Hacker News: rocky_raccoon

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "A new Bigfoot documentary helps explain our conspiracy-minded era"

rocky_raccoon — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 20:08:35 +0000

Plenty of people do, alongside the preponderance of evidence.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "SoundCloud Data Breach Now on HaveIBeenPwned"

rocky_raccoon — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:47:51 +0000

From the FAQ [1]:

What is a "sensitive breach"?

HIBP enables you to discover if your account was exposed in most of the data breaches by directly searching the system. However, certain breaches are particularly sensitive in that someone's presence in the breach may adversely impact them if others are able to find that they were a member of the site. These breaches are classed as "sensitive" and may not be publicly searched.

A sensitive data breach can only be searched by the verified owner of the email address being searched for. This is done by signing in to the dashboard which involves verifying you can receive an email to the entered address. Once signed in, all breaches (including sensitive ones) are visible in the "Breaches" section under "Personal".

There are presently 82 sensitive breaches in the system including Adult FriendFinder (2015), Adult FriendFinder (2016), Adult-FanFiction.Org, Ashley Madison, Beautiful People, Bestialitysextaboo, Brazzers, BudTrader, Carding Mafia (December 2021), Carding Mafia (March 2021), Catwatchful, CityJerks, Cocospy, Color Dating, CrimeAgency vBulletin Hacks, CTARS, CyberServe, Date Hot Brunettes, DC Health Link, Doxbin and 62 more.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/FAQs#SensitiveBreach

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Claude 4.5 Opus’ Soul Document"

rocky_raccoon — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 20:18:49 +0000

It's wild to me that one of our primary measures for maintaining control over these systems is that we talk to them like they're our kids, then cross our fingers and hope the training run works out okay.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "A deep dive into Rust and C memory interoperability"

rocky_raccoon — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 17:10:59 +0000

I picked up on it very quickly as well. Here are some more phrases that match that same LLM pattern. Sure, you could argue that someone actually writes like this, but after a while, it becomes excessive.

- Your program continues running with a corrupted heap - a time bomb that will explode unpredictably later.

- You’re not just getting 64 bytes of memory. You’re entering into a complex contract with a specific allocator implementation.

- The Metadata Mismatch

- If it finds glibc’s metadata instead, the best case is an immediate crash. The worst case? Silent corruption that manifests as mysterious bugs hours later.

- Virtual Memory: The Grand Illusion

- CPU Cache Architecture: The Hidden Performance Layer

- Spoiler: it’s even messier than you might think.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Pentagon Pizza Index"

rocky_raccoon — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 03:57:13 +0000

The AI-generated images don't do anything to help the case either...

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Amdash – Human only punctuation mark"

rocky_raccoon — Fri, 23 May 2025 14:16:51 +0000

I believe it's because the actual text behind the font would say "Here's a statementam-and here's a diversionam-and back to the original statement."

Problem is, it's only useful if you're using those specific fonts. Now I've gotta teach my grandpa how to install a font and switch to using it on every single device and application.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "The little book about OS development"

rocky_raccoon — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:51:10 +0000

Is reddit leaking through to HNews? This childish comment doesn't add any value to the discussion whatsoever.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "The little book about OS development"

rocky_raccoon — Sat, 22 Mar 2025 04:41:27 +0000

I love osdev. I don't know what the end game is for me, but there's something really cool about being able to just create... whatever I want. It all sort of clicked for me when I was able to get some basic x86 interrupts and syscalls working. Once you get the syscalls going, the world is your oyster!

Seriously, I would highly recommend tinkering around with a hobby OS. I used it as an opportunity to learn Rust and I got more than I bargained for. Now, I feel somewhat comfortable in Rust AND I can throw more double and triple faults than most people in the world.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "CueCat"

rocky_raccoon — Wed, 19 Mar 2025 16:50:27 +0000

I remember the commercial for this. It was very dramatic in promoting how CueCat would change the world, but in a sort of cheezy techno-futuristic setting.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "BritCSS: Fixes CSS to use non-American English"

rocky_raccoon — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 14:09:24 +0000

Technically, you could use an American rubber with an American fanny too.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Show HN: Cot: a Rust web framework for lazy developers"

rocky_raccoon — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 14:27:28 +0000

What is the competitive landscape looking like these days for Rust web frameworks? I couldn't help but feel a bit insecure last time I was exploring the various options because none of them seemed to have the maturity or longevity of frameworks from other languages (for obvious reasons).

Is there one framework that stands out from the rest from an "investment risk" perspective? In other words, if my company is going to choose a framework to build a website, which one has the lowest odds of burning me by becoming abandoned or unsupported?

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "What's happening inside the NIH and NSF"

rocky_raccoon — Wed, 05 Feb 2025 14:27:44 +0000

> skip the funny hats.

I don't know about that part... those red ball caps are pretty goofy looking.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

rocky_raccoon — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 14:14:13 +0000

> The dems will likely stop anointing people.

I thought that after 2016...

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "End Poem by Julian Gough"

rocky_raccoon — Fri, 19 Jul 2024 19:40:47 +0000

I'm going to be a bit vulnerable here...

I really had a difficult time parsing that, and I'm still not quite sure I fully understand it. I found myself losing concentration when I knew it was going to require my full attention to understand it. I still don't think I understand it. Perhaps I'm not trained to read this style of writing, or perhaps my brain just isn't capable.

At any rate, I'm glad other people seem to enjoy it!

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Show HN: Product Hunt for Music"

rocky_raccoon — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 13:17:31 +0000

Tangential question:

What is the best Pandora-adjacent service these days? In other words, where can I plug in "Artist X" and get a great platter of recommendations?

Spotify doesn't cut it for me -- the recommendations are either hyper-generic or songs that I've listened to many times in the past. Last.fm doesn't seem to have many lights on these days.

Pandora, in its early days, was a great place to discover new music because it would find songs that were roughly similar to what you requested but by often unheard-of artists.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Users Report ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini Down"

rocky_raccoon — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 16:20:27 +0000

The article seems to (loosely?) imply that there's a connection between the outage and some sort of an internal employee protest, although I think it's incredibly shoddy journalism at best.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Sony Wearable Thermal Device"

rocky_raccoon — Thu, 09 May 2024 13:42:52 +0000

I would love to find one of these that does the opposite -- provides heating instead of cooling.

...also known as... clothes, I guess?

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "Anarchy in the US (The Revolution That Almost Happened)"

rocky_raccoon — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 13:57:43 +0000

Is there a good primer on the history of unionization in the United States?

I've been living here for almost half a century and I know next to nothing about how it works. I've read and enjoy Grapes of Wrath, have heard about the Pinkertons, and have seen one or two picket lines in the streets of Downtown Austin. But I still have no clue how any of that stuff works. It seems like a vastly different world to me.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "AI-Shunning robots.txt"

rocky_raccoon — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 14:10:33 +0000

Off the top of my head:

- Cloudflare

- Webserver-level user-agent blocking (Apache, nginx)

- Application-level user-agent blocking (`if request.user_agent == 'OpenAI'`)

None of them are ideal since you can simply change your user agent, but all of them seem like better options than robots.txt to me.

New comment by rocky_raccoon in "AI-Shunning robots.txt"

rocky_raccoon — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 12:47:18 +0000

Not that I'm arguing for or against preventing access from AI crawlers, but wouldn't it make more sense to block them at a higher level, e.g. the webserver, and not even give them the choice to obey/disobey robots.txt?