Hacker News: synack

New comment by synack in "Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)"

synack — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 11:14:13 +0000

Reads like AI. Not sure what OAuth/JWT has to do with Layer 3.

New comment by synack in "A new spam policy for “back button hijacking”"

synack — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 04:05:19 +0000

Are they considering all uses of window.history.pushState to be hijacking? If so, why not remove that function from Chrome?

New comment by synack in "Running out of disk space in production"

synack — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 03:18:25 +0000

mkfs.ext4 defaults to 5% reserved for root. -m 0 to turn it off.

New comment by synack in "Build web apps for smart glasses"

synack — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:33:11 +0000

I wasn't aware of these glasses, pretty cool. Not sure I'm ready to drop that much money on a pair with prescription lenses though.

Would be useful to have my multimeter display in my field of view when heads down debugging a circuit. There are a few bluetooth meters on the market, so I think this is doable?

Looking at the SDK, the fixed LVGL font is a bummer. Ideally I'd like to have a raw framebuffer to control, though I imagine this is difficult to do over bluetooth without blowing your power budget. Maybe you could have a custom indexed tilemap and push sprites around?

New comment by synack in "GitHub backs down, kills Copilot pull-request ads after backlash"

synack — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 06:13:36 +0000

Yet Sourceforge has been putting ads on open source projects for decades.

New comment by synack in "Cloudflare's Gen 13 servers: trading cache for cores for 2x performance"

synack — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:01:24 +0000

Is the Linux scheduler aware of shared CPU cache hierarchies? Is there any way we could make the scheduler do better cache utilization rather than pinning processes to cores or offloading these decisions to vendor specific code?

New comment by synack in "Project Nomad – Knowledge That Never Goes Offline"

synack — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 11:31:18 +0000

Library of Congress has some well considered recommendations for archival. https://www.loc.gov/preservation/resources/rfs/TOC.html

For web content they recommend gzipped WARC. This is great for retaining the content, but isn’t easy to search or render.

I do WARC dumps then convert those to ZIM for easier access.

New comment by synack in "Felix "fx" Lindner has died"

synack — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:35:13 +0000

One of my favorite DEF CON talks https://media.defcon.org/DEF%20CON%2017/DEF%20CON%2017%20vid...

New comment by synack in "Ask HN: Will GPU and RAM prices ever go down?"

synack — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 17:39:50 +0000

Micron is building a bunch of new fabs in the US right now- two in Idaho, two in New York, and modernizing one existing fab in Virginia. The first Idaho fab will come online in 2027 and NY/Virginia fabs in 2030.

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion

So, more chips coming soon, but who knows if that's enough to keep up with demand for the next few years.

New comment by synack in "SQLite Is a Self Contained System"

synack — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 15:09:20 +0000

Could say the same about Postgres. People like their databases.

New comment by synack in "Ask HN: Do you still use physical calculators?"

synack — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:23:20 +0000

TI-30Xa still sits on the corner of my desk along with a pen and small notepad. I use it 2-3 times a week. Still faster to reach for it than find the calculator app on my phone or PC for simple tasks.

New comment by synack in "Some notes on starting to use Django"

synack — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 00:44:39 +0000

Claude Code is also very good at building basic CRUD apps with Django.

New comment by synack in "Ask HN: What travel apps do you use while traveling?"

synack — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:52:52 +0000

Not strictly a mobile app, but I keep offline Kiwix snapshots of Wikivoyage and Wikipedia on my laptop. It mostly comes in handy on trains with intermittent wifi.

New comment by synack in "Linux Runs on Raspberry Pi RP2350's Hazard3 RISC-V Cores (2024)"

synack — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 18:11:22 +0000

That was Intel Quark. It was too expensive for the “big microcontroller” use case and too power hungry for the “small Linux” use case.

The marketing was confusing, I’m not sure Intel even knew what it was for, except to show investors they had an IoT play.

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

I found some of these boards in a box last year and was unable to do anything with them… Intel has thoroughly erased all documentation and SDKs from the internet. If anyone has those artifacts, please push to archive.org

New comment by synack in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

synack — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 09:39:57 +0000

Industrial microcontrollers and power electronics use older process nodes, mostly >=45nm. These customers aren’t competing for wafers from the same fabs as bleeding edge memory and TPUs.

The world ran just fine on DDR3 for a long time.

New comment by synack in "NTP at NIST Boulder Has Lost Power"

synack — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 10:24:03 +0000

Spanner depends on having a time source with bounded error to maintain consistency. Google accomplishes this by having GPS and atomic clocks in several datacenters.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

New comment by synack in "Ask HN: Cloudflare WAF Alternatives?"

synack — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 23:39:55 +0000

I've been using Cloudfront Functions to do some of the filtering that a WAF would do. It's quite flexible, but you've gotta figure out your own rules.

New comment by synack in "The RAM shortage comes for us all"

synack — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 23:13:59 +0000

I wonder if we'll start to see instance type shortages or price increases from EC2 and GCP if they can't get enough DRAM for latest gen servers.

New comment by synack in "Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled"

synack — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 07:12:54 +0000

Every time you see an ellipsis "..." you know that the designer put form over function. Hiding data from the user is never the right answer.

They could use their fancy AI to generate shorter titles.

New comment by synack in "SQLite 3.51 Is Out"

synack — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 07:58:47 +0000

Release notes https://sqlite.org/releaselog/3_51_0.html