Hacker News: riverforest

New comment by riverforest in "Breaking the console: a brief history of video game security"

riverforest — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:36:26 +0000

The cat and mouse between console makers and hackers is one of the more honest stories in tech. Both sides kept making each other better.

New comment by riverforest in "Blackholing My Email"

riverforest — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:34:17 +0000

Email is the one thing everyone complains about and almost nobody actually fixes. Curious how long this lasts before something important falls through.

New comment by riverforest in "We found an undocumented bug in the Apollo 11 guidance computer code"

riverforest — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:32:03 +0000

Software that ran on 4KB of memory and got humans to the moon still has undiscovered bugs in it. That says something about the complexity hiding in even the smallest codebases.

New comment by riverforest in "15 years, one server, 8GB RAM and 500k users – how Webminal refuses to die"

riverforest — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:38:06 +0000

This is the post that should be required reading before anyone spins up a Kubernetes cluster for their side project.

New comment by riverforest in "In math, rigor is vital, but are digitized proofs taking it too far?"

riverforest — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 14:33:47 +0000

Rigor is the whole point of math. The moment you start asking if there is too much of it you are solving a different problem.