Hacker News: smalu

New comment by smalu in "PHP 8.2.35"

smalu — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 17:01:32 +0000

same here.

`[00:06:03.209] pecl install -f amqp igbinary redis imagick` :sad_face:

New comment by smalu in "Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero"

smalu — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 16:27:39 +0000

It is funny since there are devices other than Flipper Zero which are designed specifically for stealing cars with key-less systems AKA "SOS opening" and they come in GameBoy-like enclose. Keywords - "SOS Autokeys Bulgaria".

New comment by smalu in "A search engine in 80 lines of Python"

smalu — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:37:25 +0000

I am aware of it, but as far as I understand, cyclomatic complexity is used to compare implementations of single flows (algorithms), not for codebases. What is the cyclomatic complexity of Facebook? :)

New comment by smalu in "A search engine in 80 lines of Python"

smalu — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:16:24 +0000

What is the point of flexing about LOC, if it is not a total number of \r\n since we are using external deps? I know that there is no unit for codebase in SI system, but I think we should measure cognitive load somehow.

New comment by smalu in "Vox: Alpha open-source browser engine in V"

smalu — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 22:39:05 +0000

And its also the name of American news site (vox.com), Polish furniture company (vox.pl)...for every major gtld, the vox.* is taken for something...Do not event start with the fruit nammed apple.

Context is the King, like @eggy said.

New comment by smalu in "How Open ID Connect Works"

smalu — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 20:30:52 +0000

I do not known why OIDC has so many bad comments here. At my $company we are using Keycloak for multi-realm (multi-tenant) authentication of users and clients (applications). Yes, the learning curve is long for OIDC and even longer for Keycloak. The FreeMaker Template Engine is awful compared to Twig. Updates of Keycloak can break something, so better have proper test/stagging environment. But this is the tax for not implement something, that is not in core domain of organization.

OIDC solves problems for OAuth2 like "every Identity Provider has different endpoints" with OpenID Connect Discovery (/.well-known/openid-configuration).

New comment by smalu in "Exchange rate for PLN (polish złoty) gone crazy due to a bug"

smalu — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:29:42 +0000

Due to an error in data from a third-party data provider (Morningstar), the EUR/PLN exchange rate displayed by Google, Forbes, and other websites was inaccurate.

The error caused the euro to be displayed at 5.4 zlotys, which is a significant increase from the actual exchange rate of 4.2 zlotys. The US dollar was also displayed incorrectly, at 4.8 zlotys instead of the actual exchange rate of 4.0 zlotys.

The National Bank of Poland (NBP) issued a statement emphasizing that the error was caused by a third-party data provider and had no impact on the real situation on the foreign exchange market. The central bank assured that currency exchange rates in Poland are stable and that there is no reason to worry about their further development.

Exchange rate for PLN (polish złoty) gone crazy due to a bug

smalu — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 14:29:42 +0000

Article URL: https://businessinsider.com.pl/finanse/kurs-zlotego-oszalal-wiemy-co-bylo-przyczyna/bcxn55k

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38841940

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by smalu in "Hidden gems of moreutils"

smalu — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 19:33:45 +0000

I recommend zmwangx/ets package, it is the modern version of ts. I'm using it in CI/CD pipeline in gitlab for debugging performance.

New comment by smalu in "Show HN: Generate JSON mock data for testing/initial app development"

smalu — Wed, 04 Oct 2023 07:27:56 +0000

Using real domains (like yahoo.com) for "fake" e-mail address is not a good practice. There are domains like example.com, example.net or example.org for such purposes (RFC 2606, RFC 6761).

New comment by smalu in "How To Marry The Right Girl: A Mathematical Solution"

smalu — Sat, 14 Jun 2014 10:43:44 +0000

false

New comment by smalu in "Show HN: Go HTTP Request Router Benchmark"

smalu — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 13:01:49 +0000

What about Revel framework?

New comment by smalu in "Firefox Developer Tools – Editable box model, Sublime Text keys"

smalu — Wed, 07 May 2014 18:40:07 +0000

You can enable logging XMLHttpRequests in dev tools settings (gears icon on bottom-right edge) -> console

New comment by smalu in "Cool Things You Can Do with the Facebook Graph API"

smalu — Tue, 06 May 2014 13:31:15 +0000

  GET /{user-id}/likes/{page-id}

may produce false-negative if user has weird privacy policy. Using signed request (tab applications) is only safe way to check if user is fan of a fanpage.

Wkhtmltopdf – generate pdf from page, rendered by webkit engine

smalu — Tue, 15 Apr 2014 08:03:43 +0000

Article URL: http://wkhtmltopdf.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7590820

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by smalu in "Ask HN: What's the worst you've ever screwed up at work?"

smalu — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 20:16:10 +0000

chmod -R 0777 /* instead of chmod -R 0777

New comment by smalu in "Tell HN: Server Status"

smalu — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 13:24:54 +0000

The world would be better place if software could exist without hardware.

Why is a minute divided into 60 seconds, an hour into 60 minutes?

smalu — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:58:39 +0000

Article URL: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=experts-time-division-days-hours-minutes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7062671

Points: 170

# Comments: 148