Hacker News: rwmj

New comment by rwmj in "Production-ready detection and response queries for osquery"

rwmj — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:27:09 +0000

The README needs to say in plain words what it is. My best guess is something to do with intrusion detection, and finding rootkits, maybe?

The best way to sell a concentrated position at SpaceX

rwmj — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:25:57 +0000

Article URL: https://ofdollarsanddata.com/the-best-way-to-sell-a-concentrated-position/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49310354

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by rwmj in "Ultraviolet Bird Photography"

rwmj — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:43:03 +0000

My favourite blue tit fact is that they are sexually dichromatic under UV light only. The male crown is brighter in UV and females prefer males with brighter crowns. Mere humans can't tell the difference.

Comes from this rather brilliantly titled paper: Blue tits are ultraviolet tits https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1688906/

New comment by rwmj in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

rwmj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:47:43 +0000

This is not true, at all. Debian has like 50K packages, many of them extremely niche. Packaging is all about how difficult something is to build/package, not how popular it is. I've been a Linux distro packager for decades.

New comment by rwmj in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

rwmj — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 07:33:22 +0000

Sure. They'll get it when it's packaged by the distro. Following the steps I outline will make that happen faster.

New comment by rwmj in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

rwmj — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:56:58 +0000

In the early stages you can help by making your source code easy to build. No weird build system, make dependencies optional as much as possible, document how to build, reduce the number of steps required and make them as similar as possible to comparable software. Linux users will put up with this. That also helps distro packagers so it's a win-win.

New comment by rwmj in "I hate packaging my software for Linux"

rwmj — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:49:42 +0000

The answer is to not do it. Provide the source and help distro maintainers to package it for you. You can help by being responsive to maintainers' questions, making sure the source is clean (no binary blobs, weird licenses, strange build systems, generally builds like similar packages), and integrating patches from maintainers upstream.

New comment by rwmj in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

rwmj — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:29:29 +0000

Palantir? So many choices right now.

How and when to see the solar eclipse

rwmj — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 11:19:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-2a268141-80ca-480d-bd04-6cf688bcc3dd

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49256421

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rwmj in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

rwmj — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:34:11 +0000

https://www.statista.com/statistics/987347/brexit-opinion-po...

New comment by rwmj in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

rwmj — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:27:34 +0000

Luckily electronics is completely unaffected by water.

New comment by rwmj in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

rwmj — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:59:11 +0000

Brexit is widely regarded as both a failure (in the UK) and a cautionary lesson (in the rest of the EU).

New comment by rwmj in "Poland now 6th-largest EU economy, ahead of Switzerland and Belgium"

rwmj — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:55:17 +0000

Not facing the choice of dying or going bankrupt?

New comment by rwmj in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

rwmj — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:32:24 +0000

I'm confused. Your physical notebook management is awful, ie. I guess you have live in a house without shelves or something. But spending time troubleshooting an electronic device from only 2022 is easier?

New comment by rwmj in "Reviving a four year old reMarkable 2"

rwmj — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:30:23 +0000

Next up, "reviving my paper notes from 40 years ago". Oh wait, there's nothing that I need to do, they still all work fine.

New comment by rwmj in "Does Silicon Valley Dream of Philip K Dick?"

rwmj — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 10:55:11 +0000

https://archive.ph/uoKTe

New comment by rwmj in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

rwmj — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 08:56:35 +0000

One is that Sun/Oracle made an honest mistake with the license (self-inflicted). The other is that they regretted that Java was ever open source and so made the license and other processes around Java as annoying as possible while still being technically open source.

New comment by rwmj in "AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot"

rwmj — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 06:46:54 +0000

If the CTO was right about the premise it'd be fine, but much more likely he pulled the "everyone is happy with 1s" out of his arse and then used his position/authority to bully the team.

New comment by rwmj in "Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK"

rwmj — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:13:34 +0000

Intentional rather than self-inflicted.

New comment by rwmj in "Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029"

rwmj — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:10:46 +0000

Retirement age is usually tied to various benefits. In the UK it's the age at which you can collect the state pension (currently around £12K per year, if you worked for 30-35 years). Changing the retirement age therefore affects the state's finances, quite dramatically in fact: https://obr.uk/box/the-fiscal-impact-of-increases-in-the-sta...