Hacker News: sitkack

New comment by sitkack in "US House rejects FISA Section 702 extension, warrantless surveillance expires"

sitkack — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:34:15 +0000

Surveillance won't stop and the warrants won't start. Now what?

New comment by sitkack in "The RCE that AMD wouldn't fix"

sitkack — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:32:34 +0000

They should have done base64 encryption before the crc32. noobs

New comment by sitkack in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

sitkack — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:17:19 +0000

Python 2 to 3 transition was also unserious.

The flippant attitude of cpythons wrt the standard library is also unfortunate.

Please with your substantive comment comment.

New comment by sitkack in "Python JIT project was asked to pause development"

sitkack — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:06:24 +0000

I have used Python as my main language since the late 90s and it has been over the last decade and half been getting more unserious.

It would be nice if cpython opened up a bit, pluggable GC and JIT would go along way towards reducing this manufactured drama.

It wasn't cool to see PyPy or Stackless getting sidelined.

New comment by sitkack in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

sitkack — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:32:16 +0000

And rightly so, he defeated them, think of what he could have done in the inside!

New comment by sitkack in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

sitkack — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:31:06 +0000

What limits the length of the lever? The agricultural lever is already crazy long, the manufacturing lever, same. We could be doing the same with less, not more with the same.

When do we stop?

New comment by sitkack in "Roughly a quarter of American professionals hit a wall in their careers"

sitkack — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:24:58 +0000

No written rules is fascism.

New comment by sitkack in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

sitkack — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:32:46 +0000

Dibberdobber, I was with you up until you trotted this one out. Civility is dead on the internet, and you need to get your burns from someone other than Ned Flanders.

New comment by sitkack in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

sitkack — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:30:37 +0000

I'd love to see CHERI (for the room) and Wasm take off, no time like the present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability_Hardware_Enhanced_R...

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/ctsrd/cheri/

New comment by sitkack in "Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech"

sitkack — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:26:38 +0000

In the phrase "murder drones", murder describes the the drone itself. It doesn't make a qualitative statement about the murder itself. A murder drone is a type of drone that operates autonomously, without an active operator, like an autonomous landmine. You have over indexed on the word.

New comment by sitkack in "CVE-2026-28952: Apple macOS 26.5 Kernel Vuln found by Claude"

sitkack — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:34:39 +0000

A strong enough type system can catch permission problems.

New comment by sitkack in "Japan is gripped by mass allergies. A 1950s project is to blame"

sitkack — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:29:58 +0000

If only the US department of health had a bold vision on how to solve this.

New comment by sitkack in "Ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt booed at Arizona U commencement speech"

sitkack — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:33:20 +0000

When someone demands you go to Epstein Island you swim if you have to.

This is the same guy that is testing autonomous murder drones in Ukraine to make his next billion.

So much let them eat cake energy with this guy.

New comment by sitkack in "Anna's Archive Hit with $19.5M Default Judgment and Global Domain Takedown Order"

sitkack — Wed, 20 May 2026 13:17:42 +0000

Everyone trained on Anna's Archive.

New comment by sitkack in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

sitkack — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:55:51 +0000

wtf does shop lifting have to do with the conversation and why would it take priority vs anything else ? how is that an argument

don't attack people like this on this forum or you will get banned

New comment by sitkack in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

sitkack — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:07:06 +0000

Compared to what?

New comment by sitkack in "Mini Shai-Hulud Strikes Again: 314 npm Packages Compromised"

sitkack — Tue, 19 May 2026 12:59:47 +0000

One thing could be more clear, is that the Titanic's bulkheads didn't go all the way to the top deck. They did not seal completely and were not watertight.

New comment by sitkack in "Multiple commencement speakers booed for AI comments during graduation speeches"

sitkack — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:24:43 +0000

I don't think this person was trolling when in conversation they said "load-bearing" and "real". It is AI brain rot.

New comment by sitkack in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

sitkack — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:13:16 +0000

So it is the AI image workbench tools like ComfyUI.

New comment by sitkack in "Power Tools Got Worse on Purpose. Who Owns DeWalt, Craftsman, and Milwaukee?"

sitkack — Sun, 17 May 2026 01:24:33 +0000

I have many cheap ryobi niche tools, but use Makita batteries in them.