Hacker News: reposthttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=repostHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 23:18:49 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by repost in "A bit of XENIX history"]]>That was a blast for from the past - I spent 1986-91 designing serial cards and writing drivers for Xenix systems at Specialix. We had 32 terminals running on 386 Xenix systems, tell that to the kids of today with their Ghz CPU's and fancy VM's and they won't believe you.

]]>Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:11:43 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607312reposthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607312https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7607312<![CDATA[New comment by repost in "The Heartbleed Bug"]]>Reading between the lines in the announcement it sounds like dropping and reconnecting may cause it to read memory freed up from a prior connection. It may "just" be a matter of keep trying or it may be a matter of opening lots of connections to consume resources dropping them all then connecting and seeing what was left on the beach after the tide went out.

BTW Amazon AWS/ELM is vulnerable, confirmed publically by their support.

]]>Tue, 08 Apr 2014 03:12:14 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551235reposthttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551235https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7551235