Hacker News: rpns

New comment by rpns in "Artemis II crew take “spectacular” image of Earth"

rpns — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 23:07:08 +0000

If they're someone else's words, they'll put them in quotation marks. Seems perfectly reasonable to me.

New comment by rpns in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

rpns — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 20:57:57 +0000

Not quite, that one is an earlier outage while this one started at (or a bit before) 19:01 UTC.

The history for today is a bit of a mess really: https://www.githubstatus.com/history

New comment by rpns in "Icons in Menus Everywhere – Send Help"

rpns — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 10:42:23 +0000

This is what the Windows Vista/7-era UX guidelines say/said on on the matter:

Consider providing menu item icons for:

- The most commonly used menu items.

- Menu items whose icon is standard and well known.

- Menu items whose icon well illustrates what the command does.

If you use icons, don't feel obligated to provide them for all menu items. Cryptic icons aren't helpful, create visual clutter, and prevent users from focusing on the important menu items.

From: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/uxguide/cmd-...

New comment by rpns in "Imgur pulls out of UK as data watchdog threatens fine"

rpns — Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:05:26 +0000

There is a bit more detail on these pages:

https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs...

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-re...

No full detail though. Having said that, the second link is particularly interesting as it goes though various companies with comments about each.

New comment by rpns in "Intel BE200 WiFi 7 cards locked to 14th gen CPU and Z790 chipset"

rpns — Tue, 07 Nov 2023 20:12:28 +0000

I think there is something going on, as the BE200 is E keyed rather than A+E keyed like the AX210. It physically won't fit in the slot in my AMD laptop where I previously installed an AX210.

New comment by rpns in "Recover lost text by coredumping Firefox"

rpns — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 17:54:37 +0000

You can reopen closed tabs and windows from the History menu. It will restore the state of forms, so that form state is retained somewhere (presumably memory).

New comment by rpns in "UK’s NHS Covid-19 App"

rpns — Thu, 07 May 2020 20:12:45 +0000

FWIW, as the comment in the source hints at, it's needed for Bluetooth low energy scanning: https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/blue...

Intel's Cascade Lake CPUs Impacted by New Zombieload v2 Attack

rpns — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:25:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.zdnet.com/article/intels-cascade-lake-cpus-impacted-by-new-zombieload-v2-attack/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21516605

Points: 12

# Comments: 0

New comment by rpns in "Raspberry Pi Opens First High Street Store in Cambridge"

rpns — Thu, 07 Feb 2019 12:22:00 +0000

Traditionally (in the UK), it was reserved for large, varied shops like department stores. However, the American usage to mean any shop has certainly been spreading in business-speak for a fair while.

From the OED (the entry has not been updated recently):

> Chiefly N. Amer. and elsewhere outside the U.K. In early use, a shop on a large scale, and dealing in a great variety of articles (see quot. 18082). Now, equivalent to the British use of shop n. 3.

> The use of the word in this sense has not become common in the U.K. except in Comb., as chain store n. at chain n. Compounds 3, department store n. at department n. 5 (see under the first elements), store detective n. at Compounds 1d(a), in which it still refers to a large shop.

Prototype pollution attack

rpns — Fri, 16 Feb 2018 09:39:30 +0000

Article URL: https://hackerone.com/reports/310443

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16391099

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rpns in "Kernel Side-Channel Attacks"

rpns — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 11:51:37 +0000

The two knowledge base articles linked are also interesting:

Speculative Execution Exploit Performance Impacts - Describing the performance impacts to security patches for CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3307751

Controlling the Performance Impact of Microcode and Security Patches for CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5715 and CVE-2017-5753 using Red Hat Enterprise Linux Tunables

https://access.redhat.com/articles/3311301

New comment by rpns in "Intel Responds to Security Research Findings"

rpns — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 20:34:45 +0000

It comes across as fairly defensive. Presumably the statement was hastily put together, but it's not really the tone you want to strike when you have a lot of worried customers wondering what is going on.

> Intel believes its products are the most secure in the world and that, with the support of its partners, the current solutions to this issue provide the best possible security for its customers.

A rather bizarre statement of nothingness, and also an odd thing to say in a statement that just named AMD and ARM.

> Contrary to some reports, any performance impacts are workload-dependent, and, for the average computer user, should not be significant and will be mitigated over time.

It's interesting to note what it doesn't say – as it would seem to imply that for some workloads the performance impact will be significant.

New comment by rpns in "Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors"

rpns — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 21:34:06 +0000

Slightly better link: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10133447/

New comment by rpns in "Update: Looking Glass Add-On"

rpns — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 05:36:43 +0000

It required turning on via an about:config preference, the code on GitHub seems to have changed since then for the separately installed version.

If you look into the repo history you can see what it was doing before:

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-wr/blob/21ff53d2d5baab591d2...

New comment by rpns in "It is easy to expose users' secret web habits, say researchers"

rpns — Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:53:36 +0000

I don't think you'll find 'easy' as a definition of trivial in a mainstream dictionary (rather things like 'of little value or importance'). It probably is just computing jargon, though I recall it being used when studying mathematics and meaning 'self-evident' (e.g. a trivial solution).