Hacker News: rinon

New comment by rinon in "Swift at Apple: Migrating the TrueType hinting interpreter"

rinon — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:50:50 +0000

For low-level system security, I'm a fan of https://llsoftsec.github.io/llsoftsecbook/LLSoftSecBook.pdf as an overview for any systems developer, not just compiler devs. It might not be the most approachable, but it's got great info on everything memory corruption.

New comment by rinon in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

rinon — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:02:35 +0000

Because of our historical strength. If we drive people away, that just makes room for other contenders. How is that smart?

New comment by rinon in "Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says"

rinon — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 03:01:10 +0000

If we’d fix the green card caps so that Indian workers could get green cards we wouldn’t see as much abuse. The system is broken, so you’re suggesting break it further? The US benefits from a lot of smart immigrants, we should be making it EASIER, not harder, to attract and retain the best talent from all over the world. The United States is ceding its leadership here and we’re going to pay for that for generations.

New comment by rinon in "C2Rust Transpiler"

rinon — Mon, 24 Oct 2022 23:36:19 +0000

It's back up now, sorry about that!

New comment by rinon in "Translating Quake 3 into Rust"

rinon — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 18:47:29 +0000

We haven't worked on C++ yet. Templates are the big issue, as a sibling comment speculates.

New comment by rinon in "Translating Quake 3 into Rust"

rinon — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 17:16:20 +0000

We didn’t benchmark this project (yet) but previous c2rust translations had approximately equal performance to the original. This is to be expected since the transpiled output is unsafe Rust that is equivalent to the original C code. One caveat is checked va unchecked array indexing, but unless an array indexing operation into a statically sized array is hot _and_ the Rust compiler can’t elide the checks, that’s unlikely to make much of a difference.

New comment by rinon in "Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019"

rinon — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:15:50 +0000

I love Blink, it’s perfect for a remote emacs session. I use esc for alt, capture CTRL-space. You may have to rebind some control sequences, I don’t have that handy, but almost everything gets passed through. Only thing I can think of that doesn’t is F key sequences, and that’s probably for lack of trying.

Edit: this is with an external keyboard. YMMV with the on screen keyboard, but I haven’t noticed any issues the few times I’ve done quick edits with it.

New comment by rinon in "Titan Security Key Available"

rinon — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 01:29:08 +0000

I believe they also want to support iOS which requires a BTLE token, not NFC which will work on Android devices.

New comment by rinon in "Saying Goodbye to Slack’s IRC and XMPP Gateways"

rinon — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:31:53 +0000

I'm very disappointed in this change. Having communication centralized in one place is important to me, and this means I cannot centralize on open, federated protocols.

New comment by rinon in "2600 Accused of Using Unauthorized Ink Splotches (2015)"

rinon — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 19:52:34 +0000

Followup apology from accuser: https://www.2600.com/node/27106

New comment by rinon in "Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons"

rinon — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 00:55:46 +0000

There are often privileges and perks associated with being a patron of a certain creator. These perks aren't pro-rated, thus subscribing late in the month for a day or two might be a viable way to cheat this system. Personally, I don't think this is a huge deal, and, if this is their reasoning, it's a mistake.

New comment by rinon in "Patreon’s new service fee spurs concern that creators will lose patrons"

rinon — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 20:24:12 +0000

Great summary of the math from reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/patreon/comments/7i2kqd/patreon_wil...

New comment by rinon in "The GOP Tax Plan Will Destroy Graduate Education"

rinon — Wed, 08 Nov 2017 02:09:02 +0000

You assume that tuition is actually an "in kind" benefit. Most of that tuition money is not an in kind benefit at all. Rather, it is a way for the university to siphon off overhead from grant money. If you think of graduate students as apprentice workers, which is far closer to the truth than students, then taxing overhead costs is a ridiculous idea. We don't tax business expenses, why would we tax educational institution business expenses?

New comment by rinon in "The Boring Company [video]"

rinon — Sat, 29 Apr 2017 21:03:50 +0000

Why not rent a car when you want to go on trips outside of urban areas? Seems far cheaper if you can actually get away without a care in the city.

New comment by rinon in "File Format Posters"

rinon — Sat, 08 Apr 2017 05:51:00 +0000

We have two of these prints up in our office. I highly recommend them, even if just as decoration.

New comment by rinon in "The House just voted to wipe out the FCC’s landmark Internet privacy protections"

rinon — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 22:24:56 +0000

I don't know that much about the inner workings of Congress, but I'm guessing that it might be because reps who vote against party lines won't get support for their own pet projects later on?

New comment by rinon in "Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent US Elections [pdf]"

rinon — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 22:49:22 +0000

Why was this discussion removed from the front page? Seems like relevant news of interest to a tech audience to me.

ODNI Statement on Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections

rinon — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 20:54:24 +0000

Article URL: https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/155494946443/odni-statement-on-declassified-intelligence

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13340097

Points: 3

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New comment by rinon in "Thoughts after a Month with Blackphone (2014)"

rinon — Fri, 26 Aug 2016 18:01:22 +0000

This should get labelled 2014. Interesting nonetheless.

Antivaxxers abuse Facebook reporting algorithms

rinon — Fri, 01 Jul 2016 18:09:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/how-low-antivaccine-warriors-will-go-attacking-a-12-year-old-and-abusing-facebook-harassment-reporting-algorithms/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12018366

Points: 1

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