Hacker News: spullara

New comment by spullara in "OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability"

spullara — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:00:42 +0000

I also have this nuanced view. I am glad my hashmaps don't throw KeyNotFoundException.

New comment by spullara in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

spullara — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:49:11 +0000

I said this in a parallel thread but 3.5" disks were much less reliable for me even in the 80s with the Amiga.

New comment by spullara in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

spullara — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:48:31 +0000

I am still able to play all the games on them and recovered my terminal program I wrote in the 80s as well:

https://github.com/spullara/pcterm128

New comment by spullara in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

spullara — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 22:47:33 +0000

3.5" disks were much much worse.

New comment by spullara in "US FAA says it will phase out floppy disks from air traffic control by 2028"

spullara — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 19:09:55 +0000

my 1980s 5.25" disks still work. i'm surprised but they have laster a long time.

New comment by spullara in "Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass"

spullara — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 21:10:20 +0000

returning a non-success you either handle it or pass it up the chain, potentially with not a lot of information about what originally caused it. with an exception you can retain the full information about what happened by either rethrowing it, throwing your own exception with it embedded as the cause or declaring that you don't handle it by saying you can throw it.

New comment by spullara in "Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass"

spullara — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:58:12 +0000

that is the same as saying the method throws IOException

New comment by spullara in "OpenSSH 10.6p2 has been released with a workaround for a critical vulnerability"

spullara — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 19:56:06 +0000

Rust and Go literally have you handle it at the call site by default and if you don't want to you have to pass it on.

New comment by spullara in "Alpine Linux Security Advisory: OpenSSH-server password authentication bypass"

spullara — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 18:22:26 +0000

always has amazed me that there was so much hate for java checked exceptions where handling errors ought to be the norm.

New comment by spullara in "eMudhra to exit global SSL/TLS certificate business"

spullara — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 17:49:12 +0000

were they ever really in it?

New comment by spullara in "Tesla Roadster"

spullara — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:04:11 +0000

this wasn't a promotional video, it was a live demonstration in front of hundreds of people.

New comment by spullara in "Tesla Roadster"

spullara — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:02:58 +0000

The rocket version is also just cold gas thrusters, not carbon fuel based.

New comment by spullara in "Do dentists know what they're doing?"

spullara — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:49:16 +0000

tons of fraud

New comment by spullara in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

spullara — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 03:17:46 +0000

for the no added sugar or whatever, just look at the calories. they generally tell you the story.

New comment by spullara in "Our $445M Series D"

spullara — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:25:44 +0000

btw congrats on the company. i was skeptical at the time but it was never because you wouldn't attract awesome talent and make great hires. your process looks great to me.

New comment by spullara in "Our $445M Series D"

spullara — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:22:27 +0000

my first job at a startup (first engineer after the founders) consisted of 13 hours on the phone with the CTO over a few weeks and then an in person all day interview that included traveling from Chicago to SF and a couple of dinners with the founders. this was 1996. our typical interviews after joining were all day affairs and they people almost all people that were referred in or had worked with in the past (I wasn't).

interviews at twitter back in 2010 were 6 hours and that was true even for me when we had an agreement to acquire my company pending the success of those interviews. at the time they had a lot of ex-googlers and they were setup similarly.

New comment by spullara in "JetBrains reported a net financial loss first time in its tracked history"

spullara — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 16:06:48 +0000

I wish they would turn their entire IDE into a CLI that an agent could use to more efficiently do work.

New comment by spullara in "Burning Man death rates – A short lesson in statistics"

spullara — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 19:44:37 +0000

They included someone who died on the way to Reno hospital this year.

New comment by spullara in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

spullara — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 21:11:03 +0000

Glad you are on the case before these companies foolishly waste their money sending datacenters to space.

New comment by spullara in "I built non-autoregressive decision models with RL a year ago"

spullara — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:44:10 +0000

he is trying to say that you didn't make Jev at all. you fine tuned a model for a particular domain while Jev works across all domains. seems different right?