Hacker News: sebazzz

New comment by sebazzz in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

sebazzz — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:15:51 +0000

> P.S. You should play a lottery/powerball ticket

Actually, they should not. That collision and winning the lottery would be even rarer.

New comment by sebazzz in "Ask HN: We just had an actual UUID v4 collision..."

sebazzz — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:14:31 +0000

Well it would be statistically even rarer for that UUID collision to happen and the earth to be destroyed by an asteroid.

New comment by sebazzz in "Making LLM Training Faster with Unsloth and NVIDIA"

sebazzz — Fri, 08 May 2026 11:44:11 +0000

What is the difference between this and using normal OCR and then running that output through a LLM? It seems such a bazooka way to kill a fly to me using a modelime Qwen.

New comment by sebazzz in "Chernobyl wildlife forty years on"

sebazzz — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 07:23:09 +0000

Yes it is very good cinematic. Unfortunately it is far from the truth.

New comment by sebazzz in "Changes to GitHub Copilot individual plans"

sebazzz — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:59:26 +0000

Haiku, right?

New comment by sebazzz in "Europe has "maybe 6 weeks of jet fuel left""

sebazzz — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:07:29 +0000

Who would have put "Trump accelerates the green energy transition in 2026" on their bingo card?

New comment by sebazzz in "NASA Shuts Off Instrument on Voyager 1 to Keep Spacecraft Operating"

sebazzz — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:10:41 +0000

> Even with all the simulators and months of rigorous testing, sending up something that can (in the worst case) break the probe has to be terrifying.

I would guess that even that case is partially accounted for by a watchdog that is hardwired into the system.

New comment by sebazzz in "Detecting DOSBox from Within the Box"

sebazzz — Sun, 19 Apr 2026 07:54:37 +0000

> It is quite embarrassing to ship a CPU emulator with broken floating point math as the default.

It was also quite embarrassing to ship a real CPU with broken floating point math.

New comment by sebazzz in "Why I'm Building a Database Engine in C#"

sebazzz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:15:31 +0000

With UnsafeAccessor you can often avoid reflection.

New comment by sebazzz in "How NASA built Artemis II’s fault-tolerant computer"

sebazzz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 15:11:25 +0000

I wonder how the voting components are protected from integrity failures?

New comment by sebazzz in "Shipment of KitKat bars stolen en route from Italy to Poland"

sebazzz — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 09:34:57 +0000

They are quite expensive and there is not something similar on the market (even not from house brands of Aldi, Lidl, etc).

New comment by sebazzz in "A single-file C allocator with explicit heaps and tuning knobs"

sebazzz — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 13:01:26 +0000

You still have things like git squash etc.

New comment by sebazzz in "What Is OAuth?"

sebazzz — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 16:13:00 +0000

Ouch, reminds me of hours debugging OAuth2 implementation in my Surface 1 app for Twitter because the nonce or some other checksum was not calculated correctly.

New comment by sebazzz in "Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32"

sebazzz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 22:14:10 +0000

If I am not incorrect, for early boot applications, the application must be set to use the native subsystem.

New comment by sebazzz in "Russia's economy has entered the death zone"

sebazzz — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:00:46 +0000

Apparently they are recruiting from Kenia too, promising great pay, but in reality they are being abused as cannon fodder.

New comment by sebazzz in "Evaluating AGENTS.md: are they helpful for coding agents?"

sebazzz — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:40:43 +0000

Also take the randomness out of it. Sometimes the agent executing tests one way, sometimes the other way.

New comment by sebazzz in "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?"

sebazzz — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:35:20 +0000

> > so you need to tell them the specifics > That is the entire point, right?

Honestly it is a problem with using GPT as a coding agent. It would literally rewrite the language runtime to make a bad formula or specification work.

That's what I like with Factory.ai droid: making the spec with one agent and implementing it with another agent.

New comment by sebazzz in "74% of European firms would fail without access to U.S. technology"

sebazzz — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:42:19 +0000

> US software providers can shut down their software services in an instant, paralyzing European societies.

And no US SaaS provider or cloud provider will ever be trusted again, instant cutting off a part of the US economy.

New comment by sebazzz in "Microsoft Outlook thinks Microsoft Azure emails are spam"

sebazzz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 17:18:24 +0000

Meanwhile for weeks at a time I got obvious spam and phising right in my inbox. It just didn't stop. Twenty mails per day. I was about to cancel my Office 365 subscription; and then from one day to the other it just stopped.

New comment by sebazzz in "Let's compile Quake like it's 1997"

sebazzz — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 05:56:40 +0000

> it turned out that the version in source control wasn't the version running in production and it would have been quite a lot of work to reverse engineer the production version

When I started at my work, a previous software dev with practices more like a mechanic than a software dev didn't use tags and all binaries deployed to production were always the default version 1.0.0.0 of the C# project templates in Visual Studio. To make matters worse, variants of the software were just copy pasted in CVS with their core code checked in as binaries and not their original C# projects. Fun times finding out what actually ran on production, and patching anything in it!