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New comment by rdpintqogeogsaa in "A note on subscription prices from LWN"

rdpintqogeogsaa — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:39:21 +0000

That's the thing though. You can get all the value from LWN through here. Even if it wasn't for them tolerating subscriber links being posted on HN, the week-long delay isn't nearly enough an incentive to actually subscribe, rationally speaking.

Forwarded Header Sabotage (2022)

rdpintqogeogsaa — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:07:21 +0000

Article URL: https://adam-p.ca/blog/2022/03/forwarded-header-sabotage/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48706308

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Special-Use Domain 'home.arpa.' (2018)

rdpintqogeogsaa — Fri, 01 May 2026 07:20:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8375.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47972066

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Can Applications Recover from fsync Failures? (2020)

rdpintqogeogsaa — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 09:24:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc20/presentation/rebello

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46452601

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

It is high time we let go of the Mersenne Twister (2019)

rdpintqogeogsaa — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:33:04 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.06437

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45735049

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by rdpintqogeogsaa in "Rethinking the C Time API"

rdpintqogeogsaa — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 16:49:06 +0000

> Remember that since 1989, no actions were taken to improve its security.

Technically, gets() was removed from the standard library in C11[0]. However, that is far from a semantically meaningful overhaul of the standard library. I nonetheless felt the need to point out that there was a very specific effort for the sake of completeness.

[0] https://en.cppreference.com/w/c/io/gets

The patience diff algorithm (2017)

rdpintqogeogsaa — Tue, 24 Dec 2024 15:53:22 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.jcoglan.com/2017/09/19/the-patience-diff-algorithm/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42502685

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

SCCS roach motel

rdpintqogeogsaa — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 20:07:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2024-December/031188.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42411868

Points: 70

# Comments: 16

RFC 9557: Date and Time on the Internet: Timestamps with Additional Information

rdpintqogeogsaa — Sun, 08 Dec 2024 09:25:04 +0000

Article URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9557.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42356060

Points: 31

# Comments: 23

New comment by rdpintqogeogsaa in "Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers"

rdpintqogeogsaa — Fri, 29 Nov 2024 16:37:04 +0000

Footnote to QLDB: AWS has deprecated QLDB[1]. They actually recommend using Postgres with pgAudit and a bunch of complexity around it[2]. I'm not sure how I feel about such a misunderstanding of one's own offerings of this level.

[1] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/qldb/latest/developerguide/what-...

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/database/replace-amazon-qldb-wi...