Hacker News: riking

New comment by riking in "Futurelock: A subtle risk in async Rust"

riking — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 02:57:35 +0000

Rust's no_std does not have access to a reliable clock.

New comment by riking in "The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment"

riking — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 22:21:59 +0000

you can just follow one of the "kubernetes on ec2" guides and adapt it to their apis

New comment by riking in "The first Oxide rack being prepared for customer shipment"

riking — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 20:55:02 +0000

> electrical/thermal/support power ~= compute power.

Yes, and using larger fans decreases the proportional there. Centralized rectifiers reduces the proportional. Google can make it all the way down to 10% overhead power. That's the point they are making.

New comment by riking in "Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?"

riking — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 03:27:43 +0000

Stripe is still "your bank".

New comment by riking in "Ask HN: Why hasn't the ACH system been more abused?"

riking — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 03:23:55 +0000

Zelle can't be undone if it's done from your account. They just take the money.

New comment by riking in "Embed is in C23"

riking — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 03:19:02 +0000

Multiple big-O steps faster.

New comment by riking in "What it feels like when Rust saves your bacon"

riking — Mon, 27 Jun 2022 22:27:39 +0000

"hmm, you call it an 'enum class' yet somehow I cannot define methods on it"

New comment by riking in "Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it"

riking — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:11:20 +0000

It'll block the multi-login and require you to fully sign out of everything, THEN log into the other organization account.

New comment by riking in "Tell HN: My kid's school installed spyware and I can't remove it"

riking — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 07:10:34 +0000

Typically, the corporate login will be blocked if you attempt this.

New comment by riking in "Finding Waldo in π"

riking — Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:05:31 +0000

> On the other hand, if you make a string of common byte sequences, a couple GB long, and distribute it with every PC...

This is what brotli does.

New comment by riking in "How Go mitigates supply chain attacks"

riking — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:36:13 +0000

This is the exact point of the final section of the article, yes.

New comment by riking in "How Go mitigates supply chain attacks"

riking — Fri, 01 Apr 2022 06:31:53 +0000

Nope, you need to run `npm ci` to guarantee that you don't write a new lockfile.

New comment by riking in "Another Vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM"

riking — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:48:28 +0000

It's because the well got poisoned by marketing teams selling things that were not actually a material improvement over what came before.

New comment by riking in "Another Vulnerability in the LPC55S69 ROM"

riking — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 23:00:14 +0000

What I'm hearing here is "Yes, Google designed their own chip because everything on the market sucks."

New comment by riking in "The FTC’s new enforcement weapon: “Algorithmic destruction”"

riking — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 01:27:06 +0000

ML training is an algorithm that produces an algorithm as output

New comment by riking in "C Isn't a Programming Language Anymore"

riking — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 03:36:39 +0000

On many platforms, such as FreeBSD and macOS, the application-exposed ABI for tasks such as "open a file" or "validate this x.509 TLS certificate" mandates that you link to a shared library and call into it using the C calling convention. (libc and Security.framework, respectively.)

Linux is unique in that you can hand-write assembly to perform a system call and have it work across OS upgrades. FreeBSD does not have stable syscall numbers: open() must be a libc call.

New comment by riking in "Servers as they should be – shipping early 2022"

riking — Wed, 26 May 2021 19:11:31 +0000

The core customer profile appears to be aging startups that know how their software behaves and are currently way over 2k cores on AWS.

New comment by riking in "Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power"

riking — Sat, 22 May 2021 18:31:44 +0000

The pre-takeover policies, clearly.

New comment by riking in "Antonio García Martínez, a newly hired Apple engineer, is gone from Apple"

riking — Thu, 13 May 2021 02:24:59 +0000

Engineer? I thought this was for a leadership position.

New comment by riking in "SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world"

riking — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 20:56:27 +0000

Yeah, Intel needs some major direction changes before I'll be comfortable investing in them.