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Ten Years of Frinkiac

reaperhulk — Mon, 04 May 2026 14:07:05 +0000

Article URL: https://langui.sh/2026/05/04/ten-years-of-frinkiac/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48008984

Points: 9

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New comment by reaperhulk in "Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps"

reaperhulk — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 17:50:53 +0000

Maybe for our tenth anniversary we should update the codebase and finish some features we haven’t touched in a decade…

New comment by reaperhulk in "Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps"

reaperhulk — Sat, 06 Dec 2025 02:30:09 +0000

We launched Feb 2, 2016 so almost a decade since then! Of course, we ran it for just ourselves a bit longer so it’s been slightly over a decade at this point.

New comment by reaperhulk in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

reaperhulk — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:11:18 +0000

The shark line is a quote from Futurama in an episode where an 80s corporate raider takes over Planet Express.

New comment by reaperhulk in "Digital Foundry leaves IGN, now independent [video]"

reaperhulk — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 02:33:54 +0000

DF already has a vibrant Patreon community so they’re not starting from scratch on funding themselves. I’m excited to see what they can do going forward.

New comment by reaperhulk in "One Billion Row Challenge Shows Java Can Process 1B Rows File in 2 Seconds"

reaperhulk — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:08:22 +0000

Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38851337

New comment by reaperhulk in "We build X.509 chains so you don't have to"

reaperhulk — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:32:11 +0000

Thanks for posting! I had forgotten just how long a road this was, but I'm very pleased that the requirements we talked about years ago have been met. :)

That's not to say this is done! There's a set of features we still want to add and we'd like to gain some confidence in the APIs as structured before we mark them as stabilized.

New comment by reaperhulk in "Transcoding Latin 1 strings to UTF-8 strings at 12 GB/s using AVX-512"

reaperhulk — Mon, 21 Aug 2023 13:32:48 +0000

The article states it's the French version of the Mars wikipedia entry and the repository has a link to the file he used in the readme: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lemire/unicode_lipsum/main...

New comment by reaperhulk in "“Design choice was made by accounting and legal. Therefore, won’t fix” (2020)"

reaperhulk — Wed, 12 Apr 2023 05:19:30 +0000

This is an account linked to a gmail address with no other comments on the tracker. Is there any evidence this is/was a Google employee and not just a random troll in the issue tracker?

Ephemeral GHA Apple Silicon Runners with CiderMill

reaperhulk — Mon, 23 Jan 2023 21:51:46 +0000

Article URL: https://langui.sh/2023/01/15/ephemeral-gha-m1-runners-with-cidermill/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34495598

Points: 3

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New comment by reaperhulk in "How Apple names things"

reaperhulk — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:18:46 +0000

Occasionally that “similar sound” proclivity leads them down confusing paths: witness stage manager and center stage, which many people seem to struggle with separating!

New comment by reaperhulk in "Ask HN: How are you dealing with the M1/ARM migration?"

reaperhulk — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 00:03:56 +0000

Do you have a source for this claim? As far as I’m aware Azure racks mac minis and has no special license, but I’d be fascinated to be wrong.

New comment by reaperhulk in "TSMC “Apple-first” 3nm policy leads to AMD and Qualcomm mutiny"

reaperhulk — Fri, 26 Nov 2021 00:04:14 +0000

GT Advanced Technologies (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2019-66 SEC went after them in 2019)

New comment by reaperhulk in "Amazon says it’s permanently banned 600 Chinese brands for review fraud"

reaperhulk — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 07:10:33 +0000

That may not entirely be true, at least as recently as a few years ago. https://www.economie.gouv.fr/dgccrf/plan-controle-2016-des-h...

New comment by reaperhulk in "Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main"

reaperhulk — Sun, 19 Sep 2021 00:37:38 +0000

You can avoid this by building cryptography as a docker stage and then just extract the wheel as part of your docker build process. Alternately if you install rust, build cryptography, and uninstall rust all in one layer then you can also avoid this issue.

New comment by reaperhulk in "Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main"

reaperhulk — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 22:23:40 +0000

(I'm one of the cryptography authors)

We did not roll back our dependency, no, although our current release (3.4.x) allows you to disable Rust compilation via an environment variable specifically so we could understand where in the ecosystem challenges would occur. Our next release (now 35.0 based partially on feedback from the community around our unusual versioning) will hard depend on it for all X509 ASN.1 parsing. During the months since we did our first rust release, however, the `musllinux` specification and implementation has been finished so we expect to be able to ship binary wheels for Alpine very shortly. I am actually working on that today, with the only remaining blocker being an update to warehouse to allow wheel upload.

New comment by reaperhulk in "Alex Stamos on Apple's new child safety protections"

reaperhulk — Sun, 08 Aug 2021 01:39:13 +0000

Without addressing any other points you’re making, NCMEC wrote the email to Apple that contained the “screeching minority” phrase. It was not something Apple wrote.

New comment by reaperhulk in "LG is getting out of the mobile phone business"

reaperhulk — Mon, 05 Apr 2021 05:45:55 +0000

They may be working on other things but they also trumpet harmony as their own. Ars Technica wrote an article about how original it actually is: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/02/harmonyos-hands-on-h...

New comment by reaperhulk in "Changes to Homebrew adversely affect Python development"

reaperhulk — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 21:21:20 +0000

Many of the problems people appear to be having with pyenv on M1 are related to it pulling include paths for homebrew that include homebrew libffi, but not passing the library path. For cases like cffi this results in header/library mismatch and you get runtime dynamic linker errors.

Other replies here appear to assume basic compilation issues, but the issues I've seen on various GitHub projects are mostly related to these more insidious C toolchain challenges. They're not M1-specific, but they are manifesting on M1 machines.

New comment by reaperhulk in "Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data"

reaperhulk — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 15:09:28 +0000

Apple has allowed content blockers in safari on iOS for several years.