Hacker News: rwmj

New comment by rwmj in "Order to limit Starshield for Ukraine came from inside White House, sources say"

rwmj — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:31:19 +0000

Ultimately the order came from Moscow.

New comment by rwmj in "The Case for Lowercase"

rwmj — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:29:54 +0000

https://archive.ph/dDFec

The article renders better for me using archive.today than on the original page.

CVE-2026-99999: Linux IPv4: validate checksum_start before completing checksum

rwmj — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 09:24:40 +0000

Article URL: https://app.opencve.io/cve/CVE-2026-99999

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50116117

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rwmj in "David Rudnick on "borderline impossible" process of designing Arsenal typeface"

rwmj — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:46:13 +0000

Not as readable as the old typeface (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C.#/media/File:Arsen...)

edit: Wikipedia has a whole section on the crests and typefaces: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenal_F.C.#Crest

New comment by rwmj in "Google is silently linking your phone number across all signed-in accounts"

rwmj — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:38:10 +0000

It's required for setting up a new Youtube account now.

New comment by rwmj in "Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

rwmj — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:45:24 +0000

You've only ever been compensated with shares and have never taken a cent for your time? It's possible, but also quite unusual.

New comment by rwmj in "Were software engineers blue-collar workers all along?"

rwmj — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 09:36:07 +0000

Is white vs blue collar ever a useful distinction? I think worker versus capital owner is a more important one.

New comment by rwmj in "Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF"

rwmj — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 07:14:15 +0000

I guess they mean the hyperscalers rather than OpenAI/Anthropic.

New comment by rwmj in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

rwmj — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:12:23 +0000

In my experience cloud deployments also need documentation and processes. It is of course a different set of documentation and processes, but cloud's not magically free of these requirements.

New comment by rwmj in "Ledger confirms hidden chip in crypto wallet amid $92M theft claims"

rwmj — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:09:21 +0000

Don't buy gift cards and send them to random people would be a good rule to live by.

New comment by rwmj in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

rwmj — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 12:03:16 +0000

Yes, you will need to keep a spare running. And have written (and tested!) procedures around how to switch to the spare when members of your team are away.

New comment by rwmj in "Postgres isn't slow, your storage is"

rwmj — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 11:59:39 +0000

Single boxes now are also insanely powerful compared to what we had back in the day too. Unless you are genuinely running the next Google, you might not even need to scale beyond one. As you said you might get a second box purely as a hot spare.

I remember we ran a pretty large UK website on 5 x Pentium II boxes, using a Perl stack which is not exactly memory efficient. Later we ran a chat server for hundreds of thousands of school kids on a single server which was (if I remember this right) a Pentium III with 128 MB (yes, megabytes) of memory and a spinning hard disk.

New comment by rwmj in "No portable way to detect string-to-float conversion errors in standard C"

rwmj — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 10:03:52 +0000

Annoyingly this doesn't detect certain errors. This is one thing I'd like to change in the next C standard, but (from discussions I had with someone who works in those standards) they don't want to break existing code. Which seems like a very bogus justification to me as that code is broken already.

Also the locale thing could be solved by adding another %-directive to say "this format string should be treated in the C locale", like %C (if it's not already used).

IOW this could be made to work, but human factors prevent it.

New comment by rwmj in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

rwmj — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 09:09:50 +0000

I posted other (different) research into the IPO yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50033644

New comment by rwmj in "I guess I'm using WebP now?"

rwmj — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:17:56 +0000

XPM works just fine though.

New comment by rwmj in "Why Ketamine Immobilizes Some Users"

rwmj — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:54:24 +0000

It would have been more interesting if they'd actually talked about the mechanism by which ketamine acts on body and why different doses have these different effects. As it was I didn't learn much from that article except it reinforced my view that anyone using ketamine recreationally is an idiot.

Creative Forces in the Global Village (1993)

rwmj — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:46:09 +0000

Article URL: https://reason.com/1993/05/01/creative-forces/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50042209

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rwmj in "Nitter: Update Oct 10th seeking funding and legal help"

rwmj — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:31:16 +0000

Seems an unlikely investment for a VC. Xitter can shut down Nitter any time they want, and the end users don't want to pay for it.

New comment by rwmj in "A city-building game in which the city would prefer you didn't"

rwmj — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:05:04 +0000

https://martinrobbins.substack.com/p/i-visited-the-infamous-...

New comment by rwmj in "I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall"

rwmj — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 07:54:24 +0000

Using shell companies to dodge stamp duty has been specifically made illegal in the UK. Of course the rules around it are really complicated, to avoid legitimate companies that own property from being affected. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/stamp-duty-land-tax-corporate-bo...