Hacker News: ris

New comment by ris in "Looking Forward to Postgres 19: It's About Time"

ris — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:05:44 +0000

Cool feature, but I'm a little uneasy with UPDATE operations adding new rows to a table. It upsets a lot of a DBA's assumptions.

New comment by ris in "Escaping the trap of US tech dependence"

ris — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 17:47:17 +0000

Tech dependence is nothing compared to the world's dependence on US financial infrastructure.

New comment by ris in "Ultra-Wide Band: A Transformational Technology for the Internet of Things"

ris — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:45:36 +0000

Infineon sales piece.

New comment by ris in "We replaced H.264 streaming with JPEG screenshots (and it worked better)"

ris — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:56:42 +0000

Corporate IT needs to die.

New comment by ris in "Vm.overcommit_memory=2 is the right setting for servers"

ris — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:55:50 +0000

This rules out some extremely useful sparse memory tricks you can pull with massive mmaps that only ever get partially accessed (in unpredictable patterns).

New comment by ris in "VPN location claims don't match real traffic exits"

ris — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 13:54:05 +0000

Zscaler enrages me with their use of the term "zero trust" in marketing, because due to their MitM-ing of TLS, they become a single-point-of-interception for all your organisation's traffic. "100%-trust" would better describe it for me, as you have to have 100% trust of Zscaler and anyone who has admin access to your organisation's Zscaler account.

New comment by ris in "Eurydice: a Rust to C compiler"

ris — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 11:19:03 +0000

Using nix to install Ansible, oof you're hurting me..

New comment by ris in "Search tool that only returns content created before ChatGPT's public release"

ris — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:26:40 +0000

For a while I've been saying it's a pity we hadn't been regularly trusted-timestamping everything before that point as a matter of course.

New comment by ris in "Modern cars are spying on you. Here's what you can do about it"

ris — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 22:07:04 +0000

The only company that appear to be taking a different tack on this are https://www.slate.auto

Anyone know of any others?

New comment by ris in "NFCGate flagged as malware even after multiple followups saying it isn't"

ris — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:58:37 +0000

Malware scanners are such trash.

New comment by ris in "Stopping bad guys from using my open source project (feedback wanted)"

ris — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:54:19 +0000

There are very few pieces of free software that don't lean very heavily on top of a mountain of other free software that make it possible, and I think the author would be surprised how much of that was written by people who strongly disagreed with his worldview and considered him a "bad guy".

New comment by ris in "Hardening the C++ Standard Library at scale"

ris — Sat, 29 Nov 2025 19:35:54 +0000

See also the "lite assertions" mode @ https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/LibstdcxxDebugMode for glibc, however these are less well documented and it's less clear what performance impact these measures are expected to have.

New comment by ris in "Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux"

ris — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 09:52:43 +0000

Native applications are a scourge, if only from a security standpoint.

New comment by ris in "Reverse-engineered CUPS driver for Phomemo receipt/label printers"

ris — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 19:33:34 +0000

Have been tempted to get one of these just for printing out tickets/QR codes so I can keep my dumbphone and not fight dried up ink cartridges etc.

New comment by ris in "ZOZO's Contact Solver for physics-based simulations"

ris — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 21:25:01 +0000

If they ever get liquidated I wonder who's going to end up with that massive dataset of photos of people looking like a tit.

Or perhaps they'll pivot..

New comment by ris in "D2: Diagram Scripting Language"

ris — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 10:23:06 +0000

I can't be the only one to find the TALA output to be the worst of all the engines. I almost always end up using ELK.

New comment by ris in "Britain to introduce compulsory digital ID for workers"

ris — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 18:54:14 +0000

> My government requires me, by law, to send it tens of thousands of dollars every year

That's only because you have those tens of thousands to give it. The same will not generally be true for people who have nothing.

New comment by ris in "Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy"

ris — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:48:09 +0000

The paradox being that every thing you customize about your browser config becomes another thing that can potentially be fingerprinted and makes you stand out as one of the 1% who has ever looked in about:config.

New comment by ris in "Hardening Firefox – a checklist for improved browser privacy"

ris — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 09:44:30 +0000

Disable WebGL. Not in a funny javascripty extension, in about:config.

New comment by ris in "Ransomware crews don't care about your endpoint security they killed it"

ris — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:07:52 +0000

> While it's still a good idea for companies to have an endpoint protection software on their employees' machines

Disagree