +0000

He’s also well respected in the Python community for maintaining the cryptography package, partially written in Rust. This is just a random blog post, not an ad.

New comment by quentinp in "I used o3 to find a remote zeroday in the Linux SMB implementation"

quentinp — Sat, 24 May 2025 18:54:09 +0000

Exactly. Many AI users can’t triage effectively, as a result open source projects get a lot of spam now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/open-source-project-...

New comment by quentinp in "How async/await works in Python"

quentinp — Fri, 09 May 2025 12:08:10 +0000

While it stays at the Python level, https://github.com/AndreLouisCaron/a-tale-of-event-loops really helped me to understand how asyncio and Trio are implemented. I had no idea how sleeps worked before reading that post.

New comment by quentinp in "The benefits of learning in public"

quentinp — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 06:18:31 +0000

The article says as much!

> Simon Willison is the master of this and even has a subdomain devoted to his

New comment by quentinp in "Towards 1-bit Machine Learning Models"

quentinp — Fri, 29 Mar 2024 17:28:29 +0000

Actually they plan to put an LLM in your back pocket using flash memory, not silicon: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514

Urllib3 is fundraising for HTTP/2 support

quentinp — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 15:19:16 +0000

Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/urllib3-is-fundraising-for-http2-support

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39014196

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Tests aren’t enough: Case study after adding type hints to urllib3

quentinp — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 16:16:17 +0000

Article URL: https://sethmlarson.dev/blog/2021-10-18/tests-arent-enough-case-study-after-adding-types-to-urllib3

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28907154

Points: 205

# Comments: 198

New comment by quentinp in "Things I Wish I’d Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years"

quentinp — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 19:06:50 +0000

This is called the banner blindness effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness

New comment by quentinp in "The one who kept VLC free"

quentinp — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 12:26:44 +0000

jbk explained why this initially was a mistake on r/linux, see https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d8mhqe/the_one_who_k...:

> It was the fact that it came from the Linux world. So, when porting to Windows/macOS, the codec packages were part of the binary. It was supposed to temporary.

> This interview has cut that part.

New comment by quentinp in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2018)"

quentinp — Fri, 02 Nov 2018 07:10:42 +0000

Clustree – Paris, France or REMOTE (Paris time zone) – Full time

Clustree's mission is to put the Human back in Human Resources. We collect, normalize and transform millions of career paths in our SaaS platform to provide AI-based recommendation services for HR. Clustree has raised 7 M€ in June 2018 and is making its team stronger to accompany its growth in France before launching in the US.

We work on cool problems using Python 3, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Spark and TensorFlow. You can work from our Paris office but we also offer true remote: I work from Reunion Island and only travel to Paris twice a year.

We're looking to add an experienced backend engineer to a team of 30 seasoned, talented professionals.  You will write reliable and efficient backend services, and use your experience to shape and improve the team practices, from design to planning, implementation and deployment.

French is a requirement.

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/companies/clustree/jobs/se...

New comment by quentinp in "How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It"

quentinp — Wed, 10 Oct 2018 04:19:39 +0000

The article does mention your trick:

> My solution was to approach a project by turning it into as many tiny steps as possible. That way I could get a few really easy wins under my belt. For example, each step would be a task such as "Search for ______ on Google" or "Have a conversation with ______." Crossing things off your to-do list gives your brain a happy little dopamine hit, even if the tasks are tiny—it keeps your motivation up and your excuses down.

New comment by quentinp in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2018)"

quentinp — Tue, 09 Oct 2018 06:43:34 +0000

Clustree – Paris, France or REMOTE (Paris time zone) – Full time

French is a requirement.

https://www.welcometothejungle.co/companies/clustree/jobs/se...

New comment by quentinp in "A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go"

quentinp — Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:09:11 +0000

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16423049 for a discussion between rsc and Rust developers.

New comment by quentinp in "Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python"

quentinp — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 04:33:27 +0000

Threads are a leaky abstraction, so it makes sense to explore other solutions. To cite another low level detail from you list: I don't think Rust is less usable because there is no garbage collection.

But keep in mind asyncio has many issues of its own, which is why I'm happy that alternatives like http://trio.readthedocs.io/ are possible in Python.

New comment by quentinp in "Memory efficiency of parallel IO operations in Python"

quentinp — Tue, 13 Mar 2018 17:13:30 +0000

I think many people agree that speed is not a reason to choose non-blocking IO over threads.

However, many people do believe that async/await and event loops make reasoning about non-blocking IO much easier. Has your opinion changed since http://techspot.zzzeek.org/2015/02/15/asynchronous-python-an...?

Using asynchronous for loops in Python

quentinp — Fri, 29 Dec 2017 07:44:36 +0000

Article URL: https://quentin.pradet.me/blog/using-asynchronous-for-loops-in-python.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16028270

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

JavaScript Promises are equivalent to Python's asyncio

quentinp — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 15:12:00 +0000

Article URL: https://quentin.pradet.me/blog/javascript-promises-are-equivalent-to-pythons-asyncio.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15816303

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by quentinp in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2017)"

quentinp — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 15:02:05 +0000

Clustree | Data Software Engineer | Paris, France | ONSITE https://www.clustree.com/

Clustree offers artificial intelligence to make internal and external HR data blind to stereotypes and human bias. Our mission is to build a technology solution that delivers fact-based and proactive decision making for career development and recruitment. We recently raised 7.9M dollars and are continuously expanding our teams.

We work on cool problems with microservices using Python 3, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Spark, Tensorflow, Docker and Kubernetes. Those positions are based in Paris but you can work from home occasionally. You should speak French fluently.

Engineering positions:

- Data Scientist: https://www.workable.com/j/C50A777C59

- Customer Integration Developer: https://www.workable.com/j/CCC7525775

- Full-Stack Software Engineer: https://www.workable.com/j/D94FF8AAEB

- Information and Security Officer: https://www.workable.com/j/D75C0C8644

Please mention Hacker News or the job board you used when applying. Thanks!

New comment by quentinp in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2017)"

quentinp — Mon, 03 Jul 2017 18:29:58 +0000

Clustree | Data Software Engineer | Paris, France | REMOTE https://www.clustree.com/

We work on cool problems with microservices using Python 3, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ, Spark, Keras (lots of machine learning!), Docker and Kubernetes. We offer true remote: I work from Reunion Island and only travel to Paris (10 000 km away!) twice a year. You should speak French and should live between UTC and UTC+4.

We're hiring multiple Data Software Engineers and would love to hear from you: https://www.workable.com/j/C50A777C59.